cursory

He gave the letter a cursory glance, his heart pounding too fast to focus on the words. He just needed to know if they were safe. A quick look, nothing more.

He only gave the shattered alien artifact a cursory glance, his heart pounding a frantic rhythm against his ribs. There was no time to check for hidden dangers or intricate alien markings. He just had to grab it and run.

He just gave the weird, sticky notes a cursory glance, tossing them onto the pile of other half done things. I knew he wouldn't actually read them, not really. It was just another thing he did without really trying.

I took a cursory glance at my homework, figuring it was too boring to be important. My brain, however, treated it like a squeaky toy. A quick look, a happy wag, and then immediately back to chasing squirrels and important naps. Who needs details when there are naps?

Barry gave his homework a cursory glance, thinking "yep, looks like math." He then immediately ate a sandwich made of glitter and old socks. His teacher, Mrs. Higgins, who only ever wore a hat shaped like a badger, sighed and marked it "Needs More Sparkle, Less Sock."

He skimmed through the report, his glance barely touching the words. It was a cursory read, a quick sweep of the pages that missed the crucial errors. He'd have to go back and actually pay attention.

The ancient astrolabe, its brass tarnished and gears jammed, offered a cursory glance at the celestial patterns. He felt a wave of frustration; a more detailed study was needed to decipher the prophesied alignment, but time was already slipping away like sand through his fingers.

After the inspection of the micro-lichen colony, the botanist sighed. Her assessment felt too cursory, barely a glance at the delicate patterns. She worried she'd missed some vital mutation, her quick review insufficient for the rare specimens.

Barnaby gave the overflowing laundry basket a cursory glance, figuring it was probably fine. He didn't want to dig too deep; who knew what ancient civilizations might reside beneath those questionable socks? A quick sniff confirmed his suspicions: definitely a job for a hazmat suit, not a cursory once-over.

Bartholomew's attempt at assembling the sentient toaster oven involved only a cursory glance at the instructions, which mostly seemed to be diagrams of angry squirrels. Now, it hums menacingly, demanding artisanal sourdough and threatening to launch burnt bagels at anyone who dares question its crumb-gathering efficiency.

He glanced at the report, a cursory review that missed the glaring errors. His hurried examination offered no solace, just a sinking feeling that he'd overlooked something vital. The pressure to move on meant he couldn't afford a deeper look.

His gaze was too cursory, a fleeting sweep over the intricate carvings of the obsidian idol. He missed the almost invisible seam, the minute imperfection that hinted at its true, terrifying function, a flaw that cost him dearly.

He gave the shimmering fungal growth a cursory glance, his mind already miles away, planning the escape route. The colony's survival depended on his vigilance, but a fleeting, hasty inspection wouldn't uncover the parasitic tendrils slowly strangling their nutrient veins.

The chef, a maestro of the omelet, performed a cursory inspection of his pantry. He’d only glanced at the wilting lettuce and the suspicious brown stain on the cheese, convinced a full examination was beneath his considerable talent. Clearly, he believed speed trumped any tedious adherence to… well, anything edible.

Barnaby, renowned for his *cursory* approach to life, once attempted to iron his breakfast waffle. He declared it "good enough" after a fleeting glance, completely overlooking the bubbling, charred edges and the lingering scent of despair.

He felt a pang of dismay as he reviewed the investigator's report. A *cursory* glance revealed the agent had barely scratched the surface, missing crucial evidence. The entire undertaking felt perfunctory, a perfunctory effort that failed to adequately address the dire circumstances.

He scanned the ancient, arcane script with only a cursory glance, convinced the glyphs offered no immediate solution to the encroaching chronal distortion. A more judicious examination would have revealed the subtle temporal anomaly shimmering within the very ink, a fatal oversight born of desperate haste.

He scanned the palimpsest, a cursory glance revealing no hint of the hidden glyphs. Frustration mounted; this ancient manuscript, a repository of lost astrological computations, demanded a meticulous examination, not this perfunctory survey.

Barnaby, a connoisseur of questionable life choices, gave his disastrous attempt at baking a cake a most cursory glance, noting only that the amorphous, vaguely charcoal-hued mass still possessed structural integrity. He then proceeded to slather it with frosting, deeming the haphazard application sufficiently meticulous for his discerning palate.

Lord Archibald, a connoisseur of obscure artisanal fungi, gave his prize-winning *Phallus indusiatus* a decidedly cursory examination, mistaking a particularly vigorous slime mold for a hitherto undiscovered spore cluster, much to the consternation of the sentient mushroom council.