On a cursory reading we might understand Pope to mean that nature sometimes deviates from her stated course for the purpose of promoting human happiness.
His love of the country was the cursory admiration which is seldom wanting.
Andrieu Beaunepveu and Pierre de Chelles--all of great interest to the traveller but utterly impossible of appreciation under the cursory glance permitted by the vergers.
This cursory comment shows how untrustworthy much of this material is.
Accordingly even the short stay and cursory notes involved an additional mile of darkness on a trail so rough as to cut through shoe-soles and sandals and catch scents of blood to tempt coyotes to the camp site.
Even at the distance of half a mile a cursory careless glance ahead might have easily missed it.
On a cursory inspection, Siamese Buddhism, especially as seen in villages, seems remarkably free from alien additions.
Against these meagre and cursory notices in Indian literature may be set the fact that two translations of the principal Amidist scripture into Chinese were made in the second century A.
But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents; and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.
He then took a cursory view of the present state of the science, and explained many of its elementary terms.
Through this work I obtained a cursory knowledge of history, and a view of the several empires at present existing in the world; it gave me an insight into the manners, governments, and religions of the different nations of the earth.
In this country chemical analysis, with a more or less cursory microscopic examination, has been almost invariably accepted as reliable indication of the condition of the water.
We have previously made a cursory examination of the methods which are adopted for opposing bacteria and their products in the tissues and body fluids.
I was a free trader and had been trained to love and revere Laurier from childhood; but I knew from cursory observation in the West that there was not a chance, nor the shadow of a chance, for reciprocity to be endorsed by the Canadian people.
This drew the Eyes of the whole Company upon me; but after having cast a cursory Glance over it, and shook my Head twice or thrice at the reading of it, I twisted it into a kind of Match, and litt my Pipe with it.
I desire you, Sir, to repeat some Lectures upon Subjects which you have now and then in a cursory manner only just touched.
The most cursory glance at the side views of these two skulls will suffice to prove that they differ, in another respect, to a very striking extent.
Again and again he has picked out years favourable to his argument, while even a cursory glance at a series of years must have shown him that the truth was the exact opposite to his representation of the facts.
As we went along we met numerous policemen, but they fortunately gave us only a cursory glance.
Alas, this wire entanglement, seen from the ground immediately beneath it, was much more tangled and twisted than our previous cursory examination had led us to think.
With this cursory glance at the work of the great historian of the district, we close our chapter on the subjects suggested by the "Old Market-place.
For the first of these purposes all that is generally required is a cursory notice of the case, as it is only used partially.
But the main thing left upon my mind by this first cursory perusal is that you are one of those who live (as Goethe has for ever put it) in “the whole.
The deep impression which your own work has made upon me must already have become evident to you through even the most cursory reading of my book—an impression the extent and definiteness of which I myself had scarcely realised.
A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner.
As they looked up for a moment after a cursory examination of the ground, Charles exclaimed,-- "Look at the window!
A cursory reading of the whole literature of American discovery before 1831 would suggest that idea, and some writers of the present day still maintain it.
To illustrate this, I propose to begin with a cursory view of its primitive elements, of which the very first were no doubt initiative marks and numerals.
Matthew Paris mentions the quintain by name, but he speaks of it in a cursory manner as a well known pastime, and probably would have said nothing about it, had not the following circumstance given him the occasion.
These pastimes, or at least such of them as occur to my memory, I shall mention here in a cursory manner, and pass on to the remaining part of this chapter.
I hope, at least, that at a cursory glance it pleases you," said Rowland.
His nerve failed him, however, and his defence of the epistolary method as it finally appears in the revised Postscript is cursory and deceptively restrained: 'The author .
Nick had not seen her at all for several weeks and had seen her but little for a year, but her off-hand cursory manner had not altered in the interval.
And so engrossed was she with castle-building, that it was only when she stopped to climb a fence separating the road from a field through which lay a short cut to Aunt Violet's cabin, that she became aware of her small attendant.
How could the breakage of a bit of china, no matter how precious, presage misfortune?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cursory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
