Franklin Foer

Trump has emphatically denied ties to Russia - a claim refuted by his Twitter feed and a cursory Google search. Putin says his government had nothing to do with the hack of the DNC computers, even though it carelessly left a trail of crumbs tracing back to his intelligence services. The cunning liar is exploiting the blundering one.

American Writer

Charles Shaughnessy

Days of Our Lives' was an insane schedule. You're doing a whole one-hour show in a day. You do a very cursory run-through with the director telling you where you're going to be standing, then you do a quick rehearsal on camera and you shoot it.

British Actor

Claire Fox

A cursory look at coverage of the so-called 'Free Tommy' brigade, centered around the alleged censorship of Tommy Robinson, a notorious anti-Islam campaigner, reveals how liberals shun defending the free-speech rights of the unpalatable.

British Writer

Mos Def

If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing.

American Musician

Henry Miller

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

American Author

Ben Fountain

Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit.

Ari Melber

Anyone with a cursory knowledge of American history knows that unchecked spying undermines democracy and public trust.

American Journalist

Indicates a brush-over of the subject, often missing intricacies and depth.

Lack of Detail

Suggests that attention or time given was minimal.

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 and time periods in those countries for attitudes and tolerance of questions like migration and mobility on the one hand and free trade on the other. But one hypothesis that I think emerges from a cursory look at that data

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Cursory

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