But Peter Hedges's bizarre dialogue for two women is a cursory attempt at absurdity.

From what I can determine, it seems that the natives have made only a few cursory attempts to excavate the substance, and in a largely inefficient manner.

Just before her twelfth birthday, she figured out how to bypass Father's cursory attempt at blocking her from fall access.

When the two truckers gave up their cursory attempt to find him and rejoined their companions, he advanced to the edge of the clearing to keep them under observation.

She knew he had never really meant to do more than make a cursory attempt to take them, on the off chance that he would succeed by sheer accident.

Hazmi and Mihdhar were supposed to learn English and then enroll in flight schools, but they made only cursory attempts at both.

A cursory attempt had also been made to wipe the blade clean of blood.

A cursory attempt to extract the content of these files failed and changing the file extension to common audio formats, such as .

A plunger lay on the floor, so some cursory attempt had been made to unblock it, but to no avail.

Dexter greeted Scott with a firm handshake and a cursory attempt at an apology.