Both Uses
cursory
in
The Shining
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- Yet he gave each one a cursory glance, afraid that by not being thorough he might miss exactly the piece of Overlookiana he needed to make the mystic connection that he was sure must be here somewhere.†
Chpt 4cursory = quick (without attention to detail)
- Her fingers, on his shoulder, had noticed that his T-shirt was damp, but they had not bothered reporting the information to her brain in more than a cursory way.†
Chpt 4 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(cursory) quick--not thorough (without attention to detail)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)