Sentence examples for A perfunctory gesture from inspiring English sources
Buy from Amazon.co.ukWHEN China sent swift condolences to Pakistan after the slaughter of over 130 schoolchildren in a terror attack in Peshawar last month, it was more than a perfunctory gesture.
But, instead of disposing of it in a perfunctory gesture, he made it the basis of his address, devoting the first half of the speech to what he called the challenge of "reconciling these two seemingly irreconcilable truths — that war is sometimes necessary, and war at some level is an expression of human folly".
There's nothing wrong with sending apology texts, or using technology to connect with those far away, but for many the High Holidays tradition of apologizing to those we have wronged has largely become a perfunctory gesture and that's a shame.
With the gesture completed, the master put on his glasses, checked the watch beside him and saw that an hour had passed, gave what could be called a perfunctory final gesture, and was finished.
As such, Instagram's policies might come off as more a perfunctory PR gesture (and a cover-your-ass move) than a committed strategy to police graphic content, though admittedly the problem feels like an unstoppable plague.
After a perfunctory hug, he gestured upstage--or, rather, to a spot between the opened glass lobby door and the inner box office window--and said "Do you know Neil?" There, standing alone in the crowd, looking pale and ashen, was the man they used to call Doc Simon.
Ouellet wrote a perfunctory letter.
Mr. Kramer gave it a perfunctory glance.
Giuliani made not even a perfunctory show of sympathy.
George Bush has pledged support, but in a perfunctory way.
