Sentence examples for empty effort from inspiring English sources

Without meaningful political actions, this was an empty effort.

Perhaps no issue has symbolized their disappointment or galvanized popular anger as much as the sluggish — some say empty — effort to punish those who attacked the protesters.

This could just be an empty effort whose real purposes is to collect e-mail addresses from party members to hit them up for donations.

Here's how the narrator puts it: "Compare the Venice of the late renaissance … to the Berlin of Weimar … to whatever city would turn out to be most fashionable in 2012, and you would find the same empty people going to the same empty parties and making the same empty comments about the same empty efforts, with just a few spasms of worthwhile art going on at the naked extremities.

In theatre listings filled with revivals or adaptations of movies or novels, this half-empty effort should encourage more producers to look to original work.

Most of the small guesthouses are empty; despite nascent efforts to promote the islands' rich biodiversity, tourism has yet to take off.

Two-thirds of nearly 100 booths were empty, with no visible effort to make further changes.

The boat is half empty, in a deliberate effort to keep the wildlife calm.

Those words were empty after their passive effort today against the Chicago Bulls.

"Nobody wants Pastrana to come home empty handed, and every effort will be made to prevent that from happening," said a European diplomat here.

Even a joint attack with European allies would be empty without a larger effort to negotiate an end to the war.