Sentence examples for empty exercise from inspiring English sources

This has not been an empty exercise".

The second period dissolved into an N.H.L. All-Star Game, an empty exercise in easy scoring.

But this endorsement would also be an empty exercise if it merely affirmed the choice of Clinton supporters.

"Remix" isn't just an empty exercise in technology: two winning entries will actually be mounted by the museum.

"I do not believe that I was required to take this to Congress but I did not take this to Congress just because it's an empty exercise.

The cynical might say these reunion shows are exactly that – an empty exercise in nostalgia conceived to generate as much revenue for the ageing group as possible.

Of course, it could be that New Yorkers are savvy enough to realize that by the time a City Council bill lands before the mayor for his signature, public hearings of this kind can be empty exercises.

His camera work and use of lush decor, once derided as empty exercises in excess, have been regarded by revisionist critics as painstakingly intertwined with the state of mind of the central characters.

Debates are mental gyrations, usually empty exercises in speculation.

If our normative theorising is to be anything more than an empty intellectual exercise, if it is to engage with actual practice, we then face the question of what we can or should do about our current practices.

But without it, the committee will be little more than an empty P.R. exercise.