Sentence examples for feeble gesture from inspiring English sources

Errol made a rather feeble gesture of greeting.

I find myself standing and making a feeble gesture toward comforting her, but I'd rather be running out the door.

"He may have left the country". I find myself standing and making a feeble gesture toward comforting her, but I'd rather be running out the door.

The crisis has come to a head with the beleaguered government's latest raft of austerity measures (part of a feeble gesture to secure the next tranche of its €110bn loan) which affect pensions, jobs and tax thresholds.

One supporter of Mr. Maier is HarperCollins, which is still publishing his book -- no feeble gesture, given Mr. Cramer's status, the book's problems and the steady flow of letters from Mr. Cramer's lawyers.

That the rapper Big Boi (an Atlanta native, and one half of the hip-hop duo OutKast) was later announced as a guest, along with the Houston rapper Travis Scott, felt like a feeble gesture, so musically incongruous it bordered on tokenism.

But Mr. Karzai has resisted all but the most feeble gestures.

It makes some feeble gestures toward reform but mainly recycles the same old obsolete blather.

On the whole, however, pre-Revolutionary Russia could make only a few feeble gestures toward the creation of an independent children's literature.

Rather than serving as a forum for ideas and interest groups, it goes in for a feeble sort of gesture politics.

Rather than tinkering around the edges and making feeble or empty gestures towards one or another of the interdependent problems we face, we need a comprehensive approach... development on the old model is counterproductive.