Sentence examples for hollow gestures from inspiring English sources

It's simpler to make hollow gestures toward a noble goal of diversifying the workplace.

In exchange for hollow gestures, Seoul was prepared to expend enormous amounts of political capital and hard cash.

Other amnesty measures were issued in May, June and November, though activists dismissed them as largely hollow gestures, given the violence.

"Killer Joe," with its stereotypes spread across twice as many characters and hollow gestures toward a social context, is an even blunter, more self-indulgent exercise in excess.

Unfortunately, they could also result in a tweet-driven assemblage of hollow gestures (saving jobs via jawboning) without any real substance.

But all steps in the right direction are welcome, otherwise changes to the law itself will become hollow gestures, evoking rhetoric and having little impact on reality.

But Palestinian officials dismissed the move as a hollow gesture.

"This is a hollow gesture," said William T. Cunningham, the mayor's communications director.

With television sets in many children's bedrooms, it is a hollow gesture.

But the Communists' demonstrations on Friday, the May Day holiday here, promise to be a hollow gesture.

In the Daily Mail, Claire Allfree found Toltz "ostentatiously talented", but described the book as "one long, elaborate hollow gesture".