Sentence examples for meaningless gesture from inspiring English sources

Mandatory signing of the pledge would reduce it to a meaningless gesture.

Changing the ministers is a meaningless gesture unless it's followed by real reform.

Mr. Assad's opponents described his decree as a theatrical and meaningless gesture.

" This attempt (by Democrats) to force a vote is a similarly meaningless gesture.

Invoking consonance is just another gross distinction, another primitive and largely meaningless gesture.

There must be no plea bargains for the meaningless gesture of censure.

We investigated if a similar dichotomy of brain network organization applies for pantomime (P) and imitation of meaningless gestures (I).

They are everywhere in politics, these seemingly meaningless gestures that somehow count for more than the sum of their parts.

There's an alarming tendency in contemporary work to go overboard with hand movements in which dancers sweep their hands across their faces to create repetitive, meaningless gestures.

Like the residents of B-Mor, who find themselves making small, meaningless gestures of revolt, as a child Lee could never quite stop himself from upending things.

I don't deny that religion can at least seem to be a bottomless pit of fatuous symbolism and meaningless gestures.