Sentence examples for mere gesture from inspiring English sources

By now it is a vestige, a mere gesture.

You might dismiss this kind of ethical consumerism as mere gesture.

So he decided, initially as a mere gesture, to send his forces ostentatiously into the Sinai peninsula.

A woman is as "young and slight as a watercolor, a mere gesture of bones and features".

(There are, of course, other ways of expressing thoughts a mere gesture can suffice but it will be useful to take "that" clauses to be standard).

Or, put another way, what blame if any accrues to A for a mere gesture that, as she claims, she had no intention of following through?

"Mere gestures of her class".

Stamina and muscle, not mere gestures, are at work here.

Where they are mere gestures of moral interventionism they are not.

Some will dismiss these acts as mere gestures, even publicity stunts.

Mr Primakov has long experience, after all, in smelling out opponents' weaknesses.In so fraught an atmosphere, mere gestures can have powerful effects.