Sentence examples for only window dressing from inspiring English sources

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Window dressing.

If something is done to pretend to be dealing with an issue or problem, rather than actually dealing with it, it is window dressing.

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Anything less than that is not only window dressing, but it adds a layer of nondecision-making authority".

"Yes, there will be some other students in the stands, but they are only window dressing," Mr. Dowling added.

"If this is only window dressing, it is not adequate," she said, noting that her organization believed that it was likely that federal legislation would still be needed to govern how such vast loads of consumer data can be used.

Or, were the federal laws associated with the Civil Rights Movement only window dressing, disguising fundamental inequalities that remain intransigent?

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But that's just window dressing.

It is not simply window dressing.

So the Community Shield was just window dressing.

The rest was just window dressing.

The sustainability is not just window dressing.

The pictures were just window dressing.

Anything else is simply window dressing.

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