Sentence examples for superficial gesture from inspiring English sources

Or is wearing a poppy a symbolic, superficial gesture?

The panel, which includes Irish abuse victim Marie Collins, has been dismissed by some other advocates as a superficial gesture.

But one couldn't help thinking that a stronger director could have taken the same material and extended mere superficial gesture into coherent eloquence.

Many have suggested the move is a superficial gesture that does not provide any practical support for France - and which fails to acknowledge the deadly bombings on the same day in Beirut.

But the songs, even when — or maybe just because — they sound conventional and superficial, gesture toward another realm of feeling, a magical pop universe in which the agonies of the heart are magically transformed into pleasures of the ear and eye.

It has to do something, even if it's just a superficial gesture.

Yes, he grew his toenails and hair long, but these felt like superficial gestures.

So it is with only superficial gestures that our officials commemorate 1911.

But unlike certain directors who fixate on marginalia, creating art in which the engraving on a character's belt buckle takes precedence over the story, July's seemingly superficial gestures service something greater: a pulsing emotional center.

And they're an indication of how determined the restaurant is to turn heads and make a statement, how much questionable energy it puts into superficial gestures that are less important in the end than the kind of diligence and discipline Rayuela doesn't always muster.

But there's not much to show for it beyond superficial gestures of free credit monitoring — provided by Equifax, no less — and a credit locking app which, unsurprisingly, had its own flaws.