Sentence examples for token gesture toward from inspiring English sources

In 2007, Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, made a token gesture toward rationalizing the system by creating a select intelligence oversight panel.

The production, by Trevor Nunn, handled diverse locales handsomely, but it made only a token gesture toward the horror of Auschwitz.

As a token gesture toward health, customers requested "sauce on the side" or brown rice instead of white with their high-fat Chinese food.

The story should build up to a big, national competition, preferably judged by snooty, scowling experts, and along the way there should be a couple of minor reversals -- a romantic misunderstanding, a pesky bunion -- that make at least a token gesture toward putting the inevitable victorious conclusion in doubt.

This is an appraisal that Kei quickly confirms by dousing a Russian Mafioso with his own high-octane vodka and setting his head on fire, an effect rendered with only a token gesture toward realism by Mr. Miike's computer-graphics team.

Not a trace anywhere of discomfort at the inequalities of wealth and resources, not even a token gesture toward reinvigorating the American Dream.

But it also doesn't sound as though a new superdivision, should it come to pass, would make much more than token gestures toward the athletes.

With but token gestures toward interpretation and analysis -- her discussions of the individual books are at best cursory -- Rowley has, in effect, assembled only the makings of a biography.

And Mitchell and Cameron have a fully realised relationship, not a token gesture towards diversity.

"It was just another token gesture".

Nor would this be a mere token gesture of conciliation.