Sentence examples for wasteful gesture from inspiring English sources

Do I find it necessary to throw out all my chometz (a wasteful gesture) before Passover?

I routinely hear my peers legitimize the most expensive and wasteful of gestures for the most esoteric of reasons, under the guise of what starchitect Jean Nouvel calls "the mystery and the deepness".

These days, they may do it by lavishing millions on politics, a gesture that appears to be even more wasteful.

I love the way that seems wasteful but also deliberate, a "Look what I can do" gesture.

But it took Bobby Jindal's confident, manly speech and ferocious, slashing hand gestures to really bring home to me just how wasteful the Stimulator Package really is.

Velly wasteful.

"Our society is wasteful".

The insured are wasteful.

Some spending is wasteful.

It is also wasteful.

This is wasteful.