empty gestures

I tried to make choices, but wound up with empty gestures.

Obama is not sincere with these empty gestures towards Iran.

We should not be distracted by such empty gestures.

Responsibility tends to be condemned with grand but empty gestures.

But there is growing evidence that these pronouncements are more than empty gestures toward detente.

"I care nothing for your empty gestures after you have been soundly defeated in a war game.

Words and empty gestures are not enough!

'And do the rest of you have any empty gestures to make?'

Yet there is an endearing honesty about these characters that makes their passivity seem more than just empty gestures.

A high-energy workout, the piece was filled with deliberately empty gestures and lived up to its title only too well.

Apologies are not empty gestures, but are a necessary first step towards any sort of reconciliation between people.

But North Korea dismissed those moves as empty gestures.

"I'm not one for useless or empty gestures.

Such true patriotism and sacrifice would do far more than these empty gestures of flying the flag on their gas guzzlers.

Hopefully this means we've seen the last of these silly, empty gestures of mourning and alarm.

But if you place scientific standards first, and exclude belief, admit nothing that's not proven, then what you have is a series of empty gestures.

How foolish we were to imagine that their empty gestures and worthless- vapourings could protect us!"

Without funding, timetables and monitoring mechanisms, the G8 leaders' stated concerns about global health will be empty gestures.

They will ignore the political winds, making hollow pledges and empty gestures to distract and delay their critics.

For a government that has often been at odds with the I.M.F., these are not empty gestures.

Mr. Libeskind, for one, could have resigned when it became clear that his master plan had been reduced to a few empty gestures.

When the front benches of both major parties signed up to the campaign within 72 hours of its launch, sceptics muttered about empty gestures.

That is the only real contribution the Greek Government can make and any friendly noises it might otherwise make are completely empty gestures.

And the rest-all that pretense of caring-is nothing but hollow words and empty gestures."

If Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian prime minister, is to have any credibility at all, more than empty gestures like these will be necessary.