going through motions
Example Sentences
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It isn't going through motions, even though you've sung something a million times - it's wonderful to know you love something so much.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2017
In a subplot romance, Robert Alda and Sally Ann Howes seem to be going through motions rather than emotions.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am not sending this message to the Congress merely for the purpose of going through motions.
From Time Magazine Archive
The clerk, hardly looking up, began going through motions, speaking into telescreens.
From Mercenary by Lloyd Birmingham
He felt himself going through motions which he was powerless to direct.
From Broken to the Plow by Charles Caldwell Dobie
