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
I am not sending this message to the Congress merely for the purpose of going through motions.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a subplot romance, Robert Alda and Sally Ann Howes seem to be going through motions rather than emotions.
From Time Magazine Archive
He felt himself going through motions which he was powerless to direct.
From Broken to the Plow by Charles Caldwell Dobie
The person is either going through motions quite blindly, perhaps purely imitatively, or else is in a state of excitement which is exhausting to mind and nerves.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey
