These changes are being made for a good reason. They're not just window dressing. the crime-does-not-pay moralizing is just window dressing for nasty hard-boiled stories
Recent Examples on the WebNo matter the window dressing about academics and student-athletes, Leaf targeted the true bullseye. Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2022 But the twists and turns of the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi are mere window dressing to the primary conflict of the six-episode series. Grace Segers, The New Republic, 14 June 2022 Dzyadko saw Russia’s tolerance of independent media as mostly window dressing.Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2022 With all due respect to the rest of the field, Omos, Sheamus, Madcap Moss and Sami Zayn were more/less window dressing as WWE continues to struggle to create new challengers for Reigns. Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 3 July 2022 In a way, all the blood and the guts and gore and stuff is the window dressing. Nojan Aminosharei, Men's Health, 24 June 2022 Meanwhile, her cultural heritage is woven into every aspect of her story — not as her sole defining quality nor as some inconsequential bit of window dressing, but as a fundamental element of a complicated and evolving self-identity. Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2022 But, in Ireland’s case, much of the difference between schools feels like window dressing when so many of the key components of schooling do not vary between institutions. Mike Mcshane, Forbes, 8 June 2022 Here, though, Kirby’s leaps through time come to seem a bit like window dressing on a story that’s surprisingly linear, moving towards solving the mystery of her selves. Daniel D'addario, Variety, 26 Apr. 2022 See More