Anything less will be recognized as mere window dressing.

The pictorial photography movement tried to turn photographs from mere windows on the world to works of art.

The fundamentalists are deeply skeptical of political reform, calling it mere window dressing.

All this would be mere window dressing if the food weren't good.

Or do improvements in technology and scientific understanding amount to mere window dressing over the same old souls?

Not all the poems hit this hard; in fact, too many contain lines that are mere window dressing.

Superconductivity here is mere window dressing on your basic idea.

All this would be mere window dressing if the food were not up to speed, but it is excellent, even memorable.

Diplomats said the proposed reforms are not mere window dressing.

The other controls must have been mere window dressing, or intended for spot adjustments.