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What is lip service?

What is lip service? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) Promising but empty talk; words absent of real action or intention.
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Even when you're a purblind dogmatist who wants to shut it down, I guess you've got to at least pay lip service to it, which explains the name.
These words at least pay lip service to the realisation that neo-liberal economics are a spent force.
We've paid lip service to that ever since but we haven't taken it seriously.
The new designs mostly just pay lip service to this notion and then go on their merry way.
Does the institution truly value candor, thinking outside the box and innovation, or merely give lip service to it?
It's an approach some architects give lip service to, but few rigorously follow.

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