beau geste
Example Sentences
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Still, in city politics, even the beau geste can be fraught.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2015
All the old givens -- beau geste, military master plans, unswerving belief in the officer class -- were fatally irrelevant to a guerrilla war.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a beau geste when Chief Chiappe gave Cl�menceau Valet Albert employment last week, not as a valet but as a special inspector of police.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their taste for the beau geste turns out to be their undoing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps it was just a beau geste of defiance, or a reminder that one day he too would be grown up and free.
From The Dark House by Wylie, I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
