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
It was one of the few times in history that the Solicitor General refused to argue a case before the Supreme Court, and it was a beau geste that cost Griswold his job.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides that final beau geste she left behind a haunting epitaph, claiming she was a great actress because "she had acted on the last day of her life."
From Time Magazine Archive
Their taste for the beau geste turns out to be their undoing.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was all very well to feel one ought to share, and to make a beau geste and do it, but the beaux gestes Scrap had known hadn't made anybody happy.
From The Enchanted April by Elizabeth
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
