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
At his death his widow observed: "His life was one long beau geste."
From Time Magazine Archive
Then there is the love of the beau geste which is an even stronger motive very often than the love of right-doing for its own sake.
From Kimono by Paris, John
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