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 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
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
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
Ignorant people say they are hysterical, and over117 passionate—They are nothing of the kind—They believe in material things, and in the "beau geste."
From Man and Maid by Glyn, Elinor
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
