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
Their taste for the beau geste turns out to be their undoing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Britons who love a beau geste were deliriously enthusiastic.
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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