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
At his death his widow observed: "His life was one long beau geste."
From Time Magazine Archive
Their taste for the beau geste turns out to be their undoing.
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
The beau geste, the beautiful act, which ennobles all men, not merely the doer of the deed,—that is what France is giving the world.
From The World Decision by Herrick, Robert
