fine gesture

Example Sentences

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“It would be a really fine gesture but I don’t know what I would say,” Baylor told me several years ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2021

The pictures illustrate with unconscious frankness the calf and knee as well as the racket and wrist combining in the fine gesture of the forehand drive.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps this will be the beginning of a fund; a certificate of merit is a fine gesture, but it will not help fill the hole in his budget.

From Time Magazine Archive

"May it please the fair Lady Brandling," he said, with a fine gesture, "to accept the hearty welcome of her old Uncle Hubert, and of her other kinsmen."

From Penelope Brandling A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century by Lee, Vernon

She looked at him with a strange smile, a fine gesture of scorn.

From Audrey by Johnston, Mary