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

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

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

Then it was that he threw up his head, with a fine gesture of race, and acknowledged the saluting pair.

From The Spanish Jade by Hyde, William Henry

When he rose from his seat on the Cross-bench, and advanced towards the table, with a fine gesture of his leonine head, sympathy was always mingled with respect.

From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund