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
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 Edmund Gosse
"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 Vernon Lee
