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
He had just begun the lines all over again when Miss Cross Patch the Guinea Hen ran out from behind the barn and screeched horribly—just as he was making that fine gesture, too.
From Half-Past Seven Stories by Robert Gordon Anderson
An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt
