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
All the old givens -- beau geste, military master plans, unswerving belief in the officer class -- were fatally irrelevant to a guerrilla war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Britons who love a beau geste were deliriously enthusiastic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their taste for the beau geste turns out to be their undoing.
From Time Magazine Archive
His renunciation had in it that of the beau geste which she secretly adored.
From The Mountebank by Locke, William John
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
