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
It was one of the few times in history that the Solicitor General refused to argue a case before the Supreme Court, and it was a beau geste that cost Griswold his job.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their taste for the beau geste turns out to be their undoing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The Woolworth Building does not scrape the sky; it greets it, salutes it with a beau geste.
From Roving East and Roving West by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
