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
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
At his death his widow observed: "His life was one long beau geste."
From Time Magazine Archive
The beau geste, the beautiful act, which ennobles all men, not merely the doer of the deed,—that is what France is giving the world.
From The World Decision by Herrick, Robert
