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

Then it was that he threw up his head, with a fine gesture of race, and acknowledged the saluting pair.

From The Spanish Jade by Hyde, William Henry

And it was at this time, with a great fleet already half-way across the Pacific, that the Com-Pubs declared war in a fine gesture of ironic politeness.

From Invasion by Leinster, Murray