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

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

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

In some ways he was more nearly akin to Villiers de l'Isle Adam, with his religion and his love of the fine gesture.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

"I and Diccon"—What I would have said he put aside with a fine gesture.

From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary