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fine gesture

NOUN
beau geste
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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

He had just begun the lines all over again when Miss Cross Patch the Guinea Hen ran out from behind the barn and screeched horribly—just as he was making that fine gesture, too.

From Half-Past Seven Stories by Anderson, Robert Gordon

Unlocking Jean’s door, with a fine gesture of affection, and command toward the outer door, he cries to Jean, “Va.”

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce




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