beau geste
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of beau geste
literally: beautiful gesture
Example Sentences
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Still, in city politics, even the beau geste can be fraught.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2015
At his death his widow observed: "His life was one long beau geste."
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
Their taste for the beau geste turns out to be their undoing.
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)
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