beau geste
PRONUNCIATION:
(bo ZHEST)
plural beaux gestes (bo ZHEST)
MEANING:
noun: A gracious, but often meaningless, gesture.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French, literally fine gesture. Earliest documented use: 1920.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything
away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no
longer in your power -- he's free again. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn,
novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)
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