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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a big gesture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or impactful action taken to express feelings, intentions, or commitments.
Example: "She made a big gesture by organizing a surprise party for his birthday, showing how much she cared."
Alternatives: "a grand gesture" or "a significant gesture."
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Keith Emerson would do this with a big gesture.
It wasn't a big gesture we were making.
The old man did like a big gesture.
"Shola with the hair!" Long cried out, making a big gesture with her hands.
As with "The Clock," Marclay was making a big gesture from a series of small ones.
Darling was certainly brave - and right - to go for a big gesture.
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Other prisoners, French, Greek, Czech, tell their stories, broadening the scope beyond narrow Polish-Jewish confines, perhaps in an attempt to display the Red Army's liberation of Auschwitz as a bigger gesture for all Europe.
Mr. Marsalis is a big-gesture artist; that's just the way it is.
"I feel that this is a very big gesture and a great boost to people working in the west to produce a better understanding of the middle-east," she said.
Ms. Fischer played it with patience and dignity, with never a performer's big gesture or a theatrical coup.
The incredible early singles, Seven Minutes to Midnight, Somesay, and, especially, Better Scream, which posited Wylie as a post-punk Springsteen, all big gestures and grand emotions, someone whose heart was not just worn on his sleeve but was dripping blood down his arm.
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