This charitable gesture, however, is subject, like most small, independent record store activities, to the wrath of the connoisseur.

A malpractice law suit and legal fees could make a charitable gesture very costly indeed.

It is, however, more in the nature of a charitable gesture than a true extension of state responsibility for this area of need.

"I won't ruin the one chance we have on some dramatic charitable gesture."

I saw this as a contemptuously charitable gesture.

The refusal of this charitable gesture caused many donors to become so indignant that they retracted their contribution.

This charitable gesture couldn't have come at a better time.

In a charitable gesture, he gave half the prize to his crew and then donated the other half to the poor of Paris.

The tough-minded former prime minister thought, like Donald Rumsfeld seems to think, that charitable gestures were for sissies.

Around the country, there were clean-up, fix-up days, the dedication of public parks and other charitable gestures to honor the King.