The artist admits the project is "an absurd gesture."

To have looked at anything else would have been an absurd gesture.

Laurence made an involuntary startled gesture after him, useless and absurd, and then dropped his arm, sorry to have so betrayed himself.

She stuck her tongue out at him, aware of how absurd the childish gesture was, but she couldn't help it.

He made a rather absurd gesture.

This was an absurd gesture since Pascal was totally in debt.

It could have been an affectingly absurd gesture, were it not that the impulse behind it seems contradicted by the woman's deadpan expression.

Like Jacques Tati, Mr. Riboud spots the absurd gesture, which also looks choreographed.

His gags often consist of puns and are usually accompanied by absurd gestures.

At the party, I was presented with a gold wristwatch in a cobalt-blue presentation case - a wonderfully absurd gesture which nearly had me in tears.