He caught her by the shoulders in an automatic gesture.

Urbain nodded as he smoothed his hair with an automatic gesture.

It was the automatic and well-oiled gesture of someone used to trading in secrets.

I remember his looking at the view from the window, but it was quite an automatic gesture.

Picard nodded, though it was little more than an automatic social gesture.

In that automatic gesture, he knew again the strangeness of his new world.

Then he crossed himself in a brisk, automatic gesture and turned his gaze full upon her, grey eyes meeting blue.

Then I put out my hand, that old automatic gesture of the well-trained American male.

In an automatic gesture of courtesy, she took out a plate and lined it with cookies.

He even checked his watch, an automatic and wasted gesture that nobody saw.