For the most part, it was a harmless, "the more the merrier" gesture.

Football is not so important, in the grand scheme of things, that a grieving father should be punished for a harmless gesture.

Mary made her the trustee for the children's legacy, knowing it was a fairly harmless gesture.

A harmless gesture, a memorial, nothing more.

A simple, harmless gesture," the actor said.

Maybe the best one can do is to savor those rare episodes during which it is easy to tell the difference between a harmless gesture and a threat.

"She therefore flicked maraschino cherries at you - an apparently harmless and, possibly, flirtatious gesture, though even that roused the suspicions of the two men in the bar."

It was a harmless gesture on my part.

This would make biostasis a pointless but harmless gesture - after all, religious leaders have expressed no concern that mere preservation of the body can somehow imprison a soul.