To describe it as "comprehensive" is no idle gesture.

Ian considered his act an idle gesture of goodwill toward a town which entrusted him with office.

An idle gesture back and forth between us.

Considering that his ships were earning $300,000 a cruise, this was no idle gesture.

The testing was neither cruel-and-unusual punishment nor idle moral gesture, by the way.

He tapped the smoothed sand in front of him, and she saw that his apparently idle gestures had been to a purpose.

It was an idle gesture, as if she wasn't really concentrating.

Dukat raised his left hand as if making an idle gesture.

Evelyn had not been given her "gift" of a silken bathing suit as an idle gesture.

I traced my fingers along his waist, over the curve of his hip, an idle gesture, not exactly sexual.