How To Use Clockwork In A Sentence
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Every fifteen minutes a train made its appearance, tooting and clacking, regular as clockwork.
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The foxtrot is not a flashy dance; its motor impulse is more akin to clockworks than, say, the hip-driven stampede nature of the samba.
Stars That Truly Dance
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Hopefully you'll sort any hitches so the whole wedding runs like clockwork.
The Sun
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After the clockwork of the watch was cleaned the watch kept perfect time.
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The Olympic village ran like clockwork.
The Sun
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He was the talisman, the cog in the clockwork that made the whole mechanism function.
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Her labour was going like clockwork when her waters broke on the evening of her due date.
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To me the shape is more like an orrery, a clockwork model of the solar system.
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The company is filled with superb technologists who are prepared to obsolete products in their prime and to churn out new ones with clockwork regularity.
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These Ancients, more ancient than ours but still not literally ancient, saw the world not as a giant clockwork but as an organism.
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She joined Otley Junior Players and her first starring role was as a clockwork doll at the age of five.
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You don't have to play these cat and mouse games with your clockwork soldiers.
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Dad's Army told us that in Britain, thank heaven, nothing worked like clockwork.
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A grey mental gloom settles over them with clockwork regularity as soon as the days draw in and the mornings get darker.
Stay Well This Winter
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Reductionist science grew from the clockwork logic of Descartes.
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He felt himself running in slow motion, slower and slower, like a clockwork toy running down.
CHARMED LIFE
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Their bodies seemed like a temple for artistic expression that gestured and moved with clockwork precision.
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In a boxy home with a boxy garden, a clockwork family lives a clockwork life.
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To me the shape is more like an orrery, a clockwork model of the solar system.
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Seriously, it seems a lot of people who focus on current biological science become remarkably 'reductionist' and in many ways are still thinking of the universe as a 'clockwork' - that idea has been outdated in physics for over century, time for Richard Dawkins to catch up.
Fibonacci Patterns
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Hopefully you'll sort any hitches so the whole wedding runs like clockwork.
The Sun
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Yet there was only one recorded clockwork crime, in which a tramp was beaten to death by a teenager.
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Ok, not to worry - they've probably got a back-up clockwork ticker-tape machine lying about somewhere that'll do the job.
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A universe that ran like clockwork also evinced design.
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Then, like clockwork, out slid the new issue of The Weekly Standard, which lambastes Mr. Obama's neighborhood as an island of upper-class daffiness – a neat trick, considering that Hyde Park's median household income is substantially lower than both the national and the Chicago median.
Mister Maverick, Meet Da Machine
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Children slept in dormitories, they ate together in silence, and they lived their days to a clockwork routine which never varied.
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William Tell overture is not "from the soundtrack for A Clockwork Orange", it is a piece of classical music composed by Rossini.
Matt’s Top 10 Trailers of 2009 – Collider.com
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Fine mechanical clockwork components allude to timing and precision; the shells or fossils also refer to time, and the format suggests balance and endurance.
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In wave pools, the water is chlorinated, the beach is concrete and the waves arrive like clockwork, once every few minutes.
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The dancers wore silver all-in-ones, headdresses and these codpieces on top of their trousers like in A Clockwork Orange.
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Then Donna Scott at a small magazine called Visionary Tongue asked me to write a short story, so I used it as a test-bed to play around with the idea of clockwork vampires.
Interview with Andy Remic (Interviewed by Mihir Wanchoo)
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After all, she has been his forewoman for years, and knows him like clockwork.
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All through that day of wonder, which included real roses that you could pick and smell, and real gooseberries that you could gather and eat, as well as picture-books, a clockwork bear, a musical box, and a doll's house almost as big as a small villa, an idea kept on hammering at the other side of a locked door in Dickie's mind, and when he was in bed it got the door open and came out and looked at him.
Harding's Luck
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Me and a cameraman with a clockwork wind-up camera.
Times, Sunday Times
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My mother was like the evil clockwork of some kind of villainous clock gone haywire.
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Thus the clockwork Earth is (2,575,342/2pi = 409,878 km) in radius (about 64x our Earth's)
Mainspring - orbital dynamics
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Images of the sun are thrown into the observatory by an ingenious instrument run by clockwork, and called a heliostat.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
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For years, the last day of the season has run like clockwork.
The Sun
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From one moment to the next, "Cars 2" comes up with plenty of visual zingers: a Parisian marché aux pieces as in spare parts; a plunge into the giant clockworks of London's Big Bentley; a Japanese toilet designed to pamper any chassis; exotic cars galore, including such exotic lemons as the Pacer, the Gremlin and what the movie calls the Hugo.
Oy Story: 'Cars 2' Is a Dollar-Driven Edsel
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What American audiences want most, she learns, is clockwork morality plays about neglectful mothers and errant wives.
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They came to prominence between the two world wars, in what is known as the ‘golden age’ of crime fiction, in which solutions hinged on the clockwork arrival of trains and an undeviating adherence to etiquette.
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And in the trained-animal world, where turns must go off like clockwork, is little or no space for persuasion.
CHAPTER XXXIII
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They were first written down by Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century and gave rise to a general view of nature known as the clockwork universe.
Newton's laws of motion
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The entire show was coordinated with clockwork precision by the Adventure Zone staff, headed by Major Swaraj Roy.
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It was gigantic and made of black metal, a great column filled with gears, levers, and pulleys moving together in a chaotic clockwork melee.
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I liked it better than the first one, if only because I thought the world of Hellboy was a lot better realized here (despite the finale, the duel on clockworks, which is a direct lift from Miyazaki -- so was the Forest God sequence, come to think of it) and the special effects were employed with more wit.
Electronic Cerebrectomy
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I watched them both, a little taken aback, as Von Rogoff and Herr Lindstrom made clockwork conversation.
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I ran this house with clockwork efficiency, but I did nothing worthwhile for my own fulfillment.
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With The Instance of the Fingerpost, Pears created a new kind of masterwork-a historical novel constructed intricately to work like clockwork, which glides sequentially from one subjective narrator to another, so that each section unveils new explanations that upend the previous narrator's picture of the characters 'motivations and actions.
The Inverse Square Blog
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They are dull from a distance, audible by clicks and ribald whistles, and up close as glossy and iridescent as clockwork toys.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's having marital difficulties, but can't stop fixating on her clockwork household.
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It is not a principle, like a clockwork design applied to the universe: It is an efficient intention, by an intellectual power.
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His universe was not clockwork and right angled but smoky and numinous.
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A grey mental gloom settles over them with clockwork regularity as soon as the days draw in and the mornings get darker.
Stay Well This Winter
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Once a year, like clockwork, the Old Delhi dam is opened, flooding the dry riverbeds.
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Puppets are thus to be distinguished from dolls, clockwork automata, and other toys.
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Londres à prix hallucinant advertising campaign ": the bouncy, likeable" Tin Toy Clockwork Train ".
PopMatters
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The tape was driven by a clockwork motor.
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Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel, Senna's stop went like clockwork.
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EVENTIDE The original company name was Eventide Clockworks, chosen by founder Richard Factor because "eventide" means "evening" and he started out by making digital clocks for DJs after hours.
Netvouz - new bookmarks
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The tape was driven by a clockwork motor.
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Anytime the pace seems to flag (it does so with clockwork precision) the music is juiced up and things explode and then our heroes are back where they started - negotiating even bigger plot-holes.
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He manages to create a believable world of automatons and clockwork mechanisms against a backdrop of the real world.
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Bassett-Lowke of Northampton then began to produce small navies, clockwork or steam-driven, while what's known as "Queen Mary fever" led to Cunard liners that could run around the carpet on wheels.
First toys, then models and now works of art
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All week it worked like clockwork.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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The cityscape in this case is London; the three pastoralists are G.K. Chesterton in The Napoleon of Notting Hill, George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange; and I believe the three mythoi, in order, are Romance, Tragedy, and (surprise!)
Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses
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But of course peaceful, clockwork, wealthy Holland, with its canals and bicycle paths, is a long way from Congo, where the national government barely functions, people speak several hundred languages, and a majority of the population is functionally illiterate and has no electricity, much less a radio or TV.
The Trial of Thomas Lubanga
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With the destruction of the clockworks, that is, at the end of time, all rituals will be personal and idiosyncratic, serving not to unify a community/cult in a common cause but to link each single individual with the universe in whatever manner suits him or her best.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
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Another one that I couldn't take (perhaps because I didn't premedicate as recommended) was Clockwork Orange.
Send in the nouns
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Thank goodness for racehorses, fascinating clockwork driven costumed "automata" figures, an antique "wheel of fortune," Ms. Pacman and a pinball machine I designed for him with the names, locations and voices from the many television shows he produced.
Candy Spelling: Missing My Husband on Father's Day
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Mr. Self’s own text is immensely learned in cabbie lore and even creates a cab-based “Clockwork Orange”-like language, in which the sun is the “foglamp,” for example, and the moon an “édlite.”
Archive 2006-12-01
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In the early days they had a clockwork tape recorder, and sat under trees with storytellers and bottles of rum.
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I'd be better off at Lidd with a clockwork dummy than be with you!
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Crowds have been excellent, the organisation clockwork and the sport on show has been almost universally of the highest standard.
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Opening the back of my pocketwatch and watching the clockworks is always a thrill for me.
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England carried themselves wearily from the beginning, conscious that they had forfeited the game the day before, going through their activities now like clockwork toys winding down.
Times, Sunday Times
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They all ran like clockwork and were free.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everything ran like clockwork for the Irish fivesome who had to quickly move on to launches in Belfast, Edinburgh, Manchester and London.
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The Queen's holiday is arranged to go like clockwork, everything pre-planned to the minute.
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With clockwork precision 50 women completed it in 10.42 hours.
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These sprout, the hypocotyl thrusts eagerly down into the soil, the epicotyl emerges like clockwork above the soil -- and someone like me comes along and picks it like the weed it is and throws it away.
Chicago Reader
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He performed a few feats with clockwork precision.
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Like most commentators, Huw, who had had his brain removed for the day – I think it's the law – and replaced with a clockwork mouse channelling the thoughts of the late Barbara Cartland, marvelled at the marvellousness of everything.
Thai buffalo racing gives royal wedding sycophancy a run for its money | Martin Kelner
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He told me that in 1964 he had read an English novel called A Clockwork Orange, written by the well-known author Anthony Burgess, and a year later he had ponied up the thousand dollars needed to option the film rights.
Jay Weston: Kubrick's Clockwork Orange Celebrates 40th Anniversary
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For one thing, human beings do not experience themselves as being clockwork automata.
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The new paradigm, moving beyond Newton's majestic clockwork metaphor, guides us to a new way of approaching decisionmaking.
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The external world appeared to be an automaton, a clockwork mechanism that had been regulated once and for all.
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Let us be like that famous Don Juan of the animal kingdom, the ten-hearted earthworm, and cultivate as many loves as our biology (or clockworks) will allow - then secrete a viscid egg sac into our clitellum and slide that junk right off our segmented, slithery body.
Wondermark
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As usual, though, the moment a plan does not go like clockwork from the outset there are calls for it to be abandoned.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do not these causes and conditions, however complex, lead in the end to a mechanically predestined result, rather like an intricate clockwork wound up and set ticking?
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She arrives every day at five, regular as clockwork.
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It is a Thirties clockwork race game, in which two tin spaceships take turns to advance along a tramline track.
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What is so harmful about this mixture of real-life street-tragedy and low-rent entertainment is that "COPS" and its brethren reduce our resistance to the kind of dehumanized "ultra-violence" Anthony Burgess hypothesized in his then-seemingly satiric 1962 novel "A Clockwork Orange.
Dying and Living in COPS America
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I must say that I find ‘Harmonica Dance’ more than just clever, and that ‘Clockwork’ merits more than description as another helter-skelter.
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Here's how Sait's son Yousuff describes the clockwork: The wall clock works for a week for one winding.
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Everyone in it seemed to stir into immediate life at cockcrow, and the farm then spun and whirred like a complicated bit of clockwork until after sunset, when one by one the cogs and wheels that made it run began to fall away, rolling off into the dark to seek supper and bed, only to reappear like magic in their proper places in the morning.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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They take place with clockwork regularity all the year round.
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He has also outfitted (one almost wants to say "retrofitted") a Fender Stratocaster guitar, making it appear that the pick guard has been peeled away to reveal the guts — all clockwork gears.
Steampunking Technology
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This materialism was of a mechanical kind - with matter interacting like parts in a giant clockwork mechanism.
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The sports day went like clockwork, with every race starting and finishing on time.
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The Metro North commuter trains disturb the local fauna with clockwork regularity.
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The god he referred to when he said "God does not play dice" is the monist god: the laws governing clockwork and ping-pong balls.
A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)
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Usually, railway crossings work more or less like clockwork.
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'There is a clockwork mechanism to drive the orrery - the turning Earth.
ANTI-ICE
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The baroque churches are glorious, chocolate-box designs, as playful and loveable as the clockwork stars of Toccata for Toy Trains.
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Kitschy LivingA whole load of kitsch from a "Nice Jewish Guys" calendar to Clockwork Orange jumpers.203gowFrom knitted benches to crocheted Buddhas, the work of the Japan's finest guerrilla crafter.
Internet picks of the week
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The rest is how the extensive training to enable the three to act on clockwork precision is done and the robbery is met with success.
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The quintet played an arrangement of a Mozart piece for clockwork organ and original works by Danzi, Barber and Ibert: all stalwarts of the repertory.
Berlin in Lights: Uptown, Downtown, All Around the Town - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred.
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The clockwork is radiocontrolled and the timedots (the dots that mark the hours) comes in 3 different sizes and colours.
Hotel-de-Ville de Paris Wall Clock
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At first the clockwork of the hygrograph would not go at all, as the oil had become thick, and it was not until this had been removed by prolonged severe heating (baking in the oven for several days) that it could be set going; but then it had to be used for the thermograph, the mechanism of which was broken, so that no registration was obtained of the humidity of the air.
The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
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The excruciatingly beautiful clockwork ballerina's not by the Tate, which, though tragic, merely leaves me still idling along with no goal.
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Jolted by a mugging into the feeling that he is leading a clockwork, incomplete existence, Walker subsequently walks out on his spouse.
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The clockworks is a long way, in every way, from the White House, Fort Knox and the Vatican, but the winds that blow across the clockworks always wear a crazy grin.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
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In Burgess's 1962 dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange, famously filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1971, the unruly youngster Alex is subjected to "the Ludovico Technique" by the crazed authorities.
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Sanderlings are characteristic of sandy beaches, running back and forth, with the ebb and flow of the tide, like so many little clockwork toys.
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When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating " like clockwork.
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Of inventions which proved to have major significance, only the lens and clockwork travelled in the opposite direction, eastwards across Eurasia.
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Perfect ground, slick starts and responsible jockeyship all contributed to the clockwork efficiency.
Times, Sunday Times
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For one thing, human beings do not experience themselves as being clockwork automata.
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Opening the back of my pocketwatch and watching the clockworks is always a thrill for me.
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But, after that, the system at the hospital went like clockwork.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now my day runs like clockwork.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Clockwork Century is a new website for the steampunk world set forth in Cherie Priest's forthcoming novel Boneshaker. [via Adventures in Reading]
SF Tidbits for 7/12/09
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He is home by six every day regular as clockwork.
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They all ran like clockwork and were free.
Times, Sunday Times
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The third hole is a par 3, and, like clockwork, there's always a backup on that tee.
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He was wearing a blue plastic cagoule with the hood up, pulled tight round his face, his paddles rhythmically hitting the cold water, constant as clockwork.
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In common with Descartes, he visualized the universe in terms of clockwork rather than as a living organism.
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Fires, both natural and human-caused, have burned seasonally dry parts of the island with clockwork regularity for millennia.
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More a series of sketches than a linear plot, Mon Oncle operates much like a clockwork: a series of gears, repeated movements that set off countermovements.
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You can also see the clockwork mechanism that made the light flash.
Times, Sunday Times
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the rocket launch went off like clockwork
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Clockwork was the innovation that made automata possible, and the level of technical sophistication is still amazing today.
Times, Sunday Times
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Later on the pinnacle of technology was the clockwork.
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The Queen's holiday is arranged to go like clockwork, everything pre-planned to the minute.
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The sports day went like clockwork, with every race starting and finishing on time.
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Roddick is an investor in Freeplay, the company that manufactures clockwork radios, and Hotel du Vin, the boutique hotel chain.
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In the clockwork universe outlined by Newton and his followers, one can calculate, and hence predict, everything.
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Like most commentators, Huw, who had had his brain removed for the day – I think it's the law – and replaced with a clockwork mouse channelling the thoughts of the late Barbara Cartland, marvelled at the marvellousness of everything.
Thai buffalo racing gives royal wedding sycophancy a run for its money | Martin Kelner
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The title, as enigmatic as most of the images we get to see during the movie, is actually a few words from the Cockney slang term "as queer as a clockwork orange," which Burgess decided to use to illustrate the oddity of a conditioned person ( "orang" being the Malay word for "man").
Film School Rejects
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The foxtrot is not a flashy dance; its motor impulse is more akin to clockworks than, say, the hip-driven stampede nature of the samba.
Stars That Truly Dance
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A grey mental gloom settles over them with clockwork regularity as soon as the days draw in and the mornings get darker.
Stay Well This Winter
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I can't tell you how long I've been here on this traffic island, the clockwork in my watch rusted to a halt long long ago.
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So no surprise that the clockwork was the symbol for science and progress – just like we use the computer analogy for how the brain works.
The Mechanical World View – or why van Gogh’s can’t be simulated | ultraorange.net
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Inventor Trevor Baylis had spent years trying to raise finance for his wind-up clockwork radio.
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He felt himself running in slow motion, slower and slower, like a clockwork toy running down.
CHARMED LIFE
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You can also see the clockwork mechanism that made the light flash.
Times, Sunday Times
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Me and a cameraman with a clockwork wind-up camera.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like clockwork, the structures form in the afternoon and break down after nightfall.
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Japanese cars in the main seem to run like clockwork.
The Sun
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Danielle jumped up and down and clapped her hands above her head like a clockwork toy gone haywire.
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As usual, though, the moment a plan does not go like clockwork from the outset there are calls for it to be abandoned.
Times, Sunday Times
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Considerations such as the above serve to explain why writers and film directors since George Orwell's 1984 have depicted the future, not as paradise regained, but as a series of dystopias and cacotopias (perhaps the most memorable, after Orwell's haunting novel, was Anthony Burgess's more 'lyrical' cacotopia, "A Clockwork Orange", which found the perfect director in Stanley Kubrick, the misanthrope of the twentieth century).
The Incoherence of Progress
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I'm stuck again, eighty feet above the warehouse floor, surrounded by Scooby Doo shampoo, clockwork frogs and sponge basketballs.
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Woken up with the muezzin's call in the morning, the 400 and odd students of the school go about their curriculum in a clockwork fashion guided by caring wardens and affectionate teachers.
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Thinking of buying a Plasma, you know the ones that increase my cardon footprint, one second thoughts maybe a clockwork radio would be a better investment given the skyrocketting thats coming.
How ABC Stacked the Deck for Obama - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState
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Loves are lost, hearts are broken, games become mere clockwork, and his passion dies.
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Matt came round each Friday, regular as clockwork.
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The clockwork appearance of periodical cicadas in late May to mid-June has long fascinated, and perplexed, entomologists.
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She came into season like clockwork, we took her to the stud yard, 15 minutes later she was back in the horsebox and we were on our way home.
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Truly, Hero is so tightly organized that the viewer may balk at its clockwork elegance.
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There's a scene in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange in which ultra-violent "droog" Alex DeLarge, played by Malcolm McDowell, undergoes "aversion therapy" to cure his violent tendencies by being forced to watch violent films while given drugs to induce a nauseated reaction, so that every time he feels violent, he'll get sick.
Mjsbigblog
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They were real passions, and at first I thought ‘hey, wouldn't it be good to use the Internet to trade clockwork tin toys’.
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Oh and there's also a chirrup like a clockwork cicada in there.
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Faced with his manically inventive and elaborate use of his material, at times recalling the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts and the ornamentation of Italian Renaissance book design; and his endless depictions of George Washington—as angel, bellhop, businessman, clockwork, cowboy, founding father, topiary, traffic cop and window washer continually outfoxing his nemesis the Gingerbread man—is to give in freely to his fantastic voyage.
Of a Decade and a Dollar
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You'll note that in these and many other cases the joy of seeing these works of art appear every month like clockwork is short-lived.
The ADD Blog at Comic Book Galaxy
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The stairs became a spiral here, worming their way up through the shrinking space, then on through an area with narrow platforms and square casements containing the clockworks, one facing each direction.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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They are dull from a distance, audible by clicks and ribald whistles, and up close as glossy and iridescent as clockwork toys.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was truly amazing to the young man how clockwork Marcus was, each poster, every billboard, he spent a specific amount of time on it, no more, no less.
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True, the lucrative Indian Premier League has been mired in controversies off the cricket field, but its on-field performance — of staging a large number of matches on schedule at different venues — has run like clockwork.
The 'Incompetence Raj' Strikes Again
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The formal structure and brisk tempo of the third movement required almost clockwork precision.
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Today he moved like a clockwork man, functioning in precise patterns, thinking of nothing and feeling none.
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Regular as clockwork, you see drug dealers at the same times in the same places, five times a day, for drug drop-offs.
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Somewhat reminiscent of Vernor Vinge's novella "The Cookie Monster", this particularly steamy slice of corporate Gormenghast for the economy-plagued America provides plenty of emotional harakiri and gut-spilling visual thrills ... it crawls around the astonished reader like a misshapen beetle (complete with the grotesque patterns on its carapace and clockwork-sounding clicks).
The Surreal Office
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Now my day runs like clockwork.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since the recent improvements to the service, the buses are running like clockwork.
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Beneath the flexible folds of its scales is an armature controlled by clockwork.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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The Olympic village ran like clockwork.
The Sun
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Inventor Trevor Baylis had spent years trying to raise finance for his wind-up clockwork radio.
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I saw a wonderful science tool museum with clockworks from the 17th century, astrolabes, telephones from the turn of the last century, and suchlike, started as a collection by a local baron/scientist.
Kassel, Goslar, Hannover, more Göttingen
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For those of us lucky enough to have been in Beijing, it was the way the whole thing ran like clockwork.
The Sun
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A visit to a closed foundry, quiet, without a clockwork flow of wheels on conveyors, loading robots, forklifts moving around, sparks flying from grinders and searing heat from open furnaces would be eerie indeed.
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The counterplan was running like clockwork.
The Sun
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If you doubt the power of the aesthetics of clockwork, look at the prices in a smart watchmaker's shop.
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All week it worked like clockwork.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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Things she approved: a clockwork wisteria that bloomed at the third hours of day and night, a great tiger with emerald eyes and catercorner stripes, a statue of a gilded horse that allowed no rain to touch it, and a ceramic jar that foretold earthquakes, eclipses and tidal waves.
Fiction: lisa listens
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Like clockwork, the red light flashed to green and the lock unbolted.
My Fair Succubi
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Whether it is all running like clockwork depends on results.
The Sun
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Opening it, I gazed upon a set of small clockwork toy soldiers, each with a tiny drum and even tinier drumsticks.
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This oscillation is not exactly a parallel to the balance wheel and hairspring of a clockwork watch, but the fact is that both use oscillations to keep track of passing time.
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Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred.
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Japanese cars in the main seem to run like clockwork.
The Sun
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From the start we were well organised and the whole thing ran like clockwork.
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The deputy noted that a series of three fights in North Facility dormitories started like clockwork five minutes apart.
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While dub is typically revered for its clockwork rhythm that snaps the mind into a trance, what is heard between the beats and the notes matter just as much.
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A picnic atmosphere prevailed and thankfully everything ran like clockwork, even with a huge entry of over 200 competitors.
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England carried themselves wearily from the beginning, conscious that they had forfeited the game the day before, going through their activities now like clockwork toys winding down.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has the clockwork reliability of a fine timepiece.
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In Victorian London airships circle, steam-driven taxies are the new rage, and clockwork automatons have become status symbols for the rich.
Review: The Affinity Bridge by George Mann
