It does generate the impression of being machine-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebels Without a Cause] Reference

The life is machine-like, and all is routine clockwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference

This meant that he had attained machine-like perfection.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE APOSTATE: written by Jack London] Reference

The Ontarian was surprised at his odd, machine-like accuracy, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making] Reference

As opposed to the machine-like state, Schlegel advocates as his ideal an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friedrich Schlegel] Reference

His third album, "The DeAndre Way," occasionally slips into machine-like fits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of Soulja Boy's 'The DeAndre Way'] Reference

It is perfect poetry concerning the machine-like movements of highly-trained troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference

The work of his hands he did with machine-like wisdom; likewise the work of his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN] Reference

What I remember about the job was the routine machine-like repetitiveness of the work.    From Wordnik.com.  [About: The Progressive Diminishment of Man] Reference

I couldn't believe his -- I couldn't believe the machine-like mind that he had early on.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2003] Reference

For example, the flagella of bacteria are deemed "irreducibly complex" and machine-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stepping into the intelligent design debate...] Reference

With machine-like slowness a portion of the metal skin swung out and down to form a ramp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Story of Flying Saucers « Official Harry Harrison News Blog] Reference

After reading this blog and others, I'm appauled by her campaign's machine-like operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton 'Advisor': Obama Is For People Who Want "Imaginary Hip Black Friend"] Reference

After recoding the calm, measured qualities of leadership as machine-like, Brooks concludes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Roth: In Praise of Poise] Reference

All administrations are machine-like, otherwise anarchy would entail in the executive branch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gingrich to call on Republicans to offer new vision] Reference

Outside of his role, Arnold Schwarzenegger also projects a machine-like hardness and coolness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robot Nation] Reference

The matter is proceeding in machine-like order, and one of the first great men to cross No-Man's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917] Reference

While I have always admired this machine-like prowess, it has made him a less approachable person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anthony Tjan: What Tiger Woods Should Do Next] Reference

KEILAR: Michael Phelps completes his task with machine-like precision, and we're not talking about swimming.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2008] Reference

Purely functional machine-like buildings that paradoxically have a human dimension which is hard to pin down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grain Elevators] Reference

It was so programmed and machine-like, rattling off this list of programs, as if fast was the opposite of stiff.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Democratic National Convention: Al Gore Accepts His Party's Presidential Nomination - August 17, 2000] Reference

This is organized, systematic, machine-like evil through deliberately chosen policies of the Chinese government.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Caught In Genocidal Correctness] Reference

You put your reliance on the old machine-like reasoning that the human race has relied on since it left the caves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ring Around the Sun]

The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE UNEXPECTED] Reference

Standing eerily still and in machine-like formation over square tables, the army of thousands portended something big.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Pasternack: From Inside the Stadium, Another Look at Beijing's Opening Ceremony] Reference

No storms, no churning waters and threshing forests, nothing but the machine-like precipitation of accumulated moisture.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE STORY OF JEES UCK] Reference

Watching, an odd calm came upon him, a steadying calm that made him hard and machine-like to do the thing that faced him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cosmic Engineer]

A machine-like system the Nazis would have been proud of to INSTANTLY identify and deport anyone overstaying a legal visa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anis Shivani: The Democrats' New Immigration Plan: Outdoing Arizona in Bigotry] Reference

"Each overproduced video and news story of her machine-like campaign only serves to reinforce the YouTube message," Rubin says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Digest: 3/28/07] Reference

The situtation is that there exists systems with machine-like complexity for which we only observe one reliable cause, intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?] Reference

The Boers never dreamed that it was possible for our troops to move with such machine-like precision as to hold every nek at our mercy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference

It wore on him, this machine-like existence, this blind, unquestioning obedience, days and nights of purposeless waiting, brightened by neither hope nor memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Roberts and Alito have proven to be the pre-programmed robots that liberals feared and are working away, machine-like, to deliver government to the corporations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supreme irony] Reference