Beyond displaying the kind of parenting that helped make his daughter the automatonlike workaholic depicted in the profile, Mr. Dyson misses the point.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a New Media Prophetess,A Staid Old Media Product] Reference

I kept them at the proper level, and when they reached the forward edge of the altar I cooperated with the summoning spell, increasing the force of each automatonlike step that I took.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trumps of Doom]

One factor that may make it more palatable and not so cloying is that Karim is experiencing these feelings and situations for the first time, yet reacts in a way that not even an average fifteen-year-old in a coming-of-age story would, because he's not solely an innocent -- he's nearly a machine, and the novel is the story of his deepening resistance to that automatonlike sensibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anis Shivani: The Best Post-9/11 Novel: Huffington Post Interviews Teddy Wayne, Author of "Kapitoil"] Reference

A calm, impassive, unemotional sternness about all that he said and did -- official, automatonlike -- that precluded the possibility of any jest or meaningless form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shapes that Haunt the Dusk] Reference