And in the trained-animal world, where turns must go off like clockwork, is little or no space for persuasion. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 33] Reference
The clockwork is radiocontrolled and the timedots (the dots that mark the hours) comes in 3 different sizes and colours. From Wordnik.com. [Hotel-de-Ville de Paris Wall Clock] Reference
After Einstein, this 'clockwork' model has been rejected, along with the idea of 'absolute' space and time. From Wordnik.com. [SOL #1.5 Evidence (end of chapter one)] Reference
"This is the idea that came to be known as the clockwork universe. From Wordnik.com. [BBC Blog Network] Reference
If anyone wants a picture of the "clockwork" regularity of the flips check it out. From Wordnik.com. [doggdot.us] Reference
They even feel by a kind of clockwork, which seems to go better than the heart itself. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference
As regular as clockwork, when the time came round. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
I open wine at 5: 15 every evening, like clockwork. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Henry Is a Still Driving Man] Reference
"I'm glad you didn't say 'clockwork,'" Mike told him. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
"The affair will go by clockwork," he assured himself. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] 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
Not ours: but in the clockwork world just age is ageless. From Wordnik.com. [Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising] Reference
And then there were other groups that kind of left like clockwork. From Wordnik.com. [14 Charged With Supporting Somali Terrorist Group] Reference
There are her clockwork appearances at Methodist services on Sundays. From Wordnik.com. [The Gateway To The Oval Office] Reference
Like clockwork, every few years, we fall under the spell of vampires. From Wordnik.com. [Tory Burch: Vampires: Once Bitten] Reference
Almost like clockwork, and generally completed before noon on Monday. From Wordnik.com. [Four Sieges] Reference
Ten feet away, the fighting unit suddenly ran down like a clockwork toy. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Mouse] Reference
Breaking camp in the morning became routine, and proceeded like clockwork. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
Like an elaborate piece of clockwork, the whole affair was not as yet in motion. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
This is geared with clockwork to represent an estimate based on the acceleration. From Wordnik.com. [Out Around Rigel] Reference
Indeed, the White House mood was proudly businesslike, clockwork in its precision. From Wordnik.com. [W's Comfort Zone] Reference
It felt right, and it continued, and now every time I'm here, it's like clockwork. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of 'Sweet Caroline' and the Sox] Reference
The intermission lulls down a curtain; ice cream-strapped ushers roll in by clockwork. From Wordnik.com. [Red Velvet Curtains] Reference
There will be every kind and character of clock and clockwork resurrected on that day. From Wordnik.com. [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference
He began running the film, the record taken from the Map itself, accurate as clockwork. From Wordnik.com. [Gold in the Sky] Reference
"If Madeline's rule holds," she said, "this play ought to go like clockwork to-morrow.". From Wordnik.com. [Betty Wales Senior] Reference
They play mostly spontaneous, constantly mutating parts, that fit together like clockwork. From Wordnik.com. [Jazz Ensemble Empirical Recalls Eric Dolphy] Reference
Darkness is as essential to our biological welfare, to our internal clockwork, as light itself. From Wordnik.com. [Jillian Burt: Grinderman is the First Great Band of the Anthropocene Epoch] Reference
Smith's hill; what ailed the creature I can't tell, for she's as steady as clockwork generally. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Like clockwork the latest crisis in the Balkans has produced the usual flurry of calls to action. From Wordnik.com. [Breathing Room In The Balkans] Reference
Chinese waiters did their appointed tasks with the smoothness and lack of confusion of clockwork. From Wordnik.com. [The Log of the Empire State] Reference
Switzerland and the French Jura have no longer a clockwork monopoly; watches are made everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
The bird cocks its head at Rasmus, then swallows the clockwork insect in a gulp before flying away. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Bird] Reference
Some trends have emerged: Japanese marques redesign vehicles like clockwork every four or five years. From Wordnik.com. [Cyclical motion] Reference
There the clockwork, which was to explode her within a certain length of time, was set and she was abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Ever wonder what makes Japanese financial markets succumb to near-death spasms every six months like clockwork?. From Wordnik.com. [Learning From The Student] Reference
But the clockwork recurrence of this amazing discovery has become a permanent feature of our election campaigns. From Wordnik.com. [Rediscovering 'Real People'] Reference
They pull off a clockwork heist at a bank in an LA skyscraper, escaping by stealing a helicopter from TV news crew. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Takers] Reference
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