Adjective : a mechanical failure. ,a mechanical toy. ,mechanical propulsion. ,a mechanical bond between stones; mechanical erosion. ,the mechanical trades; mechanical ability. ,a mechanical performance. ,Practice that step until it becomes mechanical.    From Dictionary.com. 

And some simple nonmechanical readers that we think might last two or three thousand years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus]

The other is a very nonmechanical, ethereal sense of just looking down on things — in a panoramic sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soul of a New Flying Machine] Reference

New York's Battery Park City in 2002 started requiring new buildings to plant greenery covering 75% of the nonmechanical area of their roofs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up on the Roof] Reference

Their progress was slowed by the need to avoid, duck beneath, or go around sensors designed to detect the presence of moving, nonmechanical forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost And Found]

He also says you can freely copy artistic works because there is a nonmechanical agency by the second comer that is attaching their will to the work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

After such explanation was decided upon, atomism provided a way of interpreting those other phenomena which were patently nonmechanical on the visible level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

After she saw us strut our stuff in the Big Game, she decided to try to learn some of the nonmechanical variety of magic ... and for some unknown reason picked or picked on me to provide her with lessons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Myth Marker]

And the case which Dworkin (and the dissenters) claim the Court disregarded and in effect overruled, Grutter, had approved the University of Michigan Law School's use of race in what was said to be a flexible, nonmechanical way to achieve "diversity" in its student body.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Supreme Court Phalanx': An Exchange] Reference

In a surprising and counter-intuitive twist, in the past decade, the mechanical engines of computers have been grounding the radically nonmechanical philosophy of postmodernism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

I could use some nonmechanical help, and it can get lonely down here. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mocking Program]

"Second most probable conclusion: Fairly high-order, nonmechanical intelligences do indeed exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind from The Sun]

"What we need, what all mankind needs, is a computer that is nonmechanical; a computer with imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martian Way]

< p xmlns: control = "control" > The Redding case poses a challenge to those senators who want to press Judge Sotomayor to swear under oath that in reaching decisions she will "simply apply the law" and solemnly promise never to be influenced by her life experiences, common sense or any other nonmechanical factor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference