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. 

A machine -- a machine utterly unmechanical, which is a contradiction of terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference

Her fingers trembled with an unmechanical disturbance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Split Infinity]

At Bailleul the Skipper had suggested our learning to manage the unmechanical horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference

The silence cabinet in which was enclosed the transmitting apparatus, had been forced open, and even the unmechanical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pirate Shark] Reference

I wasn't sure what the problem was and, when he explained it in car lingo, my unmechanical ears couldn't decipher what he was saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matt Kepnes: Breaking Down in Australia] Reference

Press, Cambridge, Mass., and cut under his immediate direction, with especial insistance upon an unmechanical treatment of serifs, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples] Reference

Thus a mental picture of some new and unknown piece of machinery would mean nothing to an unmechanical mind, or even to a mechanical mind which was not endowed also with the inventive faculty.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference

The law of the parallelogram of forces is completely ignored by using such a pin; the friction during the unlocking and impulse actions is too severe, as it is, without the addition of so unmechanical an arrangement.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference

The De elocutione of Demetrius (first century A.D.) continues and extends the Aristotelian tradition of analysis of figures and tropes but again, in an unmechanical way, conveying the spirit as well as the technique.    From Wordnik.com.  [STYLE IN LITERATURE] Reference

Then follows a little horseplay, and only those who, like myself, regard horses as unmechanical and self-willed instruments of war, know how terrifying a sight and how difficult a task the emboxing of a company's horses can be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference

It is to be truly alive - unmechanical, unpredictable.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

This is another respect in which life is utterly unmechanical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference

It shows how plastic and versatile life is, and how utterly unmechanical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference

The fibre acts as if it knew what it wanted -- a very unmechanical attribute.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference

Starting with a hundred instincts such as this, that older unmechanical, spiritual, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference

The Canarians, like other neo-Latins an unmechanical race, care little for economising labour.    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference

"This is so bad it's not only unmechanical and unprofissional -- it's absolutely unsportsmanlike!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart's Desire] Reference

This is the direction in which they have both made their mistake, they treated the unmechanical old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.] Reference

Russians in themselves are the most unmechanical people, the most emotional and unexpected in their ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921] Reference

The simple device seems to stir the bile of the unmechanical old Roman, so unlike the Greek in powers of invention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

How utterly unmechanical a living body is, at least how far it transcends mere mechanics is shown by what the chemists call.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference

He furthermore stated that lead was an unmechanical metal for a battery, being heavy and lacking stability and elasticity, and that as most metals were unaffected by alkaline solutions, he was going to experiment in that direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference

The passion for clocks and other mechanical contrivances is common to all unmechanical races, and every chief's palace in North Africa contains a collection of time-pieces which might be called striking if so many had not ceased to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Morocco] Reference

It had an unmechanical sound, like the sewing-machine at home before it quite wore out, or Richard's motor-bicycle when something had gone wrong; and this spectacle of a mother giving heaven to her son by forgery of an emotion was an unmechanical situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Judge] Reference

I see that it is a machine in this respect, that it is set going by a force exterior to itself -- the warmth of the sun acting upon it, and upon the moisture in the soil; but it is unmechanical in that it repairs itself and grows and reproduces itself, and after it has ceased running can never be made to run again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference

Yet also they cannot be unmechanical” (1962a, 444).    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Ryle] Reference

"Now, supposing or admitting," continues Paley, "that we know nothing of the proper internal constitution of a gland, or of the mode of its acting upon the blood; then our situation is precisely like that of an unmechanical looker-on who stands by a stocking loom, a corn mill, a carding machine, or a threshing machine, at work, the fabric and mechanism of which, as well as all that passes within, is hidden from his sight by the outside case; or if seen, would be too complicated for his uninformed, uninstructed understanding to comprehend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference