The place was set on fire with help of machinelike bicycle pumps with which many of the soldiers were furnished. |
It's something that robotics types call the Uncanny Valley, when a robot crosses over from seeming machinelike but hasn't yet achieved true human qualities. |
The mixture of nearly machinelike order and organic irregularities implies that intuition and reason are working simultaneously. |
Behind him drums and bass pumped in machinelike overdrive amid a gnarl of distorted guitar. |
With superfluous motion eliminated, the worker, following a machinelike routine, became much more productive. |
Some say only humans are conscious and animals are instinctive and machinelike. |