| Zola was never a rapid writer, and seems to have regulated his literary production with machinelike uniformity. |
| Only for a moment was the machinelike precision of the English class broken. |
| Behind him drums and bass pumped in machinelike overdrive amid a gnarl of distorted guitar. |
| The place was set on fire with help of machinelike bicycle pumps with which many of the soldiers were furnished. |
| With superfluous motion eliminated, the worker, following a machinelike routine, became much more productive. |
| The mixture of nearly machinelike order and organic irregularities implies that intuition and reason are working simultaneously. |
