To dwell inside a well-functioning machine is to be largely unaware of its functioning.
In the 1960s Brazil experimented with this somewhat and had a well functioning car industry for a while.
In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement — pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation — are accommodated with equal priority.
Moreover, they preferred a well-functioning product over one produced more "responsibly" but which functioned poorly.
When Perry declared in his memo that baseload power "is necessary to a well-functioning grid," he was dating himself, like a horse enthusiast in the era of cars.
It had a well-functioning administrative system.
So does a well-functioning information market.
That is not how a well-functioning economy should work.
It is a well-functioning government at multiple levels.
A well-functioning board would have smelled danger and investigated.
He bequeathed to his successor a well-functioning police state.
