Sentence examples for automatonlike from inspiring English sources

Yet because the characters never became believable people, the choreography seemed merely an anthology of twitches, staggers, automatonlike marchings and desperate clutchings at pillows, glasses and liquor bottles.

Bock's novel has the unapologetically obvious schemata of allegory -- an automatonlike German atomic scientist, a Holocaust refugee (named Sophie, no less) who makes her choices, a burn-victim filmmaker.