Sentence examples for by clockwork from inspiring English sources

BEIJING — As if by clockwork, last week the Internet in Beijing slowed to a crawl.

The angular, machine-age forms powered by clockwork mechanisms of the first robots resemble the squarish automobiles and toasters of the early 20th century.

It's also not shocking that Trump has been a regular guest on the radio show of Alex Jones, who, among other interesting things, believes that Americans are in danger of being controlled by "clockwork elves".

Meccano was patented in 1901 by a Liverpool clerk, Frank Hornby, who after the first world war started a line in model railways, powered at first by clockwork and later by electricity.

Similarly, automaton figures moved by clockwork that appear when a clock strikes are not puppets, and such elaborate displays of automatons as those that perform at the cathedral clock in Strasbourg, France, or the town hall clock in Munich, Germany, must be excluded from consideration.

The winter visitors – curlews, lapwings – are long gone and the summer birds have arrived, as if by clockwork: the terns at the end of March – distinguishable by their "skritch skritch" and dives into the sea – and then the swallows and the swifts, which dive-bomb the building on sunny evening, like the Hawks from RAF Valley.

RUINED BY A Clockwork Orange: in which nasty gangs of uniformed droogs wreak ultraviolence on the cowering lewdies of future Britain.

The filmmakers acknowledge that they were inspired by "A Clockwork Orange," and by the rebellious, machine-gunning students of Lindsay Anderson's 1968 "If... " Many other sources, notably "The Phantom of the Opera," "Batman," and the "Darkman" graphic-novel series that was made into a movie in 1990, by Sam Raimi, are obvious influences.

The media storm thrown up by A Clockwork Orange certainly took Kubrick by surprise.

The British empire, navigated by jeweled clockwork, was set on course by collaboration and a touch of well-timed fraud.

Her stage makeup is characterized by dramatic glitter makeup at her right eye, inspired by A Clockwork Orange.