Sentence examples for clockwork about from inspiring English sources
"clockwork about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means that something is done with perfect precision or regularity, much like the inner workings of a clock. Example: The dancers moved in perfect synchronization, their movements almost as if controlled by clockwork about them.
But there is nothing clockwork about Sacks's mind and personality.
But like clockwork, about 10, Charlie the miniature collie across the street relieves himself on the same lamppost.
I recently sat down with Anderson to talk about how Clockwork Angels came about, the publishing industry and how it has changed over the course of his career, and a few other topics.
They are both comic and sometimes rather threatening, with a touch of A Clockwork Orange about them, as they restrain Berkavitch.
In the late 1960s, he bought the film rights to Anthony Burgess's disturbing futuristic novel "A Clockwork Orange," about roaming gang members who committed violent crimes just for fun.
These changes can be followed by studying ice cores taken in Antarctica.According to Dr Ruddiman, the changes seen in the cores are as regular as clockwork until about 8,000 years ago.
Lobster published the first account of the Colin Wallace affair, also known as Operation Clockwork Orange, about the plot by disaffected members of Britain's Security Service, MI5, to destabilise the Harold Wilson Labour Government, and to smear politicians such as former Tory prime minister Edward Heath.
One wishes "Woman" had more fun with the food-as-sex metaphors it toys with, but the director Fina Torres -- whose previous "Celestial Clockwork" was also about legerdemain, appetites and a Latina heroine experiencing dislocation -- has a spirited light touch.
There was a distinctly Clockwork Orange vibe about The Who.
"The Priest and Used Cars" talks about clockwork theory and how it put the fear of death into Butler when he was younger.
No comment about A Clockwork Orange.
