Sentence examples for clockwork time from inspiring English sources

Visions of the future have fascinated the public throughout history--from the clockwork time machines of H.G. Wells to the space-age lights of films like Cloud Atlas.

Since a strong Zeitgeber defines the rhythm of the clockwork, time is expressed as Zeitgeber time (ZT).

If it is closer to a jeweled than a feathered creature, its clockwork, timed to strut elegantly and then whirr up in a dazzling flight, is close to faultless.

Kubrick and his team published a mock newspaper, The Clockwork Times, for which Castle created some of his best works – lurid paintings of images from the film that dwell on its sex and violence.

Two examples included the coal torpedo (a device cast to look like a lump of coal and filled with black powder, to be slipped into an enemy ship's coal bins) and the small "horological" (clockwork, or time bomb) torpedo.

It started happening like clockwork: every time I started smoking I would have the same hallucinations.

Like clockwork, every time even a few inches of snow fall, out come the conservative anti-science crazies.

But just like clockwork, every time it gets too serious, I get nervous and start questioning: Is this what I really want?

I could rattle off scores of other names of brutalized people and the corresponding red herrings rolled out to scapegoat the police violence they suffered, since these smear campaigns happen like clockwork any time everyday people actually start to critique our justice system.

New entries in the series come out like clockwork three times a year, and routinely open in the Top 5 of the Billboard album chart.

Since it has already gone like clockwork four times (each abduction netting them a cool quarter of a million dollars without a hitch or an injury), they are unprepared when the fifth couple on their hit list, Will and Karen Jennings Stuart Townsendd and Charlize Theron), an anesthesiologist and his wife, fight back.