Sentence examples for contraption itself from inspiring English sources

There are too many great moments to list in full: the "Wheel of Death" scene at the fair, like the contraption itself, abolishes gravity and becomes weightlessly joyous.

The contraption itself seemed byzantine, all the more so when it sprang to life in a mechanical whirl: beaters tapping cymbals, levers gliding over strings, mallets cascading across a vibraphone.

Although Omni's green-and-black platform is its most eye-catching feature, the plastic and steel contraption itself does not feature any electronics.

It is not surprising that this contraption serves itself more reliably than it does ordinary Brazilians.But democracy and economic progress are beginning to change that.

Perhaps it will be an ingenious contraption designed to roll back on itself to form a climbable sculpture of Joanna Lumley's hair.

Mrs Coulter's unspeakable plan is to get the feisty teenage heroine Lyra into her clutches and, among other dastardly projects, grab Lyra's precious Alethiometer, or Golden Compass: a magic, fob-watch-type contraption which tells not time, but truth itself.

Her is where a dictator at last gets bogged down in his own contraption; here is where the modern imperialistic ideal winds itself up in a grannyknow.

A cannon blasts gobs of lurid red wax-plus-Vaseline; a wagon-sized contraption made up of similar stuff deposits bits of itself on floors and doors as it slowly trundles through four rooms.

Given an initial push, the contraption stayed upright as it coasted along, and even steadied itself when momentarily knocked sideways.

Dubbing itself "the electric kitchen," this snazzy chrome countertop contraption promised to facilitate cooking everything from a healthy breakfast to an elaborate dinner party roast.

To up the observation rate researchers have been striving to improve the sensitivity of each interferometer a gigantic L-shaped contraption that researchers use to measure the stretching of space itself.