Sentence examples for elaborate machine from inspiring English sources

"An elaborate machine unfolds," as the script puts it.

A ludicrously impractical or elaborate machine came to be called "a Heath Robinson contraption".

There was an elaborate machine that made mint juice, long syringes, odd Styrofoam contraptions, deep pots belching white smoke (this was the liquid nitrogen).

Freakiest of all is an elaborate machine that "does nothing but switch itself off", and which Arthur C Clarke called "unspeakably sinister".

Stuffed with hard-working actors, sleek effects and stagy period details, "The Prestige," directed by Christopher Nolan from a script he wrote with his brother Jonathan, is an intricate and elaborate machine designed for the simple purpose of diversion.

A foreign Visitor (Mr. Duykers) comes to a penal colony in an exotic land to witness an execution by the elaborate machine created by the colony's late commander, whose legacy is carefully tended by the man identified as the Officer (Herbert Perry).

Meanwhile, Acworth's second site was dedicated entirely to women having sex with large and distressingly elaborate machines.

Since we don't expect blind change to build elaborate machines showing an exquisite coördination of parts, we have no right to expect Darwinism to do so, either.

The arcade of this day is devoted almost entirely to elaborate machines that are descended, by some cunning evolution, from the old game of bagatelle.

Mr. Larson constructs elaborate machines that combine the mechanical brio or Rube Goldberg with the sticky, gooey, costumed theatricality of Matthew Barney.

Yet the most intriguing figure among the Valley's billionaire entrepreneurs right now makes incredibly elaborate machines: electric cars and space rockets.