Some shoppers love them, but others detest being lectured by a mis-functioning machine.
But, beyond that, the Shakespeare Festival had never been a functioning machine; it had been an instrument serving Papp.
Back in Season 1, as the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 explored the island, "Lost" was a beautifully functioning machine.
Do you think it was easy to organize all those restless criminal spirits into such a well-oiled, tightly functioning machine?
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TfL should be the mayor's agent to design and deliver these schemes in the best possible way, and our new commissioner will benefit from a better functioning machine behind them.
One of the sillier but more engaging conventions of the contemporary caper film is to imagine that a dream team of crooked techno-wizards, each a quirky genius who takes pride in his craft, can mesh like a perfectly functioning machine and accomplish miraculous feats of larceny.
(It's also the excuse for Walt looking older; Mr. Kinnear is seven years Mr. Damon's senior, but that doesn't explain why he seems to be wearing Jeff Daniels's hair from "Dumb and Dumber".) But after 32 years the Tenors have become a marvelously functioning machine by necessity and because of affection.
Scott, who's in his seventies, puts on a virtuoso display of cinematic professionalism, aligning all the movie's elements — visual and sonic, dramatic and thematic, human and material — to move ahead briskly and compactly, with the seeming unity of one meticulously designed and properly functioning machine.
The first functioning machine was invented by Frenchman Barthélemy Thimonnier in 1830, but his machines were destroyed in riots.
