Sentence examples for it is a clockwork from inspiring English sources

If NBK has an obvious ancestor, it is A Clockwork Orange.

But it was "A Clockwork Orange," which was directed by Stanley Kubrick and had its United States premiere on Dec. 19, 1971, that drew Warner deep into the controversy over movies and their presumed consequences.

It is a dazzling, expensive, moving, clockwork show; Adams designed the costumes.

The whole episode is a clockwork mechanism in which all the parts function perfectly.

RZ: My favorite film is A Clockwork Orange.

Like the other movies and television projects in a Jane Austen boom that continues to gather momentum, it is an entertaining, carefully assembled piece of clockwork that imposes order on ever more complicated gender warfare.

It was a break in that clockwork schedule that signaled to Mrs. Tambra on Monday that something was not right.

"Collateral" comes off like clockwork, but it's a clock that breathes — great actors like Mark Ruffalo, Javier Bardem, and Barry Shabaka Henley have sustained, intricate moments in the pauses between the violent acts.

WHERE was "A Clockwork Orange" pulled from release because its director, Stanley Kubrick, was shaken by its reception?

Then of course there's A Clockwork Orange, filmed by Stanley Kubrick.

Winter said Saturday's attack in Leytonstone was a "clockwork enactment" of Islamic State strategy.