Tales of real-life "Clockwork Orange" gangs filled the British newspapers.
In the breeding season, the stallion's sex life runs like clockwork.
Our life together was clockwork, privileged and enviable, but something was rotten at the heart of it.
THOMAS PALAZZO A Clockwork Life Thomas Palazzo was perpetually in a rush, but only because there was so much he longed to do.
Like clockwork, life gets busy and inertia raises its ugly head once again.
The creator knows their mind, their thoughts, their inner life, the complicated clockwork behind their motives as they seek their destiny, perhaps love, money, fame, forgiveness, vengeance, ecstasy, or the thousand other needs of the human self.
For small children, Murray's Trumptonshire suggested that Britain ran like clockwork and that adult life was an orderly, measured affair.
Patriarchal regime and the broken clockwork of dysfunctional family life are hallmarks of Davies films dating right back to his debut, Distant Voices, Still Lives.
Pita crams normal daily life into a few scenes of clockwork repetition: Gregor passes the same coffee seller on the way to work, drinking the same soup when he comes home.
"Essentials of a New Method for Mechanizing the Rotation of an Armillary Sphere and a Celestial Globe"), written in 1092, was the final product of his life's achievements in horology and clockwork.
For only twenty pence the clockwork tin mine stutters into life.
