Vending machines, smashed open with bare hands, stood empty in small puddles of blood.
For hours, militia commanders held Dr. Abdi at gunpoint while their underlings — mostly 15- to 16-year-old boys — ransacked the hospital, shooting anesthesia machines, smashing windows and tearing up records.
If you've ever seen a couple of 7-year-old boys playing with Transformers, you can intuit the regressive aesthetic at work in the movie, which lifts the fantasy behind the game — powerful surrogate selves who are also machines, smashing into one another again and again — to a level of sublimity.
A shattering loss, the second to AI in a matter of days, having been thoroughly pounded by a machine Smash Bros. player in the same week.
Stolen and apparently supplied to PETA by the Animal Liberation Front, the videotapes showed, among other things, a steel cylinder driven by a pneumatic machine smashing into the head of a struggling, bound monkey.
On 14 November, at Barack Obama's instruction, and in front of visiting dignitaries and television cameras, every last intricately carved and high-dollar item will be fed into the jaws of an industrial strength rock-crushing machine and smashed to splinters.
A model of a bottling machine was smashed through a wall for when the Hulk escapes the factory.
It was the first machine to smash particles together with energies in excess of 1 trillion electron-volts—or 1 TeV, whence its name.
The discoveries are especially welcome in a field that is in some ways adrift, lacking any big new machine to smash matter into ever-finer pieces.
