Sentence examples for mechanical act from inspiring English sources

"And all the time that was taken up by that mechanical act is freed to think".

I love the way that word's usage merges high-minded linguistic expression with the very bodily, mechanical act of pressing something to force its inside out.

She tends to isolate the mechanical act of taking a picture from the visceral connection with a subject, as she was taught to compartmentalize sex and love.

Intentions, thoughts, desires — mental entities of any kind — are not involved, just the mechanical act of clicking the shutter and taking the picture.

He likes to cite the French philosopher Henri Bergson, for whom vision was a mechanical act by the eye dependent on the aculturated use to which we put sight.

The Millers also consulted a psychiatrist, Penrose said, who counselled them to tell Elizabeth that sex was merely a mechanical act, and not the same thing as love, so the damage wasn't permanent.

Dr. Wheeler has suggested that one answer to that question may be simply us, acting through quantum-mechanical acts of observation, a process he calls "genesis by observership".

Regions II and B are the EIC region where both corrosiveness and mechanical stress act synergistically to induce EIC.

It is also assumed that on the opposite two ends of the plate which are parallel to the band cracks' front, uniformly distributed normal compressive mechanical forces act.

The study shows that two factors important in maintaining bone mass in adult skeleton, estrogen and mechanical strain, act through a common pathway, says endocrinologist Lawrence Riggs of the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota.

Mechanical parts act as a transmission line for mechanical vibrations.