Sentence examples for mechanical endeavour from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, it would be wrong to suggest that grand prix racing is a predominantly mechanical endeavour where magnificent machinery allows average drivers to win multiple world titles.

If, like me, you're a man who has an inordinate amount of sex, to the point where it becomes a mechanical endeavour, the climax serving only as a momentary distraction from the robotic horror of coitus, then you're in luck.

The current study was designed to assess how the neural substrates involved in the perception of human emotions respond to the same gestures impersonated by this anthropomorphic yet clearly mechanical robot, in an endeavour to describe how the agent's appearance modulates brain responses to the perception of emotional facial actions.

And indeed a respect for uncynical wonder is one of the, so to say, Hall-marks of this production in which Julian Wadham gives a lovely mandarin wit and weight to Theseus's doctrine that the guileless endeavour of the rude mechanicals (a terrific Brummie Crazy Gang of idiosyncratic physical types here) is not something to sneer at.

E1 SCIENCE/HEALTH Shuttle Heads for Station The Endeavour blasted off with seven astronauts and a giant mechanical arm to help expand the International Space Station.

I'd like to believe that not all of the spontaneity has been bled from the endeavour, but it has become out of necessity more mechanical".

The curious thing about it is that for all the engineering endeavours of the past 300 years, even the most expensive mechanical watch is likely to be less accurate than the cheapest digital timepiece.

The Endeavour has enough supplies to stay in orbit until Friday, but barring a major mechanical problem, it will land no later than Thursday.

NASA further delayed launching the space shuttle Endeavour today as managers studied possible problems with oxygen hoses and the ship's mechanical arm.

The present study endeavours to non-destructively characterize such detrimental changes in the microstructure that controls the mechanical properties and limits the life of components.

"Roger, wheels stopped, Endeavour.