The bristling anti-establishment contempt and trenchancy of Osborne's more celebrated works is identifiable here only in mechanical form.
Max Dupain thought the bridge's mechanical form made it "blood brother to the camera"; Cazneaux saw it as a geometrical diagram, a conundrum of piled-up quadrilaterals.
His famous "Horse" (1914), a coiled, vaguely mechanical form bearing little resemblance to the animal itself, suggests metaphorically the horsepower of locomotive drive shafts and, by extension, the mechanization of modern life.
He deplores what he calls "mechanical form," telling one interviewer in the 1990s that writing within certain rhymes and meters resembles "learning how to balance brooms on your head".
If Love to Love You Baby had ushered in year zero for Eurodisco, then I Feel Love would distill that sound into its purest mechanical form and disseminate it all around the world, changing dance and club culture (gay and straight) forever.
Though Timbaland and the Neptunes sometimes sound like a bolt from the blue, their music is rooted in what came before; their sharp-edged funk is drawn from "new jack swing" of the 1980's, a more aggressive, almost mechanical form of R&B heard in songs like "Groove Me," by the New York trio Guy.
Here her writing takes on a lyrical enthusiasm, as in a passage on the noise of her idling truck at the end of a pickup run: "Maybe it's a truckish manifestation of our journey's ritual gravitas, a mechanical form of circular breathing that lets her intone a single note without pause.
Either way, we are dealing with a mechanical form that isn't easy to replicate.
In effect, the transfer case provided a primitive mechanical form of traction control.
Insects have evolved mechanical form and function over millions of years.
Multiplayers usually render a game down to its most mechanical form and have a lot of fun doing so, but their activity detracts from loftier design goals.
