And while his delivery seemed at times to be mechanical, his words were often quite forceful.
If we replace the word mechanical with the word electronic, this might sound eerily contemporary.
(The word "mechanical" derives from the days when player-piano rolls were the primary commodity of the nascent record business).
The Feet, mechanical, go round — Words, naturally, have their limits.
My-love-my-love, she would mutter in a harsh, mechanical way, the words a secret poultice.
Learned Hand, widely considered the greatest judge never to have served on the Supreme Court, cautioned against the mechanical examination of words in isolation.
In the other words, mechanical compatibility or similarity (matching) between the scaffold and tissue plays a crucial role in homeostasis, remodeling, and repair of load-bearing tissues, such as bone and cartilage (Duncan and Turner 1995; Carter et al. 1988; Jin et al. 2003).
– Ashwin Seshagiri Engine: The History of a Concept, From Poetry to Google The Atlantic | We think of an engine as a mechanical device, but the word has roots that go much further back.
Civil engineering and mechanical engineering, involving 3500 word families necessary for minimally acceptable comprehension, were the least lexically demanding, while marine engineering and biochemical engineering were the most demanding in lexis, stretching to a threshold of 8500 word families.
In a word, the mechanical properties of the scaffolds could be readily tuned within a wide range to satisfy the requirement of vascular grafts.
