Sentence examples for merely mechanical from inspiring English sources
And yet he has a deeply ironic sense of the excesses of the merely mechanical.
At the merely mechanical level, computer experts in a large jurisdiction cannot test punch-card systems for every voting possibility.
The standard algorithms should be avoided because, reformists claim, mastering them is a merely mechanical exercise that threatens individual growth.
That the use of standard algorithms isn't merely mechanical is not by itself a reason to teach them.
Was his mixture of romanticism and classicism genuine and organic or merely mechanical, a matter of putting themes doggedly through their paces?
The reformist's case rests on an understanding of the capacities valued by mathematicians as merely mechanical skills that require no true thought.
His high-flown Churchillian rhetoric about agression and appeasement in the buildup to the Gulf War was not merely a mechanical effort to pump up public support.
Their outlook on male-female relations is more accurately reflected in the satirical slow jam "Business Time," in which sex is merely a mechanical activity, something to do on a Wednesday night when there's nothing good on television.
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.
The Israelis believe that Iran must be stopped as soon as possible, because, once it is able to enrich uranium for fuel, the next step — enriching it to the ninety-per-cent level needed for a nuclear bomb — is merely a mechanical process.
