Sentence examples for more machine than from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, some museum visitors might see guards, so often silent and stone-faced, as more machine than human.

The entire opening trilogy rests on whether Darth Vader really is more machine than man or man than machine.

Thanks to Mr. Majors's deadpan delivery, it was never quite clear if Austin was more machine than man, or vice versa.

We can't know Bourne because he doesn't know himself, so the accomplishment of this trilogy — and of Mr. Damon's performance — lies in its ability to involve us in the quest of a hero who is often more machine than man.

It was also that his physical manifestation – the immobile body in customised wheelchair, the distinctive voice that pronounced with the oracular calm of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey – gave him the aura of a different kind of being, notoriously described by the anthropologist Hélène Mialet as "more machine than man".

The Fender Bender, more machine than guitar, more monster than musical instrument.

The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did.

Prosperous Lusaka pulls in rural migrants but copper-belt towns are less of a draw because mining uses more machines than manpower; 61% of the population remain in the poorer countryside.

The robots provide a glimpse of what future rescue operations might be like, with many more machines than humans sifting through the wreckage at earthquake sites or other disaster sites.

Expect to see far more machines than people online in the future.

The company also says that it can scale across more machines than other projects (but that's obviously a claim we can't exactly verify).