Sentence examples for proceed like clockwork from inspiring English sources

That's the case even though, or maybe because, Arnold Schwarzenegger's life -- from lower-middle-class boy in the bland town of Graz to governor of California -- is as alien to the mentality of the average Austrian as a recall vote is to an Austrian political system in which official careers proceed like clockwork.

We see each other most weekends, and our dates proceed like clockwork.

In those days of unlimited confidence in a better tomorrow, perky ingénues still swooned into the arms of strapping heroes mouthing pompous blandishments, and happily ever after proceeded like clockwork.

Their romance proceeds like clockwork until it is consummated with a two-night sleepover, which she interprets as their fourth date and he (after the second night) as their fifth.

A time comes when the groups that like clockwork appear around the shed have stopped appearing like clockwork around the shed.

The tides of tourists come and go like clockwork.

As midnight strikes, the ballroom dancers in Frederick Ashton's Cinderella start to move like clockwork.

"Not a single squadron," wrote General Kenney, "did any circling or stalling around but all slid into place like clockwork and proceeded on the final flight down the Watut Valley, turned to the right down the Markham, and went directly to the target".

Every day, like clockwork.

"Like clockwork," he said.

Disaster, like clockwork, is averted.