Sentence examples for railway clock from inspiring English sources

Mr. Decker confines the action to a bare chalk-white arena dominated by an oversize Swiss railway clock, peppering his take on Verdi's Paris with distasteful Teutonic touches like kewpie doll Violetta masks for a hostile chorus and a leering Popeye lookalike (yes, male) in a knockoff of Violetta's red dress.

The original Swiss Railway Clock was designed in 1944 by engineer and designer Hans Hilfiker.

Upon the release of iOS 6, Swiss Federal Railway accused Apple of copying a trademarked "iconic railway" clock in the "Clock" app that is available on all iPad models that support iOS 6.

First, Mondaine is styled on the famous Swiss railway clocks found in stations throughout the country.

Their clever watch design is based on the Swiss railways clocks created by a designer named Hans Hilfiker in 1944.

Late last month Apple was accused of copying the design of the iconic 1940s Swiss Railway Station Clock owned by SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) for the clock design used in iOS 6.

He brought back the sets from several of his memorable shows: the carousel, the "Night Porter" elevators, the railway station clock, even a pair of escalators.

Now, however, the design of the clocks in the app has become somewhat of a controversy as Swiss Federal Railways (mostly known under its German acronym SBB), has accused the company of ripping off the design of its iconic railway station clock design.

On page after page, it seduces readers through force of argument and then ambushes them with an unexpected roll of language: Aleksandar Hemon is "a postmodernist who has been mugged by history"; Bible verses joined by "and" move forward "like the hands of those large old railway-station clocks that jolted visibly from minute to minute".

Complaining about the trains has been a national pastime for a very long time: to be British is to exist in a semi-permanent state of annoyance about the railways, muttering and clock-watching and bringing up that mangled quote about Mussolini making the trains run on time, which is supposed to make you wonder, for one awful pissed-off moment, whether fascism might not have been better after all.

I wouldn't trust a boy who lives inside a giant clock in a railway station and steals from my godfather's toy store.