Sentence examples for workings like from inspiring English sources
Her most significant long-term addiction, though, has been to the science of scanning the brain with techniques that expose its workings like a map, a passion she has pursued like a guided missile since medical school.
Reuters reported that some NATO F-16 fighter jets flying over Europe found formations of glass in their engines when they landed — volcanic ash that had turned molten and then gathered on the workings, like ice around a twig.
The new chief justice, Chase Rogers, has continued that good work by appointing several committees to keep pushing reform, in the process opening to the public judicial attendance records and court workings like meetings at which judges vote on rules.
The art world is stripped bare during the fair, its inner workings exposed like a patient's organs during surgery.
Across the city television screens everywhere were tuned to the new state television channel with its live coverage of the Parliament's inner workings, functioning like an Egyptian C-Span.
See what the inner workings look like, interview the owner, and observe the daily flow in and out of the shop.
Though Saffo, the Stanford professor and futurist, cautions deciphering Apple's inner workings is like "trying to understand North Korea," he ventures that Siri has become "an artificially-intelligent orphan" within the company.
But the bedeviled foray also works as a potent allegory on the slow, vice-like workings of conscience, as guilt hunts down the protagonists with the shrieking remorselessness of Greek furies.
More arresting than the written-out sections of the score are Herbert's electronic soundscapes, which climax with the Heath Robinson-like workings of Andy Cavatorta's musical installation The Dervishes and its sinister whispering.
These Presocratic speculations combined naturalistic myths of origins with the workings of chance-like processes to create a naturalistic account of the origins of existing forms of life (see the entry ancient atomism).
The inner workings of Graff, like those of most of the big players, are difficult to penetrate.
