Example Sentences

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I peered into the dizzying abyss below and Honnold was about 300 feet from the top, without a rope, moving with insectlike mechanicalness.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2012

There is no production in us now, only sordid and foul mechanicalness.'

From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

She had continued thinking of her son every hour, but with a resignation that was drying her tears and permitting her to continue the deliberate mechanicalness of existence.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster

It is colossal aptitude, not mechanicalness, that is needed.

From Drake, Nelson and Napoleon by Runciman, Walter

The women were all in their places looking straight ahead as solemnly as in church, and calling off their prices with laughable mechanicalness.

From Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore by Livingston, Arthur