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automaton
1. He did what he was expected to do, with no emotional investment on his part, as if he was merely going through the motions of life, but not actually living -- like an elven golem or a steel automaton of the old science
2. The towering automaton would hiss and clank and grumble as it staggered, possessed by uncanny determination to stay on its feet and to keep fighting
3. “General, my experience in the infantry shows that while our own propaganda says the German soldier is a mindless automaton, in reality…” (I could see his neck getting darker
4. ” And the kid on the ski lift is pretty much the sort of passive, limp, indulgent automaton his classroom teachers seek to produce as future citizens, using such material as cited above
5. I was more human than automaton, and I couldn’t change that, at least not at that stage of my life
6. Like an automaton, Sebastian lowered himself into the passenger seat and ten minutes later they pulled into the basement garage of a modern three story block of flats
7. When she announced she was drug-free, Angela gave and expressed her congratulations, almost like an automaton
8. The eunuch's feet stumbled among his entrails as he worked the bolt, moving like a brainless automaton
9. He was like a mindless automaton that hears and sees, but does not understand
10. 8 Materialism reduces man to a soulless automaton and constitutes him merely an arithmetical symbol finding a helpless place in the mathematical formula of an unromantic and mechanistic universe
11. 17 How foolish to presume that an automaton could conceive a philosophy of automatism, and how ridiculous that it should presume to form such a concept of other and fellow automatons!
12. "You'll know," cried the big man swinging the axe with the power and grace of a precision-made automaton
13. Today, they’re only slightly more discouraging than calling a business and on entering their voice mail system, hearing the words, “I don’t understand you” by a electronic automaton
14. “I was abducted by the Borg and turned into a drone, an automaton, doing the
15. It was like kissing an automaton
16. But during the ceremony a chubby, frightened little boy is also present; stuffed into a white uniform, as though he were the heir of the empire, he moves like an automaton and can’t stop yawning
17. I felt like a complete automaton, waiting for an electronic impulse to react—but nothing came
18. He was semiconscious, an automaton
19. He was an automaton when it came to the bedroom
20. The use of the walking ape has now created the automaton: the mechanical man who believes he cannot live without his machines and tools
21. flat, lifeless and intensely boring automaton
22. Jess dreamt of automaton lions running at his heels, but when he turned in the dream, slow and weightless, it wasn’t lions after all
23. Morgan was hastily rolling back the sleeves of her gown on the other side of the landing, too, since that automaton was restless as well
24. Morgan followed his motion, and stared thoughtfully at the automaton
25. When he looked back, the automaton had turned its head almost completely around at an utterly disturbing, inhuman angle
26. Jess moved pieces until it became clear that Thomas’s automaton was going to trap him in four moves, and, marvelling at the eerie intelligence of the thing, he tipped his king
27. The board lifted, spun opposite, and the automaton moved white this time
28. He seemed suddenly very interested in the story that Thomas was telling about a bar in Munich where he’d made a dancing automaton puppet in exchange for his uncle’s unpaid bill
29. The thing standing in front of him was no automaton
30. He took that last pathway, past an automaton that was modelled on a Spartan soldier
31. His knees creaked, an appropriate sound considering he moved to the door like an automaton
32. For here you were, a meshless, cogless automaton, a body upon which officials had performed clinical autopsy and left all of you that counted back upon the empty seas and strewn over the darkened hills
33. “Mason!—the West Indies!” he said, in the tone one might fancy a speaking automaton to enounce its single words; “Mason!—the West Indies!” he reiterated; and he went over the syllables three times, growing, in the intervals of speaking, whiter than ashes: he hardly seemed to know what he was doing
34. Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton
35. But her head still twitched like an automaton and with a face contorted with bitter grief she began, without a word, beating her breast with her fist
36. In the crowd of young ladies and rather vulgar young men who made up Yulia Mihailovna's usual retinue, and among whom this vulgarity was taken for sprightliness, and cheap cynicism for wit, I noticed two or three new faces: a very obsequious Pole who was on a visit in the town; a German doctor, a sturdy old fellow who kept loudly laughing with great zest at his own wit; and lastly, a very young princeling from Petersburg like an automaton figure, with the deportment of a state dignitary and a fearfully high collar
37. She sang, but like an automaton! Her whole soul was in anguish, and at last, out of pity for her, I took the prince away
