That machinelike view of animals, though, was not to last.

He has a machinelike 76 carries over the last two games.

His voice was flat, machinelike, yet the pain came through clearly.

The approach, he said, was less machinelike than in conventional systems.

No, he doesn't think so, because every performance cannot be expected to come off "with a machinelike precision."

If nothing else, they tended to move with machinelike perfection.

The big three-striper was on his feet with machinelike speed.

Now he dug with it in a steady, almost machinelike desperation.

He had come to trust absolutely her present mindless, machinelike accuracy.

It's different from the cold, analytical, machinelike style of some people in our field."

Before they had to remake themselves into something the Watchers would pass as perhaps machinelike.

He sat down in a sand drift and machinelike.

But it had that strange machinelike, nonliving way of motion.

There was a machinelike, functional aspect to his being.

But it's his fantastic machinelike constructions that are most intriguing.

His tone stayed machinelike, a machine that wanted oil.

They listened intently for a bit yet could hear no one on the other side, even though the machinelike sounds were not as loud now.

Young obeyed with machinelike rigidity, and his father sighed again.

Naturally one tended to expect machinelike precision when dealing with a machine.

Not exactly a "machine for living," but certainly machinelike in its precision and rational layout.

The size of the job seemed to keep her focused and in a machinelike state of invention.

It's one thing to have the Rockettes behave with machinelike precision.

Ken could almost hear the wheels twirling in that machinelike brain of his.

But there was also something machinelike about the way Lehmann went about it.

Most modern buildings, on the other hand, lose their potency if they are not gleaming and machinelike.