It is not something that brings you closer, but a mechanicalness.

Mechanicalness yes the great modern force all working with the beneficiency of the machination.

Between 1886 and 1891, he creates a series of classically serene, light-bleached seascapes and marine paintings that might be nearly indistinguishable from Seurat's, except for a certain stiffness of composition and mechanicalness of surface.

In Lawrence's Women in Love, completed in 1916, Birkin contemplates the purchase of a 'clear, beautiful chair' which expresses for him the living thoughts of 'England, even Jane Austen's England', before these were destroyed by 'sordid and foul mechanicalness'.

The free forms of nature were seen as symbols of human freedom, and as early as 1926 Aalto remarked that the 'curving, living, unpredictable line which runs in dimensions unknown to mathematics, is for me the incarnation of everything that forms a contrast in the modern world between brutal mechanicalness and religious beauty in life.

Now that they had shared Niall's thoughts and feelings for so long, they had become aware of the peculiar difficulties of being human, the narrow limits of human consciousness, the mechanicalness of the human body, and its need to struggle against the hard facts of physical reality, and they no longer found it all so fascinating.