Example sentences for: clockwork

How can you use “clockwork” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Let's say we subject him to behavior modification of the Clockwork Orange sort, putting him through some Pavlovian ordeal that takes the devil out of him.

  • Now, anyone who has read George Orwell or seen A Clockwork Orange can imagine the scene: The strapping teens slump embarrassed in their seats while evolution instructors lay out their state-sanctioned definition of human nature.

  • Film director Stanley Kubrick died . Obituaries recalled his movies' eight Academy Awards, focusing on Dr. Strangelove , A Clockwork Orange , and 2001: A Space Odyssey , also mentioning Lolita and The Shining . Commentators debated the significance of the bleak fantasies in which he portrayed human recklessness, madness, brutality, murder, and nuclear holocaust.

  • In A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess invented an entire dialect (Nadsat, a Russified version of English): I could sort of slooshy myself making special sort of shoms and govoreeting slovos like Dear dead idlewilds, rot not in variform guises and all that cal.

  • The sky went from being a perfect clockwork centered on Earth to a fairly shabby neighborhood in which we were a minor resident.


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