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Example sentences for: pulleys

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The elderly are damned if they do and damned if they don't; damned and mocked if they can't; and damned, mocked, and pointed out by the neighbors if they can but only with pharmacological aids or an elaborate arrangement of winches and pulleys.
Yes, it's mechanical, even metronomical, but thrillers are built out of wheels and pulleys and ticking clocks, and De Palma's machines are more intricate than anyone's since Hitchcock.