Sentences with phrase «clanking machinery»

But when the law decreed that Terri Schiavo was to be given no food or water, it meant no food or water.That's what the court, the sheriff's deputies, the whole clanking machinery of the law was there for — to see that the severe decree was carried out.

It seemed at once pretentious and unfocused — characters too cursorily sketched to sustain interest, the clanking machinery of the plot irritatingly audible, and the narration shifting unsatisfactorily from lucid monologue to leaden description.

Not exact matches

Everything from the loud clanks of old machinery to the menacing hiss of spiders is appropriately terrifying, and the audio is just as important as the visuals to creating the chilling atmosphere of Limbo.