Sentences with phrase «like cogs in a machine»

Even if they become sick, they grind on like cogs in a machine, year after year.

«I didn't feel so much like a cog in the machine.

Not surprisingly, Don felt trapped at his firm — «like a cog in the machine» — as he puts it, so he decided to leave to pursue his passion.

«It was very corporate, and you were almost just like a cog in the machine.

Using the wrong wording can make you sound like a cog in the machine instead of a creative go - getter.

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It's far too easy to feel like a cog in a big machine, as opposed to someone directly accountable for delighting customers regardless of level or department.

We can't treat them like robots or cogs in a machine.

They're genetically engineered to be fit for doing the work that must be done, and so nobody feels alienated by being reduced to a cog in a machine or anything like that.

The myth about matter is built on the fiction that the universe consists of nothing but a collection of inert particles, pulling and pushing each other like cogs in a deterministic machine.

Bertrand Russell (1968) warned against the dangers of encouraging people to see themselves and others as cogs in a machine - like world.

If we think like that it logically follows that we can legitimately treat other people as cogs in a machine.

When so - called ministry is reduced to a performance and packaged programs, people feel like a consumer or cog in a machine.

Ramsey is like the balancing cog in your MF machine.

I feel like we hit the right balance of attack and defence in the second half of the season since Coquelin emerged, he was a vital cog that was missing in Wenger's machine — that is why I'm optimistic of a positive result today.

The worry is that, just like we did after a positive performance against Palace, we will simply regress back to the rigidity that has defined us this season, with creative players deprived of the right to free expression; artists reduced to cogs in an ugly, rusting machine.

But as the science progresses, it becomes professionalized, and there are all kinds of structures, and the administration grows, and I think a lot of young people don't like to be a cog in a big machine.

A third segment of the offspring won't be so lucky: They will be stuck trying to fit Species A's cogs in an otherwise Species B machine (or vice versa), like a square peg in a round hole.

Like a compact series of cogs in an unimaginably large machine, vast cyclones also swirl around the north and south poles, clocking wind speeds of over 220 miles per hour (350 kilometers per hour)-- wind speeds that are the equivalent of a terrestrial Category 5 hurricane.

Not only was I failing my classes but I felt like a little cog in a big machine My boyfriend and I have been dating for over 2 years.

If cinema is an «empathy machine» (to steal from Mr. Ebert), then Menashe feels like it may have gotten slightly stuck in the cogs.

While the movie is world - building and setting up Black Panther for inevitable sequels and appearances in other movies, it doesn't feel like a mere cog in the machine.

The Riverside of this film might seem like a nice community to live in, but as depicted here, they are raving fanatics with no tolerance for anyone who might decide to do something as individuals, instead of being just another cog in the machine that drives the phony smiles and saccharine contentment.

And no good can come from treating authors like replaceable cogs in a giant, uncaring machine.

Add in the never - ending run of art fairs, and this looks like one more cog in a financially well - oiled machine.

Linking each of the core elements of the Paris Agreement to avoid duplication and fit them together like interlinked cogs in a machine.

You might seem like a small cog in a huge machine, but you do control your reaction to what is going on around you.

In truly transparent businesses everyone feels like cogs of the same machine.

Being employed at big corporates may have left you feeling like a cog in a very large machine, working away without a real understanding how you are contributing to the bigger picture.