Sentences with phrase «mere cog in the machine»

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.

For 35 years she has been invisible to these people, a mere cog in the machine.

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And the issue between imperialist communism and the West is basically the problem of the nature of man: does the individual have rights and transcendent possibilities, such as the Bible taught, or is he a mere cog in a heartless machine?

If it survives, it may eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.