Sentences with phrase «merely cogs in the machine»

Authors are merely cogs in the machine, cogs they feel are interchangeable.

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He was merely a depersonalized cog in a vast plantation machine.

The girls themselves, played by a who's who of up - and - comer starlets, have little more dimension than the ones who faded into the background of Gus Van Sant's Elephant; they're merely cogs in the movie's not - so - well - oiled machine.

It seems to me that many scientists participated in the IPCC in good faith without looking too closely at the larger political machine in which they were merely cogs.

For drivers who are supposedly Uber's «partners,» the experience has to be a little disheartening: it's becoming more and more clear that Uber drivers are merely cogs in an algorithmic machine, test pilots for a system that would run even more smoothly if they didn't have to worry about human drivers at all.