Sentences with phrase «of mechanical men»

Then the Total Recall company is invaded by a group of mechanical men and real men.

Not exact matches

It should have: It was this scrappy, five - man team of mechanical engineers that first caught on to the German giant's emissions - cheating ways, kicking off the biggest business scandal of the year (and possibly the decade).

Ever since the days of Charles Babbage, who conceived of a giant mechanical calculator called the Analytical Engine in the 1830s, the engineering of computer hardware has been dominated by men.

Such an anti-humanistic, mechanical understanding of man is the contrary of that of Marx, who defined man in terms of his project.

Whatever one may think of Natural Family Planning, or of periodic restraint under any other name, positive chemico - mechanical restraints on conception - those that, if you will, «violate nature» - open the door to, in C. S. Lewis» well - known words, «the abolition of man.»

c It is thus, step by step, that Man, pursuing the flight of his growing aspirations, taught by a first success to be conscious of his power, finds himself impelled to look beyond any purely mechanical improvement of the earth's surface and increase of his external riches, and to dwell upon the growth and biological perfection of himself.

The point of central importance in these developments for a philosophy of man is that man - made physical mechanisms are no longer limited to rigid patterns of mechanical action, but are now admitted to the domain of sensitive response, memory, and even of decision - making — activities that traditionally have been thought the exclusive province of minded organisms.

«7 Romantic naturalism has denied the claim of idealism that freedom and rationality are synonymous; it has also denied the claim of naturalism that the essence of man is mechanical nature.

If this were not enough, we must speak of the developing technologies associated with cloning (the creation of identical genetic copies of a given person) and the cyborg (man - machines combining both organic and mechanical and / or electro - chemical elements).

Tolkien's reference to «ancient shepherds» seems to carry with it an implicit criticism of «modern» and «urban»; that modern man, surrounded by concrete and reliant on mechanical devices, has lost touch with nature.

The present ecological crisis is partially the practical consequence of the old Newtonian philosophy of nature as dead, insensitive, and mechanical; and Hartshorne's panpsychism should aid man's efforts to rethink his relation to the cosmos.

Since the phase of man's life which makes modern man's situation most obviously different from that of all his ancestors is technical or mechanical achievement, it is reasonable to suspect that our predicament is associated, in some way or other, with this development.

Whereas the first two models sometimes seem to represent a mechanical and juridical transaction, the latter two stress personal and ethical dimensions, and the subjective side of man's response as well as the objective side of God's initiative.

With animals and men it also depends to a large extent on the experimental situation — the contingencies of the environment — whether their mentalistic or mechanical aspect will dominate.

l) «What, in short, is the «mechanism» by which God makes himself known to man, by which the Almighty touches the mightless, by which the Limitless penetrates the narrow confines of the limited, by which Time enters moment, by which the Holy invades the unholy, and the Word speaks in words» Even when this happens, as ultimately it did, as with finality it always does, in the person of Jesus Christ, all the forms and ingenuity of human language are inadequate to give it mechanical explanation.

It also meant that man was a part of the mechanical world of matter in motion, with only the remotest relations to God.

But the ghost of the mechanical - determinist idea still haunts the intellectual world, functioning as a favorite straw man to be pummeled by those who need a horrible example of reductionism to warn us against the dire peril of investigating the relationship among class, ideology and ideas.

All six of the top Le Mans prototypes have hit mechanical troubles, putting an LMP2 into the overall lead

The eight - man Odessa crew is made up of two electrical engineers, a mechanical engineer, a commercial navigator, a marine researcher, an architect, a university student and a professional yacht racer who come from places like Kiev and Moscow and Odessa.

Public interest in seeing men on the moon had declined after Apollo 11, and the mechanical travails that threatened the lives of the crew of Apollo 13 in April 1970 heightened concerns about the risks of lunar missions.

They used natural woods, dyes and leather covering to make artificial limbs appear more natural, but also tried to make them more functional by inventing new types of joints, ball bearings, springs and rubber bands to substitute for ligaments and tendons, and other mechanical innovations to try to create a natural gait and to allow men to conceal their disability if they so desired.

Even though I definitely had an interest in the scientific and the mechanical side of exercise and nutrition, I wasn't aware you can do the types of things Alex does like doing ultras and Iron Mans while lifting crazy numbers.

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I'm Australian / Egyptian by nationalities, I'm a mechanical engineer and soccer referee, I'm crazy about soccer (football) and play it regularly, I'm that kind of men who you can rely on him in all kind of times, have a clear vision for things, supportive kind and know how to treat a woman as she...

These animatronic, mechanical men are over 8 feet tall, made of steel and each one, has his own very unique personality.

After three hundred years of domination, a small group of humans develop a plan to defeat the mechanical invaders in the ultimate battle between man and machine.

Soaring in on a mechanical bird of prey and touching down at a secluded mansion's helipad, Jen (Lutz) is the avatar for every straight man's Lolita fantasy — sucking on a lollipop and sporting plastic star earrings, she parades around this extravagant man cave in an array of crop tops and brightly colored panties.

At the same time, the movie has great fun incorporating the mechanical ingenuity of the men into the escalating tension of the plot.

For me the most brutal moments are in the film's last half hour when our nation's «triumph» is depicted as a mercilessly precise mechanical setpiece filled with casually quick killings of men and women alike in Osama's compound.

More noticeable still were the changes made to the look of the character: gone are the mechanical claws that had to be held by two stunt men standing behind Jackman to be replaced by CGI.

Then there's Terminator Genisys, hopefully the last gasp of this particular immortal mechanical man franchise.

From Keiji Inafune (Mega Man, Dead Rising) and the makers of Metroid Prime, ReCore blends the magic of Star Wars, desolation of Wall - E and exploration of Journey, following one of the last surviving humans with nothing but a series of quirky mechanical robots to help her survive.

The mechanical aspect of the acting is felt throughout all the performances to varying degrees and it adds as much to the movie's strange tone as it does to the theme of man / machine melding.

Men are monsters, albeit ones with the potential for redemption, in this measured, mechanical portrait of Joseph, whose slow moral awakening comes via an unlikely relationship with thrift - store proprietor Hannah (Olivia Colman), whom Joseph — after attacking a gang of young bar patrons — ruthlessly berates during their opening meeting, condemning her (without any justification) for being a content middle - class idiot whose barren womb is a source of shame.

He is the station's toy maker (Ben Kingsley), and when he catches Hugo in the act of trying to steal a toy mouse for the gears within it, the man takes the boy's notebook, which details the work his father had done and he continues to do on the mechanical man.

He does, however, lost the wig and hat and tooting horn, for «A Silent Panic,» a 1960 episode of The DuPont Show with June Allyson starring Harpo as a mechanical man in a department story window.

(In French and Polish with subtitles) The Giant Mechanical Man (PG - 13 for sexuality and brief profanity) Quirky romantic comedy about a soft - spoken zookeeper (Jenna Fischer) who falls for a struggling street performer (Chris Messina) in spite of pressure from her domineering sister (Malin Akerman) to date a pompous, self - help guru (Topher Grace).

Although two of Nissan's three R390 cars suffered mechanical failure in the 1997 race, four R390 GT1 racers completed the 1998 Le Mans race all in the top 10.

On a mechanical level, race - car designer Ben Bowlby has confirmed that the next Nissan GT - R will use some version of the hybrid - powered 3.0 - liter, twin - turbocharged V - 6 engine used in the GT - R LM NISMO race car that flopped at Le Mans this year.

James Watt Automotive ran the V8 Vantage GT2 in the Le Mans Series 2008, [46] although the car failed to make the start of its debut race due to mechanical problems.

The teamwork that was exhibited at Le Mans when the No. 63 Corvette encountered a series of mechanical mishaps exemplified the spirit of Corvette Racing as members of both crews pitched in to repair a badly damaged transaxle and get the car back on track.

LE MANS, France — Corvette Racing suffered a rare mechanical problem in the opening hours of the 24 Hours of Le Mans that sidelined the No. 64 Compuware Corvette CMANS, France — Corvette Racing suffered a rare mechanical problem in the opening hours of the 24 Hours of Le Mans that sidelined the No. 64 Compuware Corvette CMans that sidelined the No. 64 Compuware Corvette C6.R.

The huge clock set the rhythm of their lives, and like condemned men watching the executioner's clock, they clung to its mechanical beat as if it were the beat of life itself.

-- and answers with an even wilder adventure story, complete with mechanical horses that drink their petrol, golems and a heroine so determined to stop the «Germanii» she begs a tribe of Kabbalists to turn her into a man.

Remembering the man who'd revolutionized the world of reading by inventing the first mechanical printing press, he named his collection «Project Gutenberg».

«[Before Amazing Spider - Man], they sat me down in Amy Pascal's office with this big roomful of producers and writers and directors, and she looked at me and said «Organic webshooters or mechanical webshooters?»

Of course, some would argue now, after the generally poor response to The Amazing Spider - Man 2, that the mechanical webshooters are one of the few positive elements about Marc Webb's rebooOf course, some would argue now, after the generally poor response to The Amazing Spider - Man 2, that the mechanical webshooters are one of the few positive elements about Marc Webb's rebooof the few positive elements about Marc Webb's reboot.

In fact, ever since my first mechanical steps as a bionic busting botling, I've been positively obsessed with the titular Man of Mega.

The Men and Machines series, showing working men with various types of mechanical equipment, portrays Cold - War era images of technological advancements and plays on the cliché of machines as phallic symbols of male sexual powMen and Machines series, showing working men with various types of mechanical equipment, portrays Cold - War era images of technological advancements and plays on the cliché of machines as phallic symbols of male sexual powmen with various types of mechanical equipment, portrays Cold - War era images of technological advancements and plays on the cliché of machines as phallic symbols of male sexual power.

In place of a traditional, chronological approach, «Ghosts in the Machine» is conceived as an encyclopedic cabinet of wonders: bringing together an array of artworks and non-art objects to create an unsystematic archive of man's attempt to reconcile the organic and the mechanical.