It was nothing but the repetition, the endless mechanical repetition, of her demand for the story--"Tell us the story.

Both the tumultuous wedding scene and the song of the little foxes are undercut by somewhat mechanical repetitions of images.

Bergson takes as an example the learning of a verse by rote: Recitation tending toward non-reflective and mechanical repetition.

From adolescence to retirement each 24-hour cycle repeats the same shattering bombardment, like bullets hitting a window: mechanical repetition, time-which-is-money, submission to bosses, boredom, exhaustion.

That's asking a lot from a ten-year-old, thought Bradley - even one like this; but the girl never hesitated, and there was no trace of mechanical repetition in her voice.

In the tradition of Pop Art, mechanical repetition plays an important part in Mars' work.

Their mechanical repetition impressed me, and I circled above hearing Lightning's voice distorted by distance: 'Notch.

His behavior of stabbing the victim eight times could have been a mechanical repetition of him hitting the piano keys', said Li.

"You don't get benefits from mechanical repetition, but by adjusting your execution over and over to get closer to your goal."

It ended, was repeated, ended, was repeated, and went on with an effect of mechanical and parrot-like repetition.