But it cannot mask the frequent lapses into mechanical rhythms and predictable clichés.

Regardless, the songs have the rote, mechanical rhythms and dull sloganeering that gave European disco a bad name a decade ago.

Judy's chest rose and fell to the mechanical rhythm of the ventilator.

Meanwhile, the band bashed out a stiff, mechanical rhythm, marching forward while the lyrics lurched.

A dim glow rose from the space that had opened below, as the rumbling sound grew louder, taking on an insistent mechanical rhythm.

Her grief and rage take on a mechanical rhythm.

The beating of the rotors, a mechanical rhythm, pounded against Saratov's ears.

Back and forth the torch went with a mechanical rhythm, covering every centimetre in neat order.

In mechanical rhythm, they converted to double and returned to single in different order.

It consists of a soft and mournful trumpet melody set against a harsh and almost mechanical rhythm.