I merely noted these circumstances in a mechanical way, as might one with whom they had nothing whatsoever to do.

She continued to call her Joy to which the girl responded but in a purely mechanical way.

"You don't have the hands and fingers to do it in this mechanical way."

I closed the door behind him in a mechanical way.

He was walking along, still nodding in that mechanical way.

"He wanted to talk about where we are, rather than have people see the economy in a mechanical way."

But in fact I do have very mechanical ways.

"Americans will talk about the body in a clinical and mechanical way," she continued.

He was paid not to have them, except in a mechanical way.

I don't mean to say that original understanding gives anybody a mechanical way to approach a problem.