clockwork

It’s a narrative clockwork where dialogue also has a more important role.”

When he was making Zoo Quest, cameras would only film for 40 seconds before the clockwork motor ran out.

But earthquakes don’t happen like clockwork, and scientists cannot say for certain when the Raymond fault will rupture next.

Because environmental cues are different in Los Angeles than in the jacaranda’s native savannas of Argentina and Brazil, the trees do not flower here by clockwork.

Dudamel’s clockwork sophistication was better suited to the concert’s closer, Ravel’s beloved “Boléro,” in which he methodically developed tonal richness, sculpted the sound and dialed up the intensity over the piece’s 15-minute span.