clockwork

Example Sentences

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At the time, she recalled how her father edited films such as Clockwork Orange in the garage.

From BBC • May 24, 2025

In addition to “A Clockwork Orange,” Malcolm McDowell has appeared in the films “Halloween,” “Caligula” and “If...”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2023

In part, his declining fortunes were self-inflicted, according to his friend Malcolm McDowell, the star of Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2022

This rebellious streak came to a head in the 1990s when a planned showing of the then banned A Clockwork Orange caused a furore and ended up with Mr Heine in court.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2022

Clockwork, of course, was not a seventeenth-century innovation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton