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automatonlike

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Adj.1.automatonlike - resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine; "an automatic `thank you'"; "machinelike efficiency"
machinelike, robotlike, automatic, robotic
mechanical - using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices; "a mechanical process"; "his smile was very mechanical"; "a mechanical toy"


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In these most public works--canvases for the royal and imperial courts of his own day or for industrialists, wood engravings for multivolume popular histories--Menzel dreamed an airless world of automatonlike courtiers, treacherous physiognomies, periwigs and tricorn hats, and gargantuan crystal chandeliers.
Embody Language: Christopher S. Wood on Michael Fried's Menzel. ... by Wood, Christopher S. / Artforum International
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