| 单词 | machine-made |
| 例句 | Leave my soft, worn hunting boots for a pair of expensive machine-made shoes that my mother thinks are more appropriate for someone of my status. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “I would look at the fringe, the construction, whether it’s handmade or machine-made. Those are all things that will add value in the long run.” How to buy a rug you’ll love — and keep it looking great 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Wool is the ultimate ethical product: created naturally, sheared off with no harm to sheep and available hand- or machine-made with no effect on its handler. Wool Gets a Chance at the Top 2012-10-29T11:53:17Z Except one of them just happens to be machine-made. Unnerving consideration of artificial intelligence in 'Ex Machina' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Only in the late 1800s did they cater to tourists’ tastes with flowery patterns, bright dyes, metal ornaments and machine-made fabrics. 2010-01-15T06:40:00Z In spite of the legacy of block printing in India, demand diminished in the early 20th century with the advent of cheaper, machine-made fabrics and chemical dyes instead of vegetables dyes. Special Report: Asian Art: Indian Print Artisans at Work 2011-05-26T18:00:08Z It doesn't need to be a fancy machine-made label, I just use Scotch tape and a Sharpie, marked with the date opened and expiration date. How to organize your pantry — and keep it shipshape 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z These are not-so-subtle messages reasserting the value of the handmade over the machine-made. The art of craft: the rise of the designer-maker 2011-08-01T15:08:33Z “Usually the handmade is representative of luxury and individuality, and the machine-made is presented as mediocrity,” Mr. Bolton said. When Fashion Meets Technology, You Can Wear Your Tweets 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z All of which rings the alarm – Wolf is known for his bombast, his dramatic flourishes, and many of these are machine-made. Patrick Wolf: Sundark and Riverlight – review 2012-10-11T22:00:18Z That one rug can contain so many paradoxes — distant and domestic, machine-made and artisan, memory and history — is indeed a wonder. The End of the Wonder Rug 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z There was a disco streak at Moogfest: not just with Mr. Moroder but with Chic, whose arena show defied the prevalence of machine-made music. Critic’s Notebook: Moogfest 2014 Unfolds in Asheville, N.C. 2014-04-28T22:13:11Z In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World music is also machine-made and ubiquitous, "warbling" from "synthetic music machines". The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z It is nearly triple the cost of a mass-produced, machine-made wok. Hammer and tongs: China entrepreneur leads handmade wok revival 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z We would not accept a machine-made reproduction as an adequate substitute for a famous painting; a purist justifiably would say the same about film. Art Review: Warhol?s Silent Film Portraits 2010-12-23T22:39:01Z What’s most remarkable about his machine-made sculptures, though, is the way they combine clean lines with earthy substance. Review | In the galleries: Face to face with a world both beautiful and horrific 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The result in “Listen to Your Body Choir” is a track that sounds both human and machine-made. Robots Can Make Music, but Can They Sing? 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z An exhibition exploring the impact of new technology on fashion – and how designers are reconciling the handmade and the machine-made — will be the Costume Institute’s spring 2016 exhibition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Tuesday. Hand and Machine Star at Costume Institute Spring Exhibit 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z The difference between handmade and machine-made is sometimes hard to discern, sometimes blatant, as in the show’s dynamic lace section. Review: At the Costume Institute, Couture Meets Technology 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The caning on your chair appears to be the machine-made type that’s held in place with a spline stuffed into a groove around the edges. How to repair veneer on a mid-century Kofod-Larsen chair 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Despite this weird worship of wealth and power that’s grown up in post-Great Recession America — which has helped Swift immensely — not everyone loves Swift or her oddly lifeless, machine-made music. The inevitable Taylor Swift backlash begins: Watching the critical mad love crumble, right on schedule 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Nason says weaving by hand is at risk, with the introduction of cheap machine-made textiles, availability of traditional materials, plus economic and political strife. Burke Museum textile exhibition weaves a tale of many cultures 2010-10-21T20:29:00Z It reflects the growing interest in the machine-made imagery developed by Henry and fellow pioneers of digital art and design during the 1960s in experimental work with early computers that they customized themselves. Design: When Desmond Paul Henry Traded His Pen for a Machine 2011-02-27T19:00:05Z If I were to analyse it, looking back now, I would say it is about nature versus machine-made objects. Photographer Nigel Shafran's best shot 2010-04-21T21:15:00Z To enjoy this “machine-made Hamlet,” as it is called, a certain familiarity with the original text is probably necessary. Theater Review: ‘A Piece of Work,’ a Computerized ‘Hamlet’ Mash-up at BAM 2013-12-19T21:16:36Z Both lift the handmade and natural and imperfect above the machine-made and synthetic and shiny-new. At Le Turtle, a French New Wave You Can Eat 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z His wooden circles, curving baskets, poetic ladders and enigmatic containers are quiet and self-contained, and they don’t glare at you with the hyper-polish of machine-made metal minimalism or the narcissistic sheen of latter-day Pop. A sculptor’s work, seen in two and three dimensions 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z People are needed to make machine-made rugs, too — another point Karastan emphasized in its marketing. The End of the Wonder Rug 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z The show will challenge the traditional dichotomy of handmade and machine-made. When Fashion Meets Technology, You Can Wear Your Tweets 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z “The machine-made pashminas are 10 percent nylon. No one else will tell you this. But it is the truth.” Cups of Tea, Pashminas and Momos, Seeing India’s Himalayas on a Budget 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z In June, researchers at the University of London tackled the riddle of machine-made art in a paper, “Putting the Art in Artificial: Aesthetic Responses to Computer-Generated Art.” Do You Like ‘Dogs Playing Poker’? Science Would Like to Know Why 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z The fact that her machine-made songs sound like a cash register ringing. Dear Taylor Swift, I’m sorry: Thank you for using your powers for good 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z In souks and shops, machine-made overwhelmed handmade; imported wiped out local. The Materials Man of the Emirates 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z "She appears precision-made, machine-made: so different from Diana, whose human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture." Kate, the 'plastic princess': Hilary Mantel's damning take on duchess 2013-02-19T08:48:03Z In a machine-made jacket, the canvas would be fused or glued into a suit. Front Row: What Accounts for the $550 Pair of Khakis? 2010-04-28T17:52:00Z The resulting friction between nonfunctional and functional, spiritual and practical, handmade and machine-made, and professional and self-taught is music to the eyes. Art Review: Visual Culture Out of Africa 2010-12-02T23:49:00Z Cleaning a machine-made rug is slightly less time-consuming, so the price is a little less, $315. How to stop the airflow around a drafty door 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Very few machine-made objects in common use are entirely exempt from direct human forming during their production. Art Review: ?Crafting Modernism? at the Museum of Arts and Design 2011-10-27T22:19:42Z Karastan helped take this trend into the 20th century, making a machine-made rug sold exclusively at department stores and through a network of approved dealers across the United States. The End of the Wonder Rug 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z On machine-made rugs, it’s possible to machine-stitch new edging, which brings the cost down by nearly half. How to stop the airflow around a drafty door 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z But obviously, she forgot to mention there will also be several infused, machine-made cocktails on that table, along with a plate of pasta absolutely reeking of truffle. Oprah shares her 'Favorite Things' of 2019, is slightly less interested in truffle-infused 'things' than last year 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Apparently, they replaced her with another slimmed-down, super-polished Hollywood starlet, who looks like yet another machine-made actress, and just doesn't have the same effect on me. "Glee's" mysteriously shrinking Rachel 2010-10-08T17:30:00Z A metallic finish suggests the latter, as does Wilt’s enthusiasm for combining organic forms with machine-made components. Review | In the galleries: Matt Wilt wields a deft hand for his ceramic creations 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Red light from a backlit bar and purple lasers cut through machine-made fog that was quickly filling the dance floor and bar area while house music pumped through the small space. Want the ‘Real’ Brooklyn? Go Cheap 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z “After you see everything machine-made, I’m touched by this idea of the handmade object,” he said. Pioneer artist Michael Heizer comes to New York, brings $2 million rocks 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Up close, the entire image is composed of cross-hatchings so regular and sharp they resemble machine-made stitches, running back and forth across the etching plate at complex angles. Morandi: Lines of Poetry – review 2013-01-13T00:05:35Z One would be hard pressed to imagine there's a machine-made element to it, but that's Bolton's point: Haute couture and ready-to-wear are overly strict definitions, in his view. The new fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute explores the relationship between hand-sewn and machine-made garments, and argues that the two methods are equally important to the past, present and future of fashion 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z But most Afghan carpets, best-known for their dark red color, are hand-woven in dense knot patterns, and last longer than machine-made rugs using synthetic materials. Sales of Afghanistan's renowned carpets unravel as war intensifies 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The museum is doing the same with digital media, even as similar skepticism toward machine-made imagery echoes around A.I.-generated work. MoMA’s Daydream of Progress 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z In the 1920s, the great appeal of Modernist design lay in its embrace of an almost machine-made simplicity and its rejection of ornate decoration as not merely superficial but superfluous. Possessed: Christian Liaigre Is a Minimalist With a Taste for Ornate Coconuts 2012-10-19T23:12:24Z One big result is an online content crisis, an enormous and growing glut of unchecked, machine-made material riddled with potentially dangerous errors, misinformation and criminal scams. Tech Companies’ New Favorite Solution for the AI Content Crisis Isn’t Enough 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Could we end up in a situation where human-created work is a premium product, the way buyers might be willing to pay more for hand-woven sweaters than for machine-made ones? Unregulated AI Will Worsen Inequality, Warns Nobel-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Webcams at Canaan Valley Resort in West Virginia and Liberty Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania confirm that snow lining the slopes is almost entirely machine-made, with barren conditions otherwise. Washington on track to have one of its five warmest winters on record 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Its textile industry, which consists mostly of smaller enterprises, produces machine-made carpets and clothing. Gaziantep, a City Millenniums Old, Has Long Been a Hub for Trade and Cultures 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z “But the more and more we use this technology, there is increasing reliance by police on machine-made decisions.” See Spot spy? A new generation of police robots faces backlash 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z These were the market forces that sent slaves to Mississippi, cotton and “mill girls” to Lowell, machine-made textiles to every neighborhood, and homespun cloth to oblivion. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The Industrial Revolution refers to the greatly increased output of machine-made goods that began in England in the middle 1700s. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As the planet continues to heat up, machine-made snow will play an ever-larger role in guaranteeing a consistent, high-caliber field of play. Beijing Wanted the Winter Olympics. All It Needed Was Snow. 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z The machine-made snow had a different feel, especially on a fall. Great Wall can’t stop wind in Olympic slopestyle qualifying 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z The American ski jumper left the safe place, went down the in-run and took flight the length of an football field with her bib flapping in the wind before landing smoothly in the machine-made snow. Olympic ski jumpers fearlessly fly with mental fortitude 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z It’s harder to find real snow anywhere, so competition increasingly comes on machine-made snow, which has its own deleterious effects on the environment. Olympians worry as ‘Winter’ disappears from Winter Games 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Thus, users can achieve elaborate results—say, a machine-made burger that alternates between rare and well done in a checkerboard pattern. 3-D-Printed Chicken Dinner Cooked by Lasers 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z In more recent years, even doppa makers who had continued in the traditional ways have turned to machine-made designs and synthetic silk to cut costs. An Australian’s Search for Belonging Led to the Silk Road and a Famed Hat 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Cluny's is the last manufacturer of Leavers Lace - a traditional machine-made lace - in the country. Lace-maker who made Kate’s wedding dress retires 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Even Nordic skiing and biathlon have become dangerous in part because of the machine-made snow. Olympic ski jumpers fearlessly fly with mental fortitude 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Hallock said there are machine-made horseshoes on the market today, often from the Netherlands, England, and China, but it still takes a farrier to put them on. At 82, farrier still teaching ancient art of shoeing horses 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z It would be cheaper — and definitely easier — for me to purchase a machine-made version of what I’m making. The Verge’s favorite hobbies to do while stuck at home 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Imperial will retain its machine-made cigar business, whose most popular brand is Backwoods, which only constitutes a small proportion of its overall revenues. Imperial's premium cigar era draws to a close in $1.33 billion sale 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z “Everything is machine-made now. You don’t see that often anymore,” Sorresse said. Old-world bread factory bakes, ships out 10,000 loaves daily 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Stoppel said that as custom wigs circle the market, people teach each other the difference between custom pieces and machine-made ones. Company is hand-making the best ‘Designer Santa Beards’ 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z William Finnegan, a longtime reporter and lifelong surfer, travels inland—a hundred miles from the ocean—to report on a machine-made wave, the first world-class surfing wave produced artificially. Kelly Slater’s Perfect Wave Brings Surfing to a Crossroads 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Small, machine-made and packaged in white plastic bags, the company’s version barely resemble what people envision when they talk about the Mexican and Central American favorite. The XLNT tamales go back 125 years, capturing nostalgia for Californians across the U.S. 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Some are symmetrical and appear to be machine-made. In Dona Nelson's magically messy paintings, the back is as revelatory as the front 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Ridenour hopes her classes illuminate the disparity between lovingly handmade items and machine-made goods. Learning the long-lost art of broom making 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z There were two blankets and a dirty, crudely cut fragment of a machine-made Persian rug, in a Kashan pattern, with an elaborate floral design, on the concrete floor. Perspective | ‘Their job is to scare me’: Jason Rezaian describes first terrifying hours inside Iranian prison 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z “Instead, we find machine-made Oriental carpets from the first half of the 20th century,” he said. Should Rugs Stay Out of the Kitchen? Designers Duke it Out 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z So maybe we should think twice about giving some future militarized version of Alexa the power to launch a machine-made Armageddon. “Alexa, launch our nukes!” 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z What’s more, machine-made pines are evolving, steadily gaining ground on their biological forebears. Real Christmas Trees are the greener choice | John Rudolf 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z But there’s something missing in the deformed, machine-made faces: intent. When the line between machine and artist becomes blurred 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Food manufacturers are combining advances in laser vision with artificial-intelligence software so that automated arms can carry out more-complex tasks, such as slicing chicken cutlets precisely or inspecting toppings on machine-made pizzas. See Food: Why Robots Are Producing More of What You Eat 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Photo by Albert Law for Eater Creator’s machine-made burger costs $6 and takes five minutes to make “Customers are interacting through their devices,” Young adds. Why you should let a robot cook your next meal 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Or will we always value human-produced art and music more than machine-made stuff? Is Art Created by AI Really Art? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Taken together, Articles 21 and 22 introduce the principle that people are owed agency and understanding when they’re faced by machine-made decisions. Can A.I. Be Taught to Explain Itself? 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z “I’ve been in a do-it-yourself spirit of late,” said Mr. Lim, who wanted this machine-made sweater to look “classic and handmade, with a little madness woven in.” Found: A Cropped Sweater To Keep You Stylishly Warm 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Casper noted in a history of the club that the course "was built with horse and plow" and as a result "there are subtle undulations you don't find on machine-made courses," he said. San Diego CC recalls Mickey Wright, Billy Casper and a course deserving 'more national acclaim' - Golf Digest 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z Instead of smoothing over rough edges, he allows screws and other raw elements to show as a way of leaving his fingerprints on his work, differentiating the handmade from the machine-made. Après-art: how an Aspen ski resort became a retreat for art's biggest names 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Decades of decline followed as Americans traded hand-rolled cigars for inexpensive, machine-made cigarettes. Is this the final burn for Florida’s ‘Cigar City’? 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z American furniture companies also sent tools, parts and instructions to China to build intricate, machine-made products there. How the China Shock, Deep and Swift, Spurred the Rise of Trump 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z With six years of Western sanctions on the carpet business and punishing competition from rugs machine-made in China and India, these are hard times for the craft of Persian rug making. End of an Art Form? The Persian Rug May Not Be Long for This World 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Bolton asks his audience to shake off those distractions and consider the complicated tension between handmade garments and machine-made ones. Can machine-made fashion dazzle like handmade couture? Yes, and the Met proves it. 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z “Traditionally, the distinction between the haute couture and prêt-à-porter was based on the handmade and the machine-made,” Andrew Bolton, curator of the Costume Institute, told Vogue. Here’s Where You Can Watch the Met Ball Red Carpet Live 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z In the surrounding passageways, tentlike structures provide the context for juxtaposing the handcrafted with the machine-made. The Met’s Costume Institute Taps an OMA Architect 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Titled "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology," the annual event, according to Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton, is purposed with "unraveling the hand-machine conundrum" that sets handmade and machine-made fashion in opposition. Apple takes a confident step into fashion with its first Met Gala 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z As a consequence, the canvases reveal subtle striations, random variations in color, though each was constructed from indistinguishable machine-made beads. Liza Lou’s Handmade Sea of Sparkling Glass 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z And for a time, machine-made clothes lacked character and creativity. Can machine-made fashion dazzle like handmade couture? Yes, and the Met proves it. 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Queues, Andrews concludes, in one form or another, are “essential to the machinery of modern life,” yet some rail against them as evidence of the “machine-made man,” ever-obedient and lacking outside-the-box creativity. Quirky new book covers science, history of standing in line 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Apple Inc. is helping the fashion industry deconstruct the tension between handmade and machine-made fashion, as it sponsors the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s next big exhibit at its Costume Institute. Unpacking the Apple-Met Museum Fashion Collaboration 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z It will explore the influence of the invention of the sewing machine in the 19th century, bringing on distinctions between machine-made and handmade at the onset of mass production. Idris Elba, Taylor Swift and Apple's chief design officer among co-chairs for Met Gala in May 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z To these stalwarts, centered in the bagel redoubts of New York and Montreal, even invective-rich Yiddish lacks words critical enough to describe a machine-made bagel, though “shande” — disgrace — perhaps comes closest. Daniel Thompson, Whose Bagel Machine Altered the American Diet, Dies at 94 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Handmade and machine-made quilts by West Virginia residents are eligible for the exhibition. Quilting call issued for West Virginia exhibition 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Four elegantly cloaked, well-shod gentlemen in idiosyncratic caps peer through what seems to be a porthole at distant Earth — a planet so spiky with spires as to look machine-made. In 'Cosmigraphics,' Our Changing Pictures of Space Through Time 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z After the war, though, machine-made glass was becoming popular, and Duncan & Miller, failing to compete, ceased operations in 1955. Glass show highlights once-thriving Pa. industry 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z “The idea is to create a distinction between handmade silk and a machine-made silk,” says Adjaye, who compares the silks to handmade Italian leather goods or an Hermés Kelly bag. A Modern Workshop to Promote an Ancient Craft 2014-05-08T17:54:11Z The noodles are not mushy, like the machine-made ones, but flexible, chewy, and delicious. Calling time on Taiwan's handmade noodles 2014-01-13T00:15:36Z Those machine-made carpets from Iran, Turkey and China cost a quarter of the price of an average Afghan carpet. Afghan carpet alarm as sales fall 2012-10-05T08:09:48Z Fences of a lighter description are machine-made with pickets of split chestnut or other wood closely set, woven with a few strands of wire; they are braced by posts at intervals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The small master, unable to compete with the cheapness of the machine-made goods, fared as badly as the journeyman. Boy Labour and Apprenticeship 2012-03-30T02:00:18.807Z There are very few hand-made fabrics which can compete with the machine-made article, but the very best type of hose-pipe is certainly one of the former class. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Again, the toil� of machine-made lace is often found to be ribbed, and this lace is very generally made of cotton instead of the linen thread with which old needle-point and pillow lace is made. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z He said indeed that he thought it too artistic, too machine-made. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z At this gentlemen did not wear machine-made boots and shoes, but had them to order by native shoemakers. Life Gleanings 2011-12-01T03:00:23.890Z The real villains in Mr. Hardy's novels, Sergeant Troy, young Dare, and Alec D'Urberville, seem the least natural and the most machine-made of all his characters. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z A Cold Store Interior of a cold store, in which meat and poultry are kept good and fresh by the use of machine-made cold.—See p. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z There is also a cotton machine-made variety, used chiefly in trimming muslin underwear. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z It was a "regular mill," and who could tell if the sensitive, fragile little Gano was the stuff to stand these machine-made processes? The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z In the 1920s, machine-made glass syringes replaced expensive hand-blown ones, and the Belgians and French attacked many diseases in their colonies, both out of paternalism and to create herd immunity to protect whites. Chimp to Man to History Books: The Circuitous Path of AIDS 2011-10-17T18:59:44Z I was trying to build my portlights to the standard of machine-made products — but why? Preoccupations: Perfectionism, Challenged in Building a Boat 2011-09-17T19:31:01Z Despite very low wages, Asiatic products not only could not compete in the world-market with European and American machine-made, mass-produced articles, but were hard hit in their home-markets as well. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z The term is now generally applied to a machine-made cotton lace of simple pattern and inferior quality. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z For machine-made goods the principal machines used are the bunch rollers and the suction table. Tobacco Leaves Being a Book of Facts for Smokers 2011-09-12T02:00:31.107Z The nondescript trousers, which reached only to his ankles, terminated in huge, formless, machine-made shoes, the original color of which had entirely disappeared in favor of a dull whitish-green streaked with red. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z A'Becket composed a Comic History of England, and the few of us who have read it to-day feel as Dickens felt at the time, that it is dull and machine-made. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Our military system is a machine-made system, and one which, unluckily for us, has been incapable of any of the smart plasticities which warfare with the Boers has demanded. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 2011-07-29T02:00:27.053Z The machine-made black and white silk laces, with their flower patterns, are from Lyons and Calais, France. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z It appears to be nothing more than an idiosyncrasy to consider that a hand-made cigarette is better than a machine-made one. Tobacco Leaves Being a Book of Facts for Smokers 2011-09-12T02:00:31.107Z So also at this Exhibition was a finer collection of machine-made horseshoes than had ever previously been presented to the world. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z The freeing of people from rural bondage produced wage workers for factories and distributors and urban consumers for machine-made products. We need a New Deal for information technology 2011-06-14T11:01:00Z Only an occasional versifier in a critical or intellectual spirit grinds out a machine-made metre, every foot of which can be scanned according to rule. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z There are two broad divisions of lace—namely, hand-made lace and machine-made lace. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z The use of cast or machine-made ornaments of any kind. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z The smiths make larger incomes in buying and applying the machine-made shoes. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z The tawdry room with its cheap gas-fixtures of rusted cast iron, the machine-made oil-paintings, the tattered, dust-filled carpet, the cracked furniture, seemed a sort of prison cell in which he was confined. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z All his great, machine-made brain broke down before its tremendous flood-tide, and he was swept along upon its bosom toward the brink of disaster. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z Crochet.—Lace which is made with a crochet hook, or whose pattern is so made and then appliqu�d on a bobbin or machine-made net. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z While premium cigars are handmade and rolled using whole tobacco leaves, machine-made cigarillos blend the ground-up remains of larger leaves and often contain flavorings. Switzerland’s Villiger Courts Cigar Snobs to Gain Acceptance 2011-03-11T16:50:58Z The demand for army shoes fell off, and the system was abandoned; but it had incited invention in the direction of machine-made shoes and the day of exclusive hand labour was doomed. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z Justice demands a careful consideration of every case; it cannot be machine-made; it cannot be wholesaled. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z He aimed at the men as the machine-made novel aims at the women. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z Honiton braid is a narrow, machine-made fabric, the variety in most general use being composed of a series of oval-shaped figures united by narrow bars. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z The machine-made back is hung to the book in an insecure way. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z With this steady income from machine-made clocks, and the profits from extra sales, he made, in a very short time, what was then considered quite a fortune. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z Laser lights and strobes shot through downdrafts of machine-made fog. Former N.B.A. Center Plays to a Different Crowd 2010-12-08T21:04:00Z Amina tried to imagine that her plain, machine-made top was a hand-embroidered wedding sari, and, when she pressed her body against her fiancé’s, a strange sound escaped from him. Nell Freudenberger: “An Arranged Marriage.” 2010-08-30T04:00:00Z But, notwithstanding the marvelous results attained in machine-made lace, they are the triumphs of mechanism which cannot displace the superiority, and charm, and rarity, of the finest hand-made work. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z The floor was covered by a well-worn but clean carpet, the walls held pictures of various sorts—crayon portraits, steel engravings, machine-made oil landscapes and a few water-colors in every style of frame imaginable. The Cottage of Delight A Novel "I don't much like this corrugated hair," said he carelessly; "it looks so machine-made." Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play The knives are driven by accurate machine-made gearing, which works very smoothly and quietly, and is completely covered to exclude dirt. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them In England the cheapness of machine-made pottery has largely destroyed such village industries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" At the present time the net ground is usually machine-made. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z Instead of establishing great factories for machine-made products from set designs, could not the most skilful of the girls be induced by good prices to create original pieces and rejuvenate the old art? The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. We are willing to buy their machine-made systems, not with our hearts, but with our brains. The Spirit of Japan Within its counterfeit solidity, wood and tin masquerading as stone, machine-made carving strutting in fancied kinship to the inspired craftsmanship of medi�val ornament, dwelt a faith equally false, equally dead. Thirty A machine-made article therefore is not patentable simply because it is thus made, and no longer by hand. Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman Point d'Irlande.—A coarse, machine-made imitation of real Venetian point lace. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z Consequently, even a slight throwing out of gear of the machine created unemployment, which reduced buying power for the machine-made products and started a vicious downward spiral accompanied by every form of economic distress. A Living from the Land “She’s machine-made,” observed the old horse, in a melancholy voice, and with a deep sigh. Mopsa the Fairy Of the numerous plays signed by Tom Taylor some were original in substance, but all were cast in the machine-made French mould. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" A man of the Schools, a machine-made executant. The Intriguers Tambour.—Lace made with needle embroidery upon a machine-made net, generally black or white Nottingham. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z The small pathetic saint stood all unconscious, its machine-made face looking down amiably upon the branch of lilies in its hands. The New Warden On the other hand, in the handmade, as distinguished from the machine-made product, the specialized skill of the workman gives us something infinitely more subtle than can be expressed in rules. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law There is a recognizable type of machine-made story used by all the all-fiction magazines, and so forth. The Technique of Fiction Writing Engels simply anticipated by the way of books the point of view reached by the industrial proletarian of to-day by the way of experience, and by the American machine-made proletarian in particular. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" The term is also applied to a machine-made worsted lace, produced in black, white and colors. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z The machine-made features of the face also had shared this accidental ablution, and one foot was slightly damaged. The New Warden Machinery and steam-power to drive it is, no doubt, a very heavy item; but are we so anxious for machinery and machine-made guns? The Hills and the Vale Whether we have stone facings or no; whether our parlor has cornices or marble mantles or no; whether our doors are machine-made or hand-made. Household Papers and Stories Actually beautiful style—not machine-made "fine writing," but that embodiment of thought which is a special incarnation of it—is the one thing secure of success and survival, whatever literary form it takes. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Now tell me all about machine-made paper, there's a dear. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920 But oh, for all that, how incomparably inferior is the finest, faultless, machine-made lace and muslin to the exquisite irregularity of the human fabric!... Records of Later Life But they could not have thus suddenly taken to the wearing of machine-made shirts. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 Research into the mysteries and principles of design applies to woven arabesques and patterns, and must include machine-made textile ornament, and all decorative needlework. Needlework As Art And through the whole there runs the wonderful style which was so long unrecognised—nay, which those who go by the trumpery machine-made rules of "composition books" used gravely to stigmatise as "incorrect." A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing So inclusive is the term "boiled goods" that it embraces drops, rocks, candies, taffies, creams, caramels, and a number of different sorts of hand-made, machine-made, and moulded goods. The Candy Maker's Guide A Collection of Choice Recipes for Sugar Boiling This cannot be done with the machine-made article, which completes its product by a pasting process. Due South or Cuba Past and Present The idea of a machine-made watch with interchangeable parts had been in the minds of many men for a long time. The Auburndale Watch Company First American Attempt Toward the Dollar Watch The French machine-made embroideries are so beautiful, and comparatively cheap, that we cannot compete with them. Needlework As Art It changed, for me, a clanking, thrumming machine-made world into a shining fairyland of dreams come true. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 There is only one difference between the cooking utensils of yore and the modern products: the old ones are hand-made, more individualistic, more beautiful, more artistic than our machine-made varieties. Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome You may turn out the machine-made article very natty, but for the real hand-made thing you must have toiled in the sweat of your brow. Another Sheaf Perhaps the profession of literature and journalism affords the aptest illustration of the utter folly and uselessness of producing these machine-made scholars, all filled chock-full with the same ideas, facts, figures, and dates. The Curse of Education It was covered with that rustic triumph of multi-colored icing which only grandmothers seem able to compound in these degenerate days of machine-made pastry of the city bakeries. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure These may be graded as routine wants, and may be satisfied by machine-made goods. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production There is this hope for them, that the monotony of machine-made things produces in the end a reaction in favour of handwork—provided always it gives us something which manufacture cannot. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery The time has come when she will strike down, think less in terms of material success and machine-made perfections. Another Sheaf Like some machine-made man of a new and physically degenerate age, he took his exercise under the eye of his doctor—a strange and miserable-looking object. The Double Four Now and then came a distincter tick, which might pass for a little machine-made snore. Nine Little Goslings In a word, while it is the interest of each producer of machine-made goods to give regular employment, some wider industrial force compels him to irregularity. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production It is, I think, in many ways a pity that so many authors type their manuscripts; for not only are they machine-made, they have not the interest that they should have for posterity. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Belgian exhibit contains also one of those immense paper-machines invented by the brothers Fourdrinier about fifty years ago, and now used almost universally for the best class of machine-made papers. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Again, look at this upper row of soldiers, machine-made men. Cupology How to Be Entertaining Yes, sir," said Livingston in a dry, machine-made manner; "Senator, the people in our district are growing restive over the reform business. The High Calling The American machine-made watch is the product of 370 separate processes. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production Mr. Morris preferred the word arras as attached to his weavings, tapestry having sometimes the odious modern meaning of machine-made figured stuffs for any sort of furniture covering. The Tapestry Book The Honiton laces made since the introduction of machine-made net is especially poor. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework There was to be no nice work about collar or wristband,—no troublesome plaits or gussets,—no machine-made bosom to set in,—only a few gathers,—and all plain work throughout. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 I could understand duplicity to me in the performance of a duty, but to practice your machine-made emotions upon my simplicity—! The Secret Witness Jack will bring some knee-high moosehide moccasins—no machine-made junk, either. The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series Once on his return he brought with him a piece of machine-made cloth which a merchant of Nördlingen had given him. The Goose Man Flower sprigs and sprays are made separately on the pillow, and afterwards applied to the machine-made ground. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Who in reading books of mountain adventure and exploration has not come across machine-made bits of description which are as inspiring as any lumber yard? A Tramp's Notebook Crash is almost always very coarse, is never more than eighteen inches wide, and cannot be mistaken for a machine-made fabric. Handbook of Embroidery Whether we have stone facings or no,—whether our parlor has cornices or marble mantels or no,—whether our doors are machine-made or hand-made. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Everywhere the flood of cheap Western machine-made, mass-produced goods began invading Eastern lands, driving the native wares before them. The New World of Islam Even lingerie of all classes is machine-made and bought by the dozen, instead of being made by the daughters of the house. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Imitation Lace.—A term used to designate any machine-made lace in contrast with hand-made. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Reaping machines were on trial the same year, and three years later machine-made wood screws were turned out at Providence. History of the United States, Volume 3 Of course I know that the proceedings of the best machine-made humanity are employed with judicious care and so on. Chance A Tale in Two Parts Everywhere percolated the flood of cheap, abundant European machine-made goods, while close behind came European capital, temptingly offering itself in return for loans and concessions which, once granted, paved the way for European political domination. The New World of Islam The machine-made net is hard, stiff, and wiry, and remains perceptibly so in this test. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Honiton Braid.—Narrow machine-made braid of ornamental oval figures connected by narrow bars. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades The hens and their owner were not of antiquarian tastes, and relinquished the windows for a machine-made sash more suited to their plebeian tastes and occupations. Home Life in Colonial Days The most vital distinction between a machine-made and a hand-made binding, is that the cloth or case-made book is not fastened into its cover in a firm and permanent way, as in leather-backed books. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Despite very low wages, therefore, Asiatic products not only could not compete in the world-market with European and American machine-made, mass-produced articles, but were hard hit in their home-markets as well. The New World of Islam Also, the mesh of machine-made lace is as regular as though made with a fine machine fret-saw, that of hand-made lace being of varying sizes, and often following the pattern of the lace design. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework The machine-made productions of the Nottingham looms, as triumphs of mechanical ingenuity, deserve great praise. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Towards the latter half of the eighteenth century the woollen trade languished; but in the first quarter of the nineteenth century a new business sprang up—that of producing machine-made lace and tulle. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts As the government grew in size and complexity and contact with the governed parts became more tenuous, greater reliance had to be placed in logic, machine-made logic. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 The fashion of paving buildings of the age of Tewkesbury Abbey with glazed and glossy machine-made tiles, all cut mathematically true, is much to be deprecated. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire Unfortunately, however, equal facilities are offered for designing of machine-made imitations. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework At that period, hand-made paper was still being used to a very large extent and even machine-made paper was not manufactured with the nicety of standardisation that is possible with the improved machinery of today. The Stamps of Canada Chauncey Jerome, the inventor of machine-made clocks, started with two others on a tour through New Jersey, they to sell the clocks, and he to make cases for them. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Not the modern, scientific, machine-made charity, but the comfortable, old-fashioned kind that leaves a pleasant glow of generosity in the heart of the giver. Just Patty Why, you miserable, machine-made, wheezing, old make-believe of a turnip—” “Draw it mild, young fellow,” said the hunter. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch The machine-made ground can be distinguished by sense of touch alone. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework His official, machine-made literature offers nothing of special interest. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections They renounced shams or machine-made articles or middle-class Philistinism as the case might be. By the Christmas Fire This joint multiplied is used for small machine-made boxes, and is then called corner locking. Handwork in Wood Let us awake as soon as possible to the repulsive machine quality of machine-made things. Fantasia of the Unconscious An enormous manufacture of good machine-made lace is exported yearly, the variety known as Saxony being both popular and cheap. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Since the introduction of machine-made cloth has reduced the profits of hand-loom weaving, large numbers of the weaving castes have been reduced to manual labour as a means of subsistence. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) But no; the force of habit is too strong for the machine-made teacher. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular The best machine-made drawers are now made with the bottom paneled or dadoed in all around so that papers cannot slip out. Handwork in Wood Liszt began with machine-made fantasias on faded Italian operas—not, however, faded in his time. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques This really is not lace at all, as it is merely chain-stitch worked in patterns on machine-made net. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework But almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. A Preface to Politics Shall we blame the teachers as a body because too many of them are machine-made creatures of routine? What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular The other toys in this picture are mostly machine-made, and their uses can be easily seen. Chatterbox, 1905. The machine-made plastic bricks are made of tempered clay, but generally the tempering and working of the clay are effected by the use of machinery, especially when the harder clays and shales are used. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Magnificent laces are still made at Brussels, but almost wholly on a machine-made ground, the workers and merchants apparently finding the old hand-made ground unprofitable. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Another charge against most machine-made music is its unhuman accuracy. The Joyful Heart The woman who kept the little store had never seen machine-made cigarettes before, and examined them with the greatest interest. Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains It was sweeter by far than the machine-made trills and roulades of the artificial songster, and he felt instinctively that only by its return could death be charmed away. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know And as for Johann Sebastian, "there was more real musical feeling, uplifting and sincerity in the old Thomas-kirche in Leipzig ... than in all your modern symphony and oratorio machine-made concerts put together." A Book of Prefaces The machine-made ground is cheap, and often of mixed flax and cotton instead of being of purely Flanders flax thread, as in the old days. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Many a good musician fears, I know, that machine-made music will not stop with annihilating vulgar display, but will do to death all professional music as well. The Joyful Heart We are inclined to think that it results in a machine-made citizen. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Many of our provincial papers still regale us with a column of facetiæ, but machine-made humour is not now much appreciated. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 And whether he turned out to be a machine-made genius, an over-powered dolt, or an introverted monster it was still his own personal reason for being alive. The Fourth R Ghent executes vast quantities of hand-made imitations of Valenciennes, a good and durable lace, but much more expensive than the machine-made varieties which flood the shops as "real Val." Chats on Old Lace and Needlework The next instant it may easily be lowered to the point where the ordinary cartoon of commerce or the tiny cachinnation of a machine-made Chesterton paradox will not ring entirely hollow. The Joyful Heart A close-fitting basque of velvet forms the top part of this Navajo costume, and over all a machine-made blanket is worn. I Married a Ranger That is our aim; to that task we have bent our backs; and in that labour we shall not be daunted by the machine-made abuse of partisans or by the nervous clamour of selfish riches. Liberalism and the Social Problem The guide to familiar quotations, the index to similes, the grammars, the readers, the machine-made letter-writer of mechanically perfect letters of congratulation or condolence—none are sententious enough to supply the need. Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English The work was of a good machine-made quality, not good enough to praise nor bad enough to condemn: it was like Tomlinson of Berkeley Square. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters "May you never need it," he said, fervently, visions rising of little Miss Terry and her machine-made personality. Contrary Mary The ferny vegetation round him, though so abundant, was quite uniform: it was a grove of machine-made foliage, a world of green triangles with saw-edges, and not a single flower. The Return of the Native How are American machine-made garments superior to those made by hand in Russia? Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists The music of your words was cold—machine-made, strained and superficial. The House of the Vampire The shell, cut in half, supplies good cups, and is artistically carved by the Polynesians, Japanese, Hindoos, and other benighted heathen, who have not yet learnt the true methods of civilised machine-made shoddy manufacture. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science We've kept pretty obstinately out of the political field, both of us, father and I, since the first day when I told him my views on machine-made government. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush If modern, probably the bricks in its walls were machine-made; and by machinery the flooring was sawn and planed, the mantel-shelf sawn and polished, the paper-hangings made and printed. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library How otherwise can we explain the passion for superfluous machine-made ornament which makes our respectable homes so hideous? Essays on Art "How can a machine-made world be run in the spirit of a hand-made world?" Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy —Build that house," she repeated, "and line it with books—the kind of books that were written and read before the machine-made sort supplanted them. The Firing Line A perfectly even scale is on a dead level; it has no life; it is machine-made. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers The re-apportionment of the state was charged to be arbitrary; the convention was styled "machine-made" with a view to Douglas' nomination. Children of the Market Place It is always added ugliness when it is machine-made, and when it is put on to hide cheapness of material and faults of design and workmanship. Essays on Art There was much shaking of heads over this machine-made nomination. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Their answers to the usual questions were all the same, and one felt in talking to them that their opinions were machine-made. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 We hear the contempt for "canned drama" and the machine-made theater. The Photoplay A Psychological Study But I would far rather have her true words of dispraise than all machine-made twaddle of nearly all the book columns of our great American press. Memories and Anecdotes None but pure linen braid should be employed; those with machine-made edgings are eschewed by many lace-workers, the plain, loose-woven linen braid of various widths and qualities being alone acceptable to experienced hands. Beeton's Book of Needlework It was not for nothing that he had worshiped at Sumner's feet at Yale and he held views that were not readily reconcilable with parochial boss-ships and the meek swallowing of machine-made platforms. A Hoosier Chronicle It was the homage that the pretender pays to the legitimate prince; the recognition due to the real thing from the machine-made imitation; the homage of the builder to the architect. The Inheritors The printed book of lyric poems is also machine-made; the marble bust has also "preserved" for two thousand years the beauty of the living woman who was the model for the Greek sculptor. The Photoplay A Psychological Study I think these dresses must come from England or America, for they are evidently machine-made, and the cotton-stuft of which they are composed has the most extraordinary patterns printed on it I ever saw. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months There are machine-made "tapestries" of foliage designs in soft greens and tans and browns on a dark blue ground that are very pleasing. The House in Good Taste If the hewing is well done, such floors are as level and smooth as if fashioned of machine-made material. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 As the tapa disappeared, so did the beautiful carvings of canoes and paddles and clubs, superseded by the cheaper, machine-made articles of the whites. White Shadows in the South Seas With the advent of machine-made furniture came cheap imitations of antiques and the rapid decadence of this art. The Art of Interior Decoration It is this perfect accuracy, this lack of play, of variety, that makes the machine-made article so lifeless. The Practice and Science of Drawing I came across the small iron stove which they always persist in decorating with machine-made ornaments, and which is as great a bore as a wet day or any other particularly dreadful institution. Miscellanies She realized, however, that what was there must be what must suffice and purchased nearly all the woman had of cheap, machine-made mesh and home-worked, coarse-threaded tatting. In Old Kentucky I mean—is there anything machine-made about my work? The Common Law I noted that the brass plate with the "No. 38" on it had been polished until it had been nearly polished out of sight, like a machine-made sonnet too much gone over. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Wherever there is life there is variety, and the substitution of the machine-made for the hand-made article has impoverished the world to a greater extent than we are probably yet aware of. The Practice and Science of Drawing I found meaningless chandeliers and machine-made furniture, generally of rosewood, which creaked dismally under the weight of the ubiquitous interviewer. Miscellanies Well," answered the major, beetling his brows over his keen eyes, "I suppose there is no doubt that Taylor is machine-made. Andrew the Glad And had she not heard him laugh and call Rose machine-made? Greatheart A specimen produced by subscription for the Hyde Park Exhibition of 1851, proved that Coventry was quite able to rival the choicest work of France in the class of machine-made ribands. Rides on Railways All systems founded on equalities, as are so many modern systems of social reform, are man's work, the products of a machine-made age. The Practice and Science of Drawing Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly. Miscellanies Laces made by hand, wrought on pillows, by needle or crochet, silk, wool, gold, silver, or thread, machine-made laces, imitation, embroidered tulles, and lace curtains. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Cheap clothing is not," he said, "because even the cheapest kind of labor is more expensive than machinery, and machine-made clothes are clean. The Boy With the U.S. Census We do now understand the difference between artistic decoration and machine-made wares; we do now try to preserve ancient monuments, and to use art as a means of education. The Life of John Ruskin Laughter is let loose around them, machine-made laughter, quarrelsome and beastly:— "Your notion of peace is only utopian, anyway, as long as you never, any day, stopped the war by yourself!" Light The great, machine-made Empire of Germany can show no such graves: when her soldiers die, they sleep alone. The First Hundred Thousand We hadn't even a motherly old nurse, for Aunt Eleanor liked machine-made people like herself to serve her. Penny Plain Where once a definite demand is recognized in literature, the supply, more or less machine-made, is sure to follow. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities After all, if the character of the newspaper man in The Doctor's Dilemma is machine-made, the much more important character of B.B., the soothing and incompetent doctor, is a creation of the true comic genius. Old and New Masters Last year the single county of Hammerum, of which more below, sold machine-made underwear to the value of over a million and a half kroner. Hero Tales of the Far North There will be more head-work put into the various articles, but the mass of constructive material must be machine-made, at least for the family of limited income. The Cost of Shelter I bring his case to mind as typical of the modern machine-made methods. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Pretty things were not bought, machine-made, by the gross in a warehouse; nor was it customary, as now it is, to see the same design repeated with mechanical regularity in every house. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts Each village has its own weavers, carpenters, brass workers, blacksmiths and potters, who are not able to compete with machine-made goods. Modern India I suppose the boy 'ad parents of some sort, most likely bad, but 'e seems to me kind of machine-made, same as a Leicester boot. Essays in Rebellion A hand-wrought silver spoon, of a commercial value of some ten to twenty dollars, is not ordinarily more serviceable—in the first sense of the word—than a machine-made spoon of the same material. Theory of the Leisure Class Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly. Essays and Lectures But it doesn't take brains to act—that is, to act well enough for cheap machine-made plays like this. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Mr. Robinson was a man of spirit and enterprise, and, seeing the quantities of English machine-made nails imported into Ireland, he was desirous of giving Irish industry the benefit of the manufacture. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers What a treat one of the machine-made men of to-day will be to the archeologists of the year 3000, when they chance upon a well-preserved specimen, with all his patents thick upon I him! The Ways of Men The point of material difference between machine-made goods and the hand-wrought goods which serve the same purposes is, ordinarily, that the former serve their primary purpose more adequately. Theory of the Leisure Class I found meaningless chandeliers and machine-made furniture, generally of rosewood, which creaked dismally under the weight of the ubiquitous interviewer. Essays and Lectures The ferny vegetation round him, though so abundant, was quite uniform—it was a grove of machine-made foliage, a world of green triangles with saw-edges, and not a single flower. The Return of the Native Only a solitary cracked-voice reed-sparrow greeted her from the bushes by the river, in a sad, machine-made tone, resembling that of a past friend whose friendship she had outworn. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Later, buttons and attendant button-holes were evolved, now replaced by the devices used in composing the machine-made man. The Ways of Men It may not even be more serviceable than a machine-made spoon of some "base" metal, such as aluminum, the value of which may be no more than some ten to twenty cents. Theory of the Leisure Class I came across the small iron stove which they always persist in decorating with machine-made ornaments, and which is as great a bore as a wet day or any other particularly dreadful institution. Essays and Lectures Their brains today are occupied by the machine-made gods of civilization. The Centaur If such attempts were to succeed upon any considerable scale we should have a couple of machine-made parties confronting one another in Parliament, with no golden bridges between their irreconcilable programmes. Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election He was the sort of man you might call machine-made, one in whom humanity, if in no wise caricatured, was yet in no wise ennobled. Stephen Archer and Other Tales Another and most paying dodge of the machine-made order is worked in the mill itself, and makes an annexe to the mill-wheel. The Naturalist on the Thames Do we solve the problem by giving him, instead of an opportunity to develop his own culture, low wages, a home in the slums and those pseudo-patriotic preachments which constitute our machine-made "Americanization"? Woman and the New Race Then she turned and pulled aside a coarse curtain of dusty, machine-made lace, and looked after her guide. Lonesome Land Yet we would not have a machine-made, autocratic organization, no matter how clean and thrifty and efficient it might make our cities. The World Decision He had also a superabundance of the discordant, ear-splitting, metallic laugh common to his breed—a machine-made laugh, a Frankenstein laugh, with the soul left out of it. Life on the Mississippi, Part 10. Even the words he uttered were not his own: they were machine-made somehow. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea I wish tasteless, conventional, and machine-made architecture were as much of a "back-number" in England as it is here. America To-day, Observations and Reflections That he should have found the machine-made attacks of his opponents so hard to bear! Married Gradually, as his more expensive clothes had worn out, he had replaced them with machine-made articles of cheap manufacture. The Web of Life A week before, a traveling man had come to the shop to sell machine-made harness. Poor White But the lower grades of machine-made boots, and the "sew-rounds," i.e. fancy shoes and slippers, which form a large part of the industry in London, present some of the worst features of the "sweating system." Problems of Poverty "It wouldn't be machine-made bliss, anyway," he said. The Green Mouse What! flee from an outpost of time-worn celery? beat an inglorious retreat before a phalanx of machine-made pies? A Man and His Money Mac's voice was machine-made—as innocent of modulation as a buzz-saw, and with the same uncompromising finality as the shooting of a bolt. The Magnetic North Chauncey Jerome, the inventor of machine-made clocks, started with twoothers on a tour through New Jersey, they to sell the clocks, and he to make cases for them. The True Citizen, How to Become One I never could sacrifice my Gaelic taste to the hideous color mixtures and utilitarian ugliness of the English machine-made toilette. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story They said nobody bought such things except out of pity—they'd rather have the machine-made kind. Dawn For a self-made American article he was the worst gone on this machine-made importation that ever you see. Cape Cod Stories In comparison with Ridgeon's delicate broken lines, and Sir Patrick's softly rugged aged ones, his face looks machine-made and beeswaxed; but his scrutinizing, daring eyes give it life and force. The Doctor's Dilemma Think of the delightful individual roughness of old work as opposed to modern machine-made things. At Large He thundered at him with machine-made thunder, with lightning that flashed from a pan. Imperial Purple How could they be when he supplied them, so to speak, machine-made! Balzac How greatly to be desired we realize in divining that the present dearth of constructive and destructive criticism, of all, indeed, except interpretations and reports, is responsible for the modern mountains of machine-made literature. The Psychology of Beauty That's how people are—wanting to round off other people's histories in the best machine-made conventional manner.' The Well-Beloved Alwyn could now no longer bind himself down to machine-made synecdoche, antithesis, and climax, being full of spontaneous specimens of all these rhetorical forms, which he dared not utter. A Group of Noble Dames It's all very well to make shoes or bread by machinery, but alas! the things of the spirit, too, seem to be machine-made in America. The Rise of David Levinsky A pat answer," he said, "machine-made like a piece of cotton-drill. When God Laughs: and other stories As if the poor thing could tell whether she was drawing machine-made bricks, or hand-made bricks! Put Yourself in His Place And then I realised that it was only machine-made. Ghosts It may be a selfish attitude, but I should be quite unable to face any of the machine-made futures our growing guild of seers prognosticate. Tea-Table Talk The word "lace," in Madame Cie's bill, invariably meant machine-made trash, worth tenpence a yard, but charged eighteen shillings a yard for one pennyworth of work in putting it on. A Simpleton Indeed, a taste for hand-made paper is coming in, and is part of the revolt against the passion for everything machine-made, which ruined art and handiwork in the years between 1840 and 1870. The Library He found Harris crying over the ashes of his mare, and the man refused to wheel any more machine-made bricks. Put Yourself in His Place Like some machine-made man of a new and physically degenerate age, he took his exercise under the eye of his doctor, a strange and miserable-looking object. Peter Ruff and the Double Four Some of us still preserve, as heirlooms, old tables and bedsteads of Cromwellian times: in the twenty-first century what will have become of our machine-made bedsteads and tables? The Unseen World and Other Essays Of course I know that the proceedings of the best machine-made humanity are employed with judicious care and so on. Chance A Tale in Two Parts Alas, they are homespuns from the factory, machine-made in uncostly quantities. The Rhythm of Life Then, one day, came back to him through the mail ten of his immaculate machine-made storiettes. Martin Eden England is almost as blunt as a machine-made moulding or a piece of Early-Victorian cast-iron work. The Rhythm of Life His machine-made storiettes, though he hated them and derided them, were successful. Martin Eden |
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