| We need them to safeguard us against drabness and drudgery, against a mechanistic and wearisome utilitarianism. |
| Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations. |
| Competition also provides a mechanistic basis for understanding asymmetries and negative covariation in the sizes of different structures. |
| Of course, the universe on one reading is highly abstract and some of its laws are mechanistic and deterministic. |
| This reductionist or mechanistic view of patients is no longer satisfactory. |
| The mechanistic basis of these results can be considered at two levels, the enzymological and the evolutionary. |
