Every one of these circles is a cog, a stack of cogs, and this thing is as big as a steam locomotive.

All this cog wheel mechanism here is doing is what a computer does, but of course you need to program this thing, and of course, Babbage used the technology of the day and the technology that would reappear in the '50s, '60s and '70s, which is punch cards.

The characters were cartoons, each playing their stereotypical cog in the plot mostly random, meandering plot.

Between the wonderful transitions and the fantastic ending sequence, merging characters together in one last view of love in Paris, I think the film would have suffered if any cog was removed.

Just another little well meaning cog then!

There was a wonderful dog in this film that truly was an important cog.

You are an heiress to a noble heritage, and thus not only better than the mass of immigrants, but also part of something larger and more compelling than is implied by the cog status that a multiracial, secular society offers you.

Think of Charlie Chaplin’s film Modern Times , in which the little tramp is literally a cog in the capitalist machine.

Such an interpretation makes the act easier to understand: a cog in a terrorist network would be compelled, even brainwashed, to mount such an attack.

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