In the end, though, you wind up liking the DVDirect, probably because this utilitarian, impersonal machine is a gateway to some emotional, nostalgic experiences.

Soldiers' uniforms are supposed to blur identity and present individuals as cogs in an impersonal military machine.

Dependent on an impersonal industrial machine, he had sloughed off the frontier tradition of individualism for the more serviceable doctrine of cooperation through trade unionism.

They were not unlike Beck's; rather personalized accounts of the activi- ties of a small human cog in a large, impersonal human machine.

Back home, I called my service-no impersonal machine for old Alex. No messages either.

He's off to become a cog in the big, impersonal industrial machine.

It was strange to hear so human a sigh from the coldly impersonal machine.

None of these frozen imitations, produced by impersonal machines in some atmosphere-polluting factory for the profit of greedy capitalists.

After Dark may be the start of the monogramming of office computers - various ways of putting the user's personal stamp on an impersonal machine.

Personalizing the look and feel of one's PC can make an otherwise impersonal machine feel like home.