The trooper plainly did not consider the interior workings of a Scottish mill wheel to be of absorbing interest, but answered politely.

First, we cannot know the composition of the interior workings of the planet-killer.

All interior workings are now exposed and must be finished off, requiring more work than if they were hidden by a lining.

Robert LuPone (Brutus), perhaps the one cast member under signs of vocal strain, gives no doubt about the interior workings of conflicted idealism.

Taking a cigarette lighter from one pocket, he slid the interior workings from its case.

And after what we had done, Jamie and I. well, no bloody wonder if I were still conscious of my interior workings.

Praz was one of the first critics to look into the links between the contexts of art history, and link it to the interior workings of a space.

She consulted her interior workings and tickings and discovered that she was in a state of slowly building terror.

It would be a good idea to have a convenient way to close that down without going into the interior workings of the system.

But if you pressed in three corners simultaneously, the inner metal lining folded out to reveal its interior workings, stark but functional.