In the wilderness, and especially under such conditions as held in Northern Alaska, labour is not merely mechanical.

His duties are not merely mechanical.

When Leonard turned a handle, the whole thing moved with a complex oiliness quite disquieting in something merely mechanical.

"I take it that your agency's involvement in this matter means it was not merely a mechanical or other similar problem that befell that plane?"

The real work was in constructing the frames, and that was merely mechanical.

A gentle touch proved it was locked, but the lock was merely a mechanical latch, not an electronic mechanism.

All life that is not merely mechanical is spun out of two strands: seeking for that bird and hearing him.

Nowhere else has the merely mechanical contributed so much to the spiritual and sublime.

In general this step is merely mechanical (cutting, grinding, fibrillating etc.), but it can also be combined with a thermal or chemical treatment.

One of Wednesday's malfunctions was merely mechanical.