Finally, after glancing at the big, loudly ticking clock on the wall, he turned to me.

Wouldn't it be better to die with our lips upon your skin than by time's slowly ticking clock?

Babyfever (1995) was about the issue of women with ticking biological clocks.

The unpredictable meters remember a period when time was less affected by ticking clocks and music had not yet embraced their sense of regularity.

Anna's empty days are filled with restless routines and ticking clocks until a silent stranger calls.

Silence settled, marked only by the steadily ticking clock and never-ending rumble of the sea.

Jayne kept talking about kids and ticking clocks; he kept telling her he'd think about it.

The station covered a bomb scare in a Philadelphia hotel set off innocently by ticking clocks in a box.

And the fact that Kris is often shot performing inside an ominously ticking digital clock adds to the unexpected ennui.

This is 50's women's fiction grafted onto the 90's dreary obsession with women's ticking biological clocks.