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a real deus ex machina sometimes
We see ancient hylozoism, the first outcome of this conception of causality, explained the regular succession of causes and effects by a real deus ex machina : sometimes it was a Necessity external to things and hovering over them, sometimes an inner Reason acting by rules somewhat similar to those which govern our own conduct.
— from Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness by Henri Bergson

a redeeming Deus ex machinâ supervening
What does this denote but a universal sigh after a God, who shall be neither a Jehovah, a Judaic αυτοκρατωρ, nor a redeeming Deus ex machinâ , supervening upon the theatre of history, but a living and energizing [Pg 22] Spirit, quickening the very heart of to-day, and whispering round the dome of Herschel's sky not less than in the third story of Paul's heaven?
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

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