A neat pattern of efficiency under all conditions was accumulated.
Seal the edge well, and use the back of a fork to create a neat pattern along the edge.
The seed, arranged in a neat, serpentine pattern on a patch of lawn, would probably stretch a city block and back again.
Much of Genoa was built on a hillside, with blocks not laid out in a neat, horizontal pattern but rather piled on top of one another.
While stocks do not move in any neat patterns, the historical tendency to revert to the mean is unmistakable.
Neptune, discovered in 1846, had a much smaller orbit than the law predicted; and Pluto, which is now classed as a "dwarf planet", also failed to fit in with Bode's neat pattern when it was found in 1930.
The value of Shapiro's book, though, lies in seeing the issues arranged in neat patterns across the page, and analyzed and discussed, even without a final judgment.
If you are very neat and precise, this will form a neat geometric pattern.
Radioactive materials do not always fall in neat patterns; vagaries of wind direction and landscape can mean one area is hit badly, while others nearby are not.
Other analysis showed that the dirt and dust consisted of both tiny crystals where the atoms lined up in neat patterns and what the scientists called "amorphous" materials — the atoms jumbled up randomly, as in glass.
