"His is to be a little more methodical, to take his time to develop a position perhaps and to articulate it".
Trip Payne, after loping to his usual lead, had somehow blanked on celebrity bullfighters and written "Masolete" instead of "Manolete," and Douglas Hoylman, the Ice Man, had been just a little too methodical: he was in fourth place, six minutes short of qualifying for the final.
"We weren't playing with quick enough tempo first half, just a little bit methodical, a little mundane.
Hashim might be a little bit more methodical and thoughtful.
All of which is manifestly Greuel: practical, methodical, a little vague, neither too threatening nor too ambitious.
Throughout the season, the methodical Gannon gave little away, throwing only 11 interceptions.
Lawrence Kaplan Ardsley, N.Y., May 19 , 2009 To the Editor: David Brooks relates the not-unintuitive findings that the most effective chief executives are focused, methodical and a little dull.
In 1971, the librarian described the increasing numbers of Chinese youngsters in the reference room as "the most methodical and thorough little researchers".
Thenceforward, at great cost in lives, a methodical advance was continued, gaining little ground but straining the German resistance.
There's little glamour here, and a lot of methodical, meticulous, minute and above all time-consuming graft.
