The action is sometimes slow and methodical — your character is asked to kill four enemies instead of 40, or 400 — and at other times the body count exceeds that of a 1980s Schwarzenegger movie.
Every well-built psychological suspense narrative involves a thorough, methodical dissection of characters we've been led to believe we already know.
I much preferred the more subdued, methodical villainy of characters like Abby Fairgate (Donna Mills), who slept her way through Seaview Circle, and to the top of Corporate California on Knots Landing.
Isn't there something cheap about taking a two-dimensional character of methodical virtue – Anna is so saintly she can be boring – and then, in one violent scene, leveling her?
Manfredi constructs his narrative with a methodical hand; all the characters possess unchanging personalities that foretell their successes or misfortunes.
On the methodical and careful side of my character, I'd be nearer il Biondo (Blondie): but my most profound sympathy always goes towards the Tuco side...He can be touching with all that tenderness and all that wounded humanity".
Chuck Barney of the Contra Costa Times said the premiere was off to a "methodical start" that reintroduced us to the "enigmatic characters" but that "Eventually, it gains traction, weaving threads of heartfelt poignancy with doses of dark humor.
To these questions President Franklin D. Roosevelt had no ready answers, and it was not in his character to gnaw at problems in a methodical way; rather he would wait until inspiration came to him from wherever it is that ideas hatch.
However we did not find any correlation between the respondent BMI and the frequency with which they assigned 'good' characters (brave, confident, friendly, strong, intelligent, kind, methodical, loving, swift, honest, modern, successful) to obese figures (r = 0.032, p = 0.636).
What he called the "person of vocation," first outlined famously in The Protestant Ethic, provided a bedrock for his various efforts to resuscitate a character who can willfully combine unflinching conviction and methodical rationality even in a society besieged by bureaucratic petrification and value fragmentation.
