Again and again, a person methodically takes up a task, then someone joins in, then someone else.
Instead he methodically took Federer's game apart and he will face Stanislas Wawrinka in Sunday's final.
I joined that global crowd in a hotel room in Vietnam last month, watching Chelsea methodically take apart Liverpool, last year's runner-up in the league.
Thursday night, the Cardinals did not hit a home run, but they pounded out 11 hits, and methodically took control of the game.
That's closer to 36,500 nights just trying to survive while well-financed foreigners come and methodically take away your land and your rights.
The guards of Dishonored, at least on the normal difficulty setting, are astonishingly stupid, chalking up mysterious sounds to rats when they know an assassin has been methodically taking out their employers.
On Sunday night, there was such a deluge of victims pouring into Kenyatta National Hospital, one of the biggest in the country, that the nurses jettisoned their usual admittance procedure of methodically taking down patient information.
"As they say in that old commercial, where's the beef in this case?" Richard Tarlowe, a prosecutor, methodically took the jury through a series of charts that the government believes establishes Mr. Gupta's guilt.
Methodically taking command of the news cycle with a leakproof series of events, Bush embarked on the same kind of "front-porch campaign" that he used to create a sense of momentum for his presidential candidacy.
So Mr. Hiller and Mr. Voroscak take their ladders and van to Wildwood and, as each motel client closes for the season, they methodically take each palm frond out of its metal holder.
