The treatment system, which evolved as a piecemeal, grass roots movement, has been subject more to faith than to scrutiny.
The presentation catered to the expectations of a pop-music audience; individual movements were offered piecemeal, the exception being the whole of Shostakovich's devastating Eighth String Quartet, played here with endearing intensity.
Its movements were played piecemeal, though; this dismantling of symphonic unity was a throwback to the potpourri programming of the early and mid-nineteenth century, when solitary movements of symphonies and concertos appeared amid solo performances, arias, and, sometimes, popular numbers.
By dint of its piecemeal, localized progress, the modern living-wage movement has grown without fanfare; one reason is that until recently, most of the past decade's wage laws, like Baltimore's, have been narrow in scope and modest in effect.
What is most needed in government, perhaps the unspoken wish of the Occupy Wall Street movement, is systemic analysis and policy, not piecemeal troubleshooting, nor money-power dominance in government.
We need a labor movement that focuses on time and moves beyond a piecemeal approach on issues – canceled shifts, overtime, underwork, vacations, sick days – to see them all as operating together to create chaos in people's lives.
But the chapter's victories were piecemeal, and the frustrations of defeated activists fueled the developing black power movement.
The young activists' familiarity with protest movements even a decade or two before theirs was scattered and piecemeal compared to their knowledge of celebrities, wars, and empires.
The movement is also typical in the way it uses an expanded orchestra: often piecemeal, a section or two at a time.
