The best known of its styles is taijiquan, called tai chi in the West, which has been vastly slowed down to emphasize flexibility and serenity.
While the I.R.A. continues to bomb economic targets like the new Castlecourt shopping center in Belfast, it has vastly scaled down those attacks, too.
Most of the clubs have vanished, and the electronic artists who were supposed to be the future of music have either split up or vastly slimmed down their commercial reach.
But my sense is that Democrats exaggerate the damage to Mrs. Wilson's career and to her personal security, while Republicans vastly play down the enormity of the security breach and the danger to the assets she worked with.
The "restructured" Pan Am II, which Delta promised to fund, would be a vastly scaled down airline, based in Miami, which would fly only to Latin America and the Caribbean.
A miscommunication between Burbank High School staff and its Internet hosting provider resulted in a vastly scaled down BurbankBulldogs.org that featured links to pet supplies.
That $150,000 figure from last year's budget was already vastly stripped down from the $600,000 the commission expected, which members said in February bogged down their ability to process appeals and connect inmates with legal representation.
The final third of "The Beat" is vastly slowed down, to a point where it seems like an entirely new song, where it delivers the last message: "It's your mind -- your one and only".
Perhaps the new, improved, and vastly scaled-down Eisenhower Memorial might include that, too.
Some lawmakers said they expected that Congress would try to adopt a vastly pared-down bill once they returned to the issue.
