| Barbauld's revisions constitute a methodical and quite radical intervention in authoritative Johnsonian dicta on novels and their readers. | 
 
 
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| At this time of year, you will find all the answers you are seeking in conscientious, methodical soul-searching. | 
 
 
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| Victory over the French may have been completed in a methodical, if not exciting fashion, but England will be warned not to switch off now. | 
 
 
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| I was more methodical this time, going through the presented menu, trying, in vain, to taste every dish. | 
 
 
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| If you are a methodical man, some of this may be old hat or even too obvious, but for the majority it may well be news! | 
 
 
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| She didn't know that she was dealing with a very methodical man who follows up. | 
 
 
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| As a Capricorn I'm very methodical, and with Moon in Gemini I gather data into a philosophical structure. | 
 
 
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| You're a careful, methodical person, and you work hard at making things work. | 
 
 
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| They are good, methodical thinkers and have shown that they keep their heads under pressure. | 
 
 
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| He's methodical and doesn't race irrationally or run over racers to gain position. | 
 
 
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| Matisse was the elder, but he was a slower and more methodical man by temperament and it was Picasso who initially made the greater splash. | 
 
 
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| You are methodical and orderly, solving problems logically, and wasting little time on superficial matters. | 
 
 
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| The youngest daughter did not enjoy carrying them, but she was a methodical person who did what she set out to do. | 
 
 
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| He was a most methodical man and, on daily walks in the College garden and elsewhere, he counted the number of paces from one place to another. | 
 
 
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| He looked as if he was going to eke out another methodical round until the two fighters clashed heads just seconds before the bell. | 
 
 
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| Severin's 1976-77 Brendan expedition became his benchmark for exhaustive research and methodical preparation. | 
 
 
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| You have got to be thorough and methodical, making sure you don't leave any stone unturned. | 
 
 
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| The clever sound bite, the catchy phrase triumphs over the methodical argument. | 
 
 
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| Sighing, she lifted a hairbrush off her vanity table and brushed her hair with brisk, methodical strokes. | 
 
 
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| A methodical man, he kept a journal in which he made brief entries of all his doings. | 
 
 
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| Also, the conditions within refugee camps and other aid distribution centers are not conducive to methodical record-keeping. | 
 
 
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| Jared was too methodical, never one to take action without looking out for the catch. | 
 
 
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| I became methodical about the whole thing, much like a drug addict preparing for their next hit. | 
 
 
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| His methodical painstakingness was another point of divergence from the Impressionists and he devoted many studies to creating the composition. | 
 
 
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| Systematic and methodical rather than dashing, he had a reputation for honesty and directness. | 
 
 
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| A methodical and periodical assessment of the scholastic ability of students is more important than judging them by just one examination. | 
 
 
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| Figuring out a master combination is a methodical process of elimination, determining pin by pin how deep to cut the key. | 
 
 
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| His watch was large and methodical, and on the outer case two hearts were picked out in diamonds from the dark solid gold. | 
 
 
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| Your industrious and methodical nature will gain you respect in the workplace. | 
 
 
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| The large concourse of mourners and sympathisers were told how Billy was both methodical and systematic. | 
 
 
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| Sarcasm raises its ugly head between all your sacred rites and ceremonies, but you cling on to your methodical insanities. | 
 
 
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| Where Dan's response to the landscape is creative, instinctive and passionate, Ann's is methodical and cold. | 
 
 
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| There's a fury of thoughts in the slow, methodical pace of moves and countermoves. | 
 
 
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| The Francoists took control of Spain through a comprehensive and methodical war of attrition. | 
 
 
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| Warfare is highly procedural, with methodical approaches to the conduct of military operations. | 
 
 
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| They fought with the cold methodical precision of a toolmaker and the delicate skill of a highwire circus performer. | 
 
 
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| The methodical and rather prosaic style may not have the literary skill of, say, Abanindranath Tagore's diary. | 
 
 
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| He was methodical, efficient, uncorruptible, perhaps even capable of being ruthless. | 
 
 
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| His walk was slow and methodical as he listened to the spattering of the rain. | 
 
 
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| Though you agree that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, the industrious and methodical part of you will do justice to your work. | 
 
 
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| It was these methodical, and analytical thought processes that got Chad where he was. | 
 
 
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| You still need the sequential, programmed, methodical approach to your child's overall learning. | 
 
 
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| Society's methodical and systemic ideals stand challenged wherever individual freedom is put under any restraint. | 
 
 
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| Honda uses the track as a test lab to apply methodical engineering to create roadworthy consumer automobiles. | 
 
 
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| In her brain began the methodical and often machine-like thought process of dealing with catastrophic equipment failure during a freefall. | 
 
 
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| When it came to training camp, he was methodical in his preparation often going away and secluding himself from the outside world. | 
 
 
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| People were specks far below, crawling about their meaningless, methodical lives like insects. | 
 
 
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| The author discusses how all musicians need to pull things together in a methodical way, as good violists do in an orchestra. | 
 
 
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| From his methodical, dispassionate demeanor, it is evident that he is still mechanically sleepwalking through his civilian life. | 
 
 
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| After three days of methodical batting and tight bowling, it had come to this. | 
 
 
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| The search began with methodical, round-the-clock sonar scans of the predetermined search zone. | 
 
 
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| It includes magical incantations, but most of the text takes a methodical, empirical approach to diagnosis and treatment. | 
 
 
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| The methodical search even involved a police sniffer dog, three-year-old Harvey. | 
 
 
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| You need excellent guard play and to be methodical in approach, concerned with tempo and getting it down to a possession game. | 
 
 
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| In terms of its careful emphasis on surprise, artillery concentration, and methodical planning, Amiens pointed the way ahead to Alamein. | 
 
 
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| The methodical process and careful attention that Gibbs has devoted to his work belies the banality of his subject. | 
 
 
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| An effort is now under way to establish a methodical breeding program in the hope of creating a healthy captive population. | 
 
 
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| Yet people choose dentists every day using much less rigorous and methodical approaches. | 
 
 
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| At 15, she took up golf and immediately thrived on her country's uniquely methodical approach to fostering the best young talent. | 
 
 
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| Cohen recommends a methodical, three-part approach to archiving for posterity. | 
 
 
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| The only sufficient way to counter this, of course, is to use a slow and methodical fashion in approaching your objectives. | 
 
 
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| His occasional obsessions were strategic in nature, procedural, methodical. | 
 
 
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| The other thing he has going for him is that he is so methodical. | 
 
 
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| She's a slow and methodical worker, and her drawings reflect the extra care she takes. | 
 
 
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| The opening scene of the film illustrates the methodical and gruesome nature of the abuses. | 
 
 
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| This slow pace results from a methodical and exhaustive research process. | 
 
 
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| Why is it that we don't treat our search for a partner with the same methodical approach as other major decisions, like buying a house or finding a job? | 
 
 
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| Is Glee itself a cynical calculation, with its methodical recipe of skepticism and goo? | 
 
 
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| They are methodical, consistent and, most important, they are honest. | 
 
 
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| The harsh, methodical thrash of '80s-style death-metal, and annoying and heavy vocal stylings, do nothing to save this album from total terribleness. | 
 
 
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| If Washington is to adopt a tougher stance toward Beijing, it needs a lot of methodical calculation. | 
 
 
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| His choir-training methods were methodical, painstaking, and gentlemanly. | 
 
 
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| We are going to undertake a fairly rigorous and methodical approach. | 
 
 
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| He chalks the tip of his cue with methodical twists of the wrist. | 
 
 
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| His major motifs are still walls and human figures and he paints them with the same methodical approach to surface detailing as he had done in the past. | 
 
 
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| He was methodical about it and did his best to ignore his companions. | 
 
 
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| His rival's uncanny instinct outmatched his own methodical approach. | 
 
 
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| But learning to ride a wave requires a methodical bricklayer's approach. | 
 
 
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| Their methodical review of the evidence exposed some problems with the study's findings. | 
 
 
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| More methodical indexing would improve accessibility of the case studies. | 
 
 
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| A big section of Watertown was cordoned off and police began a methodical, door-to-door, nerve-straining search. | 
 
 
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| Far from a rant, her tone throughout is cool and methodical, and her critiques are couched more in sorrow than in anger. | 
 
 
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| The yellow ticking clock that punctuates every episode of 24 is simultaneously bombastic, methodical, menacing, and relentless. | 
 
 
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| My mother was very methodical in the way she used this notebook. | 
 
 
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| Better to decay in absolute delirium, than to be the victim of the methodical unreason of ill-bestowed love. | 
 
 
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| Germans good and methodical, but it was not German that I really wanted Rosalind to learn. | 
 
 
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| His approach was highly methodical by the standards of the time, and he is widely regarded as the first scientific archaeologist. | 
 
 
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| They were in fact the first methodical treatise on the common law suitable for a lay readership since at least the Middle Ages. | 
 
 
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| Much more than a methodical treatise, The Physiology of Taste is part autobiography, part theory, part axiology. | 
 
 
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| Their methodical, pragmatic natures often cause them to start planning earlier than the young at heart. | 
 
 
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| He brought a methodical mind and juristic sense of fairness to administration. | 
 
 
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| Highly recommended, especially for its methodical demystification of relevant media formats and computer programming tools, from magnetic tape to database software and more. | 
 
 
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| Everything has to be done in a methodical, careful, sequential manner. | 
 
 
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| According to biographer John Ehrman, Pitt inherited brilliance and dynamism from his father's line, and a determined, methodical nature from the Grenvilles. | 
 
 
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| The Methodists were methodical in collecting statistics on membership. | 
 
 
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| Most importantly, he argued this could be achieved by use of a sceptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves. | 
 
 
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| To avoid such hazards, a methodical, manual scrutinization and subsequent matching of each firm to its respective Datastream code was conducted on a one-by-one basis. | 
 
 
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| It is to his credit and to the enormous benefit of archaeology that he proceeded to excavate each one with the same slow, methodical care as the first. | 
 
 
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| The grim news came after emergency services began carrying out a methodical fingertip search of the gutted SP Plastics industrial unit and surrounding area. | 
 
 
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