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Herbert wove a complicated universe with oddball technologies, bizarre competing factions and religions that are easier to digest over the methodical consumption of hundreds of pages.

He took a similarly methodical approach to dismantling the notion that the United States should continue to be a beacon for immigrants.

But there is a sense they rely on such off-the-cuff improvisation, rather than the methodical working over and opening up of opponents.

The EPA’s rulemaking is necessarily methodical, said Wheeler, and the process can take years.

Mesloh believes Harris’ natural rhetorical style is more lawyerly, when she can deliver a methodical case as if cross-examining a witness in front of a jury.