Word: methodical
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Granted, the characters and conversation subjects do not have much in common. Sure, one could consider the structuring of the plays around an object an interesting concept, and, looking at Gurney's repertoire, one could consider this method an element of his style. But there is sometimes a fine line between creative expression and gimmick, and Gurney may have crossed that line at some point during this play...
...method of scoring the debate may not be scientific, but then, in personality-driven popularity contests, it's only perception that matters. Which candidate didn't mention any members of his family? Which candidate did not say he personally had held a crack baby--but only that his wife had? Which candidate announced that "democracies are our friends"? Well, Herbert Ross Perot, George Herbert Walker Bush and William Jefferson Clinton respectively...
...sake -- no drawings by Caravaggio survive -- and was a passionate student of the 16th century grand manner, whose defining masters were Michelangelo and Raphael. Their works, he said, "demand to be studied and meditated over many times. For though we now paint following a different course and method, if it is not established upon this kind of study, ((our)) painting may easily end in ruin." This is why Michelangelesque poses often recur in Ribera's early work, such as the half- ruined, still impressive Crucifixion, circa 1625, whose twisting Christ is based directly on a famous Michelangelo drawing...
Miller often used four letter words, and offensive terms such as "dyke," "fag," or "half-man," but his method of delivering them, and his acceptance of them as a matter of course somehow reclaimed them from obscenity...when he talked about his experience as "a young fag in love, scared shitless," it was touching and funny, never discomfiting...
...past, the tiny scraps of ancient DNA that can be found in mummified tissue would have been far too small to study. But a relatively new genetic- engineering method called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can clone enough copies for scientists to examine the DNA in detail. They can then compare ancient genes to modern ones. That gives researchers another perspective on how evolution has changed a given species, beyond what can be learned by the traditional method of studying changes in body structure...