Which preposition to use with methodical
They were too resolute in their movements and much too thorough and methodical in their search, for me to dream of their confining their investigations to the first floor.
Oh, yes, they were very methodical about it all, those Germans.
He was methodical as a machine in everything he did, so the plants were fed with the regularity of hospital patients, and flourished accordingly.
We resolved also to be most methodical from now on; and to "do" things as nearly as possible in the same order as the colonists had done them.
All schemes are more methodical than reality.
The one is cool, thorough, cautious, methodical to the point of pedantry; the other is passionate, ingenious, unmethodical to the point of capricious dilettantism.