modus operandi

Aster’s modus operandi, holding strong following his first three features, is to smother the viewer, piling on so many narrative threads that it becomes difficult to claw free for a broader perspective.

Authorities then discovered that other monks had similarly transferred money to Ms Golf - which police called her "modus operandi".

Headley's modus operandi was always the same - he targeted the homes of elderly or middle aged women living in the same area, which "indicated he had considerable local knowledge," according to one contemporary press report.

That sort of triangulation has, to varying degrees, been the Democratic Party’s standard modus operandi for more than 30 years.

Their modus operandi — expanding turf, profit and power via fear and bloodshed — will forever peg Latinos as prone to violence in the minds of too many Americans.