investigatively

Strangely enough, I think self-doubt is an ideal state of mind in which to start thinking about working investigatively.

Casey laid his good hand investigatively against his stomach.

As my own confidence in working investigatively has grown I have begun to see the potential of chance events like the appearance of the padlock.

Buddy wiped his face with an up-and-down motion on the roller towel and clanked across to the cupboard which he opened investigatively.

The teachers' work is to ensure safe and supportive conditions in the classroom so that the students can take intellectual risks and do their work investigatively.

"One of the things we have done investigatively is to go back over cases - and there's a lot of them to go back over," Sergeant Hill said.

"The goal, at least immediately," Mr. Killorin said, "is to begin to run the film in reverse so that, at some point, investigatively, you are looking at the site and the device in the millisecond before the detonation.

That is, the microphone is used investigatively, to make perceptible "objects usually beneath our notice, but also for a kind of precise whimsy, . . . like one of the micronauts in the film The Fantastic Voyage."

"We're going to have to look at -- in term of investigatively -- how we keep these leads on file, maybe keep the databases on file a little bit longer, and how we could keep people like that out of the United States," he said Friday.