"Without excessive political posturing, her film quietly dismantles stereotypes" (Scott).

Ms. Doggett, who declined to be interviewed for this article, urged the Park Service to "quietly dismantle the pedestrian bridge."

So he quietly dismantled the commercial real estate unit, shed $10 billion in assets from its trading account, and pared the client list of big American, Japanese and European borrowers by more than 25 percent.

Women, who have never been into killing, can quietly dismantle the military establishment, ushering in 1,000 years of peace.

There were only six men left, quickly and quietly dismantling the machine guns.

"Letters," which observes the lives and deaths of Japanese soldiers in the battle for Iwo Jima, similarly adheres to some of the conventions of the genre even as it quietly dismantles them.

In the last 40 days, since he was named chief executive, Mr. Blake has begun to quietly dismantle Mr. Nardelli's Home Depot.

In doing so, he quietly dismantles the caricature of Kipling as a two-dimensional Victorian chauvinist.