Sentence examples for a thoroughgoing introduction from inspiring English sources

Now the first English translation of Sappho's works to include the recent finds has appeared: "Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works" (Cambridge), with renderings by Diane J. Rayor and a thoroughgoing introduction by André Lardinois, a Sappho specialist who teaches in the Netherlands.

"He's technically a thoroughgoing expert.

If you are after a thoroughgoing scholarly treatment, look elsewhere.

Needless to say, Mellon was a thoroughgoing horse lover.

A thoroughgoing merger wave, however, may have to wait until 2005.

Lennon's introduction to the letters begins with a wondrously high note: the revelation that in 1981, at the age of fifty-seven, Mailer was planning to write his autobiography, but ultimately shied away from it on the ground, Lennon says, that it "would effectively end his career as a novelist, biographer, and chronicler of American life; a thoroughgoing autobiography would be his tombstone".

He was a thoroughgoing republican with a deep dislike of the kaiser and all hereditary power.

He was, by his own lights and that of his admirers, a thoroughgoing contrarian.

But "In One Person" is a thoroughgoing stretch in this direction.

She is no perhapser but a thoroughgoing yes-woman, like Molly Bloom.

This background, and a naturally crabbed personality, have combined to make him a thoroughgoing misogynist.