Sentence examples for as a thoroughgoing from inspiring English sources

I'm not sure there is anyone who regards the intervention in Libya as a thoroughgoing success".

As a thoroughgoing depressive here, he brings some clairvoyance to melancholy, which suits him.

Even the Aufbau, a German-refugee paper published here, has welcomed him as "a thoroughgoing anti-Nazi".

Noting Mr. Olson's political activities, Mr. Leahy today said that he questioned whether his "connection with so many far-reaching anti-Clinton efforts marks Mr. Olson as a thoroughgoing partisan who will not be able to check his partisan instincts at the door to the office of solicitor general".

In "Mr. Jefferson's Women," Jon Kukla connects the dots — a painful, public rejection; a series of boorish, inappropriate advances; an ill-fated marriage; a two-week Parisian idyll; and a sexual relationship with a slave — to make the case that Jefferson at best harbored a "lifelong uneasiness around women," at worst distinguished himself as a thoroughgoing misogynist.

For if the 'metalanguage' in which the characterisation is expressed can be inconsistent in its turn, as a thoroughgoing dialetheist is likely to allow, then there is no guarantee that the 'not' in that clause behaves consistently.

To recapitulate the idea of the Zen meaning of negation as expressed in "not two," Zen sees its self-cultivation as involving a thoroughgoing negation of the "I" to the point that no problem, either existential or psychological, entrenched in the "I" remains.

Sellars can claim the first explicit formulation of a functionalist treatment of intentional states, an early recognition of the "hard problem" of sensory consciousness, and a thoroughgoing nominalism, as well as rich interpretations of historical figures in philosophy.

Critics of postmodernism regarded it as confused and pernicious, insofar as it seemed to imply a thoroughgoing epistemological relativism.

Connecting these disparate themes is the fishy-eyed, single-minded man at the top, a thoroughgoing mediocrity, as depicted by the authors, with a vision for Russia that happens to match the moment.

(How'd that work out?) As a judge, Sentelle has been a thoroughgoing reactionary for thirty years.