But surely reports billed as comprehensive reviews should be comprehensive.
Our 990-page biography landed on the best-seller lists, and was greeted unanimously as comprehensive -- too comprehensive, some complained.
"This is the first administration in decades to address the energy needs of every American in a comprehensive way with a comprehensive plan," he said.
They have agreed four "comprehensive packages", each more comprehensive than the last, yet none has created any sense that the continent is fortified against the battering it is about to get.
"It's part of what I see as a quiet revolution in health insurance, from more comprehensive to less comprehensive, with higher deductibles," said Dr. Altman, who added that that should appeal to conservatives.
Aside from a brief spell at an independent school in Bedford and another period in the Canadian state system, his was a state education, encompassing Maidstone grammar, Roundhay high school in Leeds, which had just gone comprehensive, and a comprehensive sixth form, Thornes House, in Wakefield.
After his meeting with the family on Tuesday, Mr. Miliband told The BBC: "what the Dowler family was saying to me is there needs to be the comprehensive inquiry, the comprehensive judge-led inquiry getting at all the facts on all the issues, and I think its my responsibility, David Cameron's and Nick Clegg's, to work together now to do justice for them".
"We have tried to offer the most comprehensive and detailed controls and comprehensive and detailed information about them".
If we're going to be comprehensive, let's be truly comprehensive and take into account the benefit side of the fiscal ledger, too.
