Sentence examples for his thoroughgoing from inspiring English sources

In his thoroughgoing way, Welsh pummels the conceit to yield the maximum possible narrative and metaphorical mileage.

From his son, his daughter, and his granddaughter there were stories of his passion for singing, his love of low-stakes gambling, and his thoroughgoing good nature.

In his thoroughgoing new biography, "David Bowie: Starman," the British rock journalist Paul Trynka considers at length the startling androgyny that made Mr. Bowie a defining human being of the 1970s.

By his thoroughgoing description of antique forms coupled with an instinctive sense of the political realities that underlay their original creation, Mantegna lent great impetus to the antique revival movement at mid-century.

Mr. Magee is by no means uncritical, yet his thoroughgoing admiration of Wagner and his works will lead some to discount this book reflexively as an apology, especially in the thoughtful final chapter on Wagner's undeniable anti-Semitism.

This recording has a grand, grave sense of moment: it is a coming out of the composer from behind the mask of eccentricity and idiosyncrasy and displaying, in several difficult and expansive works, his thoroughgoing and large-scale musical imagination, even within the relative intimacy of a quintet.

Gassendi was not thoroughgoing in his materialism inasmuch as he accepted on faith the Christian doctrine that people have immortal souls.

No one will let her forget she's damaged goods — not her mother or her brother, Clifford (Trystan Gravelle), who sneers at her in part to compensate for his own thoroughgoing mediocrity.

Like everything else the collaborative team of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, his wife, does, this documentation is as yawningly thoroughgoing as a space exploration log, sparing the viewer no detail.

Warranted though the hand-wringing about Donald Trump's belligerent, proud and defiant rejection of reality is, his is only the most overt expression of a now thoroughgoing GOP-wide practice.

Following a line marked out earlier by the Spanish philosopher and poet Moses ibn Ezra (1060 1139), Benedict de Spinoza (1632 77) put forward a thoroughgoing reappraisal of the traditional account of the origin of the Pentateuch in his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1679).