Sentence examples for thorough going from inspiring English sources

Readers gave the usual suspects (particularly O.J). a thorough going over, as they did Frank Rich for recycling them in his article on "The Age of the Mediathon".

Shostakovich is being given a thorough going over this year, biographically and musically, and both examinations are leaving him a bit battered.

Their metaphysics endorses a thorough going, Spinozistic, parallelism between mind and matter, so that every physical entity has mental attributes, and vice versa.

It is suggested that the sequence of the elongated basins occur symmetrically to a thorough going strike-slip fault, in a left-stepping geometrical arrangement, in a manner similar to those basins seen in other transcurrent environments.

Editor Richard H. Johnson of the Little Rock True Democrat reminded voters of Hindman's previous run for the nomination in 1856 and praised him for being a "thorough going Democrat" of "marked abilities".

When traveling internationally, "I usually go to the airport six hours before my flight" in the expectation of a thorough going-over, he said.

But the dictionary as a whole has never received a thorough going-over, until now.

They gave RICHARD GERE a thorough going-over -- more thorough than the going-over they had just given a reporter.

Sittenfeld gives this awkward girl a thorough going-over, lavishing attention on her every pang, her every moment of self-hatred.

This was fine by me: it meant we could give the menu a thorough going-over as we whiled away the afternoon in an agreeable manner.

STEFAN ROSEN of Huntington, N.Y., had given the chassis and transmission of his 1993 Dodge Dakota a thorough going-over long before he saw it.