Sentence examples for thoroughgoing as from inspiring English sources

In its first chapter, "Economy," Thoreau lays out a program of abstinence so thoroughgoing as to make the Dalai Lama look like a Kardashian.

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.

Like everything else the team does, the chronological documentation of the forthcoming event on view at the Met is as yawningly thoroughgoing as, say, a space exploration log, sparing the viewer no detail.

But hopes of that outcome were dashed Tuesday evening when Mr. Trimble, leader of the largest Protestant party, the Ulster Unionists, said the I.R.A. action had not been as thoroughgoing as he had been promised and had ended up undermining rather than strengthening his position.

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.

Mark Green is, at least in politics, as thoroughgoing a professional as Bloomberg is an amateur.

The third point is that while human being and Buddha stand thus as thoroughgoing opposites the being filled with afflicting passions and lacking any goodness that might lead toward enlightenment, on the one hand, and the Buddha freely exerting the power of wisdom-compassion, on the other deep mind arises as a unitary awareness out of the interaction of being and Buddha.

Concepts (or attempts at concepts) that group their purported referents according to non-essential or inconsistent characteristics, or otherwise embody mistaken presuppositions such as "extremism," which implicitly treats any consistent or thoroughgoing conviction as bad, regardless of its content are invalid and cannot be rationally used.

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.

This Prince shyness even happened with Questlove, who is as thoroughgoing a Prince fan as any living human being.

George Clooney, bona fide movie star deluxe and about as thoroughgoing a child of television as you could find (most notably in ER), will return to TV to direct a live-in-the-studio version of the greatest movie ever made about broadcasting, Network.