If so, that would seem to preclude thoroughgoing commitments to war or peace or grand causes.
"We could conduct inquiries into thoroughgoing success, but what would be the point?
Mark Green is, at least in politics, as thoroughgoing a professional as Bloomberg is an amateur.
I'm not sure there is anyone who regards the intervention in Libya as a thoroughgoing success".
Gaṅgeśa (fourteenth century): "Were a person P, who has ascertained thoroughgoing positive correlations (F wherever G) and negative correlations (wherever no G, no F), to doubt that an effect might arise without a cause, then to take up the example of smoke and fire why should P, as he does, resort to fire for smoke (in the case, say, of a desire to get rid of mosquitoes)?
A thoroughgoing commitment to transcendence cannot allow for a God who is involved in human affairs.
Joseph Hall's "Another World, Yet the Same," from 1605, was "an elaborate parody of the discovery narrative," a very early example of a "thoroughgoing and scornful attack on the travel vogue".
Reinhold's subsequent reservations about his own Elementary Philosophy notwithstanding, the Elementary Philosophy remains one of the clearest examples of a thoroughgoing "foundationalist" project in the history of European philosophy.
But it was only in the nineteenth century that German philosophy found the courage to cut the Gordian knot and turn from apologetics for religion and Christianity to thoroughgoing criticism of them (the prime examples being Marx and Nietzsche).
And one needn't be a thoroughgoing cynic to suspect that both the Trump-Ryan feud and its provisional resolution are examples of political kayfabe.
