Sentence examples for thoroughgoing knowledge from inspiring English sources

Though Mr. Conrad -- the author of earlier books like "Imagining America" and "Modern Times, Modern Places" -- often undermines the points he wants to make with pretentious academic posturing, he demonstrates a thoroughgoing knowledge of Hitchcock's films and manages in these pages to do a first-rate job of situating the director's work in the context of modernist, post-World War I art.

He lists their "deeply shared and permeating artistic beliefs": "a mutually embraced ethnicity and a binding aesthetic; a methodical approach to creativity; a blending of pragmatism and idealism; a veneration of classical order and structure; a thoroughgoing knowledge of and affinity for the other's art".

We've established before that this is not a crowd that embraces a thoroughgoing knowledge of history in general, and it's probably fair to assume a knowledge of theatrical history not at all.

Participants need that fighting chance, since fluent unconstrained conversational exchange resulting in full understanding by each of what all the others are saying requires the participants to possess more or less accurate, more or less thoroughgoing mutual knowledge of the values of the parameters at each and every point in the exchange.

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?

A thoroughgoing commitment to transcendence cannot allow for a God who is involved in human affairs.

The purely sensate conception of knowledge had its most thoroughgoing theoretician in Étienne Bonnot de Condillac.

Almost no philosopher has been a strict, thoroughgoing empiricist i.e., one who holds that literally all knowledge comes from experience.

Kinds of skepticism can also be distinguished in terms of how restricted or how thoroughgoing they are whether they apply only to certain areas and to certain kinds of knowledge claims or whether they are more general and universal.

He is conscientious and thoroughgoing.