Sentence examples for thoroughgoing rejection from inspiring English sources
Mr. Waxman, who left office with the end of the Clinton administration and is now teaching at Georgetown University Law School, said of the decision today: "I can't imagine a more thoroughgoing rejection of the D.C. Circuit's little escapade".
Early fundamentalist doctrine attacked competing religions -- especially Catholicism, which it portrayed as an agent of the Antichrist -- and insisted on the literal truth of the Bible, a strict return to "fundamental" principles and a thoroughgoing rejection of modernity.
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.
If so, that would seem to preclude thoroughgoing commitments to war or peace or grand causes.
A thoroughgoing commitment to transcendence cannot allow for a God who is involved in human affairs.
The second problem is that he can be so thoroughgoing in his rejection of ironic whimsy that he crosses the fine line between solemn and pompous ("Is fervor belief's / only measure? Is there / no saving / what betrays itself?").
He is conscientious and thoroughgoing.
Both need thoroughgoing change, not tinkering.
He received rejection after rejection.
In "Mr. Jefferson's Women," Jon Kukla connects the dots — a painful, public rejection; a series of boorish, inappropriate advances; an ill-fated marriage; a two-week Parisian idyll; and a sexual relationship with a slave — to make the case that Jefferson at best harbored a "lifelong uneasiness around women," at worst distinguished himself as a thoroughgoing misogynist.
