'thoughtful search' is a correct phrase in written English.
You can use it to express the act of looking for something in a careful and considered way. For example: "He conducted a thoughtful search for the perfect gift for his mother."
If you have executed a thoughtful search, one that reflects your talents, interests and needs, then you are deciding between colleges that are good choices for you, colleges at which you are very likely to be quite happy.
The nation was "unfortunately" moving toward "an era in which myopic and over-sensitive 'national pride' precludes the thoughtful search for alternatives to an unnecessary draft registration," it said.
A thoughtful search along the L. infantum chromosome 32 (contig LinJ32_20070420_V3; [ 25]), using iterative rounds of BLAST searches, led us to the identification up to 54 sequence elements.
I'm impressed by Mortensen's cagy, controlled stillness; I'm moved by Bennent's thoughtful, searching hesitation.
To some people, Bono's lyrics are treacly platitudes, verging on nonsense; to others, they're thoughtful, searching, and profound meditations on faith.
"How to explain the actions of Justice Department lawyers, ethically obligated to avoid the use of perjured testimony, who chose to present as witnesses persons whose truthfulness they had substantial reason to question?" This thoughtful, searching tone is in keeping with the journal's aspirations to objectivity.
In his engaging "Yellow Fever," this week, Adam Gopnik recalls himself as a child leafing through an accumulated stack of ancient, yellow-bordered National Geographic magazines in his grandparents' house, but his thoughtful ensuing search for private connection and social consequence in those shiny pages somehow omits a famous prior Geo road marker: Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room".
The process begins with a thoughtful intentional search for our guiding values.
The main characters are tender, thoughtful, always searching the moment, the precise detail, and the seed of metaphor within it.
"Especially in a time of great stress, walking into this minefield, the president was entitled to get the most thoughtful and searching analysis our government could muster".
Especially when you find out that those responsible for the shoddy analysis weren't disciplined but, instead, engaged in some "thoughtful soul-searching".
