Sentence examples for was not thoroughgoing from inspiring English sources

Gassendi was not thoroughgoing in his materialism inasmuch as he accepted on faith the Christian doctrine that people have immortal souls.

At times, though, it's been almost irredeemably precious, largely because Ms. Boucher's tendency toward vocal experimentation wasn't leavened by any thoroughgoing embrace of melodic structure.

In his assessment, it is "not extensive or thoroughgoing enough to have an independent life".

This isn't a thoroughgoing drawback in an elected leader it forestalls crusading but it does challenge his ability to form coalitions, electoral or otherwise.

"Obsession" wasn't so much homage as thoroughgoing reimagining of Hitchcock's "Vertigo".

There is not, of course, a thoroughgoing parallel between sexual orientation and race: when you show up for an interview, it is apparent that you are an African-American.

But grant him this much: If a thoroughgoing aesthete like L'Herbier could be so altered by the war, then whose life wasn't turned upside down?

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.

However careful Kilcullen is not to criticize Administration policy, his argument amounts to a thoroughgoing critique.

I'm not sure there is anyone who regards the intervention in Libya as a thoroughgoing success".

The trick about this Pope is not that he is a secret liberal but that he is such a thoroughgoing critic of liberalism and its dispensations that his assault takes in parts of our experience parochially described as conservative.