thoroughgoing

How To Use thoroughgoing In A Sentence

• So elusive seems this innocence, so thoroughgoing our saturation in the technological, the calculative, and the instrumental, that we may be tempted to adopt an antithetical conception of human nature, as violent, chaotic, and amoral.
• He has written of the thoroughgoing nihilism of this class: their sense that life has no meaningful shape but is only one thing after another.
• He wanted to create a thoroughgoing change in the way ordinary people perceived prostitution.
• It was precisely because we did thoroughgoing work there.
• The reports were thoroughgoing and, as pieces of journalism, blameless.
• It is nothing less than a thoroughgoing critique of Tamil culture and society.
• Blair is a thoroughgoing scoundrel, who has been prepared to stir up the hornets 'nest of the Middle East (at the cost of enormous loss of life) for personal aggrandisement and financial gain. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
• Faced with this situation, Smithson felt that the task of the artist was to cultivate a thoroughgoing acedia: ‘The artist should be an actor who refuses to act’ and ‘Immobility and inertia are what many of the most gifted artists prefer.’
• Such critical perspectives suggest we are in the midst of a thoroughgoing overhaul of traditional ideas about artistic value and meaning.
• The Reformation began, theologically speaking, with closed eyes and open ears, in the midst of a profound and thoroughgoing cultural and spiritual crisis.