thoroughgoing
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“The Bloody Crossroads,” published in 1987, isn’t the kind of book you expect a journalist to write: a collection of perceptive, thoroughgoing literary essays on important writers from Henry Adams to Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
On the one hand, he was a thoroughgoing modernist.
From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023
Rosalía, “Motomami” Another thoroughgoing work of pop scholarship, this one from a Spanish singer, songwriter and producer for whom cultural boundaries exert all the weight of ink on a mapmaker’s paper.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022
By then Mr. Brook, who took delight in “shaking up terrible, stultifying old conventions,” as he put it, had become a thoroughgoing iconoclast.
From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2022
Before he spoke, he was terribly nervous—but how he described those nerves gives an insight into how thoroughgoing was his theory of oratory: Personally, I am always very nervous when I begin to speak.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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