thoroughgoing
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In many ways, “Becoming George” serves as a thoroughgoing and persuasive amendment to the incomplete legacy that has tailed Sand for so long.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“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
You get some sense of how thoroughgoing the cultural change would be from a 1980 work seen early in the show, “Hole in Space” by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 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
In short, the Quaker petition for an end of the slave trade was really a stalking horse for a more radical and thoroughgoing scheme to end the institution of slavery itself.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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