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

In 1976, Biden, then 33, was a thoroughgoing Jimmy Carter Democrat.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2023

On the one hand, he was a thoroughgoing modernist.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023

That movie, based on a best-selling Swedish novel, is about a thoroughgoing grump who becomes suicidal after the death of his wife, until interactions with new neighbors soften his heart.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022

In the Scientific Revolution, Bacon and Descartes were amongst those with plans for thoroughgoing intellectual change, but their plans were castles in the air, and neither of them imagined what Newton would achieve.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton