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

It’s a title that, in its thoroughgoing lack of self-awareness, matches this book’s contents.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2022

Unlike the viruses, they are not thoroughgoing parasites.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan