(1) I suspect, however, that a more thoroughgoing transformation is in order.(2) 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.(3) One of the most engaging things about the site is its air of faint eccentricity, and the fact that it is put together by a thoroughgoing enthusiast.(4) The need of the hour is thoroughgoing political and electoral reforms.(5) He turns out to have been a thoroughgoing racist.(6) While worthwhile, commendable, and necessary, these local prosecutions are not enough to prompt the thoroughgoing national, institutional reforms needed.(7) He wanted to create a thoroughgoing change in the way ordinary people perceived prostitution.(8) Her thoroughgoing analysis of the texts certainly makes her findings about the surveys indisputable.(9) It is nothing less than a thoroughgoing critique of Tamil culture and society.(10) Unlike many conservatives, he gives equal time to a critique of capitalism - its ravages on human communities, its promotion of a thoroughgoing materialism, and its pervasive inculcation of relativism.(11) He was, of course, a consummate thief, but he was probably not the most thoroughgoing plunderer among the world's despots.(12) Researchers tend to be concerned with substantive issues and are less than enthusiastic about engaging in the kind of development work that would be required for a thoroughgoing determination of measurement quality.(13) But I do think that it's important to recognize that the case for sexual liberty is not just a matter of abstract libertarian reasoning, unless one really is a very thoroughgoing libertarian indeed.(14) He will simply not countenance further funding increases without thoroughgoing changes in the balance between state and private school educated undergraduates.(15) He has a deep and thoroughgoing knowledge of the subject, and the ability to explain it.(16) A thoroughgoing bumbler, he accidentally kills the boss's grandson and then loses the pistol.
