How To Use Thoroughness In A Sentence

  • Leach had evidently done his task with a thoroughness that Mugridge had not forgiven, for words followed and evil names involving smirched ancestries. Chapter 9
  • his accustomed thoroughness
  • -- The term "digestibility," as applied to foods, is used in two ways: (1) meaning the thoroughness of the process, or the completeness with which the nutrients of the food are absorbed and used by the body, and (2) meaning the ease or comfort with which digestion is accomplished. Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value
  • The first two published instalments of the manuscript contained material which was drawn from Deist criticisms, though worked out with great thoroughness.
  • With typical German thoroughness, Schulz and five full-time staff workers in Dortmund have been studying video tapes of opposing teams to document the trends.
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  • Attics were ransacked with uncustomary thoroughness.
  • She established her authority with unrelenting thoroughness.
  • Why unrefined, ill-informed, loose oral expressions seem to displace thoroughness, creativity, innovation, invention and skill.
  • She looked at her husband: 'No remarks about Teutonic thoroughness. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
  • Kathy could not believe their thoroughness in scrubbing down the shower and bathroom when she went in. Visiting Michoacan - Staying in Patzcuaro
  • But the inclusion (if only for thoroughness 'sake) of a section on "inartificial" proofs opens the door to a wider conception of rhetoric, an "administrative" mode of persuasion that would often fit Machiavelli's recipes to perfection and that Skinnerian observations about persuasion and control are, however fumblingly, concerned with. An Exchange on Machiavelli
  • Schenley Park with thoroughness, investigated several of the "inclines" which carried passengers from the river level to the top of the heights above, motored among the handsome residences and ended, on the way to the station, with a flying visit to the old blockhouse which is all that is left of Port Pitt. Ethel Morton's Enterprise
  • The morning after their arrival, scouts and their leaders endure the shakedown, where their backpacks are inspected with drill sergeant thoroughness.
  • He confidently depended upon the darkness, now absolute, and native unthoroughness, for his work to remain undetected until the sea came up and concealed it. Gold Out of Celebes
  • The thoroughness of the evaluation process we went through was impressive.
  • her voice rising as Sophie plodded on with Teutonic thoroughness. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
  • Undertaken by the National Children's Bureau, this is a longitudinal study of breathtaking scale and thoroughness.
  • Then, with the practiced thoroughness of an experienced computer hacker, she created and deployed a stealth-virus program.
  • Critics point out the nit-picking thoroughness which legal authorities in the Republic so often bring to bear on extradition requests.
  • Healey was merely noting Lansley's intellectual thoroughness, and encyclopaedic knowledge, in an address which attacked the plans as a disaster for patients. Andrew Lansley: He's got designs on our health
  • Schenley Park with thoroughness, investigated several of the "inclines" which carried passengers from the river level to the top of the heights above, motored among the handsome residences and ended, on the way to the station, with a flying visit to the old blockhouse which is all that is left of Port Pitt. Ethel Morton's Enterprise
  • ‘In reality it is only through the thoroughness of investigation of the more recent offences that we have unearthed these striking similarities,’ he said.
  • His thoroughness and attention to detail is legendary.
  • Submitting multiple nominations for one nominee is not necessary, as the selection committee will not decide based on show of support but rather on quality and thoroughness of supporting information. New Orleans CityBusiness
  • The thoroughness of the evaluation process we went through was impressive.
  • If there is a sense of exhaustion, however, it is tempered by the meticulousness of the presentation and the thoroughness of her pursuit of the seven themes.
  • Lincoln walked to the house, borrowed the book -- "collared" it, as he expressed it -- and at the end of six days had mastered it with his own thoroughness. The Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • In accumulating and assorting facts -- such facts as lay within their reach -- and in the general thoroughness of their work, the rabbis of Jewish exegesis might well bear comparison with the rabbis of neologian criticism. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
  • The writer of perhaps the greatest historical novel in the English language, "The Cloister and the Hearth," was what one might call a glutton for thoroughness. Imperishable Fiction: An Inquiry into the Short Life of the 'Best Sellers' Reveals the Methods Which Brought into Being the Novels that Endure
  • If the study of rhetoric of fiction want to gain its comparative independence and thoroughness, the theoretical boundary between narrative and rhetoric study must be clear.
  • Simpson readily admits that the book ‘covering as it does a large geographical area within a limited space, cannot aim at all-inclusive thoroughness’.
  • Griffin complimented the thoroughness of the study. NEO Hearing - NASA Watch
  • Koku had turned on the charm, disarming them with the thoroughness of a mono-molecular knife.
  • In external beauty, in paper, type, presswork, and binding, and all that belongs to solid and elegant book-making, the volume is a fine specimen of German skill, good taste, and thoroughness. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 10, March 10, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
  • He approaches the subject with thoroughness and a distinct effort to reduce its apparent complexity to simpler, actionable concepts.
  • Such exercises encourage thoroughness, both in interrogating the data at hand and in providing an account of how an analysis was developed.
  • A talented writer with an insatiable curiosity and a legendary dedication to thoroughness, she was also incredibly intelligent and drop-dead gorgeous to boot.
  • The safety of air travel hangs partly on the thoroughness of baggage checking.
  • That fall, he campaigned harder than was necessary against his foredoomed Republican opponent, in what was widely seen as a sign of his thoroughness. Chicago, get ready for Rahm Emanuel's charm offensive
  • He could tell to a dot the average wage or salary earned by the householders of any locality, and he made it a point of thoroughness to know every locality from the waterfront slums to the aristocratic Lake THE PRODIGAL FATHER
  • At this session we have had confrontation , thus attaining clarity and thoroughness in our thinking.
  • All Huxley's work was marked by a quality which may be called conscientiousness or thoroughness. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work
  • The thoroughness of the evaluation process we went through was impressive.
  • Nothing is predictable in this astonishing novel, which expands on classic tales about selkie brides with unsettling imaginative thoroughness. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the end, the natural-history collection earned the approval of some of America’s top scientists, including Silliman, who praised Wood’s thoroughness: “Mr. Wood was indefatigable for many months in completing the herpetology of China; the conchology is fully represented,” and there are “some remarkably fine carbonates of copper, both nodular and radiated.” The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
  • What marks all of it, without exception, is intelligence and rigour, thoroughness and care, and an abiding dedication to the importance of the role architecture plays in an ever more complicated world.
  • In the interests of scientific thoroughness, we had four small eats and one antipasto between two adults and a 12-year-old, and they ranged from the good (marinated octopus, chicken liver crostini) to the sublime: prosciutto so delicate it was, according to my son, "like air", a compulsively eatable dish of fried courgettes, and a sensationally good stew of squid, potatoes, chickpeas and chilli. Restaurant: Tinello, London SW1
  • Brooks attended to every detail of his churches and Mackmurdo later acknowledged his debt to him as an exemplar of methodical thoroughness.
  • For he took a genuine interest in his pupils; and, in that first year of his teaching, carried his class to surprising lengths, nor let them betray any evidences of unthoroughness when they went trembling up to the examinations provided by the great Anton himself, in the mid-year term. The Genius
  • Not there is any reason to doubt her; she takes care of the place with an impressive thoroughness.
  • While Gerry was to be congratulated for his thoroughness in preparation, it was perhaps unfortunate that Chic was handed the responsibility of ensuring safe passage for our runners.
  • I admire his thoroughness.
  • Then, with the practiced thoroughness of an experienced computer hacker, she created and deployed a stealth-virus program.
  • Even his teachers at the conservatory respected his profundity and thoroughness and called him ‘professor’.
  • There are moments in Bach when I would accuse him of nimiety, a pedantic thoroughness, more artifice than art.
  • The first two published instalments of the manuscript contained material which was drawn from Deist criticisms, though worked out with great thoroughness.
  • The writer of perhaps the greatest historical novel in the English language, _The Cloister and the Hearth_, was what one might call a glutton for thoroughness. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
  • She took a training in bookbinding in London under Mr. Cobden-Sanderson and established her bindery at Hull-House in which design and workmanship, beauty and thoroughness are taught to a small number of apprentices. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
  • He and his researchers have explored the archives and newspaper morgues with determination, so that the central events are told with an almost deadening thoroughness.
  • We received full endorsement of the way ahead and validation of the thoroughness of the effort.
  • Cities generally excite him more than landscapes, living communities more than ruins, and, despite the thoroughness of his Italian sightseeing, only the exoticism of Venice seems to utterly enchant him.
  • Just like John Morley said that, the degree of thoroughness is a Burke big merit.
  • Mr.P. Cunliffe Owen, familiar with all the minutiæ of previous expositions, declares them supreme "in thoroughness of plan and energy of construction" -- a judgment designed to coyer the whole conception and administration of the exhibition, and one which, coming from a disinterested and competent foreign observer, may be cited as an amply expressive tribute to the zeal and fidelity of those in control. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876

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