Thoroughness

Examples

• And he mistrusted her, he was afraid of a woman capable of such abandon, such dangerous thoroughness of destructivity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• What is the cause of the efficiency, the thoroughness, the desire to serve which animate the state? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A passing glance at a few pages of these written records will serve to illustrate, though only to a limited extent, the thoroughness of Edison's method. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Undaunted by the dicta of contemporaneous science, Mr. Edison attacked the dynamo problem with his accustomed vigor and thoroughness. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We try to believe that, however finite we may be, our intellect is something apart from the cycle of our life, capable by an Olympian detachment from human interests of a divine thoroughness. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Intellectual thoroughness is thus another name for the attitude we are considering. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Intellectual thoroughness is seeing a thing through. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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