thoroughness

• “Yet this conception makes thoroughness a purely _quantitative_ matter; it accepts _thoroughness_ as meaning _throughness_ or completeness, signifying the inclusion of everything from "beginning to end," or from "cover to cover.”

  How to Study and Teaching How to Study

• “Here we express faith in German thoroughness, planning and discipline, on the basis of a single, ambiguous leaked memo, for the alternative is not pleasant to contemplate.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Memo to Europe: Forget the War

• “There is a kind of thoroughness which is almost purely physical: the kind that signifies mechanical and exhausting drill upon all the details of a subject.”

  democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

• “I know the whole western side of it with what, I suppose, I may call thoroughness; well enough at least to testify that there is no square mile without some special character and charm.”

  Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays

• “Moreover, his thoroughness is the envy of the students of all other countries, and his hatred of sham scholarship and slipshod generalization is intense.”

  Reflections and Comments 1865-1895

• “On Thursday, details emerged that called the thoroughness of the review, described as”

  Kansas.com: -- Front

• “The important thing is the notion of thoroughness: the indexer must try to anticipate and provide for a variety of users 'needs in an index; users do not seek the same sort of information, and the effort must be made to imagine the uses to which a particular work will be put, then to provide the users with as many access points to the information as can reasonably be expected.”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4

• “Some do, and some newspapers stink, but print encourages a kind of thoroughness that the Web does not.”

  First, stop the lawyers « BuzzMachine

• “Are these specialists trying to impress the primary care doctor with their 'thoroughness', so as to keep the referrals coming?”

  Archive 2007-01-01

• “He had shown me how to leave a crime scene clean as only a cop can, and he had taught me to use the same kind of thoroughness in selecting my partner for the dance.”

  Dexter in the dark

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