Example sentences for: thoroughness

How can you use “thoroughness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • One reason for this, the author says, is that the American principles of thoroughness, fact checking and the separation between editors and publishers have profoundly influenced Latin journalists.

  • À propos of this diversity of styles, it might be remarked that diversifiers have often been discriminated against by critics, who would have would-be Renaissance-men specialize; they throw a cordon sanitaire around respective artistic endeavors with a rapidity and thoroughness that is most unhealthy.

  • The Library of America edition of his writings, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch, includes, in a spirit of thoroughness, random essays and stories that the author never finished; some screenplays; and a few letters to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, and other literary figures.

  • Dawkins' own honesty and thoroughness undermine his case in other ways as well--for example, when he brings up the origin of life.


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