Word: thorough
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...unhappy childhood spent in the morbid solitude of his grandmother's house ("She would call me by mistake the names of people who were dead") to his final years as the thundering, latter-day Ezekiel of the nuclear disarmament movement. The result is a work that is more thorough than thoughtful...
...stories than with the particular situation and emotions involved, and the result is that some of his stories lack any hold on solid experience. It is not surprising that his most successful stories are those in which he manages to blend a mastery of technique with a thorough knowledge of his subject--as he does in the third story, "Ruin," where he imparts an understanding of human dependence on land and nature in Jamaica with jarring intensity...
...Neill has also reduced the paper's bank of rewrite men and urged reporters to do longer stories and more investigative projects. Last week New York officials ordered a thorough reorganization of the state lottery, which had been shut down since the News exposed mismanagement in it last October. O'Neill has swung the editorial page away from its reflex conservatism. Recently, for instance, the News endorsed both New York State's equal rights amendment and a limited form of gun control - ideas that would have made the old News...
...complimented on your excellent coverage of the recent Cambridge elections, which was on the whole comprehensive, thorough, and fair; the pre-election Dump Truck supplement was particularly noteworthy in these respects. Nonetheless, we do feel compelled to respond for the record to your analyses of the results, published in your November 7 and 8 editions...
Scholarly and thorough as it is, Lewis's biography is often frustrating to read. While dozens of American and European literary notables troop through its pages, relatively few exhibit the vitality of Wharton's own characters. There are important exceptions, of course, like Lewis's portrait of Wharton's friend and mentor Henry James, who felt during her visits that he was "being seized and carried off in the talons of some monstrous female bird of prey." But, in general, Lewis spends too much time chronicling in remorseless detail the comings and goings of the Wharton set, obscuring his very...