Adjective : He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases. ,a protracted, exhaustive siege of illness. From Dictionary.com.
But the exhaustiveness of the distinction has recently been questioned. From Wordnik.com. [Nominalism in Metaphysics] Reference
There is, therefore, no attempt at exhaustiveness or organic consistency. From Wordnik.com. [The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas] Reference
Substitute imagination for exhaustiveness, and inventiveness for research. From Wordnik.com. [Genre Fiction] Reference
Sometimes you just need someone to sit next to and be with in your exhaustiveness. From Wordnik.com. [blog:] Reference
One critic of Ulysses describes it as investing in “an ideal of exhaustiveness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Consider the Novel « Gerry Canavan] Reference
My favorite part was this: Substitute imagination for exhaustiveness, and inventiveness for research. From Wordnik.com. [The Cowboy Angel Rides] Reference
Here's a list (not claiming exhaustiveness) of books and articles which have used the phrase in their titles. From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated "Truckin'"] Reference
And this means that we cannot assume the exhaustiveness of the homonomic/heteronomic distinction at the start. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalous Monism] Reference
The online condiment museum meets all my criteria for Internet coolth: obsessiveness, exhaustiveness and obscurity. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: February 10, 2002 - February 16, 2002 Archives] Reference
Clearly something has gone wrong, and the purported exhaustiveness of the homonomic/heteronomic distinction is the culprit. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalous Monism] Reference
M. John Harrison offers advice for fantasy writers: Substitute imagination for exhaustiveness, and inventiveness for research. From Wordnik.com. [SF Tidbits for 10/6/07] Reference
So it really was, as the First Lady has correctly said, an unprecedented process in terms of inclusiveness, exhaustiveness and precision. From Wordnik.com. [Health Care Briefing] Reference
This is the level of detail that the PGP requires the 100,000 volunteers to reveal about themselves, a list staggering in its exhaustiveness. From Wordnik.com. [How the Personal Genome Project Could Unlock the Mysteries of Life] Reference
Something in the exhaustiveness of her attempt fascinated Maury at first sight — a woman with wide hips affecting a panther-like litheness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
This obstinate exhaustiveness has, out of the most literal and indeed the most hackneyed material, created something of genuine symbolic force. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Hog] Reference
It seemed to sit rather uneasily with his insistence on the exhaustiveness of the Constitutional text to the exclusion of unwritten “traditions”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Guess the Author] Reference
Perhaps no better word could be found to express one of the most striking characteristics of Owen, than that which Mackintosh has used to describe the writings of Bentham, — exhaustiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Dr Owen] Reference
There was really something remarkable about the exhaustiveness of this. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Pilgrimage] Reference
On the other hand, I have aimed at exhaustiveness in the treatment of reliable material. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries] Reference
For all the exhaustiveness of his research and annotation, detail was not necessarily his strong suit. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
And though the whole truth is essential to science, such exhaustiveness is by no means a canon of art. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the Far East] Reference
English spirit is towards discursiveness and variety, the new French movement is rather towards exhaustiveness. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference
But this exhaustiveness is essential in establishing the historical record, as Grigoris Balakian well understood. From Wordnik.com. [VQR] Reference
I doubt their exhaustiveness, but I think the issue is worth considering as I believe we should not be wary of examining our tastes. From Wordnik.com. [COMIXTALK] Reference
The whole is closely knit and coherent, and the problems involved are treated with an exhaustiveness that is equally fair to both sides. From Wordnik.com. [Three Comedies] Reference
Something in the exhaustiveness of her attempt fascinated Maury at first sight -- a woman with wide hips affecting a panther-like litheness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
Yet the very clearness and exhaustiveness of this mechanical method, as applied to gross masses in motion, made it seem essentially inapplicable to anything else. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
Slide 5: A Hardware Invariant Detector IODINE: dynamic analysis for common hardware invariants trade-off: complexity & cost v / s exhaustiveness & noise . From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Art has produced so many representations of children that it would be a hopeless task to attempt a complete enumeration of them, and the book makes no pretensions to exhaustiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Child-life in Art] Reference
Should exhaustiveness testing be on by default? recent blog post, on whether coverage checking should be on by default, and other issues relating to compiler warnings and coding style. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Haskell] Reference
He knows not which to admire most — the author's wide and thorough research, the exhaustiveness of his discussion, his even-balanced and judicial impartiality, or his clear and finished style. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Nurture.] Reference
The acuteness and exhaustiveness of its analysis serves not only to make it a psychological document of rare value, but also to save me much of the comment which without it might be deemed needful. From Wordnik.com. [Plays by August Strindberg, Second series] Reference
"Bismarck controls his audience by the noticeable force and the exhaustiveness of his mental labor. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle] Reference
The more recent fourth edition of Halsbury’s makes no such claim for exhaustiveness as far as I could tell. From Wordnik.com. [Combating Information Overload — Slaw] Reference
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