"entirely" in the Big Book

Moderate drinkers have little trouble in giving up liquor entirely if they have good reason for it.

This should be an entirely personal affair which each one decides for himself in the light of past associations, or his present choice.

But the program of action, though entirely sensible, was pretty drastic.

If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.

But his face falls when we speak of spiritual matters, especially when we mention God, for we have re-opened a subject which our man thought he had neatly evaded or entirely ignored.

With that rejection we imagined we had abandoned the God idea entirely.

Afterward, we found ourselves accepting many things which then seemed entirely out of reach.

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Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7.

And there often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His aid.

We were prepared to look at it from an entirely different angle.

Though a situation had not been entirely our fault, we tried to disregard the other person involved entirely.

We must be entirely honest with somebody if we

“Faith without works is dead.’’ The next chapter is entirely devoted to Step Twelve.

One of our Fellowship failed entirely with his first half dozen prospects.

He often gets entirely out of hand when drinking.

Though it is entirely separate from Alcoholics Anonymous, it uses the general principles of the A.A. program as a guide for husbands, wives, relatives, friends, and others close to alcoholics.

Impressed by those who visited him at the hospital, he capitulated entirely when, later, in an upper room of this house, he heard the story of some man whose experience closely tallied with his own.