up to the hilt in a sentence
Examples
- Long says of Brennan that he was a " storyteller of exceptional gifts who trusts his own creation right up to the hilt " and that " no present-day writer of fantasy conforms, in quite so miraculous a way, to the most fascinating of literary legends-that of the cultivated poet-philosopher-scholar who explores literature's most adventurous byways, in thrall to the darkly mysterious and the subtly terrifying ".