| But his own description of life's eternal bounciness seems to me much more gaily Rabelaisian than is the novel as a whole. |
| For the first time in history, be it unrecorded, ancient or modern, the world as a whole has no balance of power. |
| Accounting historians as a whole have yet to appreciate the important contextual differences now seen in the U.S. academic environment. |
| Some of it pertains strictly to the needs and history of the Jesuits, but in other ways it speaks to the church as a whole. |
| Despite the strong start and the strong acting, the film as a whole petered out toward the end. |
| In contrast, growth of business activity across the UK private sector as a whole picked up slightly to a strong pace. |
