How To Use Wholly In A Sentence

The criticism is valid up to a point, but television channels are a bit like human beings: none are wholly good or bad.
In any event, when making a case against the indivisibility of Sinitic, it is not necessary to rebut each of these "common" features individually, since they are largely or wholly extralinguistic. Language Log
That I did not drop it into a cageful of terrier-pups was wholly due to the native vigour with which _Striatus_ hung on. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04
Prayer, and receive the Sacrament every day; because they do not subject and submit themselves wholly and entirely to him that hath Light, nor deny and conquer themselves, nor give up themselves totally to God, with a perfect divesting and disinteresting of themselves: In a word, till the Soul be purified in the Fire of Inward Pain, it will never get to a State of The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland.
They are wholly unfitted, by temperament and training, for the cut-throat, hard-nosed commercial environment in which they now find themselves.

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He spoke of something wholly divine and uncreated in the human soul.
The term highlights the assumption that individuals act within a social context, that this context is not reducible to individual acts, and, most significantly, that the social context is not necessarily or wholly imposed. THE MORAL DIMENSION
He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin. Ulysses
What a charming possession of himself, that he could be in such a brangle, as I may call it, and which might have had fatal consequences; yet be so wholly, and so soon, divested of the subject; and so infinitely agreeable upon half a score others, as they offered from one or other as we sat at tea! Sir Charles Grandison
The economics of postage and packing may mean that discount retailing remains largely, if not wholly, a bricks rather than clicks activity. Times, Sunday Times
It's nominally a documentary, but not necessarily a wholly truthful one.
A satisfactory and lasting result in the water context cannot be achieved and should not be attempted by wholly divorcing consideration of the overriding conflict.
Mesdames et messieurs , I don't need to tell you that I fully and wholly underscore and share what the chancellor just said," added Mr. Sarkozy. In Euro's Hour of Need, Aide Gets 'Madame Non' to Say Yes
I am oppressed by a nameless and mysterious suffering, .. my brain is darkened, -- my thoughts but half-formed and never wholly uttered, and I, -- I who once deemed human intelligence and reason all-supreme, all-clear, all-absolute, am now compelled to use that reason reasonlessly, and to work with that intelligence in helpless ignorance as to what end my mental toil shall serve! Ardath
American tourists wholly innocent of French
The paragraph holds luminously good still for either Bobby – Jones or Moore:What we talk about here is not the hero as sportsman, but that something which a civilised community hungered for and found: the best performer in the world who was also hero as human being, the gentle, wholly self-sufficient male. My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating
The “right to privacy” meme, of course, is a strawman – by attaching some invented notion of “privacy” to the surgical process of electively vacuuming out a developing human life in pieces from the womb, the left thinks they make abortion a “right” – wholly and completely ridiculous. Think Progress » Samuel Alito’s America
But though this darkness were wholly removed, there is another darkness, that ariseth not from the want of light, but from the excessive superabundance of light — _caligo lucis nimiæ_, (240) that is, a divine darkness, a darkness of glory, such an infinite excess and superplus of light and glory, above all created capacities, that it dazzles and confounds all mortal or created understandings. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
Partners Inc. ( 'AHP'), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alegro Health Corp. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
As a complete man, constant, generous, full of honest courage, as a hardy follower of Thought wherever she might lead him, above all, as a confessor of that Truth which is forever revealing itself to the seeker, and is the more loved because never wholly revealable, he is an ennobling possession of mankind. Among My Books First Series
This can easily be shown by considering any case in which a universal generalization is inferred from an unexhausted series of wholly favourable instances.
I lately had occasion to justify an action to a man," went on Clowes, "but, no, the scurvy fellow would put no faith in my words, insisting that the person I sought to clear was covinous and tricky, and wholly unworthy of trust. Janice Meredith
While the two are only days apart in age they seem to belong to wholly different generations.
Her advice has frequently been less than wholly helpful.
Although both mind and the sensory faculty receive their correlative forms when perceiving or thinking, neither is wholly passive in its defining activity.
His casual behaviour was wholly inappropriate for such a formal occasion.
That the flesh or soft parts are not wholly permeable to the rays is well shown in the skiagraph -- i.e., a "shadow picture" -- of a foot. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896
And it is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly equal, wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us.
In my judgment an attempt to formulate a duty of care in this way is wholly misconceived.
The axis and the scales that have been severed from their apophyses (b) can be easily pushed out of the annulus (a), which is composed wholly of apophyses so firmly adherent that they will successfully resist a strong effort to break them apart. The Genus Pinus
Surely you may say, the Earth is almost wholly rock and nearly all incandescent with heat.
And yet, the idea of a Goddess, a wholly divine being, actually being born struck them as bizarre.
His epiphany didn't come wholly out of the blue. Times, Sunday Times
I would argue that racism is neither reducible to social class or gender nor wholly autonomous.
General David Petraeus, in a rare public show of indecorum, last week suggested that corruption has been a part of Afghan culture since the country came into existence, which is a sentiment that is not only, from a historical and anthropological perspective, wholly ignorant, but one that exposes intentions on the General's part that seem both dubious as well as misplaced. Michael Hughes: Afghanistan Corrupted by U.S. and 30 Years of Foreign Meddling
To capture the mystery, caprice and force of romantic love, the ancients conjured Cupid, a mischievous immortal in whose thrall we are wholly powerless.
Brooker, a stout and flabby man, with pouches under biliously tinged eyes, bowed and broke into a violent perspiration, not wholly due to the shiny black frock-coat suit of broadcloth donned for the occasion. The Dop Doctor
Deception by mirrors has a basis in optical principles, in so far as reflections in mirrors do not correspond wholly to the objects that caused them.
Until recently, their quest for the next best seller drug relied wholly on laborious physical trial and error.
The overinvestment in equipment and software has not been wholly purged.
The land is dry and wholly dependent on irrigation.
In the affixes, the superfix and prefix positions may as a general rule be regarded as wholly identical; also the subfix and postfix positions. Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs
Our armour and weaponry were of course wholly authentic, as were our battle cries of 'Ouch' and 'I can't see where I'm going', although we didn't get round to deciding who was a Roundhead, who a Cavalier. Archive 2009-08-01
When I finally saw the film, after over a year of hoopla surrounding it, its director, and the director's father, I found it to be a wholly unremarkable film.
Such scenes work on the level of stylization and pure martial arts action, and may be appreciated wholly out of context, but the essence of heroism remains elusive.
She asked me to pass on her apologies for being testy in comments threads, which I'm sure are wholly unnecessary in any case.
With consideration to the strategic review by Miller Tabak and the condition to the transaction with DMRJ. the Company executed an Asset Purchase Agreement and a Note with Skinvera LLC, a company wholly owned by Frank J. Massino, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, whereby Skinvera purchased all assets and assumed all existing liabilities of the Company's skincare business (except for assets and liabilities related to kinetin and zeatin) and received $1.8 million in cash in return for a $1.8 million Secured Promissory Note which bears interest at 6% per annum and is due on the seventh anniversary of the Note. Medindia Health News
It was emphasised by him that the usufructuary rights that were referred to, which may not have been proprietary in character, nonetheless, depended wholly on the community title.
I just wanted to get to the bottom, to the underlying mechanics, of why some respectable pieces went wholly unliked while others generated a fuss. The Meaning of 'Like'
Because this being all our hope, against this point did the devil make a vehement stand, and at one time he was wholly subverting it, at another his word was that it was "past already;" which also Paul writing to Timothy called a gangrene, I mean, this wicked doctrine, and those that brought it in he branded, saying, NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
But part of the recognition of the Fall is to realize that though no person is wholly good or wholly evil, one is still obliged to fight on the side of justice, even if one's side is tainted by sin and impure motives.
This should apply to any trip that was not wholly, exclusively and necessarily for the purposes of the employment. Times, Sunday Times
It is known also that the Japan camphor, termed factitious, will evaporate till it wholly disappears, and at all stages of its diminution retain its full proportion of strength; which does not seem the property of an adulterated or compounded body. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
Around August last year I stopped using it completely and was wholly back on the cigarettes. The Sun
The theory of natural selection thus postulates a causal relation wholly unappreciated by natural historians before Darwin.
Christian contemporaries, and that their knowledge was mainly confined to mere commercial notation, an anonymous writer has shown how the modifications of form could be naturally made, in vol.ii. of the _Bath and Bristol Magazine_, pp. 393-412.; the motto being _valent quanti valet_, as well as the title professing it to be wholly "conjectural. Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
The plan to build the road through the forest is wholly misconceived.
In a wholly admirable way, he's saving face. Times, Sunday Times
Forbearing to engage in the open field, where the gain would lie wholly with the enemy, he lay stoutly embattled on ground where the citizens must reap advantage; since, as he doggedly persisted, to march out meant to be surrounded on every side; whereas to stand at bay where every defile gave a coign of vantage, would give him mastery complete. 46 Agesilaus
Just as they fought the war against the NLA in a way that rebounded against themselves, so they are still — at this writing — pigheadedly holding out against amendments to the constitution that most international observers regard as wholly reasonable. Is There a Good Terrorist?
There's a certain chocolate factory in Fremont (we won't name names, but it rhymes with "brio") that gets all the press-it wholly deserves it, but that doesn't mean smaller-scale chocolatiers like Lee Johnson at Fiori Chocolates shouldn't get their moment in the sun. Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue
When a young and wholly unknown student he had gone to Paris to bring his discovery of fulminic acid to the notice of the Academy. The Story of My Life
Indeed, all progress depends on the sceptic, the questioner, the person who does not wholly conform.
Encoded within the sense of loss of not being able wholly share my practice with her, was the realization that this was the process of discovering my own vocality.
Not everyone was wholly approving of Wigg's activities in relation to Profumo - and indeed on many other matters.
The trouble is that it remains wholly unclear what the long-term solution will be. Times, Sunday Times
Why? because the doctrines he preached to them were directly contrary to their lusts and corrupt affections, and defeated their expectations of a worldly Messias, who should have answered their sensual desires with the plenties and glories of such an earthly kingdom, as they had wholly set their gross hearts and souls upon. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
It insisted on wholly open intellectual inquiry, and on a related entire tolerance.
Instead of being a development of an inherent or generally available faculty, it is a specialized technique wholly dependent on specific training.
His impending departure is wholly amicable. Times, Sunday Times
The fur coats he makes are wholly ethical. Times, Sunday Times
For I question not, but God can so qualify and determine the will of a rational agent, (and that without the least diminution to its natural freedom,) that the inclination and bias of it shall wholly propend to good, and that from a mere love of goodness itself, without any consideration of a further recompence. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
Those two famous closing rounds were wholly different in kind. Times, Sunday Times
Without any reference to the greater or less force of medical theories as to the efficacy of cinchona bark, I now only take an experienced and practical view, well knowing that the sufferings of many millions of poor and rich natives, especially in the jungle districts, are yearly very great, and the mortality quite enormous from remittent and intermittent fevers, by far the greater part of which would be immensely relieved, or wholly cured, by the free use of cinchona bark. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
Better still, never leave Little Puddington at all if you wish to be a wholly fulfilled and creative person.
_Air_, _heat_, and _moisture_ are the principal of these; they attack the dead organism, and gradually convert it into wholly different and inorganic compounds, such as water, carbonic acid, ammonia, phosphuretted hydrogen, and many others. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852
The culture is not wholly profane, but it has gifts to offer and wounds to heal.
It is no compliment to be the stupidly idolised master of a dog whose instinct it is to idolise, but it is a very distinct tribute to be chosen as the friend and confidant of a philosophic cat who is wholly his own master and could easily choose another companion if he found such a one more agreeable and interesting. Archive 2010-01-01
He was completely/totally/wholly unprepared for what he saw.
Founder Electronics, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Founder Group, filed the lawsuit against Blizzard asking for compensation of 100 mln yuan.
It seems to me to be wholly immaterial whether the failure to register was intentional or not.
In a wholly admirable way, he's saving face. Times, Sunday Times
We had a High Court whose judges, wholly uninvited, were remodelling our uniquely successful federal Constitution.
The plan to build the road through the forest is wholly misconceived.
It took the things we already knew about ourselves and projected them into something that at once felt wholly familiar and yet was new. Times, Sunday Times
It is not wholly convincing, despite some novel steps, and the overexcitable computer graphics are distracting. Times, Sunday Times
For any attempt to resolve the issue by pronouncing the work of critique to be wholly isomorphous with the contingent material experiences that gave rise to it or, alternatively, as sublating (aufheben) aesthetic experience into pure abstractions invariably forecloses on the ethical implications of critical practice. Pfau, Coda & Works Cited'
It was obviously written for the children or grandchildren of the mosstroopers whose exploits it glorifies, a generation to whom appeals to a higher code than their ancestors accepted would have been wholly unintelligible.
A wholly unsatisfactory first half was followed by a much better second. The Sun
The central part of the nigrescent parade was drawn by a steam engine wholly different in appearance, this one looking less like a maladroit tin shed mounted upon a wheeled chassis and a lot more like a vehicle designed for such labour as this.
As it has repeatedly been announced, this case of espionage is a wholly internal matter and any prejudgment and interference is rejected.
In the UK, biscuits are zero-rated while "biscuits wholly or partly covered in chocolate" are not, but HMRC says Twix is actually neither of these. Twix takes the biscuit
We were wholly inconsolable; it took a good few days for us to calm down.
The criticism was wholly unjustified.
It evoked a huge and apparently permanent armament industry, now wholly dependent... on government contracts.
A wholly celibate marriage is thus in principle quite conceivable, as is some variation of marriage between those more at home physically with those of their own gender.
The walk is almost wholly on level tracks and paths, with a very short stretch along the Barbon road.
Calm and motionless, wholly focused on the surveillance of those below, the two men watched from their solitary position of concealment.
If these moments are not spent in a way best fitted to wholly occupy the mind, the mental attitude -- to which we previously referred, and which is conducive to the cultivation of nosophobia -- will have been developed. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
I am wholly of the opinion that the word reprobation, according to the use of the Latin language, properly signifies non-election, if election does not consist without reprobation. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3
Recommendation G. 171 (1988) "Transmission plan aspects of privately operated networks" deals mainly with calls wholly within a private network.
To judge by his later paintings, the house may not have been wholly reputable.
Two children did suggest that a third member of staff was involved; but they each named a different person, so that their allegations were wholly uncorroborated.
As well, I wholly agree with your assessment of global labor arbitrage, e.g. migrant worker remittances or Richard Florida's 'plug-and-play communities', the impact of which I believe has been underrated, particularly wrt global capital movement. Policy in a Fog, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Loup de Fages describes it as `a massive building, white and cold, in Germanic style, isolated in the woods at the edge of a lake which even to this day has retained a beauty that is wholly wild'. Edith Södergran: a biographical profile - 3
- Her "maid" is poor Kirkcaldy Helen, one of the notabilities, and also blessings here; who staid with us (thanks chiefly, almost wholly, to the admirable/management/) for nearly twelve years on a stretch. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Some flowers are quite normal, exhibiting no sign of connation; others are wholly gamopetalous, the four petals being united from their base to the very margin of the cup formed. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
The rice was then cut with the sickle and carried in on the head, then threshed with the flail, then milled and dressed, in some cases wholly by human labor, and in others by a rude machine, called a pecker mill. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
With religion bestialized and its management regulated wholly with an idea to the gratification of man's sensuous desires, religious temples, under the supervision of the priesthood, became brothels, in which were openly practiced as part and parcel of religious rites and ceremonies the most wanton profligacy and the most shameless self-abandonment. The God-Idea of the Ancients
These three constitute the Supernal Triad - those spheres which are wholly outside the realm of direct human experience for all but the most disciplined and ascetic individuals.
If the last twenty-five years had taught him anything it was that outward appearances were wholly untrustworthy.
Inexcusably perhaps, the entire vital element of seizures, grappling, disarms, and use of the second hand or even daggers and bucklers is almost wholly ignored as if it never existed.
Prepare to be wholly unamazed.
The legal validity of any minor's marriage continues to be wholly beyond its scope.
Monolingual, untraveled, and rather lost, Julia is taken in by Malcolm and becomes the catalyst for a not wholly unpredictable revelation.
However, as we were so near the S.E. end of it, and as the least shift of wind, in our favour, would serve to carry us round, I did not wholly give up the idea of weathering it, and therefore continued to ply. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
It's a wholly different animal. The Sun
Changes in the level of interest rates charged on borrowing, therefore, depend almost wholly upon movements in the base rate.
Surely media scaremongering is an undeniable force — if you think it isn’t, watch the evening news, no matter what the subject is — and cannot wholly be laid at the President’s feet.) The Volokh Conspiracy » The Vietnam Comparison — A Closer Look At The Numbers:
The nature of a claim for unliquidated damages is wholly different.
She appeared to be in a state of transcendental well-being, wholly aglow with radiant emanations of health. THE LONGEST WAY HOME
Their interpretability, however, must not be exaggerated; their meanings are not necessarily wholly predictable on first acquaintance.
This has led to the death of a wholly innocent young man. Times, Sunday Times
It would be a waste of time, in the present state of science, to controvert this hypothesis, as it is now admitted that even if the rush of a diluvial current, invented for the occasion and wholly without analogy in the known course of nature, be granted, it would be inadequate to explain the uniformity, parallelism, persistency, and rectilinearity of the so-called glacial furrows. The Antiquity of Man
For God has absolute and paramount lordship over the creature wholly and singly, which is entirely subject to His power: whereas man partakes of a certain likeness to the divine lordship, forasmuch as he exercises a particular power over some man or creature. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
A life endured in total immobility is, though conceivable, wholly unsatisfactory.
A second class of mutant displays sensory organs in wholly ectopic positions, although these are always separated by epidermal cells.
We ceased to encounter any village or ruin mentioned in our "particularizes" and detailed Guide of the Rhone -- went drifting along by the hour in a wholly unknown land and on an uncharted river! Complete Letters of Mark Twain
To take a causal circumstance as having no redundancy is obviously to exclude things wholly irrelevant to the effect.
Its city bus station was sold for development and its long-distance coach station was wholly unexpectedly sold for ￡4 1 million.
A great many of the men are wholly without shoes and use every expedient, such as rawhide moccasins and sandals and even wrapping the feet in pieces of woolen and cotton cloth. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert
Reporting structures and planning, budgeting, and compensation systems, for example, remain wholly or significantly the same.
In a sense, Chinese modernization was wholly modeled after the Western civilization.
For all over-rhythmical writing is at once felt to be affected and finical and wholly lacking in passion owing to the monotony of its superficial polish. Archive 2010-03-01
The sermon, however, was almost wholly about John the "revelator," and not on the text at all. The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 1, March, 1898
The differences in the children's achievements were not wholly explicable in terms of their social backgrounds.
Your report last week was unfair. It was based upon wholly unfounded and totally unjustified allegations.
CHENNAI -- Daimler Financial Services AG, part of German auto maker Daimler AG, Tuesday announced the start of its wholly owned unit in India and said it expects to disburse loans worth $500 million in five years in this growing market for automobiles. Daimler Starts India Financial Unit
Speech and speech-reading are taught where the measure of success seems likely to justify the labor expended, and in most of the schools some of the pupils are taught wholly or chiefly by the Oral Method or the The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States
In addition it is difficult to attribute more errors or a poorer performance wholly to the effects of a body clock.
The rule is so stern that all delight in mere incidental beauty, which painting often triumphs in, is wholly forbidden to sculpture; -- for instance, in _painting_ the branch of a tree, you may rightly represent and enjoy the lichens and moss on it, but a sculptor must not touch one of them: they are inessential to the tree's life, -- he must give the flow and bending of the branch only, else he does not enough "see Pallas" in it. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
It is wholly untrue to suggest that I have canvassed shareholders for their support on a rights issue. Times, Sunday Times
It is with the ‘time-grid’ that is wholly integral to the new creation that exegetes have the greatest difficulties, yet that is precisely the reality they are expected to interpret.
All the letters are written while the hearts of the writers must be supposed to be wholly engaged in their subjects (the events at the time generally dubious): so that they abound not only in critical situations, but with what may be called instantaneous descriptions and reflections (proper to be brought home to the breast of the youthful reader;) as also with affecting conversations; many of them written in the dialogue or dramatic way. Clarissa Harlowe
Then there was sort of a saffrony-paprika flavor to the shrimp that permeated the whole thing, keeping it safely savory and wholly Mediterranean. Spain
But now such as justly deserve the names of complacencies and joys are wholly refined from their contraries, and are immixed with neither vexation, remorse, nor repentance; and their good is congenial to the mind and truly mental and genuine, and not superinduced. Essays and Miscellanies
Such mental attitudes may be wholly unconscious and are difficult, if not impossible, to eliminate.
The sharp allotment of this or that feature to nature or to nurture alone is therefore always wholly wrong: and the nice estimation of the relative importance of the natural as compared with the nurtural factors must necessarily be difficult, especially for the case of mankind, where critical observation, on a large scale, and with due control, of the effects of environment upon natural potentialities is still lacking. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
There have been other measures taken since then, partly though not wholly, in response to international pressure, like the appointment of special rapporteurs in Geneva.
The other, which was probably unintended though wholly predictable, has been to create a bureaucratic apparatus which has brought many strong men and women to their knees.
But while somewhat over the top, Gosford Park is not wholly unenjoyable.
At other moments, though, it seemed wholly original. Times, Sunday Times
He abhorred the arrogant youngsters intruding on companies of whose staff and products they were wholly ignorant, brandishing maxims that threw hundreds out of work.
That evening, at the Villa Aioussa, there gathered a courtly assembly, of much higher rank than Algiers can commonly afford, because many of station as lofty as her own had been drawn thither to follow her to what the Princesse Corona called her banishment -- an endurable banishment enough under those azure skies, in that clear, elastic air, and with that charming "bonbonniere" in which to dwell, yet still a banishment to the reigning beauty of Paris, to one who had the habits and the commands of a wholly undisputed sovereignty in the royal splendor of her womanhood. Under Two Flags
Certainty depends so wholly on this intuition, that, in the next degree of knowledge which I call demonstrative, this intuition is necessary in all the connexions of the intermediate ideas, without which we cannot attain knowledge and certainty. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
It's a bold and wholly successful reinvention. Times, Sunday Times
The company operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of a large French company.
Under its preliminary plan, the unlisted Li & Fung Distribution Group is hoping to raise at least HK $1 billion by floating its wholly owned IDS Group, sources said.
What raises my hackles about this post -- and, mind you, my hackles are my responsibility, not yours -- is its (wholly unintentional) echo of part of the bizarrely illogical conception of the Jews by Christian propagandists. The Stain of Sin
A MAN who created a rumpus in Burnley Jobcentre got a ticking off from a judge who slammed his behaviour as ‘wholly unacceptable.’
The latter, in spite of his passion for Alice, seemed to return the loathful antipathy of her brother; the similarity of their dispositions made them like joint possessors of an individual nature, which could not become wholly the property of one, unless by the extinction of the other. Sketches and Studies
Jus liek Fronsh guards in Montee Piithn adn teh wholly graal? Damn u imaginary kwiksandz! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
This was a change in tack by the tax authorities, who had been arguing that Vodafone International -- a wholly owned unit of Vodafone Group PLC. -- was liable to be taxed as it had failed to withhold tax when it bought the 67% stake in Hutchison Essar from Hutchison Whampoa for $11.2 billion. India Court Defers Vodafone Hearing
As a British Muslim I condemn this act of barbarism - it is wholly anti-Islamic.
I plugged my ears into the MP3 player, which I don’t do often because I feel it kind of alienates me from being wholly where I am, but I didn’t feel like being wholly where I was so it was ok. I wandered to the Glebe in the rain « knitnut.net
Within the frame of the tug-of-war, I believe that's a reasonable libertarian choice, even if it means being wholly against the party that somehow contains the few identified libertarians outside of LP and independents. In Which Ezra Shows Why He is not Close to Conversion, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The parties supporting her are wholly dependent on her nod for their survival.
The other thing that leaps out, having read it, is the wholly saturated derivativeness of it all. Archive 2010-03-01
While the two are only days apart in age they seem to belong to wholly different generations.
Yet in neither case was the captain wholly blameworthy. Times, Sunday Times
The Hagen was a free-and-easy place compared with the Rheinischer, and among its inmates there was no one who could sing a better song than manly George -- type of the Briton at whom foreigners stare -- who, ignorant of a word of their language, wholly unprovided with any authorisation save the passport signed "Salisbury," and having not quite so much business at the seat of war as he might have at the bottom of a coal-mine, gravitates into danger with inevitable certainty, and stumbles through all manner of difficulties and bothers by reason of a serene good-humour that nothing can ruffle and a cool resolution before which every obstacle fades away. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
If the makers of the film did one thing right, with what is otherwise wholly sentimental tack, it was to cast these two as the leads.
I am not wholly barren of hope, for circumstances have been dealing the conventional wisdom a new series of heavy blows.
Balmawhapple, has craved of my age and experience, as of one not wholly unskilled in the dependencies and punctilios of the duello or monomachia, to be his interlocutor in expressing to you the regret with which he calls to remembrance certain passages of our symposion last night, which could not but be highly displeasing to you, as serving for the time under this present existing government. Waverley
She lived, meanwhile, wholly shut up from all company, consigned to penitence for her indiscretions, to grief for the fate of her sister, and to wasting regret of her own causelessly lost felicity. Camilla
A blush is the foolishest thing that can be, and betrays one more than a red nose does a drunkard; and yet I would not so wholly have lost them as some women that I know has, as much injury as they do me. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
Whether man be the _vibrion_ or the heir to immortality, the bundle of carbon or the care of angels, one fact is indisputable: he suffers agonies, mental and physical, that are wholly out of proportion to the brevity of his life, while he is too often weighted from infancy with hereditary maladies, both of body and of character. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
The company isn't wholly to blame for the snafu.
It does not wholly undermine the principle though it does leave it somewhat tarnished.
She speaks in wholly formed paragraphs. Times, Sunday Times
The effect of this looseness in the laws is to encourage hasty, incon - siderate marriages, and to make escape from an uncongenial partner so easy that the obligation to cultivate forbearance, and to acquire mutual adaptation, which may not at first exist, is wholly overlooked. Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
Most people would consider such risks wholly unacceptable.
There were a number of post-Thomistic writers in the medieval and modern periods who in some way denied (2), the natural authority of the natural law, holding that while the content of the natural law is fixed either wholly or in part by human nature, its preceptive power could only come from an additional divine command: the views of John Duns Scotus, Francisco Suarez, and John Locke fit this mold. The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics
The plan to build the road through the forest is wholly misconceived.
His previous album, Conasauga, dwelt almost wholly in Appalachian ruralisms and pristine fingerpicking, and you can hear that ornate classicism in the well-mannered portions of ‘Warpaint’ and ‘The Nest.’
It's the product of a stunted, overanalytical mind that demands unfairly that all ancient art, art which is by nature expressive and non-rational, must be reduced to purely non-religious origins and meanings, even when a religious interpretation is wholly unavoidable given a competent understanding of greater context. The myth of the secular
Stems and leaves divided into multiple folioles in bas-relief bend so as wholly to fill the decorative field.
But is not the place and manner of confinement of a prisoner under sentence a matter wholly for the Executive?
We cannot prove that this practical rule is an imperative, i.e., that the will of every rational being is necessarily bound to it as a condition, by a mere analysis of the conceptions which occur in it, since it is a synthetical proposition; we must advance beyond the cognition of the objects to a critical examination of the subject, that is, of the pure practical reason, for this synthetic proposition which commands apodeictically must be capable of being cognized wholly a priori. SECOND SECTION
If the last twenty-five years had taught him anything it was that outward appearances were wholly untrustworthy.
This highest judicial tribunal, it is seen, passed from a case wherein no jurisdiction, as it held, rested in the courts to enter any form of judgment -- not even for costs, to decide matters not pertaining in any sense to the particular case, nor even to _judicial_ public rights of the people or the government, but wholly to the political, legislative powers of Congress, not in any degree involved in the jurisdictional question arising and decided. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
I cluck my tongue at Carole, the way my grandmother clucks her tongue at me when I've said something utterly, wholly stupid.
He also struck me as wholly sincere and a very decent sort.
Inside, the public rooms were sumptuously decorated in the florid style of old Venice with arching, beamed ceilings, sconced walls covered with opulent moire silks, and lush color everywhere - the wholly Venetian shades of blue, green, yellow and burnt orange. The Kaisho
Moreover, credit union managers in too many instances have been drawn from conventional financial intermediaries whose philosophies are wholly alien and antipathetic to mutualism.
His gait was feeble, his form attenuated, his countenance had lost its ruddy glow, -- the lines had sharpened until their youthful, healthful roundness was wholly obliterated; but the nervous, untranquil expression had passed away from his face, and the restless glancing from side to side had left his eyes. Fairy Fingers A Novel
His support for a 15-month blanket ban on strikes suggests that he is still not wholly aware of this fact.
The share price strength is not wholly unjustified. Times, Sunday Times
However, the interpretation of sign at nests to classify nest predators was almost wholly ineffective.
Paying a gas bill or checking a credit card balance can now be a wholly automated process, for example.

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