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the whole picture

the most important facts about a situation and the effects of that situation on other things. You're just taking into account Melissa's views of the situation but of course that's not the whole picture.

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the whole picture

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The whole picture, as reflected in the glass, represents a woman of some elegance, rather too pale, and rather too sedate and serious in her moments of silence and repose--in short, a person who fails to strike the ordinary observer at first sight, but who gains in general estimation on a second, and sometimes on a third view. Law and the Lady by Collins, Wilkie View in context The whole picture was a flickering scheme of green gleams and shifting rusty black shadows, strangely trying to the eyes. The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context I can see the whole picture now as it appeared night after night by the light of our primitive lamp; Good tossing to and fro, his features emaciated, his eyes shining large and luminous, and jabbering nonsense by the yard; and seated on the ground by his side, her back resting against the wall of the hut, the soft-eyed, shapely Kukuana beauty, her face, weary as it was with her long vigil, animated by a look of infinite compassion--or was it something more than compassion? King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context More results

The whole picture, as reflected in the glass, represents a woman of some elegance, rather too pale, and rather too sedate and serious in her moments of silence and repose--in short, a person who fails to strike the ordinary observer at first sight, but who gains in general estimation on a second, and sometimes on a third view.

Law and the Lady by Collins, Wilkie View in context

The whole picture was a flickering scheme of green gleams and shifting rusty black shadows, strangely trying to the eyes.

The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context

I can see the whole picture now as it appeared night after night by the light of our primitive lamp; Good tossing to and fro, his features emaciated, his eyes shining large and luminous, and jabbering nonsense by the yard; and seated on the ground by his side, her back resting against the wall of the hut, the soft-eyed, shapely Kukuana beauty, her face, weary as it was with her long vigil, animated by a look of infinite compassion--or was it something more than compassion?

King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context

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