The phrase "a total picture of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to convey a comprehensive understanding or overview of a subject or situation.
Example: "The report provides a total picture of the company's financial health over the past year."
Alternatives: "a complete overview of" or "a comprehensive view of".
The ephemeral, rushed nature of the tweets can't provide a total picture of events but do have a raw emotional impact.
"We're starting to get a total picture of this valley with every new revelation," Dr. Lucking said, noting that the sites suggested a complex social and agricultural structure of early Hawaiians here.
"Lindsay always started with a total picture of what he was doing, whereas I started with just one line and went on to see what kind of thing accrued to the detail.
He left it for us to attempt to create a more complete picture of the personal qualities that defined his character -- and these features, assembled together with his official record, result in a total picture of the man.
"Even the Academic Performance Index fails to give a total picture of all the great things that are happening on each campus". To check out the Newsweek statistics, go to http://tinyurl.com/2doxmrc.
With more data we should be able to build up a total picture of exactly which seats were occupied at exactly what times, so we can map it on a plan of a Virgin train and look for patterns: pentagrams, hexes, power-systems beaming information about our tiny, vulnerable world up to the stars.
The result should be a clearer total picture of any hurricanes that threaten the Atlantic coast of America this season.CAMEX-4 opened for business on August 20th, when the object of its attention was a tropical storm, Chantal.
VGE gives only a fraction of the total picture of what is happening in the body, but is significant as it is the only objective and quantitative measurement available to evaluate decompression stress.
They form a small part of the total picture of flight but are of growing importance.
Still, he said, it's only one case, "a small piece of the total picture of economic espionage and the outward flow of intellectual property".
Once again, only you as a parent can see the total picture of all the assignments your child has each night.
