Sentence examples for than wholly from inspiring English sources

Their excuses are less than wholly convincing.

It emerges less than wholly unscathed.

But its explanation was less than wholly persuasive.

Is nobody upstanding, compassionate, less than wholly, irredeemably selfish?

If your fatherland is India but your holy land is Mecca, then you are something less than wholly Hindu, and less than wholly Indian.

All of which is better than nothing, though less than wholly reassuring.

Late in 2010, an alumnus of the less-than-wholly-successful John Carter called Mark Andrews, who like Chapman had never directed a feature before, took over the reins.

Developers prefer sites in the city outskirts as these are more lucrative and attract people who prefer a natural environment rather than a wholly built one since the former is more refreshing space than the latter.

DE BEAUVOIR : Were there not women you found attractive for reasons other than strictly feminine qualities — strength of character, something intellectual and mental, rather than something wholly to do with charm and femininity?

Cavendish worked with his instrument makers, generally improving existing instruments rather than inventing wholly new ones.

Better a distinctively bad movie than a wholly nondescript one, perhaps.