'whole thesis' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to refer to the entirety of an essay or research paper. For example, "This paper covers the basics of my whole thesis."
(I could write a whole thesis about Claire Danes's crumpled chin).
Now that the BRIC economies have faltered, the bank's whole thesis has been scoffed at.
Others dismiss his whole thesis as a satire or joke against philosophers.
In fact, if you go to wethinkthebook.net/home.aspx you could probably undermine his whole thesis by littering it with a few judicious "nots".
An armchair sociologist could make a whole thesis out of this promise, and write it on his remote keyboard without ever getting up.
What seems incompatible with Naim's whole thesis is the fact of where power is actually concentrated, and increasingly so: in money.
(Whole theses could, and probably will, be written on its use of blood-orange red).
Whole theses have been written about the supposed misogyny in Roth or Amis, which may seem more dignified than being one-starred on Amazon by someone who can't even spell, but probably still hurts.
To the extent that the other theses are based on relations of sameness versus difference and part versus whole, then, thesis 5 may explain them all.
So media graduate research students have a whole new thesis to tackle.
There's a whole PhD thesis to be written on when – and why – good bands turn crap.
