Since 1968 we've been doing our best to piece the fragments into a satisfying whole.

But songs and movements failed to form a satisfying whole.

In psychology, it is "the tendency to create satisfying wholes."

Little by little, he fits the jagged pieces into a satisfying whole.

Unfortunately the playwright is unable to meld these elements into a satisfying whole.

And yet it all adds up to a satisfying whole.

How many semistaged performances of semi-operas does it take to add up to a satisfying whole?

Each poem has its own distinctiveness, but there is also an architecture that makes the collection a satisfying whole.

This is a book to dip into now and then, not the kind of narrative that's a satisfying whole.

The immediate kinetic impact dominates; rarely does the excitement in itself add up to a satisfying whole.