But again, and in more than one sense, we see too much of Bloom for that to be the whole explanation.

But factors like these can't be the whole explanation.

Crude oil is not the whole explanation for current gasoline prices.

But these reasons, taken alone or together, don't add up to anything like the whole explanation of Marilyn's lasting appeal.

So there is room for doubt if this is the whole explanation.

I've already given you the whole explanation of how that came about.

The whole explanation of the book and what he had discovered seemed to have sapped his strength.

The poor state of arts education is certainly a factor, but not the whole explanation.

But that was not the whole explanation, he said.

But the more I thought, the less it felt like the whole explanation.