The summer is hot, but on the whole the climate is very healthy.
The climate is moist and sometimes oppressively hot, though pleasant on the whole.
Between optimism and pessimism is the theory of "meliorism," according to which the world on the whole makes progress in goodness.
The weather on the whole is remarkably dry.
Grote maintained that on the whole the allies had little ground for complaint; but in so doing he rather seems to leave out of account the Greek's dislike of external discipline.
