Yet both candidates' campaigns covered too small a canvas, relative to the issues at stake, and have been almost wholly negative.

For some it will have been a not wholly negative experience, enabling reflection, reading, slowing down and rethinking values and priorities.

However, the scientists behind the research said the differences could not be assumed to be wholly negative as they were accompanied by elements consistent with superior decision-making and self-control.

Although he recognised that a modern newspaper should be detached and critical, he believed strongly that it should never be cynical or wholly negative.

At first, he considered excluding her entirely but ultimately gave her what was called the most wholly negative characterization in the work.