Seeing civilization polarized against barbarism as the world is poised for war, he calls for a synthesis of man in community and of communal man to «the dread but vital whole of things» (SM 250) in worship of the spirit. (religion-online.org)
The higher Presence, namely, need not be the absolute whole of things, it is quite sufficient for the life of religious experience to regard it as a part, if only it be the most ideal part.) (religion-online.org)
Even more than this, the great whole of the thing, the emotional wallop of the number Portabella is orchestrating calls for this. (sensesofcinema.com)