The whole is to some degree constrained by the parts (upward causation), but at the same time the parts are to some degree constrained by the whole (downward causation).

Libertango performed by Ikuko Kawai

The size of Antarctica is almost twice as large as Australia (14,000,000 km2 vs 7,617,930 km2)

For more than a decade, he [Churchill] had been an outcast, clinging precariously to a handhold on the parapet of power.

Definition: Ostentation. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.

Example: The devotion he [Churchill] inspired in most of those who served him derived from a deportment which was at once magnificent and devoid of pomposity.