not quite

She did not quite hate him, but did not wish to marry him, even to remain respectable.

Sir Thomas did not quite understand this, and looked with some surprise at the speaker.

If you see that your partner is not quite ready for your ideas, deliberately hold yourself back.

Whereupon he burst out into a long story in German and English, so mixed up that I could not quite understand exactly what he said.

Hate him she did not quite; but he was dust and ashes to her, and even for her name's sake she scarcely wished to marry him.

Without thinking, I said, "I'm not quite ready to dig a bunker in the backyard. "

She said, "You look different. " I said, "Well, not quite. "

The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock.

At least, they used to be. Unfortunately, it has not quite worked out like that.

You know, the Googlettes -- that's a small project that we're not quite sure if it's going to work or not.

She was not quite sure that she did not feel proud enough, after the visitor's remarks, to say a good deal.

But I think this approach is still not quite comprehensive enough for a financial stability policy framework to be developed.

Ares was officially one of the major gods of Mount Olympus. His fellow gods and even his parents, however, were not quite fond of him.

Well, I would agree with you up to a point , but I think you are not quite right.

WinCE running in a very slow, but I have several parameters it had not quite understand, and the exchange of line with what.

This past trip is still setting in. . . not quite sure what all happened, but I'll try to get as much here as possible!

Perhaps I do not know if you feel the idea did not quite know how you would like to find a good wife, but all with the wish to please?

It's not quite the Fountain of Youth, but scientists have found a way to induce some of our cells to live forever.

I still did not quite grasp that someone had picked my pocket and was now presenting me with my own wallet as a gift.

Im not quite sure where Ill be this time tomorrow. Probably Ill be down in a lonesome valley, where Ill be hanged from a white oak tree.

This is not quite Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and clearly it is unwise to talk as if the jellyfish had some kind of plan.

I glowered at him. The heat almost, but not quite, reached my face. It had been a long time since I'd blushed with any emotion.

While we're not quite ready to give up on the romantic ideal, the book did get us thinking about why a woman chooses a particular mate.

Our way of life. If not quite yet, then at least it was the beginning of the end.

He begins to realize that being a hero is not quite as simple as he once might have thought.

Not quite the bold front-door takeover that Bain had envisioned for the NHL, but the backdoor seems to be working just fine for the NBA.

Do things that you're not quite ready to do. And surround yourself with the smartest people.

This reason, is to be cheated, that too much even himself did not quite believe the.

If not quite a day at the office, there was a fair approximation to the muddle of faraway Earth.

I am afraid I am not quite so much the man of the world as might be good for me in some points.

'You did not understand me, ' said Nasreddin. I said, that I was half mad, not quite mad. '

Of course, that might just mean that the Clovis people had not quite exterminated bison before they, themselves, disappeared.

Although the numbers do not quite add up, the benefits of animal waste cannot be overestimated.

Largely because China is not quite ready to dismantle labor-intensive industries that still provide much-needed jobs at home.

Well, life did not quite turn out to be how we wished in middle school.

His films have come out less often but have continued to make waves if not quite of the caliber as previously seen.

some parts will perform a "light" the existence of a sense of not quite strong, certainly God is not the light of the sacred come.

They are sweet and lend any garden the air of a seaside spree but, for me, the giver, they had not quite hit the spot.

Researchers also found a similar connection in a dozen other patients, although not quite as dramatic as in the two featured cases.

She did not quite see what was to be done until the hosiery factory at Trippetts Mills suddenly closed, never to reopen.

What a most extraordinary year you are about to put behind you, one full of promise that has not quite materialised as you would have hoped.

She did not quite promise to pluck each voter from a burning building, but she left the distinct impression that she might.

I do think she did a bit of lifting but I'm not quite sure.

The next year, 2007, was perhaps not quite as rich a year for works of China reportage, but the general trend continued.

Still I involuntarily obeyed him, as if I were not quite sure.

Fanny's best consolation was in what he said and this was not quite sufficient to do away with the pain of her inner heart.

It has been a long slog for him, almost fit but not quite, and today was an important step for the boy.

She had a little house of her own, a little garden too, this woman of whom I am going to tell you, but for all that she was not quite happy.

It's frightening because a file system in the early stages tends to be experimental and not quite ready for prime time.

His goal just sums up his season. Sometimes those chances can come a bit early for you. You are not quite up to speed.

Michael doesn't respond, not quite ready to believe a man who has no proof other than his word.

collocation Based on the speech of the word Your account of what happened is not quite right.

But I had not quite imagined that it had failed at achieving something called African authenticity.

I heard your dis- course on meditation a few days ago, but as I am new to your teachings, I was not quite able to follow it.

A: I'm not quite sure what to say, but I seem to have broken your watch.

(That's not quite true, of course, but politics often involves a bit of sophistry and rhetorical sleight-of-hand).

By this time you have got to be regarded as not quite right in your head, and pity is the only thing felt for you.

She was civil and affable, but she could hardly conceal her intimate conviction that she was not quite as others were.

Not quite as poetic as some of the other herbs, but as you can see it is very red even after it is dried and ready to use.

Mrs. Scott did not quite like all this. She would sometimes gravely shake her head and say she had her doubts about its being right.

The interesting thing is that I'm not quite sure whether you can hear me, but we seem to be having some technical problems at the moment.

A year later, or not quite a year later, we were married.

Kent Beck's original twelve practices of Extreme Programming are something of a checklist, but not quite.

Looking over Table Two it's easy to see that McGrady has not quite been the same player in Houston that we saw in Orlando and Toronto.

He stood before me, not quite knowing what to do with his hands. Finally he placed them in the pockets of his elegantly- tailored silk suit.

Such an inheritance could be called instinct, using the word in its original sense. But it is not quite so simple.

Belief in God and subscription to a religion are not quite the same thing, although both books treat them as if they were.

He knew he was not quite ready for the great task ahead of him.

She proudly takes off her jacket and does a twirl, and I stare at her for a few seconds, not quite sure what to say.

I'm not quite sure what he was trying to say, but that too has become a daily source of entertainment.

If you want someone who will eat whatever you put in front of him and never says it's not quite as good as his mother made it - buy a dog.

It is a rare person over the age of thirty who will tell you that the weather is not quite different now from when they were a child.

I was not quite sure whether they had locked the door; and when I dared move, I got up and went to see. Alas! no jail was ever more secure.

In Part IV, Zarathustra assembles in his cave a number of men who approximate, but who do not quite attain the position of the overman.

If someone said the sky was the limit, we could say, 'Not quite. ' That is no longer the case.

I was not quite four when he passed away. But I still remember moments with him. Falling down a curly slide into his arms.

Biohacking is not quite yet within the range of a teenager with a Saturday job and a parental allowance, but prices are falling.

The house, nearly but not quite on the top of the hill, always seemed as if it might slide off into the corn fields below.

did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes.

As a piece of organisation, if not quite a triumph, it was an impressive feat.

Sure. It matters to me. You know. Today, it's not quite difficult for me to keep in touch with each other by Email or mobile messages.

He did not quite belong among the other village boys, and was restless.

This was a tiny revolution at the time, yet still restricts the video content to not-quite-comfortable display size of a mobile phone.

I did not quite like, at breakfast, to hear you talk so much about the French bread at Northanger.

Lei : Not quite. Then, if it isn't too much of a bother, would you call all the people on this list and tell them. . .

Wilson's adductor is still tender, he played against Fulham and I'm not quite sure how he managed to get through it, but he did.

I said sure, but I did not quite understand why he should need my help.

Wedo not quite understand what you wrote in the last paragraph of your letter. Please make it clear.

What bothered me that morning as I typed up my piece was a disquiet, a physical sensation I could not quite identify.

Clerk: What's the zip code, sir? Carlo: I'm not quite sure. Clerk: You can look it up in the book over there.

Agatha Christie's world is not quite a real world, which is one of the reasons why her books have not become dated.

I did not quite know what to say. I told her that the dress was not a big deal and she had no reason to be upset.

Maybe not quite realizing that she was signing up for bears, minus-30-degree weather, and no sushi anywhere in sight.

It looked more like this when it was all wrapped up -- not quite so pretty.

Global English allows writers to go "not quite as far but in half the time" , as the old Cure song used to have it.

you say my love is all you need, see you through, but I know these words are not quite true.

The rain did not quite, don't look like rain, it feels like the world next fog, eyes was closed in thick as bead nets rain.

I was not quite 14, and in a near constant state of arousal; the sight of a bra strap was, frequently, enough to produce an erection.

But can we agree that not quite perfect is often good enough?

I am still not quite convinced that she should have done so much in such a short time.

Five scoring matrixes are used for recognition, but the result turns out to be not quite desirable.

They did not quite like our first plan, so we said, 'Ah well, back to the drawing board! ' And went to revise our plan.

Just a little concerned about my future. It's not quite what I was expecting.

Even with the class and the Spring configuration file in place, you're not quite ready to run this code yet.

Business income year after year drops may be ' hurt forcedly ' , it is not quite good that this may mean growing sex.

Even with its film schools and armies of cameramen and extras, therefore, Hollywood is not quite as unshakable as it once thought.

Dr. Rajkumar said he suspected that most Americans were not quite ready for a fully autonomous car.

Later, the crew members had been brutally chased away, I saw this piece with the crowd the sky, not quite.

With the basic look done, we see that this is not quite legal Ruby code, but it's not far off.

And not quite worthy of a country that still retains a sense of its own larger purpose.

To Liverpool's great credit they did not let themselves be discouraged, but perseverance was not quite sufficient.

I'm not quite sure. You'd better inquire at the information counter in the Arrival Lobby. They'll be able to help you.

So we went. Chongqing's change had been overwhelming, yet I was not quite prepared for what I saw at the "martyrs tomb. "

The old ideas will be challenged. But we do not quite have the full sense of space that allows change to manifest.

The important thing to keep in mind that this is an evolving architecture that does not quite yet have all of the puzzle pieces defined.

It all adds up to a much clearer understanding of a genus of dinosaur that is not quite as familiar as we once thought.

Others echo Mr Martinez Fischer's views, if not quite the passion with which he expresses them.

but as it was not quite enough for Catherine's comprehension, she spoke her astonishment in very plain terms to her partner.

I was no longer a boy, not quite a man, and utterly unsure of what to do with myself.

That argument, I suppose, does not carry much weight nowadays, because, in the first place, cause is not quite what it used to be.

As for future talk, there were plenty of bold, futuristic initiatives that did not quite bear fruit this year.

I'm not quite sure what you're trying to tell me.

This was not an agreement, and in fact they were not quite familiar with each other, and indeed they had not spoken to each other yet.

The forint is not quite back to where it was before the financial crisis but the central bank has felt able to start cutting interest rates.

Officials in Beijing, however, are apparently not quite ready to embrace it.

Not quite as many died in these combats as Hollywood supposed, but there was always a pile of corpses to be hauled away at day's end.

I'm not quite sure why I feel like this, perhaps I unconsciously try to widen the gap between my parents and me.

Also there was the fear, not quite in me, but there in the field, spread like a mist, and denser at the core.

Mrs Clinton has not quite been knocked out, but she is kneeling on the canvas and groping for her mouth-guard.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea were not quite clear to him.

Nitrite content changed as fermented time goes on, and nitrate content had not quite different.

This is still not quite all that you need for making locale work automatically.

Not quite seven weeks into Barack Obama's presidency, the capital's leading thinkers seem to agree that the era of postpartisanship is over.

But things did not quite go to plan over the US Columbus Day holiday in October of that year.

And the result? Well not quite what I'd imagined - my family is responsible for almost 10 tons of carbon a year!

Not quite frequently? He said you hold the party every weekend late into the wee hours.

It was not quite so untrue as might have been expected.

"Jesus, we did it, buddy, we made it all the ways through" , he said, and they congratulated each other, not quite believing the good luck.

It is just, not quite, a great novel, being a little too conventional for that.

At the nearby resort of Rusutsu (it means "where wellness and happiness will stay with you" ) things are not quite so clear-cut.

I'm not quite sure where this term originated and I really don't understand why you would tell someone that before going out to do a show .

I have to admit that the Venice I saw was not quite up to the standard of the Venice I had visited so often in my imagination.

In spite of her efforts , Hunt had not quite domesticated .

Rubbing his eyes, this bear would also see that some things, of course, are not quite normal.

I voted other. Diana always rubbed me the wrong way, even when I was a kid I knew there was something not quite right about her.

Not Quite. I've Got A Few Canvases To Wrap And A Little More Paperwork.

Unfortunately things are not quite that simple, WSDL is a broad standard, in fact broad enough to be open to interpretation.

Not quite the substitute you were hoping for? Herbal tea was the other accepted alternative.

The trouble is, German banks do not quite seem to know the precise rules that govern these payments.

I'm not quite certain. I've been feeling fatigued ( tired ) for a year or so.

Some of the reworked articles are commendable journalism, but do not quite stand the test of time.

Brown dwarfs are not quite big hot enough to ignites the nuclear- fusion reaction that would make them shine as full- fledged stars .

Is it a human? I'm not quite sure. Figure it out and report back.

Mum, these little fish seem to be not quite themselves.

Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see my daughter, who has been brought to me expressly from Montfermeil?

A paradigm is an accepted model or pattern, but the sense of 'model' and 'paradigm' is not quite the one usual in defining 'paradigm'.

But as he watches upperclassmen regularly abuse stimulants as they compete for top college slots, he is not quite sure.

Not quite the word I was looking for. Perhaps a little more off the top.

Although I'm not quite ready to throw away my running shoes, I definitely use them a lot less now.

The boy might have known the truth, but I am not quite sure.

I do not quite understand what it means to say that the U. S. wants India to be a big country.

The Japanese workplace is not quite as sexist as it used to be.

This is not quite to say, simply, that it is a matter of the couple in the sense of the sexual pair.

There's no doubt that we have not quite clicked yet but there's plenty of time.

Well, actually, they're not quite flat in the usual rule, but you could make them flat and it would still look pretty much like a sphere.

Oh, Eve! Yes, I'm here! Not quite where I used to be, but that does not hinder our conversation!

The claim that average SAT math scores have never been higher is not quite clear cut.

Windsor Castle is not quite all that it seems.

Between ourselves. I think Mr. Holmes had not quite got over his illness yet.

Lastly, he finds that he's "sometimes hesitant to use it as a base [in the vertical screen position] as it seems not quite so stable. "

But it's not quite clear to me why anyone would want to be such a thing.

It is normal that the strength is not quite there, but it is nothing to worry about.

When I opened the e-mail, I found it was not quite what I had been expecting.

The results were technically impressive, but did not quite look convincing.

Other "mega-deals" that had not quite closed before credit markets froze last summer are suffering from a collective loss of nerve.

Besides giving the release month (though not quite date), Apple was more than happy to answer that, too.

These antennae are small enough to be mobile, but they are not quite big enough to catch all of the low-frequency radio waves.

Not quite the only. I really wanted that job at the magazine, but I still haven't heard from them.

Associate have on notebook computer ' one key restores ' , when I just began to use, not quite clear, restored savagery not carefully.

I do not quite know what it was that caused me to lift my head from the friendly shelter of the blanket.

I'm not quite hungry now. Let me think for a while.

People have been selling hamburgers in Taipei for some time now. I've tried some of them. And my assessment was: Almost, but not quite!

The common ground between the two parties has shrunk, but it has not quite disappeared.

Unfortunately, this is not quite true -- or at least not as black and white as it may seem.

Both are honourable gestures, but they will not quite restore the shine of one of the great stars of the European car industry.

A bathroom mirror was picked up from a firm that makes them and was about to be thrown out because it was not quite perfect.

Drug-testing laws are often touted as a way of saving tax dollars, but the facts are once again not quite as presented.

You will see build up and increasingly stronger earthquakes, but they are not quite at the point of explosion the GOM is.

O. K. , I said that these factors behind the food crisis aren't anyone's fault, but that's not quite true.

Mr Osborne's desire to make savings from the welfare budget is not quite the same thing as this kind of welfare reform.

Continuing in marriage but breaking up with their first boyfriend, and reverting to lots of men though not quite as many as before.

Without his quiet touch the album Wish You Were Here would not quite have worked.

It is not quite a week since they left Brighton.

He was not quite so tall as Jaime, but he was heavier, with thick shoulders and arms that would have made a blacksmith envious.

It's not quite right to say the newspaper has developed an "app" since there aren't yet smartphones in North Korea.

Get used to pushing things out that feel not quite ready and then be completely responsive to fix them as you go.

Not quite; let's extend the example a bit by projecting out only the customer's name, as opposed to the entire customer object.

Dale stretched . His arm went along the back of the bench , not quite around her shoulders , but she felt his muscles .

Like its namesake in daily life, this Chaos was an un-ordered, un-anything, not quite imaginable, shapeless state.

Not quite. You've been selected to go on an intensive language course in Beijing early next year.

The super-moral value experienced by Confucius, however, was, as we shall see, not quite the same as that experienced by the Taoists .

In terms of pure power it's not too far away, it's probably not quite as good, but overall the feeling is quite positive.

Dark matter might be a result of us not quite understanding how gravity works.

He knew it when it was not quite so flourishing as "he is blest in seeing it now. "

We wanted to see if, in fact, humans are really good decision makers after all, just not quite so good at doing it consciously.

His ideas did not quite fit in with your aims.

And the general theme of the film is not quite the same film will be assigned to "the edge of the film" in the.

It was not quite 7: 30 on a summer Saturday morning when I left the house with my toolbox and headed toward an alley near the corner.

Maribel Owen, age 20, was not quite as strong a skater as Laurie. Still, she had just won the U. S. senior pairs championship.

Uli lieutenant nodded, not quite like a soldier to ask a word.

For those who feel as if they had something not quite clean about themselves.

I said: I am not quite sure, a long time did not see her.

While someone like Rafa Benitez is better in setting out his game strategies but not quite as adapt in changing them.

I said Heathcliff forced me to go in: which was not quite true.

Not only does this require extra storage space, it risks introducing errors if the Titles do not quite match up between the rows.

That's not quite the high Andes, but it is still high enough to have an effect.

I'm not quite sure what your point is and I can't bring myself to read through your garbled arguments again for clarification.

The scientists said they did not quite understand the disparity.

[font=Verdana]In 1961, when Mr Saint Laurent set up shop in Paris under his own name, most couturiers were not quite like this.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

They're not quite golden, but maybe the rich Incan history makes up for that.

Maarten: Exactly, this is not quite, eh. . . it's a bit fearful to hear about all the repairs and things she is talking about.

Even in their heyday, dinosaurs were not quite as dominant as popular myth makes them out to be.

Yet by itself, this bill, whose passage in the Senate is still not quite secure, is an incomplete remedy (see article).

At present, Sibelius theoretical circles for the number of research papers and books is not quite a lot.

Even in your lack of understanding seek His instruction that you may 'know' even when you do not quite understand.

This fitting is no problem, this blade appears in early period. But its line fuller is not quite good. Wait for me to find a example.

If they happen to hear any sound that is not quite familiar to them, they need to check it out very soon.

Inevitably the repair job was not quite so simple. The mower firmly refused to mow, so I decided to dismantle it.

but, although we worked hard and faithfully, yet we did not quite reach our goal.

I'm afraid what you think about the man is not quite right.

Before I knew you in to India and is not quite understanding, I learn geography, so just know India's tropical monsoon climate.

If you're not quite sure what I'm talking about re: repetitious examples, if you read the top marketing books, you will, soon enough.

Cassandra: Um, well, I'm not quite sure what I'm destined to do yet, but as soon as I figure out my true vocation, I'm following my heart.

The manager is not quite satisfied with the operating personnel in the company.

Other frugal folks divulged tips that might not quite cover the cost of a jet, even a toy one, but made some sense.

I hope so. I'm looking for some material for a paper I'm writing, and I'm not quite sure where to look.

That explained a lot, but it did not quite square with other observations.

From what you told us it appears that you are not quite conscious of your surroundings.

In most regards, I feel I am settling in well, but I still feel that the tone of my e-mails is not quite right.

But where the body is not quite ready it is a major change and is weakening.

" Loopholes" in the experiments, however, mean that the question is still not quite settled.

Not quite a genius. . . but still one of the giants of English literature.

If you are not quite certain that it is multiplied for you in heaven, do not bestow.

For those of you building controls, the usage model for control state is not quite as convenient as view state.

A modified form of the Hunger Strike for those whose political convictions are not quite so radical is giving up chives.

It may seem to you not quite real until you meet it face-to-face.

There he is. Systematic, uncaring, methodical, conservative and sometimes not quite up to speed.

This did not quite satisfy the penetrating Mistress.

check completed , i think gear is still jammed , but i ' m not quite positive about it . request foam carpet.