Sentence examples for Quite fire from inspiring English sources

The combination isn't quite fire and ice, more glow and chill out.

She has a history of doing workshops (she was involved at an early stage of development in the Sting musical, the Last Ship, currently trying to stay afloat on Broadway) but also appearing in new musicals in which she shines brightly, but which don't quite fire on all cylinders.

Some of the game's hot young properties, such as Ganso and Neymar of Santos, Edinson Cavani of Napoli and Anderlecht's Romelu Lukaku, are earmarked for other top Champions League clubs, while rumoured midfield targets such as Wesley Sneijder and Luka Modric, excellent players though they are, do not quite fire the imagination.

"If we burned every year, we did not have enough fuel (leaves and trees) to drive a high intensity fire - fires that will kill a lot of trees - so we published a few papers saying that this kind of forest was quite fire resistant," explained Dr Brando.

She didn't quite fire up as some of her best performances had hinted she might.

But "teens are not quite firing on all cylinders when it comes to the frontal lobes".

Coach Gareth Jenkins was of the view that his was an essentially good side, but not quite firing.

The new chef, Massimiliano Vezzi, isn't quite firing on all cylinders, not paying as much attention to dressings and sauces as he should.

Ultimately, though, developer Hal Laboratory's tactile inventiveness never quite fires on all cylinders, leaving a solid experience that never quite soars like its pink, helium hero.

Velvet Tinmine Various Artists Here finally is a chronicle of pop bands that were never popular and sure-fire hits that never quite fired.

Patton wasn't quite fired, though a lot of people wanted him to be, in part because Eisenhower needed him as a decoy for D-Day.