Sentence examples for Quite fulfil from inspiring English sources

"We're going to make a quite detailed application because he doesn't quite fulfil the criteria so it will probably go to appeal," he said.

Hunt's first book didn't quite fulfil the promise of its audacious conceit, but her second is nothing short of stunning: an adventure story, a psychological investigation of physical and mental breakdown, and a remarkable account of weather and endeavour.

Moritz Eggert's Number 9 VI; A Bigger Splash takes David Hockney's painting as the starting point for a pointless exercise in postmodern kitsch, while Theo Verbey's trombone concerto Lied is a series of four songs without words that never quite fulfil the promise of their most striking moments.

Only Andrew Flintoff, who in the course of a decade rampaged his way to 3,845 runs, with five centuries, and 226 wickets, pushes towards the mark, and even his batting and bowling averages, of 31.77 and 32.78 respectively, don't quite fulfil the criterion of the very best where batting average is expected to exceed that of bowling.

And what do you know: Love Letters is a chintzy 'n' tuneful bargain-bin blast of Sparks and Jona Lewie and Elvis Costello that doesn't quite fulfil the promise of The English Riviera, a cool, classy, us-against-the-world romance which seemed to suggest Metronomy were about to burst out of their funky nerd chrysalis to become a beautiful pop butterfly.

The piece is one of Wheeldon's most popular, but for me it never quite fulfils the brilliant promise of its opening.

In theory that ought to qualify the book for the much-prized category of literary thriller, but I'm not sure it quite fulfils either aspect of that hybrid genre.

And when Reema, the abandoned wife of a Punjabi cousin, turns up, she adds to the turbulent atmosphere of a family in which no one ever quite fulfils their hopes and desires.

The convention is an instrument that quite possibly fulfils the functional requirements and also identity.

And Wavell, tragically, was quite unable to fulfil these expectations.

If the government's idea of making the rupee fully convertible becomes reality (see article), it will create opportunities for larger debt-financed buy-outs by Indian companies, says Venkat Anantharaman, a senior corporate-finance banker at Standard Chartered.Bankers doubt, however, that the Indian market is quite ready to fulfil the Wall Street banks' expectations.