Sentence examples for be quite held from inspiring English sources

The strength of the sestina, according to Stephen Fry, is the "repetition and recycling of elusive patterns that cannot be quite held in the mind all at once".

The IMS devices can be quite small and held in the hand.

"You don't make a big deal of it but it would be quite nice to hold it outright," said Richie McCaw, the captain.

This means that the external tanks must be quite large to hold enough power to be useful.

"You ask the question: is it that the government is out of touch with issues which are quite passionately held within the community?

This view was quite widely held by American anthropological linguists (although many of them would not go as far as Whorf in asserting the dependence of thought and conceptualization upon language).

That is because the view is quite firmly held that even in the worst case, Deutsche Bank will not fail to make good on its responsibility as a trading counterparty.

Bayern's confidence might be a little more muted than usual in the wake of the Dortmund defeat - "maybe Real are favourites", wondered Dutch winger and Real old boy Arjen Robben - but José Mourinho's team are not quite held in the same, impossibly high regard as their La Liga rivals Barcelona.

In the end, the fragile construct MichaelJackson was never quite held together.

This art form has slowly moved its way into the mainstream in America, though it's never quite held the sway that it has in Europe.

To be quite accurate, they had held the sausages over a smoking fire till completely blackened, and then consumed the charred remains with the utmost relish".