Sentence examples for final almost from inspiring English sources

His last letter, written just before he died in 1826, has a final, almost thrilled floral flourish: "O!

In the final, almost unbearably bleak stretch of plot, Bill is afflicted with paralysis, incontinence, and blindness in merciless succession..

The colony was not yet aware of the ultimate meaning of its own mood and actions, but it was instinctively preparing for one last maneuver, a final, almost suicidal response that might yet save some of its members.

If England win their pool, that includes matches against Wales and Australia at Twickenham, they will earn the softest possible route to the final, almost certainly avoiding South Africa and New Zealand.

It is absurd that a second-round match should be dressed up as a final, almost, but this story grew legs the moment the Queen put Wimbledon in her diary for 24 June.

Queen of the South reached the Scottish Cup final almost as spectacularly as Cleopatra entered Rome, captivating every neutral inside Hampden Park or watching on television with a dazzling performance.

That was the final almost-moral of "Zooey," the almost-final Salinger story to appear in these pages: Seymour's Fat Lady, who gives art its audience, is all of us.

Screenwriter Andrew Davies, director Tom Harper and the entire cast can hold their heads high as the final, almost-feature-length episode upheld the standards they have established from the outset: classy, sensitive, lavish, memorable.

Critics have responded largely positively to the adaptation, with the Guardian's Viv Groskop saying: "Davies, director Tom Harper and the entire cast can hold their heads high as the final, almost-feature-length episode upheld the standards they have established from the outset: classy, sensitive, lavish, memorable".

This procedure integrates a distortion-tolerant mutual information MR-CT registration, a new tissue classification exploiting global spatial cues, a simplex-based surface meshing model to identify and triangulate the relevant anatomical boundaries, and a final almost-regular tetrahedralization of tissue volumes surrounded by these boundaries.

Yet here were shades of this year's Australian Open final when Serena, having also defeated Sharapova in an equally brutal semi-final, almost succumbed to Davenport's heavy hitting.