Sentence examples for not quite conclude from inspiring English sources

And, in fact, War and Peace does not quite conclude with this glimpse of married happiness, but with another slightly irritable instalment of pedagogy – a 35-page essay in which Tolstoy returns again to the animating theme of his great work.

Peter Bradshaw gave a more negative review, stating that while the animation was brilliant, the "solemnly realist human faces look shriekingly phoney precisely because they're almost there but not quite", concluding "The story is adequate, if familiar, but after half an hour relapses into cliche".

Now, the perceived problem, or perhaps the perverse pleasure, of hanging out with Oliver Tree is that you can't quite conclude if what he's saying is exactly true, even if he insists he's being honest.

"Not quite," the magazine concludes.

Sensationalizing people may imagine believers as not quite getting it, concluding that you are "hanging onto your religion" and even "your guns".

And not quite knowing how to conclude the novel, Keneally offers a peculiar, bifurcated ending that doesn't work.

But the show is still "not quite" a hit, he concludes.

Businesses also increased their spending on equipment and software as the year concluded, though not quite at the double-digit growth rates shown earlier in the year.

But that, they seem to have concluded since, was not quite enough.

Nevertheless, the authors conclude that all is not quite right.

Lauro also said that the information Donaghy provided "could have led to additional prosecutions" and concluded that "something is not quite right with the conduct of this case".