Sentence examples for not quite present from inspiring English sources

A body full of dreams is not quite present, and not quite present to the reader.

Yet he is not quite present, like a dissatisfied ghost.

And therefore it has a similar kind of cultural afterburn, present but not quite present.

All addicts, regardless of the substance or their social status share a consistent and obvious symptom; they're not quite present when you talk to them.

Whenever Eva was alone in the house, they would make themselves known, not quite present but there all the same, and it always seemed to her that they were waiting for something.

Mr. Mader gets some nice, unforced performances, especially from Ms. Wheeler-Nicholson, Mr. Arnold and Betty Buckley as Julius's grandmother, who must deal with her not quite philandering but not quite present husband.

And yet Rylance and Fox are not quite presented realistically.

Admittedly, that spontaneity isn't quite present in Georgina Parkinson's account of the Queen Mother.

Still not quite the present, but to them... THE FUTURE!

I believe this is, indeed, a sensible view, but if so, the conceptual/intellectual history of this change is not quite adequately presented in the paper.

I wasn't really quite present at the time, because I was in my mother's uterus (my mother is Marianne Schnall, an activist, writer, and founder of the women's non-profit Feminist.com).