Sentence examples for quite abandoning from inspiring English sources

After classical literary studies and a course in drawing, he was placed in the studio of Joseph-Marie Vien, a history painter who catered to the growing Greco-Roman taste without quite abandoning the light sentiment and the eroticism that had been fashionable earlier in the century.

"We felt quite abandoned," she says.

A house unused, but not quite abandoned.

Alexander, however, never quite abandoned the idea of representative institutions.

Truth is, Reynolds never quite abandoned the stand-up.

Pink hasn't quite abandoned rhythm-and-blues.

Nor did he ever quite abandon the metaphysical phase.

He began writing a book called "The Nomadic Alternative," which he could never quite finish and never quite abandon.

The Supreme Court has gradually turned this area of law into a tangle of not quite abandoned constitutional tests.

They can't quite abandon it; perhaps all of Chile's Pinochet generation feels like this in other ways.

Whereas Alexander I had never quite abandoned dreams of change, Nicholas I was determined to defend the existing order in his motherland, especially autocracy.