Sentence examples for quite approve from inspiring English sources

The skater's mother does not quite approve of her career.

Gurney does not quite approve of this piece of what he calls "Gallic insouciance".

That earned Matt Scheckner, executive director of Advertising Week, a stern talking-to from Paley Center representatives, who thought a fire marshal would not quite approve.

The custom is so ingrained that many Senegalese, even if they do not quite approve, continue to roll down their car windows and flip coins into the children's bowls, sustaining the practice.

Certainly, he rebuts the idea that landscape-writing always has a reactionary or at least nostalgic hue: "I imagine that, if Burns knew what I was up to, he'd probably quite approve".

I do like the idea of being able to talk to my favorite writers about their work, but I also quite approve of Joyce's (or Stephen Dedalus's) idea of "the artist, like the God of creation [remaining] within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails".

Tolkien, besides being a patriot, was a conservative Roman Catholic who never quite approved of his fans -- many of them American hippies, at least in his day -- let alone the industry of ancillary products that mushroomed around his work.

For years Kennedy refused to play the Proms, but he quite approves of this year's programme, which features the first "urban Prom", broadcast on Radio 1, as well as a 6 Music Prom.

As a hedge, administration officials said, they would quite likely approve the sale to Chile of the latest-generation missile system, known as Amraam, but would store the missiles in the United States until a similar technology was acquired by one of Chile's neighbors.

Having grabbed a big budget increase, the army could probably afford such a campaign.The election commission has been widely condemned for absurdly stringent new campaign rules, under which candidates risk disqualification for such trivial offences as playing music at their rallies or having posters that are not quite the approved size.

The Senate and the president, it appears, are quite prepared to approve this change.