Sentence examples for quite asking from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sedgwick, though, gets the best role, a slippery chameleon who pursues the other two like a revved-up Columbo, turning up everywhere, never quite asking direct questions.

The International Gymnastics Federation is now implying, without quite asking explicitly, that the American gymnast Paul Hamm should give up his gold medal to a South Korean competitor in the interest of fair play.

The particular kind of neutrality associated with digital humanitarianism is dangerous: to be so detached from the cause you claim to support – and to spread information without quite asking what it really means, and who is behind it – is deeply problematic when you are dealing with human life.

"Whose isn't?" his mother doesn't quite ask, in reply.

Clark hints at, but never quite asks the question of why Williams entrusted his secret memoir to a notably unliterary young man.

Insouciant as he was, he hadn't ever felt that he could quite ask a man as unattractive as Zwelish how he made do.

There are probing questions somewhere in here about whether the stereotype of meek pensioners is out of sync with the reality, but they're never quite asked.

The department did not quite ask to be a national symbol of grief and perseverance, but its members have grieved and persevered, in public, nonetheless.

Listen to what your friend has to say carefully, part of your problem might be that they need you but can't quite ask you for help.

It is the question producers assessing The Infidel for a West End transfer are quite legitimately asking.

However, I ask questions for a living and I am quite comfortable asking the necessary questions to provoke a public conversation about civility in our public discourse.