Sentence examples for quite be called from inspiring English sources

Ms. Linney's manic performance couldn't quite be called comic, because Lila is so dangerously unhinged.

Her vigilance, in which there was something that couldn't quite be called contempt.

Then again, the list was in alphabetical order, so the film can't quite be called her No. 1 choice.

Green Day sound as though they are again becoming a force to be reckoned with, even if they'll never quite be called "credible".

Many other charges are not made directly by central government or cannot quite be called taxes but which are seen by many voters as levies by stealth.

It sports an 8.9mm waistline, the same as the Samsung Galaxy S II, but can't quite be called "the world's thinnest" thanks to the 7.1mm Droid Razr.

The two movements would take only about 30 years to converge, constituting what may conveniently (though not quite precisely) be called classical Kabbala.

It's an impulse that can quite reasonably be called adolescent, regressive and escapist.

"Many people misunderstand me – I'm quite happy to be called a photographer.

Indeed, this new work could quite as easily be called "In Defence of Cooking".

Not quite documentaries, they "might be called semi- or quasi- or crypto-documentaries", he suggested.