Sentence examples for quite committing from inspiring English sources

"That's it," she gasped, holding her hands out towards this neat Penguin paperback without quite committing to touching it.

And also like its predecessor, Fargo is a film that seems to be a genre noir picture, while never quite committing itself.

We are told, for example, that Claudius' wife Messalina "remained on the loose": the narrator is not quite committing himself to the idea that wives ought always to be locked up, since the sentence channels the supposed thoughts of Claudius – but we are also not told outright that this is only Claudius' view, not Holland's.

Serbian-American businessmanMilan Mandarić had taken over Portsmouth in 1998, and they continued a habit of flirting inappropriately with (but never quite committing to) relegation to the third tier.

It was as if Dyer couldn't quite commit to the setup.

I'm quite committed in my new job to keeping that drama voice alive.

She could never quite commit to actually buying one — her hands were tied until some business affairs were wrapped up.

The book is part crime novel, part political allegory, part love story -- Loriga, to his credit, never quite commits to any of these modes.

Off-color jokes and sitcom timing catch and hold audience members' attention during this uneven Primary Stages production, but, under the direction of Mark Lamos, Cummings, a smart young actress, never quite commits to playing an uneducated and desperate homeless woman.

When I spoke to the Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel a little while ago, he would not quite commit to the idea that Snapchat is potentially part of a bigger movement against permanence.

And while "October Road" asks us to think about Knights Ridge as the blue-collar nowheresville of a Richard Russo imagining, the creators cannot quite commit to what that means visually, depositing the characters in big houses with pretty clapboard exteriors on broad streets where it always seems to be fall.