Nothing quite conforms to our romantic ideals.
These Salukis still do not quite conform to Bob Knight standards of obedience.
Gordon had dreaded death row but found that it didn't quite conform to his nightmares.
Just as London as a whole isn't really Kipper country, neither Whittle nor Kurten quite conform to Kipper cliche.
But I'm not surprised that the constitution doesn't quite conform to the world according to Nick Clegg.
Yet their data shows that this happy result does not quite conform to the iron schedule of 20 years, as the current wisdom of American investors has it.
The prices of gold and more mundane metals may therefore start to move in opposite directions.Not even oil, the archetypal industrial commodity, quite conforms to the super-cycle theory.
Politics in the United States never quite conformed to the doctrinal patterns exhibited in continental Europe or even Britain, mainly because there was never a monarchy, an aristocracy, or an established church for conservatives to defend or for liberals to attack.
Sometimes Mr. Magee underplays issues that don't quite conform to his theories, as in giving short shrift to "Die Meistersinger" (which he deeply admires but which doesn't quite fit into his Schopenhauerian scenario), or slighting the words of "Tristan" as he makes his case for its inherent musicality.
"A Child's Machiavelli: A Primer on Power" (alas, "The Little Prince" was taken) certainly looks like a children's book, with its cuddly illustrations of Peter Rabbit, but Claudia Hart's text doesn't quite conform: "Either be really nice to people or kill 'em," the author writes, and adds, "A gun is man's best friend".
What if they don't quite conform, can't easily control their attention span or perceive the structure of the world in their own way and at their own pace?
