Sentence examples for quite expressed from inspiring English sources
Brink quotes it as an epigraph, along with some lines from Wallace Stevens about "things that would never be quite expressed, / Where you yourself were never quite yourself / And did not want nor have to be".
As in a Henry James novel, the action takes place between the phrases, the meaning is contained in what is left unsaid; something is always going on which is never quite expressed.
Check-in was not quite express.
I can't quite express how overwhelmed I feel.
No performer in this country quite expresses yearning like he does.
Dr Dare said: "I can't quite express how overwhelmed I feel.
"I could never quite express what I wanted to about music in words," he said.
He can put into words what the rest of us are feeling but can't quite express.
"You can't quite express as much as you normally express, but it's popular, so everyone can understand," he explained.
This tweet from @culturevultures struck a chord: "I can't quite express the jumble of thoughts in my head from my recent foray into the #LeedsMayor stuff.
Of course, the rights of desire are among the things we can never quite express, and this is very much Brink's point.
