Sentence examples for quite failed from inspiring English sources

What Churchill quite failed to grasp was the importance of sheer mass in modern war, as opposed to "The British Way in Warfare".

But lost in the rapture of anticipation And thinking how great was my brilliant creation I quite failed to note as I gazed into space That incendiary things were about to take place: That which had ignited my literary passion, Was about to ignite what my passion had fashion'd.

To put it in a nutshell, no actor can ever quite fail as Hamlet.

In other words, muddle on with policies which don't quite succeed but don't quite fail but at least keep the euro and the single market alive.

Perhaps the stress from these decisions led to Tuthill's reply on Nov. 27 to a "telegram from you last evening which I quite fail to understand and which, permit me to say, was quite unnecessary".

It's just that the hopes engendered by the savagely dynamic success of Black Watch, its beautifully authentic take on the language and obsessions and heroism and stupidity of Fife squaddies in Iraq, quite fail here to even sprout wings, let alone fly.

These examples suggest an analogy with perceptual illusions, which a correct belief sometimes quite fails to dispel.

Writing later in the 1970s, however, in their book The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler dismissed it with the words: "Doleful, lacklustre, would-be singalongs which quite fail to arouse".

It was a comical moment, although Lambert, quite understandably, failed to see the funny side.

For a political camp that boasts of its pragmatic electability, it has quite simply failed to adapt.

But the return of cold freezing conditions means the gamble has quite possibly failed and those birds will be lucky to survive the conditions.