What Churchill quite failed to grasp was the importance of sheer mass in modern war, as opposed to "The British Way in Warfare".
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".
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.
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".
As much work in philosophy of science over the last half century has indicated, though, nothing much of anything can be learned by this method: the world quite generally fails to supply falsifying evidence.
Yet while Lipps diagnoses the problem of the inference of analogy within the context of a Cartesian conception of the mind quite succinctly, he fails to explain how empathy is able to provide us with an epistemically sanctioned understanding of other minds or why our "feeling into" the other person's mind is more than a mere projection.
Quite pleasant stuff, but fails to grip.
New Zealand's prime minister will be "quite happy" if Australia fails to seal its controversial free trade deal with China.
Four youngsters play Adrian over the musical's run, and on press night, Joel FofferedJones offered the right mix of wide-eyed blindness, perception and self-deception, as a boy who can see the pimple on the end of his own nose quite clearly but who fails to spot the truth about his mother's relationship with the oily next-door neighbour, Mr Lucas.
And his latest move - on loan at Liverpool from Chelsea - could determine whether he goes on to enjoy a stellar career or if he fails to quite make the top grade.
