Sentence examples for quite in control of from inspiring English sources

What's intriguing is that they are just not quite in control of their destiny.

He seems to his students not quite in control of himself: he gets carried away, he throws himself around, he slips his hand inside his shirt and grasps his chest, he quivers with feeling... Writer compares him to Falstaff..

And she shows that it is these days in particular that are in danger of collapsing into alienated despair, because lovers are not quite in control of the vulnerability they have unleashed.

He seems to his students not quite in control of himself: he gets carried away, he throws himself around, he slips his hand inside his shirt and grasps his chest, he quivers with feeling... Writer compares him to Falstaff.

By this time Chris Bell had split, leaving Big Star in the hands of a man not quite in control of his own destiny … "I can remember a time in 73 or 74 when I had the key to Ardent recordings so I could go in and record things late at night and just do anything I wanted.

The guy jumped up and if you are not quite in control of your emotions or are just a little bit off with your timing, that is the outcome.

But this is one of those awkward films that depicts complacent characters while itself looking complacent, and Silva never quite seems in control of his volatile material.

"We manage to get another one and were looking quite comfortable and in control of the game - they haven't really caused us any problems.

Instead of photographing myself, in this photo, I am the subject of the image and that is quite different than being in control of the camera.

It seems quite clear that conservatives in control of the Senate are committed to slow-walking the entire confirmation process and keeping President Obama from filling as many judicial vacancies as they think they can get away with.

"At the Europeans I felt quite in control despite only winning two out of three which, you know, seemed like the world had ended around me," she says with a shake of the head.