No doubt the best conversations are those that never quite occur.
Of all the things I had imagined, a lovely, rather romantic story like that hadn't quite occurred to me.
It did not quite occur to me that these older women were watching to see what direction this intimacy might take and that they were ready to turn righteous if the doctor should decide to drop me.
It hadn't quite occurred to her, in the time since they'd parted and the parting had been all her doing, he had just suffered it intensely, with a white, fixed, wronged stare and outbreaks of baffled protest that he might have had all this growing left to do.
It hadn't quite occurred to me until recently that I was isolating myself from large groups of people.
We suggest that convergence across these three streams has not quite occurred at the global level.
But something quite different occurs, and the line of succession is brutally cut off.
But, if we decide to let them out into the light, and maybe even give them a little cuddle and say, "I get you" - something quite magical occurs.
It therefore can also be used, if only the results of an intervention process are given, which unfortunately quite often occurs in papers presenting uncontrolled observational studies.
"There is at this point, however, something quite different occurring.
