Sentence examples for quite quit from inspiring English sources
It's more like "Big Love" or "Carnivàle," smart, ambitious series that move unusual characters around an unfamiliar setting imaginatively and even with grace, but that never quite quit the surly bonds of serial drama.
Alessandra Stanley of the Australian newspaper The Age remembers Carnivàle as a "smart, ambitious series that move[s] unusual characters around an unfamiliar setting imaginatively and even with grace, but that never quite quit the surly bonds of serial drama".
Religion in the academic setting never quite quit its long history of advocacy outside the university, and so academic religion embraced its mission as sponsorship of religion, offering 'religion appreciation' classes similar to art appreciation classes.
Author doesn't think this attitude quit quite fair.
"Looking after your health requires effort and many people quit quite soon after starting something.
It started in Ireland last fall with a friend who had quite abruptly quit his job a couple of years earlier and moved into a tiny cottage, neat as a ship's cabin, overlooking a beauteous inlet in County Cork, a place to explore the unfolding of the seasons, to feel that you would be there, in the same quiet spot on the same tranquil riverbank, tomorrow and tomorrow again.
Moments like this, plus impatience with the shallow roles she was being offered, helped to sour her on Hollywood, and in the early seventies she passively drifted out of the business — never quite quitting, but simply fading away.
With what stoic delicacy does Virginia creeper let go: the feeblest tug brings down a sheaf of leaves kite-high, as if to say, To live is good but not to live — to be pulled down with scarce a ripping sound, still flourishing, still stretching toward the sun — is good also, all photosynthesis abandoned, quite quits.
by Sharon Levy With what stoic delicacy does Virginia creeper let go: the feeblest tug brings down a sheaf of leaves kite-high, as if to say, To live is good but not to live — to be pulled down with scarce a ripping sound, still flourishing, still stretching toward the sun — is good also, all photosynthesis abandoned, quite quits.
There's nothing quite like quitting one's comfy hotel after a breakfast of chorizo and café con leche, hoisting a pack and walking out the door.
