Sentence examples for quite so close from inspiring English sources

He's never been quite so close to contentment.

With its localized search feature, national politics has rarely hit quite so close to home.

But not quite so close, professionally speaking, as he was only a few weeks ago.

Strip mines are strip mines, and I had seen similar scenery in North Dakota and southern Ohio and West Virginia, though never quite so close at hand.

As far as trends go, double‑breasted is fashionable again, after decades of obsolescence, and a very slightly more relaxed cut – a softer shoulder, a fractionally longer jacket, trousers fitted but not cut quite so close – has arrived to liberate us all from the excessively buttoned-up, Mad Men-inspired 60s-style suits of the past decade.

"Barack" and "Obama": Never before in American politics have words quite so outlandish come quite so close to the White House (although a spirited case can be made for "Gamaliel" and "Milhous").

Even though Manhattan was quite close — so close that you could monitor traffic patterns on the F.D.R. Drive from our balcony — the roar was muffled by the river.

Not quite twins but so close in age, and their ages make them developmental minefields.

"You used to see these massive personalities from a great distance," he ponders, "and now you see quite ordinary people so close you can see up their bums.

But whenever I hear Evans using the show to encourage this privileged minority to fork out even more hundreds of thousands of pounds to buy themselves into, say, the pit-lane at Monaco – forever beyond the reach of the majority of his listeners – I just wish he'd stop being quite so bloody gauche, close the door gently, put on black tie and go and do it all somewhere else, and far more quietly.

He comes quite close to dying, so close that his friends arrive in Manhattan from across the country to say their goodbyes.