Sentence examples for quite speaks from inspiring English sources

In this case the play is a 1932 potboiler by J. B. Priestley in which Mr. Day-Lewis plays a member of a seemingly charmed circle of friends and business partners that falls apart during one night's revelations of affairs, thefts, drug addiction and a love that almost but not quite speaks its name.

Actually, she didn't quite speak for all of them.

The first time I met her I was in Corrie, and I couldn't quite speak.

6 p.m. 7) PERSONALIZED LIBATIONS Tired of forking over $15 for a cocktail that doesn't quite speak to your individual tastes?

Perhaps it is we, hunting through glossaries and footnotes, attempting to decode 400-year-old words we no longer quite speak, who lose something.

To enjoy oneself without publicly checking one's privilege is some fuzzy betrayal of a thing that was hitherto never quite spoken out loud.

There's even a very real sense in which it is easier to "think" in a foreign language if you don't quite speak it than if you do.

"You could do the same story about any number of things where people are being affected by outside factors that they can't quite speak to," Mr. Carruth said.

Neighbors noticed that Cynthia Murphy didn't quite speak like a native Montclairean, so she explained that she was from Belgium; the question came up in Cambridge, too, where Tracey Lee Ann Foley (what a name!) responded to a neighbor that she was from Montreal.

Mrs Apfel is a fashion icon and quite rightly speaks like one.

We quite boldly spoke about alcohol and drugs.