Sentence examples for quite step from inspiring English sources

But this anti-heroine's ferocity is transmitted only intermittently and tentatively, resulting in an Evita who doesn't quite step out as the leading player in her own story.

At the same time, because he is also exploring Ireland at a crossroads, an infinitely fascinating web of allusion, taut with nuance and subtlety, and because no Irish writer returning to his or her homeland can ever quite step out of Joyce's shadow, Nora Webster carries a burden of detail missing from Brooklyn.

Understanding that mobile isn't an area that Microsoft can quite step away from altogether, it seems that the company is going to have one more go now on with a different partner (one that is still on the rise) and a different approach.

Indeed Powell himself has expressed surprise that Bolt has not quite stepped up a gear yet this season.

"While the employer-based system slowly unravels," Mr. Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute said, "the public system isn't quite stepping up to the plate to pick up the slack, and therein lies the problem".

Some years ago Oxfam asked me if I wanted to visit one of the projects they helped fund then write about it, so I travelled by bus to the Migrants Resource Centre in Victoria, London SW1 and despite meeting some extraordinary people there has always been a small part of me which believes I never quite stepped up to the plate.

"It's quite difficult stepping in as number two.

Today I watched as those trainers quite literally stepped back, and handed the hotel over to its employees.

Then, quite abruptly, they step away and are gone.

The old guard is not quite ready to step aside just yet.

Whether Mr. Bradley was quite ready to step out today seemed arguable.