Sentence examples for quite worked on from inspiring English sources

The series of commissioned novellas attempts in literature what hasn't yet quite worked on film: a revival of the cheap, campily elegant, cliché-subverting genre thrills associated with the Hammer brand.

Scratching doesn't quite work on a Linn hi-fi.

Writing in The Times, Renata Adler called Ms. Farrow "quite marvelous," adding, "Everyone else is fine, but the movie — although it is pleasant — doesn't quite work on any of its dark or powerful terms".

Except it didn't quite work on this occasion because, much though he looks and sounds the part, Osborne isn't quite the typical old Tory from central casting.

Interestingly, the flip-to-end scam doesn't quite work on newer Kindles but still works on older, non-updated Kindles which makes it still a lucrative scam.

I've been running Android N on a Pixel C tablet since the day it launched and it's surprisingly stable already, but it will occasionally lock up for a few seconds and a few third-party apps don't quite work on it yet.

Or you've seen something fabulous, and it is fabulous, but it doesn't quite work on you.

"The tracks didn't quite work on the album, but I felt they shared a weird Krauty EDM vibe.

Some of the shows I've worked on, quite frankly, are so vast and bizarre that I see them as dream-like, completely surreal affairs.

"What I worked on was quite bare bones and everything else grew up around me," says Nile Rodgers.

The original song he worked on was quite gloomy, and he turned it into this Technicolor, Hollywood thing.