Sentence examples for that almost something from inspiring English sources

Here, Allen, the overreacher, finds a way of expressing "that almost something" — a Romantic imminence of perfection, harmony, and transcendent grace.

Dictionaries, however vaguely they define the word, agree on this, that "almost" means something between "short of" and "sort of".

That's almost something you expect from Tarkovsky or Malick, not a science fiction adventure movie".

It's no use bragging about something that almost everyone else has already.

It's something that almost happened in a different lifetime.

"It's something that almost everyone has to go through, meeting your future spouse's parents.

"Symphonie Fantastique" achieves something that almost all artists aspire to but few realize: an entirely original vocabulary.

Armageddon, once the exclusive domain of disaster movies and science fiction, is now something that almost everyone contemplates, or at least regards as a possibility.

An air ticket out of Japan at the moment is almost "something that money can't buy," he said.

It was something that almost no one had in 1980, and that almost everyone had in 1990, and it changed the game forever.

Or maybe it's that this summer feels almost like something provisional, something that comes without any guarantees.