Sentence examples for without quite realising from inspiring English sources

"We're in a bit of a pickle about embalming," one man commented, without quite realising his joke.

Perhaps without quite realising it, De Palma is applying his extensively developed idiom of slash, splatter and gore.

Without quite realising it, we learn a great deal from Molnar about psychoanalysis, photos and the life of the mind and the emotions.

"It was there, on Rue Fontaine, Place Blanche, Rue Frochot, that I first brushed against the mysteries of Paris and, without quite realising it, began dreaming of a life for myself".

This is a warts-and-all elegy, a fascinating portrait of a gang who hooked up in their youth, achieved a measure of greatness without quite realising what they'd done and then were washed back together again; older and wiser but still with enough piss and vinegar in their systems to still feel aggrieved at the way they somehow let it slide.

This ruinous error is expressed with crystal clarity in moral philosopher Michael Sandel's brilliant little book What Money Can't Buy: "Without quite realising it, without ever deciding to do so, we drifted from having a market economy to being a market society" where the market rules everything, from health to education and beyond.

It is so pervasive that it silently touches every aspect of life without you quite realising.

Without anyone quite realising it, live performance has experienced a revolution.

But without Hugo quite realising it, this robot hides within its workings the secret of the 20th century's great new art form.

I didn't quite realise what it might have meant.

Steve Harmison never quite realised the depth of the gifts that had been bestowed on him.