Good intentions, and a range of strong performances, are never quite enough to quicken the pulse.
Like their very names, Ms Wiggins's characters never quite dispel a whiff of contrivance.
But with Iran you never quite know what to expect: it has not always favoured defiance.
Providing a friend-sourced solution to the problem of never quite knowing whose online recommendations to trust.
Crises are never quite solved for the future so much as managed in the present.
It was left to Guinness, of course, to insure that the excitement never quite boiled over.
He has never quite lived down his reputation as a carpet-bagger, earned in his early days.
But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood.
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On the other hand they might lose because they never quite got around to it.
After all, she never quite knows where her next lead is going to come from.
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Still, try as we might, we could never quite get comfortable in this layout.
Its only weakness is that the author never quite succeeds in bringing Frederick's personality into focus.
DNet received early funding from the Band of Angels, but the company never quite got traction.
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One argument, never quite made explicit, was that this would enable drivers to avoid stigmatisation.
As a result they sometimes treat the performance of females who follow as never quite good enough.
Is the other party in constant motion, in fact, never quite coming to rest during the conversation?
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You never quite know how they will produce until the quarter is over and it's too late.
Hail To The Thief - as sprawling as it is spectacular - never quite resolves those questions.
The BJP far less than the Congress never quite managed, except in Gujarat, to adequately accommodate regional sentiment.
The problem is that the context always changes, and therefore reality never quite lives up to their expectations.
It seems, like Celestine V and maybe even Paul VI, that Benedict was never quite comfortable as pope.
You'd imagine that man could never quite stamp his mark on the vast desert of the Skeleton Coast.
So it is with perfect competition: the theory may well never quite work out in the real world.
On her own account, Rose also wrote about how the company never quite grasped what her job entailed.
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The plan, which dates back to at least 1998, has never quite been a clear vision, but now?
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As long as I can recreate these images, I never quite leave home.
Poland's own account of its history may never quite chime with its neighbours'.
You become a permanent foreigner, never quite making it as a local, and never feeling satisfied at home.
Lake Austin was the spa world's Buffalo Bills: the perennial contender that never quite made it to the top.
For the bulls, the rebound in technology stocks never quite showed up the way a few thought it might.
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