Unfinished

BUCKLEY: Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicled what he called the unfinished presidency of Jimmy Carter, who returned to his native Georgia to find a home in need of repair and a peanut farming business in debt. ❋ Unknown (2001)

In it, I present my personal assessment of the current national mood concerning race relations and issue a set of concrete challenges that form what I call the unfinished business of building One America. ❋ Clinton, Bill, 1946- (2001)

Size: 3,010 square feet (plus 1,000 more in unfinished basement) ❋ Unknown (2010)

So the idea of letting strangers see your work unfinished is as horrifying to most writers as going out in public without your trousers. ❋ Stephanie Merritt (2010)

They are plain unfinished pine with visible screws, nuts and it's really, really short. ❋ Regina Doman (2007)

The game is for each of the company, in turn, to add a letter to it, keeping the word unfinished as long as possible. ❋ Clarence Squareman (N/A)

He rubbed his knee, swallowed painfully, and, leaving the word unfinished, limped haughtily from the room. ❋ Unknown (1912)

I found many of these adventurers in unfinished houses and racked with malaria; in one case I saw a family of eight, all ill with chills and fever. ❋ Unknown (1898)

"Where's the captain of this -- --?" and he left the phrase unfinished, finding no epithet sufficiently energetic for his thoughts. ❋ Unknown (1898)

When I wrote by day, often suddenly interrupted, I left the word unfinished, and He afterward gave me what He pleased. ❋ Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte, 1648-1717 (1880)

The writer had added two or three words, desiring that the surplus should be at Mr. Gray's disposal, to meet the additional expenses of this period of calamity; but Mr. Moncada had left the phrase unfinished, apparently in despair of turning it suitably into English. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

I’ve seen a very early cut of T4, and though some special effects remain unfinished, it is turning out to be one great flick. {random "spoilers"} Yeah you heard me right: Both Edward Furlong and Nick Stahl will be in this one. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The writer had added two or three words, desiring that the surplus should be at Mr. Gray’s disposal, to meet the additional expenses of this period of calamity; but Mr. Moncada had left the phrase unfinished, apparently in despair of turning it suitably into ❋ Unknown (2008)

Such small things make the book look unfinished, which is never good. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He's living there again, but said some minor storm repairs remain unfinished. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In Plainfield, we have seen the way the UCIA works with the Park-Madison office complex -- many of whose completion items remain unfinished. ❋ Dan (2007)