How To Use Half-hearted In A Sentence
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His efforts, the Duke recollected many years later,(Sentence dictionary) were distinctly half-hearted.
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Complaints to the ministry have only resulted in half-hearted attempts to solve the problem.
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Grabbing my leather purse, I waved half-heartedly at Lily, trudging after Billy, and down the hallway.
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Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer.
A Study of Shakespeare
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I had half-heartedly tried growing tomatoes once before in Charleston and knew that these evil pests loved to take a chomp out of a just-ripe tomato.
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When the errant screeches of violins and the half-hearted toots of one determined flutist died down, he cleared his throat.
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Joanna had made one or two half-hearted attempts to befriend Graham's young wife.
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By contrast, when compliance is performed manually, the effort is typically left to the last minute and performed half-heartedly.
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I remember too my half-hearted attempts to empathise.
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When attempts are made to individualize the characters, their personality quirks seem half-hearted and copied from any number of other war movies.
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The next snowfall was half-hearted, the brief shower of semi-liquid slush spattering on the windowpanes and freezing when night came again.
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He stood up and gave a half-hearted shrug arrogantly.
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She spoke with a hesitant, remonstrant voice, as if in half-hearted protest,
Heart of the Blue Ridge
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Government action has been half-hearted and uncoordinated.
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I spent a few months half-heartedly applying to jobs online because I wasn't sure I really wanted to leave.
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Inside, Lewis was half-heartedly pretending to clean up, brushing things to one side with a dishcloth and humming tunelessly to himself.
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She made a half-hearted suicide attempt and had her stomach pumped.
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When attempts are made to individualize the characters, their personality quirks seem half-hearted and copied from any number of other war movies.
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Apryl half-heartedly smiled back as she picked up a slice of toast and buttered it.
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Later in the film, another teammate executes a half-hearted attempt to pull her aboard a fast-moving boat, leaving her behind.
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Usually, I find myself wandering half-heartedly around the rails hoping some fabulous garment will leap out and grab me.
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She threw herself into his arms, sighing deeply when he half-heartedly returned her embrace.
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There have been various half-hearted attempts at reform down the years.
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It was okay, if a bit half-hearted.
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Unfortunately, late night shopping has been half-hearted at best.
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The police sometimes have a half-hearted approach to enforcing the law.
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Sen. Patrick Leahy said the decision constituted a 'default of U.S. leadership' and charged that it appeared to be based on a review that 'can only be described as cursory and half-hearted'.
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I'm on it but in a rather half-hearted way.
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A half-hearted attempt has been made to plant saplings along the road dividers.
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He was in a bad way, so very weak, only the occasional half-hearted flap of his wings.
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Recently I have made half-hearted attempts to discover what became of Norman Lodge.
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He made a rather half-hearted attempt to clear up the rubbish.
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Don't continue in this half-hearted way.
The Sun
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If his opposition was half-hearted, you might want to write a memo outlining your proposal and send copies to both him and his superior.
Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
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We're also wondering why the university is now covering its butt legally with this half-hearted gesture.
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There are, though, two half-hearted subplots which give some vague sense of propulsion.
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Doing this in a rather half-hearted way will not do.
HABIT BUSTING: A 10-step plan that will change your life
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My half-hearted attempt to change bank has even left me with a spare bank card, which is going to be bloody handy.
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The few subsequent endeavors, tentative and half-hearted, to repristinate my venery were foredoomed, partly because I had feared they were, to failure: erection was incomplete, ejaculation without pleasure.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
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Yet press stories about data breaches keep appearing with monotonous regularity because too many businesses both large and small still take a half-hearted approach to data protection.
Computing
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Once I made a half-hearted suggestion about bidding farewell to Blowitz, who expected me to get out at Vienna and might wonder where I'd got to; Willem gave me a slantendicular smile and said Kralta would send him a note.
Watershed
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The Scotland striker's half-hearted effort was turned round for a corner by Wylie's legs.
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I make a half-hearted attempt to clean my room but end up surfing the internet aimlessly.
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My half-hearted attempt to change bank has even left me with a spare bank card, which is going to be bloody handy.
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she tried half-heartedly
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But his longer-term strategy is to ensure that a future Palestinian state, which Mr Netanyahu half-heartedly says he would tolerate, is tightly circumscribed.
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The orange ball rebounded off the backboard and gave a few half-hearted bounces on the cement floor before rolling away.
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The efforts of the Government and civic bodies to green the city have been at best half-hearted.
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Hamm's screenplay goes some way towards bringing the story into the 21st century by having the protagonist explain his theory of an epidemiological root cause to a room full of Old White Men--generals, politicians, and other people interested in doing something, even if they don't comprehend the severity of the situation--whereas in the original story the epidemiological theory is dismissed and the UN's solution to the problem of 'femicide' is half-hearted at best.
"The Screwfly Solution" by James Tiptree Jr.
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Yet press stories about data breaches keep appearing with monotonous regularity because too many businesses both large and small still take a half-hearted approach to data protection.
Computing
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Both of these are half-hearted attempts to solve the mother of all chicken and egg problems.
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Watching him take his class, there's no comparison with my uncoached, half-hearted attempts.
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People are starting to criticize the government for its half-hearted approach to reform.
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Instead, his opponents accused him of offering a half-hearted apology.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a bad idea to charge in half-baked, ride a motorcycle half-cut, or take hard drugs half-heartedly.
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He made a rather half-hearted attempt to clear up the rubbish.
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Both of these are half-hearted attempts to solve the mother of all chicken and egg problems.
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After numerous half-hearted attempts, he arose one day about noon; then, having eaten a tasteless breakfast and strengthened his languid determination by a stiff glass of "hootch," he strolled out of town, taking he first random trail that offered itself.
The Winds of Chance
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The Scotland striker's half-hearted effort was turned round for a corner by Wylie's legs.
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Half-hearted efforts at compliance among urban school districts have kept the exodus to just a trickle.
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Her poetry anthology Enough Rope was a bestseller and her life was a procession of speakeasies, doomed affairs and half-hearted suicide attempts.
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It was a half-hearted attempt to draw level and one which referee Colin Hardie rightfully ignored.
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There weren't any real clouds, just a few half-hearted, lazy efforts that the sky had probably felt obligated to make, but that didn't dim the sun in any way.
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Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer.
A Study of Shakespeare
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James Edward made only a half-hearted attempt to regain the throne after the death of Queen Anne, but "Jacobitism" from James in Latin, Jacobus would haunt the Hanoverian dynasty that succeeded her.
Servants To Masters
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I made this clumsy, half-hearted suicide attempt about a year ago.
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It was a half-hearted plea, accompanied by a weak smile.
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The blog detailed a family's lavish lifestyle and their half-hearted attempts to rein in spending.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leave major tasks for now because your efforts will be half-hearted.
The Sun
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When I threw a half-hearted punch in his general direction, he knocked me down.
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The visual style is also uninspired, seemingly a half-hearted combination of Soderbergh and the Coens.
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Bloomsbury House reacted sceptically with a half-hearted inquiry as to the Home Office attitude to refugee medical students.
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Their half-hearted shower of arrows thickened and turned the air black with sharp, barbed, and vile arrows.
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They half-heartedly worked on a few new songs.
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He made a rather half-hearted attempt to clear up the rubbish.
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The desk was piled with books and paper, it looked like someone had made a half-hearted attempt to neaten the stacks.
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In Buffalo or Missoula, a 20-inch snowfall might get a half-hearted shrug.
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He inherited a health service struggling half-heartedly with reform.
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It made half-hearted and unavailing attempts to save itself as it was harried ever farther down the street.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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You are a highly seasoned professional committed to the cause while they are half-hearted dilettantes who are very likely to crack under pressure.
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We sat on the riverbank and worked on our raft, occasionally getting splattered with rain from a half-hearted cloudy sky.
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The rebels reached the gates through the half-hearted attempts of the enemy to keep them at bay with their arrows.
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Government efforts at facilitating reconciliation have been half-hearted at best.
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He was in a bad way, so very weak, only the occasional half-hearted flap of his wings.
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He offers up his worst side, arguing unconvincingly and half-heartedly.
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There had been a half-hearted attempt to allow the internet in.
Times, Sunday Times
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We attempted a team cheer, but the effort was half-hearted and just embarrassing.
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The orange ball rebounded off the backboard and gave a few half-hearted bounces on the cement floor before rolling away.
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McKinnon pushed back a bit half-heartedly about this, but the bottom line on the Palin selection is increasingly clear: it was a historically bad decision by McCain, a gimmick that backfired -- not just because Palin is so clearly unsuited for high office, but because it demonstrated McCain's own severe deficiencies as an executive.
Sarah Palin: Trick or…Trick - Swampland - TIME.com
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I started half-heartedly doing the Christmas shopping today.
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Maybe shrieking and yelping in the background while a bunch of hollow-eyed Irish crooners half-heartedly mumble a chicken-in-a-basket classic is just what Jackson needs to get his career back on track.
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The same half-hearted recognition of the concept of human capital can be detected in government education policies during the nineteenth century.
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Bill was leaning on his cab, spitting at the wing mirror and half-heartedly polishing it with his sleeve.
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But the time for dithering and half-hearted stop-go reflation is over, particularly given the perilous state of a global economy that still shows no sign of imminent recovery.
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There was hardly enough light from the stage, where spotlights illuminated the still drawn, dusty curtains somewhat half-heartedly.
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But failed to make much of an impression and the best I can muster is half-hearted respect.
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‘The Benton bout was a half-hearted attempt on my part to go out on a high,’ he says.
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After years of what many regard as a rather half-hearted effort, there is now a series of policies that should make a real difference.
Times, Sunday Times
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We attempted a team cheer, but the effort was half-hearted and just embarrassing.
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He pretended outrage, though it was only half-hearted, exhausted as he was.
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She attempted a half-hearted smile at the baby, who immediately burst into tears.
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Albany enters, and reproaches Goneril half-heartedly for her aggression, which leads her to call him "milk-livered.
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Blake moved his left shoulder in a half-hearted shrug and sat down next to her on the rock, carefully cradling his right arm.
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The buffalo [a native variety of the carp] now swish sluggishly around him, some pushing half-heartedly on the nets.
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Even since the war industrial relocation schemes for rural areas have been half-hearted and inadequate.
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With a half-hearted framing device about the guy writing the song?
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We are in the third calendar month of industrial action and I would rather members who were half-hearted about what we are trying to achieve voted against industrial action.
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Nobody cared if it was a bit half-hearted.
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She smiled half-heartedly, although she clearly heard the crack in his voice.
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Entrance into most preparation programs has been determined by self-selection, with half-hearted screening and little outreach to talented individuals.
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We talked half-heartedly for a while about London and house prices.
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Blue pulled half-heartedly at the meat she held in her hand, the cooked leg of some unfortunate bird.
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It's inexplicable that any truly anti-communist conservative would offer even a half-hearted defense of the man.
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Right now she has an artist's brush, but is using it to half-heartedly daub a go-faster stripe along the side of her burgundy Vauxhall Meriva.
This week's new singles
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Congress has made half-hearted attempts at finance reform.
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Perhaps if the cast had stronger personalities and more sonorous voices, the production would have a less half-hearted effect.
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He half-heartedly nodded his greetings at several gentlemen who'd yelled their hellos to him from across the room, but he was too driven to stop.
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I duly told her off in my usual half-hearted way.
Times, Sunday Times
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We're also wondering why the university is now covering its butt legally with this half-hearted gesture.
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Day of unity Yesterday's rather half-hearted celebration of a century and a half of Italian unity—a national holiday observed over the misgivings of the regionalist Northern League party and the outright abstention of the German-speaking region of South Tyrol—has left an appropriately downbeat memorial in the new Museum of the Roman Republic.
A Nation of Racing Drivers Speeds Ahead
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A half-hearted fire burned on the hearth, and watching it listlessly from the cot lay a boy about twice his age, David thought.
This Way to Christmas
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Brae sat back happily and listened half-heartedly to Chase's unceasing jabber.
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Hulse spends several paragraphs noting the desire of the freshmen Republican to "spoil for a fight" to reduce deficits, rather than to accept the half-hearted compromises that have been the norm on Capitol Hill.
Jonathan Weiler: New York Times Acts as Press Secretary for House GOP Freshmen in Deficit Fight
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So you can imagine my surprise when I open the door to find two odorous men, half-heartedly mumbling that they're here to ‘move me’.
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Television shows that he did so albeit in a half-hearted way.
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The master-thief put a hand to his wound again in a half-hearted attempt to staunch the blood flow.
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He came back in the middie of the afternoon and laughed a rather half-hearted laugh at the excellent Mandy's comment upon his jaded appearance.
Lodusky
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Thus Jefferson's early, eloquent denunciations of slavery (whether sincere or half-hearted) gave way to cheerleading for what he called "diffusion" -- the proposition that, if slavery were expanded into the western territories, it would somehow dilute itself and go away, never mind the cost to its victims in the meantime.
Bookmarks
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I responded rather half-heartedly with a fairly tame story from my past, and chucked her the names of a few people who I thought might be better suited.
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The police sometimes have a half-hearted approach to enforcing the law.
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Recently I have made half-hearted attempts to discover what became of Norman Lodge.
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I make a half-hearted attempt to clean my room but end up surfing the internet aimlessly.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God. Isaac Newton
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I have been half-heartedly trying to draft a post, but couldn't quite work up any enthusiasm.
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For a few years he made only half-hearted attempts to find a job, but with each new opening reinvented himself with ease.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet press stories about data breaches keep appearing with monotonous regularity because too many businesses both large and small still take a half-hearted approach to data protection.
Computing
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It was a half-hearted attempt to draw level and one which referee Colin Hardie rightfully ignored.
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There was never a moment of practice that was half-hearted, and he poured every ounce of effort into every performance.
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A half-hearted attempt has been made to plant saplings along the road dividers.
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After a half-hearted effort at saving my pocket money, I quickly emptied my account.
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Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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James Edward made only a half-hearted attempt to regain the throne after the death of Queen Anne, but "Jacobitism" from James in Latin, Jacobus would haunt the Hanoverian dynasty that succeeded her.
Servants To Masters
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There were half-hearted attempts to clean up now and again.
The Sun
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She had been working half-heartedly at the crewel embroidered shawl for some time.
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A watery sky, breached feebly by the occasional half-hearted sunrays on a grey leaden afternoon, seemed to catch the essential gloom that had descended on this region of North Galway.
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At a lack of anything else to do, she shook a half-hearted fist at him threateningly, and the corner of his lips tipped up in a hint of a smile.
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I prefer to think like a punter: a slummock on the sofa half-heartedly watching Match Of The Day, or a sweaty Christmas-bag-laden shopper trudging my way to the bus stop.
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I half-heartedly shoo the cat off the bed.
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This is their fifth day and we have yet to hook a fish, despite two half-hearted strikes.
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‘The Benton bout was a half-hearted attempt on my part to go out on a high,’ he says.
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After a half-hearted effort at saving my pocket money, I quickly emptied my account.
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Young John, now he had learnt that wrens can talk, had no difficulty in recognising this other voice: it was the half-hearted note of the titlark.
News from the Duchy
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Many chief executives might have stumbled, or made a half-hearted apology about flu profits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Feeling suddenly claustrophobic, he headed for the training yards, where he sparred half-heartedly with a few others.
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Spent too long throwing himself to the ground or making half-hearted challenges.
The Sun
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It was a strained, half-hearted laugh of a guilty prisoner, whose friend had just made a joke about the death sentence.
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I absolutely dislike the expression 'semi-staged', because if something is 'semi', it sounds half-hearted.
Times, Sunday Times
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An apology may sound half-hearted - but it is sincere.
The Sun
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The rebels reached the gates through the half-hearted attempts of the enemy to keep them at bay with their arrows.
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Ironically, the Founder's use of this technique is so effective that his uke's attacks often appear half-hearted because they have been interrupted by his well-timed kiai.
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But his longer-term strategy is to ensure that a future Palestinian state, which Mr Netanyahu half-heartedly says he would tolerate, is tightly circumscribed.
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There's no bite or edge to this movie, though; it's goofy, soft-centred romcom slush, with some very half-hearted Bollywood pastiche.
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Television shows that he did so albeit in a half-hearted way.
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He made a half-hearted attempt to justify himself.
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Complaints to the ministry have only resulted in half-hearted attempts to solve the problem.
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An apology that sounds half-hearted is actually sincere.
The Sun
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The attempt by the bureaucrats to save the environment is half-hearted.
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Unfortunately, late night shopping has been half-hearted at best.
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The half-hearted attempt to clean up with dustpan and brush did little more than reposition them.
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Yet press stories about data breaches keep appearing with monotonous regularity because too many businesses both large and small still take a half-hearted approach to data protection.
Computing
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We're also wondering why the university is now covering its butt legally with this half-hearted gesture.
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I'm not half-hearted at anything.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was never a moment of practice that was half-hearted, and he poured every ounce of effort into every performance.
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I doubt there is any kind of a familial tendency (not that there are any recognized genetic causes of iron-deficiency anemia) - my great aunt and my sister both suffer (ed) from pernicious anemia but I don't know of anyone in my family who had iron-deficiency anemia except for me, but then again I am usually the odd one out in my family. anemia and koilonychia a year and a half ago, I'd half-heartedly experimented with taking my multi-vitamin supplements.
Life Begins at 41...or maybe 43
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It rained part of the day, a benign and half-hearted precipitation.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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The Vermont senator said the Obama Administration's review of the earlier decision to stand apart from the treaty "can only be described as cursory and half-hearted.
Undefined
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Whereas the original boasted an eerie aura, the remix merely sounds like a half-hearted run through an old New Order B-side.
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His half-hearted attempt at a palace coup in 1600 led to his execution.
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His stroppy attention-seeking reaches new levels with each passing day, as do his half-hearted demands to leave Celebrity Big Brother.
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Congress has made half-hearted attempts at finance reform.
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Johnson, no stranger to family comedy/chase films (“Race to Witch Mountain,” “The Game Plan”), manages to convey the bubbly warm and mildly dimwitted personality of the fish out of space, while Justin Long (“Mac” in all those wonderful Apple TV commercials) voices Lem, a geeky teenager/student by day and a floor-swabber at the local planetarium by night, who half-heartedly befriends the human visitor.
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The half-hearted attempt to clean up with dustpan and brush did little more than reposition them.
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The image recurs in my fantasies of that girl half-heartedly attempting to stop what was going to happen.
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The attempt by the bureaucrats to save the environment is half-hearted.
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She attempted a half-hearted smile at the baby, who immediately burst into tears.
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I started jogging half-heartedly on the spot.
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If it sounds utterly insane to imagine this half-hearted policy wonkfest as some kind of a heated debate ...
Larry Womack: Desperate Times, Half Measures
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He half-heartedly agreed to go.
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By contrast, when compliance is performed manually, the effort is typically left to the last minute and performed half-heartedly.
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Congress has made half-hearted attempts at finance reform.
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Both protested against what they called my idiotic kindness, but their protests were half-hearted.
A Dominie in Doubt
