Even lunch was eaten by them in a half-hearted way. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
They had been half-hearted before, but they were brave now. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
Saronia, and thou, half-hearted, art tottering on thy throne. '. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Though perhaps that is really harder, being often half-hearted. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
It will be a contest in which no half-hearted recruit is wanted. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
There are too many of these half-hearted Head-quarters in the army. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
The few criticisms that have emerged seem half-hearted and strained. From Wordnik.com. [Mehlman's announcement was no big deal -- and that's a big deal] Reference
In those cases, prosecutors appeared half-hearted and poorly prepared. From Wordnik.com. [Changing Convictions on Bashir] Reference
Soon she would have leave for work, to test their half-hearted theories. From Wordnik.com. [Casualty] Reference
As I said, because it was a half-hearted attempt by the Kremlin to begin with. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Overestimate Your Superiority] Reference
Hopper was a serious artist, and a gifted one, erratic but never half-hearted. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Star Qualities] Reference
The truth is this -- if Selig tried at all, it was a half-hearted effort, at best. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Weiler: Bud Selig Should Be Barred From the Hall of Fame] Reference
In too many euro-zone countries, reforms have been modest, half-hearted, and uneven. From Wordnik.com. [The Euro's Success Requires Liberalization] Reference
We are also responsible for their service; if we are half-hearted they will surely be. From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
When Nan spoke in that half-hearted tone Ruth had no faith in her strength of purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
She set the table and went about her usual household tasks in a very half-hearted way. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
He counted his money less frequently, and when he did so it was in a half-hearted manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
To be ruthless and frightful in a half-hearted, nervous, vacillating fashion is ridiculous. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Calvinistic Holland, accepts in half-hearted fashion the creed so incongruous with tropical Nature. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
"Nary mind the half-hearted lot," said Noah Webster, at this juncture putting his spoke in the wheel. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
One could argue — I would — that the administration's diplomacy is half-hearted and lacks ambition. From Wordnik.com. [What Bush Got Right] Reference
Scottish officials interpreted this to mean that U.S. objections to Megrahi's release were "half-hearted.". From Wordnik.com. [How Obama Thinks] Reference
Except for some frills and half-hearted regulations, the national interest is business-as-usual economic interest. From Wordnik.com. [Ervin Laszlo: The G-20 Vision Is Obsolete] Reference
They played in a half-hearted, diffident fashion, quite the opposite of their whirlwind sweep during the first half. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
Their slowly rising complaint started off as a half-hearted protest but soon gained in volume and unsettling portent. From Wordnik.com. [Barns And Ignobles] Reference
Natural disasters invariably pull at the heart-strings of the West, though they typically elicit half-hearted responses. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan's Epic Flood] Reference
So in that spirit of half-hearted recommendation, let's start with "Running Wilde," a new Fox series premiering Tuesday. From Wordnik.com. [This Fall, Shows You Know Are The Only Must-See TV] Reference
"But," mimicked Madeline, with half-hearted playfulness; "what will you give me to relieve your embarrassment, and guess?". From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Ultimately, after the SEC quintupled the fine and added new charges, Rakoff offered his half-hearted approval to the settlement. From Wordnik.com. [Judge balks at SEC's settlement with Citigroup] Reference
Jake crumpled moaning back onto the floor and raised a hand in half-hearted protest, but was now too far gone to put up much of a fight. From Wordnik.com. [Bootstraps] Reference
I wield an acerbic tongue when needed, but maybe there's something half-hearted about my response because he guffaws at it nonchalantly. From Wordnik.com. [Passing Time] Reference
In the Rabbi's house there was some show of festivity, although the attempt was half-hearted and conveyed an impression far from joyous. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
During the War the Idrisi, who had long been in revolt against the Turks in northern Yamen, kept making half-hearted and abortive dabs at. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
But he's been unlucky, and oddly off his stride, in his heavily financed, but somehow half-hearted, bid against Hillary Clinton for a U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Sex And The City] Reference
Beijing knew this, and was able to ignore the administration's first ploy, a half-hearted linkage between "progress" on human rights and continued most-favored-nation status. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese 'Face' Time] Reference
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