So I've set up this rediculous half-serious long-term goal.    From Wordnik.com.  [robitessin Diary Entry] Reference

And then the half-serious banter turned completely serious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Changed Man and the King of Words]

Her resentment was only half-serious, but the note was there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperialist] Reference

Ted laughed at the chap's half-humorous, half-serious manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference

"Time to face the music," he said half-serious, half-laughing.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Gradishar deserves spot in Canton] Reference

This latter policy flooded the system with half-serious applications.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Picture] Reference

My half-serious suggestion was to start a Post-Dissertation Fitness Group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Do It] Reference

My mouth half-smiled in the corners when I was half-serious and half-joking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writing Workshop: What are YOU writing? | Write to Done] Reference

“I'm hip,” he replies in his half-mocking, half-serious street parlance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travis&Jared] Reference

She was half-joking, half-serious, and Maura's heart went out to her once more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maura's Game]

If you own a half-serious camera in the near future, you are a semi-pro video crew.    From Wordnik.com.  [hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Digital Cameras with Video is the Next Big Thing?] Reference

Modern brands can be easily integrated into a half-serious, futuristic game like AO.    From Wordnik.com.  [If I give you some money will you stop it?] Reference

“Are you a bringer of drama, Ana Covington?” he said, half-teasing, half-serious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pure Sin] Reference

He had been half-joking when he'd said that to Trish, but he had also been half-serious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baby Games] Reference

I came to realize, in the years I would get to know Bird, that he was only half-serious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird-Magic showdown of 1979 was start of something special] Reference

But, really, all this serious and half-serious analysis of men's preferences is needless.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Men Like... Review of Kenzo Winter Flowers] Reference

Grace went on soothing Arline in this half-serious fashion, which presently had its effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference

You're focusing on the "we'll bring him back later" part, which is only half-serious anyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cronin Theory of Comics – Good Characters Should Be Written in Comics | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

Torene laughed at him, evading his half-serious interference with a direct path to the sinks.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Fall]

His half-mocking, half-serious comments about my education were the death rattle of his culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Odyssey] Reference

"No, I want to say, 'Bleep you.' " he said in a reportedly half-serious, half-good-naturedly way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brandon Lloyd has special message for Redskins after Pro Bowl honor] Reference

"I don't believe I shall be able to get on without my eldest daughter," he replied, half-serious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story] Reference

Rather, she toyed with them, letting their schemes play into her fleeting, only half-serious scripts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text] Reference

'Why?' she said, half-serious, half-laughing, the glints of light in her dark eyes outpointing the stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying Finish]

Yes, I am more than half-serious in this suggestion — time for TEApeat Thriller dances to be staged ….    From Wordnik.com.  [The “Send one each to each of your Senators” Sunday Open Thread. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference

Every half-serious federal campaign does one at some point to find out what messages and attacks move people.    From Wordnik.com.  [NY-20: GOP Push-Polling Against Dem Gillibrand?] Reference

Morgans, &c., have taken a deep interest in these half-comic, half-serious, and always incoherent demonstrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

But it was a little disconcerting to feel the same kind of half-playful, half-serious challenge he would have put up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price of the Phoenix]

Although, I suppose in some twisted way it's appropriate that I half-seriously nit-picked your half-serious nit-pick.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Address The $5 RE5 Vs. Mode Issue] Reference

Well, I present it as a half-serious liturgical suggestion, or maybe even a three-quarters-serious liturgical suggestion!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Church: God's Pilot Project] Reference

Mark's tone was light, trying to keep the accusation only half-serious, and Southby ignored it as if he didn't understand the joke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Observing that I am still standing near the door, he makes a half-serious, half-playful motion with his hand, and points to a chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunger] Reference

It looks like Stephen Colbert, half-serious presidential candidate and king of Facebook support, may have to end his nascent campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Digest: The Youth are a-Hillblazin'!] Reference

Sisko glanced up from the entry he was jotting silently into his captain's log, alerted by the half-wry, half-serious tone of Dax's voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

Some of them are serious, some of them are half-serious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Above the Law] Reference