| No one in this film shows a spark of charismatic quality, much less any halfhearted attempts at believable characterization. |
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| For men, halfhearted comb-overs, plugs, weaves, and toupees are strictly forbidden and will be cause for harsh disciplinary action. |
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| With considerable effort Emily turned around and sent Michael a weak smile that was just shy of halfhearted. |
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| I got the gob of glass out of the oven and made a halfhearted attempt at a coffee cup, with a handle on the side. |
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| Or maybe it's his special gift for issuing halfhearted and self-serving mea culpas, an apologia disguised as an apology. |
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| Her voice is flat, with a halfhearted hitch and no emotional delivery. |
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| The government's halfhearted response to these problems has resulted in increasingly frequent strikes. |
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| The conversation or discussion among them sometimes led to threats of force, albeit halfhearted, as well as criticisms or insults. |
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| Now one can make the case that America's halfhearted responses have egged on Middle Eastern terrorists. |
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| He gave a halfhearted, widely panned speech on the night he finished a distant third in New Hampshire. |
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| This, it will be recalled, was included in a halfhearted and limited way in the Maastricht Treaty. |
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| Other than a halfhearted apology by Vincent Otti, none of the other LRA commanders have expressed any remorse over what they have done. |
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| In many cases, those governments conduct halfhearted investigations and fail to convict offenders. |
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| A halfhearted pit had formed, swirling widdershins in front of the stage. |
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| Less rewarding are four portraits of youths executed in an awkward mixture of self-consciously competent realism and halfhearted Expressionism. |
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| After his consulship, he waited in Rome while rival nobles undermined the position of Lucius Licinius Lucullus, who was campaigning against Mithradates in Anatolia, and made halfhearted attempts to deal with the pirates. |
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| The result is a series of halfhearted reforms by old men in camouflage. |
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| The reforms adopted by Gomułka were halfhearted. |
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| If this is true, why then did the club even bother to make halfhearted attempts to sign players? |
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| Sanjay Dixit, an AICC member, believes that the halfhearted implementation of any scheme has adverse affects on a party. |
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| It was a halfhearted attempt to get him to stop, because truly, I was hoping the dog would do the dogly thing and chew up the Frisbee. |
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| When violations surface, the enforcement agencies want to know if the incident was aberrational, or whether it was the result of a halfhearted or haphazard compliance program. |
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| In 1636 and 1637 he made some halfhearted attempts to extort North Sea herring rights from Dutch fishermen until intervention by the Dutch navy put an end to it. |
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| A second article in the same issue of the Star, which purportedly was written to defend citizens' access to guns, was a halfhearted attempt at best. |
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| It was a half-hearted pass or halfhearted attempt at goal and crosses. |
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