| But even the funniest of these brainily ludicrous jokes sputter halfheartedly. |
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| I carefully lifted the tiny beaker to Ash's mouth and poured it in, then covering his mouth and nose, forcing him to halfheartedly swallow it. |
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| Her dad tries to jolly her out of her funk, but she participates only halfheartedly. |
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| Feeling that anything worth doing is worth overdoing, you do not go at anything halfheartedly. |
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| It tolerated them in silence, supported some of them actively, or criticized them only halfheartedly. |
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| The unionists who were trained as peer educators carried out their tasks halfheartedly, for fear of losing elections. |
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| He halfheartedly poked the control pad, which lit up electric blue. |
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| He halfheartedly embraced the bebop movement and in the late 1940s made several recordings with noted bop musicians. |
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| After a while, I managed to contribute some small talk, and so did Betty, both of us halfheartedly. |
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| To the accompaniment of dulcet whale songs, he halfheartedly sodomizes them, feeling, at first, no joy at all. |
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| At such times we must, as always, act with sensitivity, but not halfheartedly. |
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| I admired the December birthstone sparkling against my black skirt and halfheartedly accepted the terms and conditions to wear it. |
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| Poking a coconut out from the fringes of the bush, I tried light-headedly, halfheartedly really, to break it apart on a washed-up giant clamshell. |
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| Where there were once rose beds and lawned areas up past Hermit Hole, there is now rough grass which is occasionally and halfheartedly mown and the cuttings left to rot. |
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| Maybe you are still chowing down on dreadfully misproportioned piles of carbohydrates and fat, and working out halfheartedly, or misguidedly, or not at all. |
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| After university I thought, whatever I do next I want to throw myself into and not do halfheartedly. |
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| Klitschko swung halfheartedly, out of range. |
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| Meanwhile, the rest of TV's Cockney rabble queued up to look suspicious as we all halfheartedly tried to work out who killed Archie Mitchell. |
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| He was desperate to pee, but wouldn't stop eating long enough to do so, so he peed halfheartedly as he ate. |
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| Outside, the gang members first halfheartedly tried to help the wounded Clark into the vehicle. |
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| I have noticed that when I follow General Lorenz's advice and ask people how they are doing three times in a row, they answer sincerely and not halfheartedly. |
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| Eventually the British raised the siege, but American Major General George Izard took over command on the Niagara front and followed up only halfheartedly. |
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| I see what friends go through, so I think you can't do that halfheartedly. |
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