Sentences with word «halfhearted»

He was a dabbler, discarding careers in diplomacy and the military for halfhearted attempts at stock trading and journalism.

For entry - level employees putting forth halfhearted effort may decrease productivity and stagnate upward mobility; for a CEO, president, or board member, career ennui can affect an entire corporation.

The story mode is eminently brief and unravels precisely nothing of narrative value, concluding with less of a cliffhanger and more of the kind of twist you'd find in halfhearted Creepypasta.

In the weeks leading up to last night's Golden Globes, the organized «protest» planned by the actors and creatives set to attend the ceremony seemed halfhearted at best, and at worst, downright stupid.

It is to be expected, therefore, that the history of land - reform efforts is one of political chicanery, violence, subversion and only halfhearted implementation of even those policies that have been established by government action.

If honesty is important, then to speak with clarity and force is more important than to speak with halfhearted enthusiasm for theologically and artistically empty productions of an obsolete genre.

It is a secret so open that even its perpetrators seem halfhearted about hiding it.

After a few halfhearted digs in the storage unit (and one seriously intense one because I WANTED this dress), I came to the conclusion that she must have been lost.

And it took both Honda and Toyota a few years to come up with automatic gearboxes that didn't seem like halfhearted attempts to appease shiftless American customers.

And while states deliver straightforward capital support to traditional school districts, their support for charter facilities is often halfhearted and ineffective.

Instead of trudging through dozens of clones and halfhearted cash grabs, let us separate the wheat from the games for pc free download for you.

Be sure that you are really ready because if you are just pressured to date by your friends, it won't be healthy for you or your potential partners - no one wants someone halfhearted when entering into a relationship.

In his book Weight of Glory, C.S. Lewis wrote, «We are halfhearted creatures fooling about with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant...

They could become halfhearted church members through the Halfway Covenant.

There was no room for halfhearted believers.

You see, too many of us are too halfhearted in our prayers.

Why is it that we still reject, stigmatize, and provide only halfhearted treatment for the mentally ill in spite of the millions of words that have been written and spoken to promote an enlightened approach to the problem?

Not that they get very far in their clumsy forays» it's all pretty halfhearted and amateurish stuff, indeed sometimes wincingly embarrassing....

If we pray for and with the neighbor, we must give voice to the neighbor's need — not to our own halfhearted wishes.

Even though the statement was not substantially modified as the result of the debate, one could not help feeling in some of the discussions an atmosphere too suggestive of halfhearted compromise.

Fourteen years ago almost all the series authors expressed at least halfhearted confidence that each denomination would survive.

Such a principle assumes that as the genuine, «difficult» testimony was being modified it passed through the hands of halfhearted forgers who while inserting their own corrections of the tradition somehow felt compelled to retain a few authentic items, presumably for the benefit of modern analysts.

Place on a cookie sheet and bake for 50 minutes, or until the beets give only halfhearted resistance when pierced with a knife.

A re-run of Saturday and a re-run of countless other halfhearted, headless and prideless displays.

On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) blasted Grassley's investigative efforts: «To call the Senate Judiciary Committee's Trump - Russia investigation halfhearted is too generous.»

(They've been trying to lure him back into the fold, also, but have been understandably rather halfhearted in that effort.)

So far, however, there have been no efforts to save the wild axolotl beyond a few halfhearted outreach programmes and some photo opportunities.

In order to grow, forearms need to be trained just as often as any other muscle — the problem is, most lifters don't know how to efficiently target their forearms and they usually aren't very consistent with their forearm training, performing only a couple halfhearted sets of wrist curls once a month.

Dinocide is both a shameless and halfhearted recreation of other titles as well as a ripoff for all gamers with its criminally short length and crummy gameplay.

«Despicable Me» covers much of the same ground - halfhearted evil genius finally gives in to his sentimental side - as their new 3 - D movie «Megamind,» and does it a little better.

Why does it produce such halfhearted laughter?

Suspicious of the police's halfhearted attitude towards solving the case, Hyun - tae decides to find the criminal himself and asks Min - soo and In - cheol for help.

The film takes the expected halfhearted stances on conservative Southern politics and the separation between church and state, but hardly enough to get anyone too riled up.

That's mostly gone here - there are only a few scenes that provoke bursts of laughter, and it's mostly halfhearted.

After stumbling upon a group of young adult soldiers outside the safety zone, R makes a quick meal of Julie's halfhearted boyfriend.

Nothing attached to the name «Ghostbusters» should come off so halfhearted.

For instance, the Common Core, which might have been a collaborative effort of 15 or maybe 20 enthusiastic states absent federal «encouragement,» became a quasi-federal initiative with lots of halfhearted participants.

After an unsuccessful and perhaps halfhearted suicide attempt, the New York lawyer was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Those robots you refer to are simply rejects from the developers halfhearted attempts to make a level for their Sackboy.

While it was by no means a bad game, it did feel a little halfhearted.

But if Kazimir Malevich would have approved of this color scheme — and likewise of the equilateral format — he would have had no time at all for these offhand marks and halfhearted grid.

«I am again (more than ever) convinced that the artist statement should be done away with; we need not justify what we are doing with halfhearted explanations.»

Despite an ingenious design and a smart array of features, something about both the mouse and the software that accompanies it feels halfhearted.

188 individuals madly and recklessly experienced passionate love, 60 experienced less intensity of passionate love, 42 experienced occasional bursts of passion, 10 experienced halfhearted or infrequent passion and reported loss of thrill.

«The Office» co-writers Stupnitsky and Eisenberg give more workplace scenarios and awkward situations, but the level of comedy as akin to the lazy, halfhearted effort they put forth in their equally sophomoric Year One.

Gives a lot of power to the SNB, which might be halfhearted about implementation (Regulators dislike change, and risk).