Sentences with phrase «halfhearted about»
It is a secret so open that even its perpetrators seem halfhearted about hiding it.
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Gives a lot of power to the SNB, which might be halfhearted about implementation (Regulators dislike change, and risk).
There is nothing disingenuous or halfhearted about Ejiofor's depiction of Solomon Northup.
Whether Arsenal can get back to challenging repeatedly for the league title while money is no object elsewhere and Uefa are halfhearted about FFP, we shall see.
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They love and respect the church they understand, and what they understand about the church is due, in no small degree, to the halfhearted, truncated doctrine of the church they have received from the clergy and from the cultural image.
The veteran singer - songwriter has opted to retreat into old - timey blues, rattling off clichés about blind horses and hog - eyed towns while laying down a halfhearted soundtrack of brushed drums, plucked guitars and woozy strings.
Late in the film, Ribisi asks Brolin whether maybe there's something a little troubling or even hypocritical about their gangster - smashing squad trying to destroy Cohen's empire using tactics even the vicious Cohen might find excessively destructive, but the film is so unrelentingly positive and unambiguous in its depiction of righteous violence that this stab at moral ambiguity feels arbitrary and halfhearted.
Rather than push more jokes about its narrative formulas, Pitch Perfect 3 proceeds with a halfhearted, ginned - up rivalry between the Bellas and an intimidating, snobby rock band, the filmmakers» ideas of which are downright bizarre: girl - group rhyming names (Chastity, Calamity, etc.) and circa - 2004 punk - pop.
In its early scenes, the film makes a halfhearted attempt to seem smart: The scientists» chatter is filled with impenetrable technobabble about «membrane voltages» and «restitching neural pathways.»
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver When the birth of Eva's son forces her to give up her career as a travel writer and move to a stifling suburb, she's a halfhearted caretaker at best.
It just looks like a 3rd grader did the artwork, and before anybody says anything about «that's the style they wanted», it's not a style — it just comes across as lazy and halfhearted
Despite an ingenious design and a smart array of features, something about both the mouse and the software that accompanies it feels halfhearted.