Sentences with phrase «only halfhearted»

Children can sense when parents are making only a halfhearted effort or simply going through the motions of «doing the right thing.»

By making only a halfhearted attempt to re-sign free - agent running back Ricky Watters after the 1994 season, San Francisco found itself high and dry when fullback William Floyd destroyed his right knee last October.

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

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?

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.

Not exact matches

But companies have to make more than halfhearted attempts at collaboration: Instead, they're realizing only half of the value of collaboration by creating better ways to discuss ideas, but putting fewer of them in place.

Thus the Church was composed only of the proved elect, gathered together in congregations that excluded the halfhearted and lukewarm.

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.

They told him to pick it up but he only made a halfhearted attempt at it.

Not only is this a halfhearted attempt at capitalizing on yet another cult classic, but it has received the most offensive CSI - style glazing - over that the networks seem to think is what constitutes good story and visuals these days: Glamour, Glitz, Perfect Hair, Stylish Clothes, Fake Top 40 Music, Anorexic Women and let's not forget Flash Scene Cuts and Grotesque Overuse of CG Recoloring.

Not only is this a halfhearted attempt at capitalizing on yet another cult classic, but it has received the most offensive CSI - style