Sentences with phrase «with halfhearted»

«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.»

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.

Set in predominantly Italian - American Brooklyn Heights, New York, «Moonstruck» opens with a halfhearted proposal of marriage.

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And yet I believe there can be no ministry that dispenses with ambulances, although a ministry confining itself to them would be halfhearted and foreshortened.

Those who go along with the changes without understanding their full implication are halfhearted.

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

After these notes, his section of my book is bare, with a severe lack of movement and some halfhearted attempts to help Nouhou defensively after losing possession in the 30th.

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.

In the nearly two decades since Saturday Night Fever was released, the dream of wedding Hong Kong action pyrotechnics with Hollywood production values to conquer the American mainstream has surfaced periodically, but until recently the results have seemed halfhearted at best.

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.»

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.

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.

The original Volvo 40, introduced here as a 2000 model, was a halfhearted, easily overlooked car that was supposed to invigorate the brand with an affordable entry - level vehicle.

The series seemed to negate itself with an annoying, Matrix - like plot twist in Star Ocean 3:»Til the End of Time, and the follow - up, Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope, felt clichéd and halfhearted.

Instead of hearing «oh, we'll fix it next time» from a Sonic Team spokesperson and then nothing happens to follow up on that halfhearted enthusiasm, we're actually seeing some behavioral changes behind the scenes with the delays and design decisions and even choice of staffing.

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.