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Uncle Bob married about the same time as Mum and Dad, but after a half-hearted attempt at farming here in England, he gave up and they emigrated to Australia
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Gilla, pursing her lips at the lack of warning, dashes off to implement crisis plans for the meal while I go back to my room to continue the packing which I have been half-heartedly attacking on and off since we got back from Lyme
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Jake takes a half-hearted swipe at Katie but she ducks in time, they both laugh
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Some people start with a half-hearted round or two of tapping and conclude that it doesn‘t work, but some issues can be
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‘You just want me to carry the can for any wrong decisions!’ But it is a half-hearted attempt at lightness … Simon’s as struck as I am by the awesomeness of the whole enterprise
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He tries to counter-attack, but it’s half-hearted
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She didn’t join his half-hearted chuckle
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She might take whatever interests the people around her had, but always in a half-hearted way
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the workers were not those half-hearted fellows often
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Not even a meek, half-hearted pat on the back, or a coupon for dinner-for-two at the local pizza joint
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A soldier passed him a tankard of drink and he half-heartedly accepted it
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There was a general half-hearted cheer and then they stopped to have a snack
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Josh also offered to accompany them, but so half-heartedly it was hardly worth a response
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Jack had agreed, although half-heartedly, with that
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He smiled, then looked at his boys, who both laughed half-heartedly at his sense of
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This is the message Republicans should be sending; rather than engaging in awkward, half-hearted overtures that are oftentimes perceived as transparent and insincere
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The federal government‘s half-hearted attempt at reducing budget deficits is tantamount to a terminally ill patient disengaging his or her life support system
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On the other hand, half-hearted efforts routinely performed do not meet the requirements of good faith and are therefore insufficient in themselves
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She worked with half-hearted interest on the mending, watching the minutes tick by
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‘Let’s go to the beach, it’ll be better than sitting here in the cottage,’ Egan suggested half-heartedly
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Move somewhere else," he said half-heartedly
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Desultory argument ensued, with the pair of them half-heartedly disputing the laurel crown of good-natured invective
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Enilia returned a half-hearted smile
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Barret, half-heartedly counting the steps
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sighed, half-heartedly running a hand through his spiked locks,
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"You gotta stop and smell the roses," he said, and then with a half-hearted salute, he again headed for the main house
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Half-heartedness is a serious drawback and the cause of much
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Don’t be half-hearted
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meditation are so half-hearted, what am I to do?
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lead time to fix those things that you only do half-heartedly when
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Compare these half-hearted efforts to the investigative energy the Washington Post invested in the Watergate scandal
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“Thiz one iz magnifizent!” Kragorram laughed as he playfully swiped at Scout, who made half-hearted swoops at his eyes
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Finally, albeit half-heartedly, I
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A few of us threw half-hearted hands out and took a step
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“Yes indeed,” McClure said half-heartedly, who now appeared
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“Yeah sure,” Batistuta half-heartedly replied
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advantage of the Attaché’s considerate half-hearted attempts to grab me, I managed to evade
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To make this kind of money you need to be laser-beam focused, and you can't be that if you only have a half-hearted interest in what you are doing
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It was with half-hearted optimism that we
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Loving the Lord, your God, will all your heart and soul and mind is a profound commandment when taken to its logical conclusion: there is no room for half-heartedness in the kingdom
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Everyone gives him a half-hearted clap when he finally finishes after seventeen minutes
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They return the greeting, but only half-heartedly, not wanting to associate themselves with an impure mamzer—a Jew of suspect lineage
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It was a shame the Bible-class had dwindled, however, better one worthy warrior for God than a dozen half-hearted drones
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“Maybe we could sell these items back to Wizards’ Hall?” asked Gaspar, half-heartedly
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“Yo’, brother got us like that,” she said, giving a half-hearted smile
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But, the poor Hindus still feared the non-existing gods while being half-hearted at the materialism that the gods themselves endorsed
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He was a half-hearted believer, and notwithstanding that he might be severely criticized therefor, he dared to invite Jesus and his personal associates, Peter, James, and John, to his home for a social meal
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Another misguided desperado chose this instant to charge, followed half-heartedly by his fellows
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He half-heartedly took a step forward, but Jim still blocked his way
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If you act with half-hearted action, you will eventually fail every single time
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As the last half-hearted cheer
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When a company has a chance to be a leader – as I write this, it is number one – but does a half-hearted job of it, I get furious
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‘Easy’ does not imply that you can do it half-heartedly
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The tension left our minds and bodies with the laughter and Coatl gave mother a hug and kissed her on the cheek as she half-heartedly pushed us out of the door
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She forced a half-hearted smile
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then nodded slowly; she acknowledged with a half-hearted smile
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” As if the veil of sorrow and memory had been pulled back, she turned to face Wickland and gave him a half-hearted smile
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By the time of the Fourth Crusade from 1202-1204, Christian resolve was so half-hearted that preparation for the crusade was a comedy of errors
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The half-hearted war effort quickly turned into a crisis, and over the next few months,
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'Oh, I'm sure I can think of a way,' Saddlebrook said with a half-hearted grin
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In any case, the former sheriff’s mare, old-in-the-tooth and a little mangy in the coat, stood before Schmoozeglutton, half-heartedly cropping the sparse grass behind his house
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his pudgy belly, he swiped at her half-heartedly, then
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“Oh dear,” said Jil half-heartedly, stil enjoying the memory of the giggles
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After “trying half-heartedly” for a few weeks, they throw
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Rooster gave me a half-hearted thumbs up and made his way for
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As I stood on the side of the road leaning up against my car, I made a half-hearted attempt to look sad, but not enough that it would help to change Martha’s mind
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I was pissed when it turned out not to be the kind of wild, crazy sex I expected, and instead, ended up becoming a slow motion, half-hearted hump session
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We cannot be half-hearted but operate at full throttle to honour
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Try as they might, they could not get free (though Pussy’s efforts seemed remarkably half-hearted in the circumstances)
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” Seeking after God with “all” of our heart and “all” of our soul is showing us that God is wanting us to come after Him with maximum intensity, not with a half-hearted or lukewarm attempt
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Everyone replied with a half-hearted, yes
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You see anything that's done half-heartedly never has any life on it
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Anything done half-hearted, no one's pleased by it, not even God, see? So when you do it with a whole heart, passionate and you're just under Him, there's a life comes in it
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Lov gave a half-hearted swing, not wanting to hurt his uncle
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"How do I begin that process, Abbot?" the shaken novice said half-heartedly
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She gave a half-hearted shout as though he had hurt her but he hadn’t
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As the telephone operator at the Nursing Home told him that Roopa was not to be found, Raja Rao left the message of his departure for her and headed half-heartedly towards Nampally Railway Station
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can only say that the exile government is half-hearted
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laugh half-heartedly and said
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Don’t move half-heartedly
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ing even a half-hearted service to them-for the favour of propitious for-
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’ He agreed half-heartedly
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Kevin forced a half-hearted smile
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“Denny?” I say, half-heartedly to the still air as I pass the staircase
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” He said half-heartedly
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He reluctantly rose from his position and went closer to her, gave her a swift platonic kiss, though half-heartedly
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Ceri said softly, she smiled half-heartedly
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The screen then showed him returning home from his trip, the face showed his exhausted dour expression, the child his idealism before the realism of the urn clouded him into an aging elder sitting at a table staring at empty chairs imagining a companion and then laughing with a limping contempt, as he in the chair and himself on the screen half-heartedly spit a glass biting realism –
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Dalynara came in the room during the final inspection, her hair loose and falling out of a half-hearted twist at the nape of her neck
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But in a world where knowledge is a half-hearted, google-anticipated pre-search away, indifference is not systemic apathy, but both a willed justification of an I'mage-only lifestyle and a willed rejection of Eartheart common union
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‘The lines on my face make me more interesting,’ she mumbled, but I knew it was only half-hearted
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After a while, Kelly spoke, half-heartedly trying to make conversation
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” LilHope half-heartedly added while only half-listening
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he saw and did, but she listened only half-heartedly, her young heart reveling in the joy of her
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She remembered: how they overslept and he had joined her in the shower, ignoring her half-hearted protests about running late
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I don't mean that you in this are a sinner; I only mean that as a general principle half-hearted sinners are contemptible
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“My mother’s name is Alice,” was his feeble contribution—a half-hearted objection that changed into an admission of ignorance on its way out of his mouth
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If your mother were lying on the ground dying, what would you do? Don't practice half-heartedly
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I slapped him half-heartedly on the shoulder, and the sweet love-making quickly turned into a laughing romp that ended as it often did: in each other’s arms, tears prickling at the back of my eyes as my emotions filled me up and spilled over in physical release
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And sometimes, in moments of more extreme lassitude--for she was, like most unloved women, in most things at bottom listless and half-hearted--she wondered what the Kingdom of Heaven, if one did manage to get there after all the trouble, could possibly be like, crowded up with the battered
