" She continued, "I was never going to see the change I wanted to if I were half-hearted about showing up to the polls and half-hearted about saying what I believed in.
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The outcome of this exchange was a few half-hearted texts followed by a few half-hearted Facebook messages, but then Sunglasses said "your sweet" instead of "you're sweet," and the romance was dead.
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Moussa has little support and his campaigning has been half-hearted.
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There will be no such thing as a half-hearted Brexit.
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The government of Hong Kong appears half-hearted about protecting them.
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The time for lame excuses and half-hearted apologies is over.
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We're going to offer a half-hearted defense of Bieber's look.
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Oh, they make a half-hearted stab, usually in the introduction.
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It was just a half-hearted suggestion by my friend Christian.
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Yet, the Trump administration's response has been half-hearted and ineffective.
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But as Nigeria itself shows, currency reform cannot be half-hearted.
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There will be a gesture, albeit half-hearted, towards a gender balance.
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Implementation, half-hearted in the past, has if anything been heavy-handed.
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Sure, they made a few half-hearted attempts to kick the habit.
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The press shouldn't let Trump get away with this half-hearted disavowal.
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Why slowly parse out news with quasi-commitments and half-hearted apologies?
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Clintons have done little more than offer half-hearted mea culpas about their
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So how did a half-hearted first year project develop into the book?
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I just wish it wasn't being done in such a half-hearted rush.
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Some initiatives have proved half-hearted, short-lived or prey to party politics.
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After a half-hearted chant, Lawrence then launches into a quote from Bridesmaids.
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And it all started with a half-hearted suggestion from the show's producer.
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The government's efforts to improve the system have been piecemeal and half-hearted.
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But the wages of contrition went beyond half-hearted endorsements and disingenuous tweets.
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Their half-hearted case for this new warhead is fragile, bordering on specious.
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Before long the tin-pot movement disintegrated amid acrimony and half-hearted marches.
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For the moment, however, the half-hearted words of Ted and Dougal live on.
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Corbyn's party critics say his campaign to remain in the EU was half-hearted.
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Regulation and reform of madrassas, religious schools that foster militancy, has been half-hearted.
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Just as well, then, that America's retreat seems as half-hearted as China's charge.
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These half-hearted attempts at looking sober only revealed that she was already drunk.
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It wasn't even a half-hearted attempt at a State of the Union speech.
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Kodak went on IG Live Saturday with his mea culpa, though somewhat half-hearted.
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Trump quickly abandoned his threat and, instead, made a half-hearted declaration of victory.
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As a recent New York Times article pointed out, that effort was half-hearted.
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But Mr Duque has been half-hearted about putting into effect many other provisions.
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" In a half-hearted defense, someone offered, "I dont think she has bad intentions.
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A few days later, Musk deleted the tweets and issued a half-hearted apology.
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But every attempt to reach outside that box feels half-hearted and frustratingly unfounded.
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Past attempts to make neighbouring Shenzhen a free-market alternative have been half-hearted.
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The half-hearted lines about fatherhood stop on Scorpion's last song "March 14," though.
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Or his half hearted accusations of fake news, backed up by nothing but Trump fealty?
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Amazon and Facebook were also half-hearted in their support for protecting the open web.
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Leeds is the most successful execution of Baywatch's half-hearted commitment to modern-day feminism.
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Musk's half-hearted apology came in the form of a response to another person's tweet.
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Even in the finale, which makes a half-hearted grab for drama, stability feels inevitable.
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And so, my efforts toward weight loss this year have been half-hearted at best.
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Where Festival for the People missteps is in its half-hearted attempt at local engagement.
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Even if it is nothing more than a half-hearted attempt to court disenfranchised furries.
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Today, the effort of each side to understand the other is half-hearted, at best.
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It shouldn't give you the same feeling as a sad and hasty, half-hearted wank.
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Depression and anxiety kept at bay with pills, weekly therapy, and half-hearted yoga practice.
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But the truncated, half-hearted investigation ultimately did more harm than good for the nation.
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The display of photos, where visitors were invited to add their own, felt half-hearted.
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But what we see very clearly in the data is a lot of half-hearted effort.
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Sanctions were imposed after Italy's invasion of Abyssinia, but in a half-hearted and ineffective manner.
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It's Apple's half-hearted attempt to let you use your old technology on their new hotness.
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Tia's jab at her compatriot was half-hearted at best and maybe egged on by producers.
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Online complaints from Henanese prompted the director of the show to issue a half-hearted apology.
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Huawei will see Britain's approval, however qualified and half-hearted, as another feather in its cap.
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Microsoft's ebooks efforts were half-hearted and insufficient, so good on the company for moving on.
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Some commenters, after qualifying they did not condone Mitchell's actions, offered half-hearted defenses of him.
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His later brief, half-hearted reopening was only to protect his now exposed right political flank.
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Indeed, you could imagine the European Union emerging stronger without half-hearted Britain spoiling the fun.
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The governing Conservative Party was divided, and the Labour Party's opposition to Brexit was half-hearted.
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The last straw for many MPs was his half-hearted role in the anti-Brexit campaign.
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"We were underwhelmed by the Company's half-hearted attempt to restore strategic momentum," the letter said.
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In Friday's hearing, Whitaker offered only a half-hearted defense of the Justice Department's traditional independence.
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Kingsway, entirely the work of solo Canadian developer Andrew Morrish, is not a half-hearted attempt.
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The euro staged a half-hearted bounce from four-month lows to be last at $1.0953.
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They do not need a half-hearted, on-the-fly endorsement of contraception in limited situations.
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Half-hearted work or begrudging effort will never change the world, or our lives, for the better.
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It took three years for Half Hearted Hero's latest, Isn't Real, to see the light of day.
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Government officials have repeatedly pledged to deal with the problem, but their attempts have been half-hearted.
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My memories of Upton Park are of weary policemen, half-hearted fighting and lots of smashed glass.
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Today feels like a half-hearted attempt to step into the leadership void Trump himself created. 2.
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Anti-Assad rebels, split between nationalists and Islamists, are splintered and abandoned by their half-hearted patrons.
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And these aren't half-hearted "autonomous" vehicles that depend upon a human driver being behind the wheel.
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Or if I do, it's half-hearted—they do it for like a minute, then move on.
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America worries about racially segregated ghettos but has made only half-hearted attempts to break them up.
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America, though also worried about racially segregated ghettos, has made only half-hearted attempts to prevent them.
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A half-hearted attempt to wall off the matter inside the West Wing has largely been abandoned.
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Perlman also issued a half-hearted apology for spreading the fabrication, although the original tweet still remains available.
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The Obama Administration made some half-hearted criticisms of Morsy's ouster; the Trump Administration has embraced al-Sisi.
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You could say the same about its half-hearted support of Moments, or live video, or expanded tweets.
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It's full of half-hearted reblogs and sappy inspirational slogans, but it's removed of any personality or audience.
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I did some half-hearted fare searching and wound up booking the exact same flights as my FIL.
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Any half-hearted bus observer knows about articulated buses—those double-trouble mutants with an accordion-like joint.
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Douglas made one half-hearted campaign swing, using the excuse that he needed to visit his ailing mother.
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But given Laura's brand of half-hearted sincerity it isn't all that surprising they don't like each other.
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Stringfellows was as expected; a leopardskin mise-en-scene with half-hearted pole dancing in the middle distance.
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Not only are government reactions to this sort of interference too slow, they are often suspiciously half-hearted.
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What I question is the rather half-hearted effort to tell readers just whose argument they were hearing.
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There's also half-hearted chatter among Republicans about a floor fight at this summer's GOP convention in Cleveland.
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On Thursday, though, he denied he would be half-hearted in his push to remain in the bloc.
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It amounts to a half-hearted attempt to show how the caste system and its ills permeate society.
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The fact of the matter is that Catholics don't need Pope Francis' half-hearted permission to use contraceptives.
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Now before you roll your eyes, this isn't another half-hearted attempt on the industry's part to be diverse.
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Climate shift is mostly bad news, but it is now giving internet-lovers a half-hearted reason to cheer.
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It was just some dude with a black hood up, lip-syncing and playing a half-hearted hype man.
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The question now, for Cruz and the party, is how many of these half-hearted supporters he can rally.
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They were given an assist from Trump himself on Wednesday morning, whose tweet about the returns seemed half-hearted.
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The film makes a few half-hearted detours into Marshall's personal life, but frankly, those scenes don't reveal much.
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Tearing down the billionaire won't be enough, nor will be her usual half-hearted invitation to join her campaign.
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Rhodes again supported American military intervention, but without much faith, and Obama half-listened to Rhodes's half-hearted arguments.
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A half-hearted jog around the local park probably won't offset those Aperol Spritzes you've been mainlining all summer.
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They spent months on half-hearted attempts to repeal ObamaCare, only to end (at least, so far) in failure.
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Entitled "Peasants" (pictured, above), it was supposedly Malevich's half-hearted attempt at the wholesome subject matter mandated by Soviet dogma.
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I'm pretty sure most of us are guilty of a half-hearted mix of being tech savvy and tech dumb.
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Speaking in New Hampshire on Monday night, Trump berated Ted Cruz for being only half-hearted in support of waterboarding.
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The new features and design are all well and good, but it seems a bit like a half-hearted effort.
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But the patchy script and Saravanan's half-hearted treatment of it keep this game from ending with a high score.
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There's some evidence that better quality movies (and especially blockbusters) do better commercially than tired sequels and half-hearted spectacles.
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Banks had lined up contingency plans, but some were half-hearted and few banks expected to use them, sources said.
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Complex reports that West offered what appears to be a half-hearted defense of Kelly during an event Sunday morning.
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The company says in contrast to itself, new entrants "make only half-hearted attempts, if any," to prevent youth use.
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After Cruz dropped out, he put on his rotting pom-poms and started a half-hearted cheer for party unity: .
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Therefore, many analysts have kept a half-hearted buy rating on the stock and wished they had downgraded it higher.
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Online, Japril 'shippers suggest that Jackson's support of April's dating is half-hearted, and that he's really rethinking their split.
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Now that the half-hearted nature of the FBI inquiry is apparent, his case for investigating Kavanaugh is even stronger.
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But this half-hearted protest anthem is a sanitized version of advocacy that doesn't match the tone with the subject.
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Nominate lots of black artists then reward none of them, like the BRITs, and you look stupid or half-hearted.
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Umbrellas are a feeble shield against the rain, a half-hearted gesture at the idea of cover from a storm.
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But whatever the motivator, Musk mustered up the wherewithal to issue a half-hearted apology to the diver on Twitter.
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It's not as if there are many up-and-coming challengers in the market — even Google's attempts seem half-hearted.
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"This was a half-hearted rally to start with," said Shane Oliver, Sydney-based head of investment strategy at AMP.
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I make a half-hearted attempt to start next week's homework, but mostly I just browse Reddit and food blogs.
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While Volcker may have pushed unnecessarily hard against inflation, his battle against excesses in the financial sector looks half-hearted.
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"Beatport's streaming efforts were always half-hearted," says Mark Mulligan, Managing Director of London-based media-tech analysis firm MIDiA.
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Instead of issuing multiple half-hearted statements saying that "everything is fine," Facebook should be open and transparent about this issue.
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In an attempt to quell the backlash, the singer then released an half-hearted apology, but fans were not having it.
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As a crowd of shoppers gathered around the "employee," it became clear his half-hearted attempt at going unnoticed had failed.
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"The energy complex is making a half-hearted attempt to extend gains," said Stephen Brennock, analyst at London brokerage PVM Oil.
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Sure, my son, now 6, will share the table because I believe in family meals, but it's half-hearted at best.
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He mixed the statement of Alexander with the hope of Murkowski that two half hearted statements would make one full one.
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But where governments have been confused and half-hearted about the worth of girls, popular culture has been loud and insistent.
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The second is that American policy in Asia becomes half-hearted and disengaged, again unsettling Asian friends and perhaps emboldening China.
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The seemingly half-hearted manner of the 7-5 6-1 6-4 defeat was unfathomable and, to some, barely forgivable.
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While she wasn't thrilled to find out I'd be cooking fish, I appreciated her half-hearted effort to hide her disappointment.
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And though Weiner claims otherwise, it's not entirely clear that it makes more than a half-hearted effort in that direction.
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On the Israel-Palestinian question, one administration after another has exerted half-hearted efforts to resolve the conflict, to no avail.
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It was so bad, she called my mom to offer a half-hearted apology the next day, like a schoolyard bully.
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Following a short, half-hearted tenure at Santa Monica College, Natia dropped out of school indefinitely and pursued rap full-time.
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Festival. Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The summer is a time when most galleries are guilty of half-hearted programming.
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With the seriousness of the threats to agency independence, investor protection, and financial stability, half-hearted commitments should not be enough.
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With the stall door separating her from Annie, Mae wears a half-hearted expression of concern, but never apologizes or empathizes.
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It was his eightieth birthday, and after the show, despite his half-hearted protestation, a cake was cut and champagne opened.
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CEO Oscar Munoz offered a half-hearted apology for having to "re-accommodate" Dao, a word choice that was widely derided.
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Another part of the speech was the obligatory call for unity, which the president did in basically a half-hearted manner.
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"Waiting out half-hearted enemies is a key Assad survival tool," says Faysal Itani, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
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Instead of opening a rupture in the facade of contemporary art, "Comedian" is a half-hearted, tiny gesture towards the critical.
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As my nightlife circles shifted through mood swings of half-hearted inclusivity and decorative blackness, I sank into another spiral of depression.
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The government was happy to pursue, in a half-hearted and expensive way, resettlement options in Cambodia, Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
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The content is pretty innocuous, but in one verse Samsung does sneak in a half-hearted diss against its main competitor, Apple.
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But because its ruling looks half-hearted—it imposed no fine or prison term—she may keep her post at the fund.
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But, what women don't deserve is for men to keep handing them half-hearted scripts reimagining beloved characters just to appease them.
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However, this in itself indicates a tenuous level of support and any recovery in the relationship will be slow and half-hearted.
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Every year America's royal family seems to outdo themselves with elaborate get-ups that put my half-hearted cat costume to shame.
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These two sides of Far Cry 5 — the half-hearted attempt at a serious story and the bombastic action game — never gel.
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There's nothing tentative or half-hearted about the album's 20083 tracks, each of which explode with color and emotion, tragedy and mysticism.
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His campaign had the look of a Potemkin effort, cobbled together in a half-hearted bid to show journalists he was serious.
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That would please America, which believes China is half-hearted about stepping up pressure on the North to stop making nuclear bombs.
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It was the half-hearted delivery of that endorsement that came after several advisers warned Trump the endorsement might disappoint his base.
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The magazine's editorial department responded with a half-hearted, non-apology saying they were sorry about the "sensational language" in their story.
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We also get "Utah Jazz = Mormon" humor and a master course from Dan Aykroyd in half-hearted/half-embarrassed prison rape jokes.
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Attempts to rein in Trump's tweeting over the first year of his presidency have been half-hearted at best, administration officials say.
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His half-hearted apology to the women of America is worthless, and if he offers another apology it will be equally worthless.
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Meanwhile, the male character stumbles haphazardly into the life of his dreams and endures only the most half-hearted efforts at self-reflection.
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Aboriginals may be consulted, says Lawrence Costa, an Aboriginal member of the Northern Territory's legislative assembly, but the effort is often half-hearted.
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Watching the accusations and (sometimes half-hearted) apologies roll out across social media felt like watching a bizarre but welcome alternate universe unfold.
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Years later, a half-hearted attempt was made to plan a reunion, but really, for all our feral intimacy, the camaraderie wasn't there.
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PLUS: Sharleen Joynt on why she was "disturbed" by Arie's half-hearted breakup with Lauren Come back every day at 8:30 a.m.
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He was a leading champion of impeachment and a big obstacle to Ms Rousseff's (half-hearted) efforts to rein in the budget deficit.
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The company has, by all indications, taken a half-hearted, if not careless approach to handling the information wars rampant on social media.
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Incredibly, Hannah grabs it, gives it a half-hearted squeeze, then hops out of bed realizing that she somehow managed to play herself.
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If we've learned anything from President Obama's half-hearted attempt to crack down on special interest influence, that should be lesson number one.
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But more often than not, those bedrooms are decorated with a simple ripped-up poster, or a half-hearted pile of teddy bears.
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It's just a shame about the song itself, a forgettable chunk of hip-pop that includes half-hearted rap passages and chanted choruses.
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I quit my job, and after three months of twice-weekly, half-hearted trail running I hiked the entire trail in four months.
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In any case, the song's half-hearted attempt to fuse EDM 2.0 tropes with filthy low-end make it feel lost in time.
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Despite the glacial pace of change in some quarters – amongst the half-hearted initiatives and lingering homophobia – some progress is definitely being made.
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Not a half-hearted crunch, like it's been slowly melding with the brioche bun into sogginess under a heat lamp for a while.
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However it critiques ideological extremes, the film's half-hearted embrace of opposing aesthetic and affective poles convolutes more than it calls to arms.
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You talk about the possibility of, say, a religious revival, but that whole section feels half-hearted, like you don't even believe it.
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Musk gives a "yeah" and von Holzhausen, unable to act against his better judgment, goes into a half-hearted windup and lets fly.
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By comparison, in Mr Bagnoli's view, efforts by governments and inter-governmental bodies (including the European Union) have been somewhat spasmodic and half-hearted.
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A small, sad little wave of hype dies in an outcry of disappointment and then stony silence punctuated by a few half-hearted claps.
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On Labor Day of last year, in a half-hearted attempt to "put myself out there" again, I redownloaded Tinder for the nth time.
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"So far, the chief executive, other than a half-hearted apology has not receded to any of the demands," Chan told CNBC on Tuesday.
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Thrun insists these latest layoffs aren't just a half-hearted attempt to quickly cut costs and instead are part of a strategic turnaround plan.
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Nicki Minaj and Drake were reunited last night, which means that he could record a half-hearted diss track about whomever did the crime.
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That's an especially big concern, given mobile service providers including AT&T's half-hearted attempts to keep up with the surge in streaming.[Variety]
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Kandi Burruss is getting a half-hearted apology from Hawaiian Airlines for a computer glitch that led to her whole crew getting temporarily grounded.
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Given how half-hearted some big VR adaptations seem so far, we can only hope it gets the attention and ambition it really needs.
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There are a number of reasons that taking a harder line with Turkey is preferable to half-hearted talk about pulling pre-accession funding.
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But his decision to delve into the Alabama Senate Republican primary and offer a half-hearted endorsement of the perceived establishment candidate confounded some.
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On her way to work one morning, down the path along the lake, a tender-hearted woman saw a poor, half-hearted frozen snake.
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It's an assumption which assumes that reading a difficult novel is a better use of time than eating Wotsits and having half-hearted wanks.
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China's many high-profile moves to open up its markets in recent years turn out to have been half-hearted, if not intentional hoodwinking.
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His eyes pop, his crocodile smile flashes, and his voice drifts between a half-hearted impression of Hoffa and his signature "WHOO AH" bellow.
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These people are committed to success, unlike most people, who are half-hearted, because they know they need to work hard and work smart.
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It's the theater, the braying crowds cheering, the half-hearted attempts to break it up, and the underlying divisions of race, class, and coolness.
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This is how an abuser is redeemed: Not with the whimper of even half-hearted attempts at reconciliation, but with the bang of thunderous applause.
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Meanwhile, supposedly half-hearted supporters of Mr Macron turned out in droves, and pollsters did indeed appear to be clustering—but around the right numbers.
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Either Trump was right about our airports being subpar, or the workers at LaGuardia were giving him the half-hearted send-off that he deserved.
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The apps are mostly "half-hearted attempts" to address a complex issue, Castle said, but the industry is fully aware it needs to do better.
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At both events the politicians are tellingly half-hearted when talking about the sort of things they might normally be expected to harp on about.
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Sure, some of the gags might earn a half-hearted chuckle or a startled "Ha!" but the gaffes can also be way more grimace-inducing.
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Maybe half-hearted policies reinforced by carefully hedged advice and analysis help to explain why "the world's greatest military" cannot seem to win wars anymore.
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Between 2009 and 2017, there were 33 million new jobs created for African Americans in the U.S. She issued a half-hearted apology on Twitter.
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"Unfortunately, slow, manual processes like combing through suspected bad actor reports, or performing half-hearted quarterly ban activities just won't cut it anymore," Cook stresses.
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Rotten Tomatoes' critics' consensus described the sci-fi film as a "digitally driven thriller" that "spins aimlessly in its half-hearted exploration of timely themes."
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The show makes half-hearted attempts to use this shift as proof that our white protagonist was himself stereotyping Nadia, assuming she's a helpless woman.
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There are some half-hearted attempts to protect the tax base, but the design of the minimum tax actually encourages offshoring of plant and equipment.
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At first, Naz is horrified by the sight of the bloodied bully laid out on the shower tile and gives him a half-hearted kick.
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Mehra and co-writers Hussain Dalal and Manoj Mairta seem unable to decide which way the story should go, making half-hearted attempts in every direction.
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"If we have been half-hearted Europeans, it follows logically that with part of our hearts—with half our hearts—we feel something else," he said.
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Successive Japanese governments have minimised the scale of sex slavery in Japanese military brothels during the second world war, and offered half-hearted apologies for it.
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It's been at least a year since I've seen a new portable Bluetooth speaker that wasn't some half-hearted rehash of the millions that came before.
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His government worries that a surfeit of half-hearted party members is a strain on resources, a risk to its reputation and an invitation to graft.
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Without audio, though, it's hard to tell if there's any truth to the conspiracy or if the president just put forth a half-hearted effort. Pres.
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During the 2015 indictments against FIFA, it's half-hearted support for the Women's World Cup in Canada looked very much like putting lipstick on a pig.
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Yet, despite this half-hearted and minuscule step towards tapering, the ECB still caused a doubling of German 10-year bund yields in the past month.
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And, perhaps because its ambassador in Washington once worked for the Republican Party, its efforts to reach out to Democrats have been, at best, half-hearted.
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It was a muddled, half-hearted attempt to stop a damaging news cycle; the question is if it will be enough for Republicans to move on.
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Trump and the White House made a half-hearted and pathetic attempt to put out the firestorm he ignited at his shameful press conference with Putin.
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Anyway, Kevin Morby reinvents it with drums and half-hearted jingle bells which exactly capture dejectedness in a sound for exactly the scenario I just described.
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The wireless headphones translate languages on the go and offer an easier way to order food or ask for directions instead of half-hearted pantomimes. 10.
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"You're more in love with Bernie than with this woman," Baldry, himself a proud gay man, told the groom-to-be during a half-hearted stag party.
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Its poorly constructed, inconvenient approaches to interfacing with the internet, like the Wii U's AOL-like Mii-Verse and cumbersome Friend Codes, seem like half-hearted concessions.
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The Blues affiliates in Mississippi and Nebraska only sell plans off the exchange, and Wellmark just decided to abandon its half-hearted attempt on the Iowa exchange.
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"Like the rest of the investment community, we were underwhelmed by the company's half-hearted attempt to restore strategic momentum," Appaloosa's Tepper and Senator Investment's Silverman said.
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Facebook launches Brand Collabs search engine for sponsoring creators But Snapchat still doesn't have any of these options, and its Storytellers program looks half-hearted in comparison.
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Centre-right and centre-left parties in many European countries have taken similar approaches, striking half-hearted anti-immigrant and anti-EU postures to defend their flanks.
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Cramer was particularly frustrated with two recent analyst reports on the stocks of Sherwin-Williams and Microsoft that seemed half-hearted after large gains in both stocks.
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In 1984, Trump made a half-hearted attempt to buy the restaurant; two years earlier, Roy Cohn, his lawyer, threw Roger Stone a thirtieth-birthday party there.
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He'd tried attending his wife's church, as well as others over the years, but the services seemed half-hearted compared with the full-body worship he'd known.
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" It's less of a monumental plunge and more of a half-hearted flop backwards onto the floor, as if his body is saying "enough is enough, Gene.
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The enemy positions were too strong and too well-prepared to storm, but we had to attack and so a half-hearted, sacrificial effort would take place.
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No. Instead, I kept him on my TV while I did half-hearted stretches on my floor mat, occasionally unlocking my smartphone to glance at trending Twitter.
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Sonam Kapoor as the accented, privileged management student who champions Chauhan's cause is one of those contrivances, as is the half-hearted romantic track between the two.
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You needn't worry about more blood, though, for most of these tunes are half-hearted, bare-bones sketches of songs he would subsequently perform with more gusto.
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Since then, podcasts have been poorly supported by the company, which added a few half-hearted podcast-related features into apps like Google Search and Google Play Music.
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By the end of the series (spoiler alert), the pair have a showdown of epic proportions that ends with a half-hearted hug and a reconciliation of sorts.
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Then the streaming service practically killed the cable box, so thoroughly transforming TV viewers into binge-watchers that "Netflix and chill" became a half-hearted euphemism for sex.
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The company's "half-hearted initiatives," such as focusing on private-label brands, have not boosted the margins, and home furnishing and décor is simply not working, he added.
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Becca is a good sport for putting up with it — her interactions with Jordan always seem half-hearted, as if she's going through the motions for the producers.
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Corbyn has never been well-placed on Brexit, both refusing to campaign heavily for Remain in the run-up and when he did, it was pretty half-hearted.
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Just look at Mr Trump himself: despite his half-hearted attempts to disentangle the presidency and the family business, nobody knows where one ends and the other begins.
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The space museum and bridge were among "gifts" presented to the city by Kazakhstan's provinces, which ignored Mr Nazarbayev's half-hearted injunction not to give the city presents.
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And also, because it feels an awful lot like Marvel's half-hearted, long overdue apology for ignoring women's superhero fantasies for a whopping 20 movies released since 2008.
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I assume this was EA's half-hearted attempt to throw us off the scent, while also acknowledging that it was all there if we wanted it to be.
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My guess is that will be a few years of half-hearted efforts to launch new "products," and then they'll sell the entire consumer side of the business.
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As players, we're left with two options: do the heavy lifting for a game that can't and won't, or once again embrace a hollow and half-hearted spectacle.
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It's a problem compounded by the film's authority figures, whose own commitment to fascistic zealotry is depicted as half-hearted (Rockwell), inanely sinister (Merchant), or entirely nonexistent (Johansson).
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As a result, international efforts to pressure Iran into accepting a better deal — or even to comply with the JCPOA —are likely to be half-hearted at best.
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However, the Australian player has also drawn fierce criticism for his half-hearted approach to the game and for boasting about his prize money despite not trying very hard.
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The half-hearted taunting from Fox and anti-Trump Republicans, who claim Trump is simply scared of moderator Megyn Kelly, provides poor cover for that awkward but evident truth.
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But the areas in between often feel half-hearted, repetitive, and generic, and they never coalesce into the alien ruins that made At the Mountains of Madness so interesting.
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In this clip, James knows that the his defender will hedge the ball screen, so he sets a very half-hearted screen a step inside the three-point line.
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HALF-HEARTED ATTEMPTS Originally a rebel force in Congo's Northwest, the MLC is now the country's second-largest opposition party, and Bemba retains a significant following in the West.
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Although the NSA's surveillance apparatus was dealt a check with the 2013 Snowden leaks and subsequent half-hearted crackdowns by lawmakers, it clearly is getting back into its stride.
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A decade and a handful of half-hearted pants trends later, we've finally found a silhouette with the potential to rival the skinny jean era in a real way.
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Pretending that the half-hearted do-gooder actions of the best of you, will soften the blows from the worst is a lie you need to stop regurgitating every decade.
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Google has made some half-hearted attempts to get people to use the search box for their personal information, but it never really took; it's just too weird for people.
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But for now, in countries such as Uganda, where three-quarters of people still live in rural areas, politicians will make mainly half-hearted attempts to please those in cities.
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A story that might have been about different ways of approaching the darkness is instead a half-hearted story about an antihero more or less accidentally finding his better nature.
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This is Trump's Republican Party, it has been for some time, and at this points objections to his foreign policy look half-hearted at best, and two-faced at worst.
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Respondents to the original thread, in thrall to the "love story" and eager to thwart Blair's half-hearted attempts at anonymizing the pair, soon found and shared the woman's Instagram.
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Sarah Winchester's compulsion to randomly build new wings and floors with no master plan mirrors America's half-hearted bandaids on gun policy, which have never amounted to a cohesive vision.
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" But Board of Deputies of British Jews President Marie van der Zyl tweeted that Corbyn was "hiding behind a half-hearted &aposapology&apos no doubt crafted by his spin-doctors.
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" In 2013, the best Obama could muster was this half-hearted apology: "I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me.
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It's called "Pulled Down," and it's a half-hearted ode to self-destruction , played by Becky in the studio when she's too strung out to function; her creativity suffers accordingly.
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"We can't be half-hearted with this vaccine problem, and yesterday the president decided to immediately restructure the (food and drug agency)" Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung said in a statement.
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Our favourite is the guy who does a weird little zig-zag around a junction in a very half-hearted attempt to cover up the fact he's running a red.
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Despite Miranda's half-hearted pleas for them to dress appropriately, they wear the same risqué ensembles they would wear to a New York club (with a gauzy scarf as accessory).
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Frankly, more and more American Muslims are not willing to alter their identity to gain the half-hearted advocacy of any group that merely sees them as a political football.
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But you can't really justify the film's attempt — as half-hearted as the oven thing — to make us think that Elton and Bernie broke up their writing partnership in later years.
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Stocks could look to bounce later in the week, after the worst Christmas Eve performance ever, but some strategists expect only a half-hearted rally attempt with more losses to come.
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A man who I would later learn was the top sales associate greeted me with another half-hearted handshake and waltzed right past me, taking the stairs two at a time.
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A half-hearted chip out of a greenside bunker that drew a laugh from the gallery, a bogey, a quick handshake, signing for 70 and a stone-faced Daly was done.
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No serious security or political analyst believes Iran's half-hearted attack against American assets in Iraq after the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani will be the end of the story.
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While the rednecks were pretty rough-looking, this is such a ridiculous assumption that I almost wonder if it's a half-hearted commentary on the irrational classist paranoias of urban liberals.
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Jimmy Carter tried this half-hearted effort to prop up a few steel companies, but we're a very free-market economy and he got a lot of grief for that. Right.
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" Flake's belated attempt to put the brakes on Kavanaugh's confirmation drew only a half-hearted cheer from Noah Berlatsky, who said it was only "the bare minimum to even approach decency.
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Jim Collins, already dealing with the disappointment of being sidelined with a season-long shoulder injury, delivers his lines with a dissociative, middle-distance stare and a half-hearted shoulder shake.
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But in the end it's the mindset more than the materials that leaves tests unwritten, or left as half-hearted unit tests which haven't been updated to match the code in months.
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And a combination of changing priorities and half-hearted reform zeal has spawned a multiplication of delivery agencies: USAID is in charge of implementing only around 58% of America's foreign assistance spending.
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Contrast this to something like Thor: The Dark World, where the periodic check-ins with Malekith felt less like plot development and more like half-hearted attempts to remind everyone he existed.
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Corbyn, a strident detractor of the EU over the years, declared last week that he supports the Remain campaign but critics said his endorsement of staying in the bloc was half-hearted.
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Mr Netanyahu, who on election day in March 2015 said that "the Arab voters are moving in massive numbers to the ballot boxes", has since made half-hearted attempts to mend fences.
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"The sloppy, half-hearted nature of the whitewashing left the works easily visible under thin layers of cheap, white paint, reminding the plaintiffs on a daily basis what had happened," he added.
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Doug Jones (D) If Strange, recipient of a half-hearted endorsement by Trump, had survived the primary, we probably wouldn't be thinking much about this election, at least not 28 days out.
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His wife, Karen (Shantel VanSanten), is... unfortunately defined mostly by her relationship with her family and by a half-hearted and quickly abandoned attempt to paint her as an anti-feminist conservative.
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Facebook-owned WhatsApp made a hesitant and half-hearted debut on the BlackBerry platform three years ago, and announced at the tail-end of last month that it was rescinding that decision.
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There are also a few half-hearted attempts to make Anne's story relevant to 21st-century female readers, reductionistic moments that undercut what is otherwise an engaging work of storytelling and scholarship.
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TCJA also famously capped the deductibility of state and local taxes, a change that's unfavorable to blue states and has sparked some half-hearted efforts by congressional Democrats to restore full deductibility.
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As the courts have ruled, the FCC's broad, dismissive, and half-hearted efforts to avoid dealing with race and gender disparities in broadcast ownership directly are not only ineffective, they are unacceptable.
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But Sparrow's nostalgic nod to real estate and gentrification becomes a little half-hearted when you consider that the bodega's sponsor was a boutique hotel chain that has hugely transformed the neighborhood.
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The video is wild ... Big Boy says he was in disbelief when the driver took a pull from a VODKA BOTTLE after a half-hearted sorry while still in the driver's seat.
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Looking at the x-ray Whittaker released the following day, it is pretty understandable why it took some serious convincing to get Whittaker to throw a couple of half hearted rights each round.
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Since the crisis began, governments have undertaken "a series of half-baked and half-hearted structural reforms...That does not help supporting inflation expectations," Coeure told the Federal Reserve's monetary policy symposium here.
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Party opponents accuse him of leading a half-hearted campaign to stay in the EU, and say he is too weak to win a general election if the new Conservative leader's government falls.
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It falls flat and, combined with other half-hearted nods towards the musical numbers in the original, makes you wonder why Disney didn't just cut the songs from this live-action adaptation altogether.
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Ultimately, The Lego Ninjago Movie comes down to a "be yourself" message that's so half-hearted that, even as I'm typing this, I'm not entirely sure it was the message of the movie.
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The last "fix" occurred in 2014 with the passage of the Workforce Opportunity and Innovation Act (WOIA) — a half-hearted reform measure at best, it merely tinkered around the edge of these programs.
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Recent events show quite clearly where the pro-regime side's priorities lie: Their efforts against ISIS are half-hearted and ineffective, while the slaughter of innocent civilians commands their full attention and firepower.
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Others launched basic brands around the same time, but for most this was a half-hearted effort in part to meet a Chinese government requirement that they set up brands with local partners.
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It must be resoundingly clear to all Americans that this type of hate will not be tolerated even in light of a half-hearted apology, just as it was in rejecting white supremacy.
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Musk walked away from all that with a half-hearted spanking: a $0003 million fine (he's currently worth $34 billion) and an order to relinquish his role as Tesla chair (he remains CEO).
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But that&aposs far from the only issue with the company, which has suffered a staggering series of self-owns through poor acquisitions, half-hearted initiatives, and an inability — or unwillingness — to evolve.
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Analysts say this sort of backdoor funding, along with half-hearted statements of concern from the East African community, is a symptom of a larger dynamic that has enabled the Burundian regime's survival.
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GIF: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)Unlike the half-hearted "pill" in Android P that still takes up room at the bottom of the screen, OnePlus' gestures completely eliminate any sort of on screen nav buttons.
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Why is is that when Kendall Jenner dons ballet shoes and pretends to be a ballerina, we are allowed to take arms, but when Ryan Gosling warbles a few half-hearted notes, we rejoice?
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LONDON — So it's January, and we all know what that means — New Year's resolutions, diets, and people dragging themselves to crowded gyms in a half-hearted attempt to burn off all that Christmas cake.
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There's an effort, half-hearted and eventually abandoned, to coax some emotional resonance out of the chain-smoking genre cliches that are Murphy and Javier Peña (Pedro Pascal), his partner in mustachioed crime-fighting.
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This pattern was set in the first two debates, but in Wednesday's third and final debate, Clinton overcame Trump's half-hearted attempt to put forward a more sober public face, thus underlining her victory.
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HOW HISTORY WILL JUDGE HIM I fear that the only issue history will care about before too long is climate chaos, and that in that respect he'll be judged as temporizing and half-hearted.
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The Dubai bid was won by Acwa Power, a Saudi company that is taking big strides across the Middle East and Africa, despite the oil-rich kingdom's own half-hearted plans for solar development.
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On Tuesday, the President gave a half-hearted apology in which he explained that he misspoke when he said, "I don't see any reason why it would be" Russia that interfered in the election.
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Less noticed was that even during this late and half-hearted acknowledgement, Trump stood right next to — and was even introduced by — a leading advocate of the birther movement: retired Air Force Lt. Gen.
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And Lauer is just one of the many men to deliver an unhelpful, half-hearted, or downright offensive apology in recent weeks, as women come forward with accounts of sexual harassment, assault, and abuse.
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The world's most populous Muslim-majority country has reported less than 300 coronavirus cases but there are suspicions many have gone undetected and medical workers have accused the government of a "half-hearted" response.
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The world's most populous Muslim-majority country has reported less than 300 coronavirus cases but there are suspicions many have gone undetected and medical workers have accused the government of a "half-hearted" response.
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They can dust themselves off, make half-hearted mea culpas, and get ready to hitch themselves to the next war, the next reign of terror, or the next demagogue that comes down the pike.
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When the truest and most honest expression of athleticism comes together with the heroics of modern sport to manifest in the form of unfortunate costumes and half-hearted props—it's the Slam Dunk Contest, y'all.
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" In contrast to many of the half-hearted or non-apologies offered by other men in recent months, she found Harmon's mea culpa worthy of forgiveness because "he's not rationalizing or justifying or making excuses.
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Hayley Williams' half-hearted dancing in the video paired with shooting it in NYC is a pile on a metaphor for looking below the surface, which actually makes it a pretty good song about depression.
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Human rights campaigners said the agreement was a half-hearted first step, with imports of finished products that may contain the minerals not included and an end result that exempted a large number of companies.
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That's expensive for an Android tablet these days, but then nobody's made a huge effort create an innovative Android tablet since Google's Pixel C (and even then, you could argue, the effort was half-hearted).
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Others say half-hearted policy moves will erode the already low levels of trust in Nigeria's central bank, especially after it failed to make good on last year's pledges to introduce market-based exchange rates.
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As the three of them embark on the quest for Santa's stuff, The Christmas Chronicles makes a half-hearted stab at transforming itself into a found-footage movie, thanks to the presence of Kate's camcorder.
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Jokes about #MeToo and Ronan Farrow bumped up against the problematic Fred Armisen; jokes about #EmmysSoWhite and white winners never thanking Jesus drew half-hearted chuckles at best from the Microsoft Theater and from viewers online.
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Kyrgios's commitment to the tournament has grown in importance since Bernard Tomic, the country's other half-hearted talent, has crashed out of the top 100 through a combination of missing tournaments and not training very hard.
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The party was formally committed to Remain, but many moderate MPs felt that Mr Corbyn was half-hearted at best, and that this caused many Labour voters, especially in northern and eastern England, to back Leave.
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Instead, we got a boring anti-spectacle of half-hearted strikes and a couple high-impact moves through tables, all called by an announcing team that sounded shockingly bored, especially given the gravitas of the situation.
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Out of guilt, I gave a half-hearted clap for Daniels, born Stephanie Gregory Clifford, the porn star who Donald Trump's lawyer reportedly paid $203,000 to keep quiet about her alleged 2006 extramarital affair with Trump.
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Dyson doesn't do half-hearted product development (we've noted previously the company's tendency to over-engineer), and testing its high-tech hair dryer on miles of human hair was essential to getting the device ready for market.
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But, Obama's EDI is a unilateral effort that places the defense burden almost exclusively on the US. The Obama administration only asked for European contributions after the fact and, even then, its efforts were mostly half-hearted.
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In them, he called Unsworth "a pedo guy," among other things; they've since been deleted, and Musk offered a half-hearted apology, in a reply to an unrelated Twitter user, after Tesla's stock tumbled by 219 percent.
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The days of filling the Saitama Super Arena and being broadcast on a major network on New Year's Eve are long gone and the UFC's half-hearted attempts to revitalize the market have received a tepid reaction.
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Parker's defense has been brutal—he gambles in weird spots and isn't quick enough to keep ball-handlers at bay—and his search for the right balance between shots and passes is a half-hearted one, at best.
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While brilliant and brainy black women are seeing themselves reflected in entertainment in major new ways, some are also wondering if this trend will continue or if it's just another fleeting, half-hearted attempt at inclusion in Hollywood.
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In a country whose land distribution system verges on the feudal, it's the same strategy the rural elite has used to fight off every half-hearted excuse for agrarian reform that Bogotá has attempted to foist on them.
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The Wii U undid so much of Nintendo's good work expanding its own userbase, because its tablet-based design was a half-hearted attempt to keep up with current trends rather than defining its own need to exist.
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It's getting harder to pump the brakes on Jackson for Heisman, and Petrino didn't sound like he was all that interested in trying, aside from a half-hearted observation that he was having to do too many interviews.
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Considering Flake's near-complete unwillingness to save himself or his party from what he describes as a serious threat, his half-hearted rebellion is a microcosm of the crisis that awaits Republicans if the Trump presidency collapses terminally.
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Staaker is a drone that follows you around Wear an armband and your drone will fly slow (or fast) circles around you as you make a half-hearted attempt at avoiding to kill yourself on the ski slopes.
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All the while, Peter downplayed the big moments of the season in a half-hearted attempt to keep Hannah Ann by his side, telling her that what she was seeing was in the past and didn't matter anymore.
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If the Crown Prince is seeking to bolster up the German people's illusion that there is yet hope for the success of his Verdun offensive, he must attempt something much bigger and more serious than yesterday's half-hearted attack.
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The game's colonialist framing ultimately bothers me the most when it pushes towards the extremes, when one capture or kill quest becomes dozens upon dozens, an endless parade of half-hearted justifications to go have awesome fights against monsters.
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Given that the nickel price actually fell through the 2009 lows in the early part of 2016 and has since staged only a half-hearted recovery, fund positioning suggests the money men are keeping faith with the overall cyclical turnaround theme.
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The French services assess that Syria did not declare all of its stockpiles and capacities to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) during its late, half-hearted accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in October 2013.
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Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has proposed a half-hearted "Open Internet Preservation Act" we won't discuss here — it's not going to happen, it wouldn't help if it did and Blackburn isn't someone you want writing this kind of legislation.
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"They are unsparing in their descriptions of the president, at one point describing his half-hearted attempt to dictate a statement renouncing his past support for Obama birther conspiracy theories as a "seven-minute, meandering spat of word-mouth vomit.
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The administration of Barack Obama took a half-hearted step towards a new look, proposing the replacement of Alexander Hamilton's portrait on the $10 bill with a portrait of Harriet Tubman, a former slave who became a civil-war hero.
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" Trump may be experiencing some sort of memory loss because, hours after the tape's October 2016 release, he released a half-hearted apology in which he chalked up his "grab them by the pussy" comments to typical "locker room talk.
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Moon said Trump supported his aid plan, but after promising to ease hurdles for humanitarian aid earlier this year, U.S. officials remain half-hearted, especially in light of the recent weapons tests, blaming the North Korean regime for the food shortages.
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She announces she up-sold the jacket and the store owner calls her out for her lack of experience, novice ability to run a business, and her truly half-hearted attempt at understanding how to make enough money to sustain herself.
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The festival had boasted of "chef-curated culinary pop ups" and a "luxury food court", but one attendee tweeted a photo of a half-hearted attempt at a sandwich — two slices of bread and plastic cheese served in a styrofoam box.
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Mr Davies, who told the Moscow Times that he had deliberately avoided the acclaimed Bondarchuk rendering for fear it would depress him, allows Mr Norton and Ms James to gloss over the moment with nervous smiles and half-hearted sighs.
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After washing up in New York harbor several months before he's expected back from his turn in a cruise production of Mahogany, Titus spends several episodes juggling half-hearted heartbreak and a deep, dark secret that turns out to be underwhelming.
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If the countries that bid to host Euro 2024 are as half-hearted in their proposals as their 2020 counterparts, it's entirely feasible that UEFA's bureaucracy might start to see the pan-continental format as the future of the competition.
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Rather than endless attack ads against Trump or half-hearted attempts to make her seem like a charismatic leader, she could have embraced her inner wonk and presented herself as a ridiculously competent person who is obsessed with the details.
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He's made a half-hearted stab at suggesting the CNN event was rigged because one teen who pulled out of the event claims he was fed a question (which CNN denies), but he has stayed away from attacking the kids themselves.
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"A half-hearted, partial apology on a radio show does not get remotely close to addressing the core issue: Maine faces serious issues and its government is not functioning," the state's Democratic House leadership said in a statement on Tuesday.
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There are also half-hearted attempts to clarify how the Beast came to be such a selfish jerk in the first place, and why the servants were enchanted along with him when they, unlike their boss, seem like generally nice people.
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Having earned a title shot before the ban, the post-TRT Belfort showed up visibly deflated for a fight with champion Chris Weidman in 2015, and he was good for a half-hearted blitz before getting mounted and pounded out.
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The French services assess that Syria did not declare all of its stockpiles and capacities to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) during its late, half-hearted accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in October 2013.
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But emotional explosions or half-hearted frustration and weariness are found on Kevin Abstract's angsty verses; Angel Olsen's raw lyrics over searing guitar riffs; Girlpool's adolescent, choral yelps; and Weaves' garage pop subversion on a track about living in a shithole.
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In the past, YouTube has taken a half-hearted approach to moderation that involved dealing with batches of offending videos as it became aware of them, usually because news organizations were alerting the company's communications team when asking for comment.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, understanding sentiment in the Republican grassroots over the Russia issue, backed the release of the document even though he made a somewhat half-hearted argument that it did not impugn the Mueller investigation in any way.
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Turkey has accused the EU of being slow and half-hearted in its condemnation of the attempted coup, while hurrying to criticize President Tayyip Erdogan for the ensuing purge of officials from the police and army to journalists and academics.
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At this show, while watching a father-daughter duo adorably headbang together to the same song, I realized: For me, going to a concert solo is more fun than dragging along a reluctant friend who's half-hearted about the music.
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Dish and Sling think so, but so far they're the only ones (last year Sony launched its half-hearted Vue service, but no one is taking it seriously, and industry executives think it has fewer subscribers than a decent-sized college).
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Featuring the Sunday Service Choir as back-up, "Selah" concludes not long after it really starts to get going, leaving listeners to wonder if the song is a half-hearted reckoning of West's past behavior or declaration that West is a changed man.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - From the outset, Rex Tillerson's first trip to Africa looked half-hearted and token, but with the hindsight knowledge that the U.S. Secretary of State was fired just two days in, his African hosts who must be wondering why they bothered.
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"My half-hearted commentary to the point is, we live in a society where people walk around with bottles of Purell in their pockets, and they sanitize 19,000 times a day as if that's going to save their life," Hegseth told USA Today.
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Instead, the show's attempts to engage with race—both on America's television sets and in America's structural racism—came across as half-hearted and, in the case of a subplot involving police brutality against men of color, tone-deaf and ill-advised.
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For more than two decades, foreign aid and half-hearted sanctions have been deployed in vain to thwart Pyongyang's ambitions, a wait-it-out strategy based on the premise that the North Korean regime is simply too fragile to survive much longer.
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I was balancing precariously on her lap in a Damned T-shirt, and she was looking calmly into the lens, throwing up a half-hearted peace sign in that way you do when someone puts a camera in your face without warning.
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The Australian was beaten 6-3 6-1 by Mischa Zverev in a second-round match on Wednesday in which he put in a series of half-hearted serves and appeared to be walking off court before the unseeded German had completed his shot.
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The entire cookbook is at war with itself, oscillating jarringly between the earnest stories behind family recipes and half-hearted branding; it's hamstrung, in both cases, by the baseline artificiality of the sports personalities that contributed and the limits of the Celebrity Posse Cookbook form.
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Behind a lot of that talk is belief in the tech's utility down the road, but until Apple is ready to experimenting with AR tech in core iOS features, all of the chatter around AR having plenty of utility today feels a bit half-hearted.
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Trump's belief that a half-hearted attempt to soften what has thus far been a draconian litany on immigration will help him with Latino voters just adds to the notion that he does not realize the depth of the hole he has dug himself into.
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The Australian was beaten 6-3 6-1 by Mischa Zverev in a second-round match in which he put in a series of half-hearted serves and appeared to be walking off court before the unseeded German had returned the ball to him.
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By the time Sanders punctuates the entire thing with a half-hearted "yay," the Easter story has been turned into something that's not even recognizable from its original form — just like all of the other norms the Trump administration has shattered into a million pieces.
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In Friday's order, a three-judge appeals court panel agreed that the failure to build the 28 units reflected Westchester's "inconsistent, slow, and half-hearted" support for the project, and refusal to use the required "all available means as appropriate" to counteract local opposition.
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These included the Pentagon's failed train and equip program — whose rebel groups famously ended up fighting with the groups the CIA was secretly training; half-hearted threats and ineffective rhetoric about the Assad regime; and window-dressing diplomatic efforts aimed mainly at placating humanitarian concerns.
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Herring continually bucked and tried to get up off the canvas, but Ishii's high-level judo control proved too much as he comfortably kept his American opponent on the ground—sprinkling in some ground and pound in between half-hearted submission attempts and plenty of positional transitions.
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Though Paltrow had widespread celebrity support for Goop's events and content by her friends since its inception, Stewart only offered a half-hearted show of acknowledgment when asked by Bloomberg TV about the five-year-old site in 2013, and even seemed to question Paltrow's authenticity.
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For example, if the safe staffing level for the intensive care unit were one nurse to a maximum of two patients — but we anticipated management would push for four patients — would we give up and come to the table with a half-hearted proposal of three patients?
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Let's be honest, the best bit about a school packed lunch was always the chocolate bar at the end, wolfed down after you'd reluctantly eaten your cheese and cucumber sandwich with absolutely no crusts and taken a half-hearted bite out of a fun size banana.
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After Ed shrugs off Nathan's half-hearted attempt to relate to his marital issues, Nathan promptly regresses to the level of the children surrounding him and picks a physical fight with Ed. They've been bro-foes since Episode 1, and we all knew this was coming.
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As a teenager, when I started half-hearted attempts at diets and exercise, I'd remember the Abdominizer and drag it out from wherever it had been stored away, wipe off the dust, and use it for about five minutes before realizing it was actually unwieldy and awkward.
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Last year, I was spending obscene money on alcohol—anywhere between $7 and $15 a day, depending on where and what I was drinking—and half-hearted efforts to lose a bit of weight were being seriously undermined by the sheer number of empty calories I was drinking.
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Plenty of podcast and audiobook apps offer variable playback speeds, perfect for when standard pacing makes a series feel too dragged out, and variable speeds up to 2x are a blessing on YouTube, when sitting through 20 minutes of someone's half-hearted apology video starts to feel pointless.
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When you go to China you cannot go there sort of half-hearted you have to go in all in and the opportunity for Uber is to say well if you have a chance to be Amazon and Alibaba at the same time you should most definitely try.
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Yikes Moore can't resist tooting his own horn from time to time (at one point, he plays a 9-1-1 call in which Moore is apparently described as a "weapon"), and he gets in a couple of showy stunts, including a half-hearted attempt at a citizen's arrest.
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Unless fellow lawmakers strip him of his parliamentary seat—as his foes have been trying to do for months—he will retain his powerful position, and with it the ability to make life miserable for Ms Rousseff, by stymieing her (half-hearted) attempts to narrow the budget deficit.
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The political turmoil following Britain's decision to exit the EU has not only triggered a leadership contest in Cameron's ruling Conservative Party, it also caused lawmakers from the opposition Labour Party to turn on their leader, leftist Jeremy Corbyn, accused of leading a half-hearted campaign to stay in.
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Clinton repeatedly played the part of slamming the brakes on the Trump train every time it tried to get rolling down the track, and Trump actually played (for him) a rather understated role, interjecting with half-hearted jabs at Clinton as the debate pursued its anti-climactic course.
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Just last month, Senator Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE made a half-hearted (though admirable) effort, and managed only 36 votes.
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The filmmakers try to flesh out the lives of the murder victims at the center of the trials — especially Odin Lloyd — which are often overlooked in true crime narratives, although the attempt comes off as half-hearted (and somewhat random) in a documentary subtitled The Mind of Aaron Hernandez.
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If MachineGames tried to really push for something more realistic, it would risk ending up with either an unplayable shooter or a glib and half-hearted critique of fictional violence — like a less successful version of Inglourious Basterds, a Nazi-fighting fantasy that eventually turns a judgmental gaze on its audience.
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While federal police made a show of stopping the migrants on a bridge connecting the two countries, they made a half-hearted effort at best to stop the flow of migrants crossing the Suchiate River below, and so far they have done nothing to impede the caravan's progress within Mexico.
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This, alongside the aesthetic and thematic concerns, seems to be one Anderson's big takeaways from watching (and, later, working with) Altman; after a few early, half-hearted stabs at box-office success, he seems to have resigned himself to making movies for himself, and whomever else decides to play along.
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No wonder it's in comment sections and on Twitter where this flaccid, gassy, swearing-not-swearing tends to take place: this is where the people who have had every last vestige of control over their own lives go to whinge in half-hearted tedium about the world that's killing us all.
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Celtic Pride is an uneven and mostly un-funny effort, but does have some decent moments and is also refreshingly light on the Irish-sounding music, although the Irish-Canadian band The Mahones does deliver a half-hearted title song as the Boston Garden is (fictionally) imploded during the credits.
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Shows like Always Sunny and Superstore that actually prioritize being laugh-out-loud funny as their main task are really rare, and knowing just how funny the writing staff of The Good Place is, I was kind of disappointed that I never let out more than a half-hearted chuckle.
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The Lakota People's Law Project contended that investigators made a "half-hearted" attempt to reach Phillips — with whom the group has a relationship and could have facilitated contact — and that they did not interview other participants in the Indigenous Peoples March in January who had knowledge of the run-in with students.
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The gimmick is a little silly and half-hearted at times, since it turns the documentarians into a joke (there's a twist later in the episode that sort of explains the existence of the tape, but it doesn't logically explain why the documentary was made other than to set up that twist).
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Labour's feebleness has already contributed to Britain's most calamitous decision in a generation, that of leaving the EU. Although the party is pro-Europe, Mr Corbyn's half-hearted campaign to Remain (he is a lifelong Eurosceptic who voted to leave in 1975) was one reason that the referendum slid in favour of Brexit.
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Likewise, one could point to the fact that he never actually saw battlefield action for the SS as a mitigating factor in his service; the British Free Corps, despite its smattering of ideologues, was generally considered to be a half-hearted farce populated by hedonistic young aristocrats and opportunistic ne'er-do-wells.
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Policies that could have prevented sites like The Daily Stormer from using these services have, in most cases, existed for many years—and even now, the half-hearted purge of a few specific aggressors involved in the Unite the Right rally look a lot like half-assed window-dressing designed to satisfy public opinion.
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It's not a full-price, triple-A-styled blockbuster by any stretch of the imagination, and Microsoft's weird radio silence on ReCore in the run-up to its release—from where I've been sitting, it just seems to have slipped out without so much as half-hearted fanfare—certainly does it no visibility favors.
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In 2016, he was banned for eight tournament weeks and fined a total of $41,500 after he was beaten 6-3 6-1 by Mischa Zverev in a second-round match in which Kyrgios put in a series of half-hearted serves and appeared to be walking off court before the unseeded German had returned the ball to him.
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As Mr Federer curtails his ATP schedule with an eye on his unique position, we can expect the rest of the tour's professionals to continue chasing the same incentives they always have: more tournaments, more potential ranking points, and—sooner rather than later—a chance to retake the number-one spot from Mr Federer's half-hearted grasp.
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Trump's half-hearted attempt to surgically remove the leadership of the FBI from its rank-and-file is funny, but the big problem here is that Trump is dealing with an obstruction of justice probe relating to former FBI Director James Comey—who Trump initially said he fired for his unfair treatment of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
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That winter, following a protracted but half-hearted battle to keep Philadelphia, then the nation's fourth largest city, a two-team town, the Connie Mack family sold out to real estate dealer and Yankees thrall Arnold Johnson, and the club moved to Kansas City, abandoning over 50 years of tradition, countless white elephant jokes, and a venerable ballpark.
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But this hardworking student-turned-fighter quest to make good on a deathbed promise to his blue collar father by finally scoring an MMA victory over the UFC golden boy that he bested on the mats two decades ago has somehow taken a backseat to random Rousey speculation and other half-hearted rabble-rousing of the Sonnen variety.
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In his cleverest moment of an otherwise half-hearted performance, Mr Jadwat drove home the importance of that line: If Mr Trump was referring to terrorists (rather than Muslims) when he read the title of the order concerning "foreign terrorists" and then said "we all know what that means", "there would have been no reason to say 'we all know what that means'".
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But by now there's a pretty standard process: Bettman arrives, makes a half-hearted joke to the fans who are booing him, he congratulates the losing team, talks way too long about the winning team's owners, calls over the captain, and then forces him to awkwardly pose for photos instead of just handing over the Cup and getting on with it.
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Critics accused Corbyn of leading a half-hearted campaign in favor of staying in the EU. "I have the support to run and resolve this impasse and I will do so if Jeremy doesn't take action soon," said Eagle, who stood down as the party's spokeswoman on business issues after the EU vote and is the leading contender to launch a challenge.
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All the typical things that might stop a massive social network from doing this—the fact that it looks like like automated blackface, the reductiveness of creating a Bob Marley filter on 4/20, the half-hearted attempts at incorporating Marley's music, the fact that it literally slaps blackface and dreadlocks on everyone who tries it—apparently didn't occur to Snapchat.
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Canon has announced its first full-frame mirrorless camera and lens system, both called EOS R. Coming shortly after rival Nikon announced its own full-frame mirrorless cameras, the announcement of the EOS R means both Japanese camera giants are now taking high-end mirrorless seriously after years of putting out half-hearted responses to the likes of Sony and Fujifilm.
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At first glance, Trump's clarity and lack of moral browbeating appeared to be something of a departure from the highly ambiguous, half-hearted red lines of Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama22019 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 0,000 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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It was all fun and games back in late June, when nearly a million people RSVP'd to a Facebook event called, "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us." As has become common among Millennials and Gen Zers, a dark humored joke turned into half-hearted suggestions that evolved into an actual plan to be carried out by the millions of attendants.
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Furthermore, while the Tomb Raider reboots offered what can be described at best as half-hearted attempts at an open world with a few disconnected areas and side quests, Horizon Zero Dawn goes much farther in giving a living world to explore, harvest resources, and survive in, but yet still one where where the story feels like an important and natural part of the experience.
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Update 4/7/17 2:49pm EDT: Add to that list of former comrades the disgraced Breitbart "writer" Milo Yiannopoulos, who posted the following on his Facebook page (his Twitter account has long since been banned.)A half-hearted apologia from Dilbert creator and popcorn enthusiast Scott Adams included the line that "this military action alarms me," while prehistoric troll Ann Coulter took a more critical stance.
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Psychologically, it is exhausting to spend day after day filling my head with details about another rape, another man cornering an employee to masturbate aggressively in her general direction, another beloved Hollywood icon issuing a half-hearted apology about how he didn't know it was inappropriate to shower in front of one's employees/squeeze a co-worker's boobs on national television/grope 14-year-olds, etc.
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In writing about Artifact, Valve's new trading card game based on Dota 2, writer Will Partin summarized the company's disappointing but effective tradition of distancing from the consequences of the products it creates, instead putting that weight on the users themselves: The graph isn't useless, but it's a half-hearted solution to a problem that underscores larger, system issues Steam has faced, as it's continued to get bigger.
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This fearsome foursome, along with poster-boy soldier Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), his soul-sucking sword-wielding bodyguard Katana (Karen Fukuhara), Australian thief Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney) and "a man who can climb anything" named Slipknot (Adam Beach), are called upon by den mother/bad mutha Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) to stop a terrorist threat that has laid siege to Midway City in exchange for the half-hearted promise of freedom.
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Mr. Ellis has a good ear for the sort of dumb exchange of non sequiturs, bad jokes and half-hearted shrugs that pass for conversation between Clay and his friends; and while his descriptions of Los Angeles carry a few too many echoes of Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion and Nathanael West… they nonetheless demonstrate a keen eye for grim details (the dead fish in the Jacuzzi, the cigarette butt stubbed out on the kitchen floor, and so on) and a sure sense of the absurd.
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In addition to Zernial's last-dinosaur-gasping-for-breath slam—and as a very slow, defensively limited right-handed slugger reminiscent of Mark Trumbo, Zernial was very much in the dinosaur mold—those fans watched an A's lineup that included Vic Power, a Puerto Rican who, seven years after Jackie Robinson, was the club's first position player of color; Bob Trice, the pitcher who broke the team's color line only the previous September, was there, too, both men representing a half-hearted commitment to joining the modern world that almost passed for progressive in Philadelphia at the time—the Phillies didn't break the color line until 1957 and wouldn't have a black regular until 1960.
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