The company distanced itself from its racy ads, but halfheartedly.
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He had come halfheartedly, his mother said in an interview.
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The Affair is one of those shows I halfheartedly follow.
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Do you want a Congress that refuses to hold Trump accountable, who would halfheartedly investigate connections between the Trump campaign and Russia and who would halfheartedly investigate a Trump nominee to the Supreme Court?
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Janice, halfheartedly gaslighting her, hopes that Eliza will tone it down.
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Each time, her remarks have been uncomfortably disingenuous and halfheartedly apologetic.
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Don't sacrifice the ISS to continue to halfheartedly fund future exploration.
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He dropped out of Syracuse University and worked halfheartedly at Newhouse headquarters.
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Neighbors there are fighting the changes that Bushwick has mostly halfheartedly fought.
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Now is the time to act, not halfheartedly and incrementally but drastically and boldly.
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This time, Vivian (Samantha Barks) giggles halfheartedly, as if she were a little embarrassed.
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He had his uncle killed for, among the reasons, clapping halfheartedly, The Times reported.
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The charges against Jang ranged from "treachery" to applauding "halfheartedly" when Kim entered the room.
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But many of the proposed additions have been made halfheartedly, or have yet to materialize.
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If you do something wholeheartedly versus halfheartedly, it's going to have a completely different effect.
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Sometimes I would find myself halfheartedly spooning Xander, waiting until the moment I could get up.
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She dashed these words off halfheartedly, surprising even herself with the sting of her sarcasm. Piss?
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And Trump seemed to pay no price for halfheartedly faking a deep and abiding love of Christ.
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It's also halfheartedly about learning to trust other people, as Lin must teach William about the monsters.
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She halfheartedly questions whether they can kill Humphrey again, if the three of them are already dead.
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Danny DeVito is a bitter screenwriter who halfheartedly teaches college students between desperate calls to his agent.
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Music blasted throughout the gym as the teenagers halfheartedly played something vaguely approximating a game of volleyball.
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It looks like she tries, halfheartedly, twice before extending her hand all the way, a third time.
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If millennials are supposed to be the first generation going mostly cashless, they are making the move halfheartedly.
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I halfheartedly tried to stop them — it wasn't a cheap endeavor — but they placed the order that day.
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He experimented halfheartedly with "special economic zones" before settling on a "military-first" policy, which prioritized defense spending.
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She halfheartedly said, "Childish" into the mic in the middle of her walk and received some mixed cheers.
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What possesses anyone who even halfheartedly claims to be a writer to willfully sabotage their fellow writers' careers?
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Have you ever forgotten an important anniversary, then halfheartedly tried to make up for it a few days later?
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" Meanwhile, Hurwitz plays Josh Rice, "an empathetic dating teacher, who halfheartedly dispenses advice to a gaggle of desperate students.
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Her Chelsea place wasn't listed yet, and she wasn't quite ready to move, so she halfheartedly bid around $7003,2700.
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D. and I halfheartedly watch Shark Tank, then I head to bed after doing my nighttime skin-care routine.
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Williams has a stocky beige golden doodle named Alf, whom she halfheartedly disciplines in a kind, high-pitched voice.
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What remains is a hodgepodge of tones, influences, and concepts halfheartedly tossed together and poured into a generic blockbuster mold.
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It dismantles aspects of Obamacare, but halfheartedly and in such a way that is clumsy and hurts poor, old people.
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I halfheartedly made my speech about the patriarchal constructs of female sexuality and convinced my colleagues it was worth pursuing.
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It was infuriating to watch the Republicans play to win as the Democrats halfheartedly tried to get at the truth.
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He slugged himself a few times on the thighs and chest with a fist, and she halfheartedly did so, too.
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"I thought, by the time we finally met, we'd be on the rooftop at the Hilton," he said, laughing halfheartedly.
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"We are united," Henry Clay said, halfheartedly, at one of the Conventions in which he failed to win the nomination.
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With a signature, the president would officially condemn hate groups — a move he made only halfheartedly in the days after Charlottesville.
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Mr. Jang was executed on charges that included clapping "halfheartedly" when Mr. Kim entered the room and plotting to overthrow him.
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He yearns, halfheartedly, to be a serious writer and wholeheartedly, to meet a famous actress who has recently come to Rome.
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Could it be sentimental value that allows the penny to halfheartedly prosper, or is it something else that makes more cents?
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But studies show that many primary care providers either do not recommend the vaccine to parents and patients or do so halfheartedly.
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You can already picture every referee halfheartedly making a little rectangle, except for Wes McCauley who'd go all Marcel Marceau on us.
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Unless, that is, you are totally fine with having to halfheartedly apologize, all the while filling your pockets to the brim with money.
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Why it matters: It forces Trump to go on the record condemning hate groups — something he halfheartedly did in the days after Charlottesville.
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His indictment pointedly noted that Mr. Jang had stood up and clapped only "halfheartedly" when Mr. Kim was being upheld as supreme leader.
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"The company seemed to halfheartedly embrace the concept of pursuing strategic alternatives," said Scott Kessler, an analyst with Standard & Poor's Global Market Intelligence.
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Setting aside the odious and racist nature of birtherism itself, it's worth asking two questions about Trump's decision to halfheartedly renounce it: Why now?
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Even legacy media is abandoning its afterthought approach of either lazily dumping leftover TV scraps into digital, or halfheartedly cranking out B-side video.
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He endorsed Senator Roger Wicker, the man Mr. McDaniel hoped to replace and had spent months attacking as halfheartedly committed to the president's programs.
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The Cowboys wanted and needed Elliott, though they halfheartedly tried to talk up the rookie fourth-round draft pick Tony Pollard as an alternative.
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The A.N.C. has tried — halfheartedly, critics say — to redistribute some of it, but the party has failed repeatedly, angering black residents all the more.
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This left Democrats in the absurd position of needing to halfheartedly defend Sessions's integrity even while disagreeing with him nearly across the board on policy.
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Throughout the 1980s, Abuja developed only halfheartedly, with the lure of Lagos proving more powerful than dreams of a fresh start in the nation's interior.
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He's halfheartedly looking for work, but all he seems to want to do is drink and pal around with his brother-in-law (Anthony Anderson).
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They break apart long enough for Jane to halfheartedly revert to the plan she had for their special night while Michael steps out of the room.
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Over by the stage, Abner was halfheartedly trying on various glow-in-the-dark accessories that Meitu had provided, taking a selfie with each new look.
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In any case, British Lion distributed it halfheartedly on a double bill with Nicholas Roeg's "Don't Look Now," and it failed miserably at the box office.
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I clicked quickly, without focus, but before I could put the camera away two guards came running out, their rifles pointed, albeit halfheartedly, in my direction.
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I halfheartedly joked with my cousin and said, I wonder what Micaela is up to right now, and I wonder if she's thinking about me, too.
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Matheus's revulsion deepens during a scene in a bowling alley in which Pierre, in a red dress, halfheartedly sends the ball into the gutter several times.
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At City Hall, two flags—one of the People's Republic of China, the other of Hong Kong—flap halfheartedly in the wind coming off the harbor.
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My friend agreed there might be, but only halfheartedly, and I could see on her face that maternal instinct was sparring with feminism, and feminism was losing.
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The New York Post reports that Yahoo is only "halfheartedly" putting itself up for sale, and has hired advisors to defend itself against activist shareholder Starboard Value.
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Mr. Kim had his uncle Jang Song-thaek shot; his offenses included clapping only halfheartedly during Mr. Kim's election as vice chairman of the Central Military Commission.
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Sanchez struck out twice against McCullers, both times finished off by a knuckle-curve that had Sanchez buckling and halfheartedly able to offer only a checked swing.
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As West's fame has grown, he has seemed uninterested in moving beyond this narcissistic stance, apologizing only intermittently, and halfheartedly, for the persistence of his asshole ways.
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Mesnick even makes an appearance with his wife to plead Arie's case, albeit a bit halfheartedly: "He's a nice person," he proclaims to a near-silent, unimpressed audience.
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Devon's mother is halfheartedly tormented by doubts about what she and Eric are doing to and for their daughter, though not enough to consider making any significant changes.
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When social democrats tried to respond, they appealed halfheartedly to economic protectionism, while ignoring these voters' identity politics altogether or clinging to a liberal commitment to open borders.
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None of what the company does necessarily matters outside its campus, except to Mae's parents and her halfheartedly sketched childhood friend Mercer (Ellar Coltrane, star of Richard Linklater's Boyhood).
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Ms. Gallo sent The New York Times a half-dozen photographs that depict the stones having been restored so halfheartedly after various excavations that the restorations almost look sarcastic.
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The country has attempted this sort of thing before halfheartedly, but this is the most serious effort yet to isolate itself from the influence of the western technology sector.
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As long as NIRP rules in the Eurozone and Japan, US Treasury yields will become even more appealing every time they halfheartedly try to inch up just one tiny bit.
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While halfheartedly studying for a business degree in Caxias do Sul, his hometown in Southern Brazil's wine country, the 31-year-old designer Guilherme Wentz would often procrastinate by surfing.
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It targeted the Protestant king, James I, who was negotiating an end to war with Spain while halfheartedly persecuting Catholics as the English Reformation wound its way toward civil war.
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During the days, as I halfheartedly helped look after the animals, I would listen for the latest rumor, passed from mouth to mouth, growing more exaggerated and distorted with each telling.
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Since the letter was made public, a British minister who oversees universities, Jo Johnson, has defended Mr. Heaton-Harris, though only halfheartedly, saying he was simply doing research for a book.
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Many believe he weakened Hillary Clinton by dragging out the primary — at one point even threatening a contested convention — and then only halfheartedly rallying his fans behind her when it was over.
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There is a theory that when mortgage rates move dramatically higher, buyers who were halfheartedly in the market get nervous and sign contracts, afraid they will be priced out by even higher rates.
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But when I started reading, I realized that former liberal arts majors who halfheartedly resist the app-enabled future — mainly through willful ignorance and sweeping complaints — are the intended audience for this book.
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I've been halfheartedly trying to get a new one, but I'd never put a lot of time into thinking about a real career before because I'd always assumed I'd never really have one.
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Now the military is halfheartedly planning a parade for this fall that would pass muster with the White House and its eager occupant—a stunt that does little but assuage the president's personal insecurities.
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Perhaps the Mexican authorities who received the American tip-off understood that if they didn't nab Mr. Guzmán López, the Americans would out them as complicit — and so opted to proceed halfheartedly and disastrously.
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And while the Irish government had been publicly extolling his suitability for the past few weeks, the campaign appeared either to be waged too halfheartedly, or else began too late, to dislodge the frontrunner.
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Trump's unwillingness to forcefully denounce Putin — despite his attempt to halfheartedly ameliorate the situation on Tuesday — is just the latest instance of the president putting the onus on Congress to address a problem he exacerbated.
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Advocates said these statements were as upsetting to them as anything else: evidence, in their view, that party leaders wanted credit for making caucuses accessible but had tried only halfheartedly to actually make them so.
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Fisher is frank about sexuality in a way that, as Jane Vandenburgh speculates in an afterword, might have kept her from seeking a market for the book, as she halfheartedly did when in need of money.
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These are words C.K. clearly feels too uncomfortable having Glen speak; Grace shoulders the unmanageable burden of defending why teenagers should be able to have sex with adults while Glen halfheartedly recites reasons why it's wrong.
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Fleabag and her sister Claire (Sian Clifford) are dealing with their grief differently; Fleabag dates a lot of different men and presides halfheartedly over her cafe, which is home to a resident guinea pig named Hilary.
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This year we're here to help, so instead of shuffling around halfheartedly tossing balled up napkins and sighing dejectedly at the pomegranate-champagne punch stains on your carpet, you'll be a master of post-party cleanup.
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While you might have the best intentions, being together halfheartedly during the holidays could make things worse between the two of you, because the holidays are an emotional and high-pressure time for many people, Kerulis says.
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When Steve suggested during our last tour that we make a record together, I listened only halfheartedly because to bring two artists together and deal with their schedules, especially because Steve never co-wrote, it doesn't happen.
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Two years later, moviegoers watched as "Network," the screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning satire of the television industry, introduced them to Howard Beale, a despondent news anchor who vows halfheartedly to kill himself on the air.
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By this time, everyone in the nosebleeds had realized that they're never going to be on camera, and so the kids halfheartedly waved their inflatable gold noodles and watched the people in the floor seats go nuts.
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Arguably the most famous player on her team, particularly in the United States, Ertz kept her eyes low and halfheartedly waved to the adoring crowd as she accepted her runners-up medal and walked across the stage.
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The crowd was muted during this section — perhaps it had come for the other version of Mr. Brown, the version that, twice, halfheartedly pulled up his shirt to reveal his abdominal muscles, as if he were Trey Songz.
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As soon as Richard pauses the game, she's looking for a way out, and her fellow prisoners halfheartedly play along – with the exception of Walton, who reveals that Richard tortured him uniquely in the early days of the game.
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Hickey is neither art criticism's reactionary philosopher king nor its populist Robin Hood, but a sensualist with an acquired taste for art that is resistant to interpretation and unapologetically elitist, a term he halfheartedly redeems as a positive value.
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And he did not even mention Russia's interference, even though its foreign minister was also at the Council session, and it has been identified for its meddling by American intelligence agencies — a fact that Mr. Trump only halfheartedly acknowledges.
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A parcel of rice supposedly inspired by Dominican concón had as much crunch as if it had been left out on the counter overnight, and the eggplant curry ladled over it tasted more like a halfheartedly seasoned tomato sauce.
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In the TV adaptation, in a seeming attempt at deference to contemporary concerns about representation, Gilead is uneasily and halfheartedly post-racial; Moira, June's best friend, who is also a Handmaid, is played by Samira Wiley, who is black.
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So even as the audience joins in the quasi-title tune at the end — halfheartedly, the night I saw it — it is not so much facing the facts of life as comforting itself with a prettified version of them.
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At the urging of Mr. Dean's brother, they halfheartedly agreed to look outside the city and found a listing for a midcentury-modern house in Hastings-on-Hudson, about half an hour north of Grand Central Terminal on Metro-North.
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By the time heroin addiction catches them in its jaws, Emily is in her mid-20s, teaching college writing and helping the narrator, who is halfheartedly taking classes on the G.I. Bill, grow marijuana in a tent in their living room.
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Based on a tweet from The Verge editor Dan Seifert, it seems that the new YouTube integration only halfheartedly supports voice controls at all, with the device loading the new interface slowly, and even then only loading a windowed version of the video.
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McGahn had the thankless job of deflecting Trump's worst impulses, including halfheartedly making the case to Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself from the Russia investigation in March 2017 or threatening to resign rather than fire Mueller in June 2017.
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Politically, repairing and improving the slipshod infrastructure of the safety net would liberate Republicans from the bad faith of attacking the welfare state in one breath, halfheartedly promising not to cut entitlements in the next and then breaking that promise once in power.
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Had any one of a number of Republicans made any one of those choices differently — from creating the initial vacancy to halfheartedly accepting Mr. Moore in September — the party might not be staring at the possibility of electoral humiliation in the Deep South.
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A shrill blonde named Jillian Hall, working the angle of being a horrendously bad singer, screeched horribly off-key songs, and nobody bothered to explain why they dug up I.R.S., the early 90s midcarder who halfheartedly reenacted his shtick about taxes on his bids.
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In this first fight, Mr. Ryan's more orthodox right-leaning vision was co-opted only halfheartedly by Mr. Trump, who has few fixed political beliefs, in service of a bill the president never well understood, even as he laid on the superlatives in praising it.
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These days, I can admit that I was in part just trying to escape from the pain of losing my dad in June, and revisiting shows I already knew required little to no energy on my part: I could just zone out and halfheartedly follow along.
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In the video for the Gud-produced "Ginseng Strip 2002," Lean wore a bucket hat as he sat on a stoop, doing Lil B's cooking dance as he rapped halfheartedly about blowjobs and slicing people with razors as if he were trying out to be in Odd Future.
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People trickled into the gym Friday evening under signs that read "invest in HBCUs" and did the electric slide to Beyonce's remix of "Before I Let Go." They halfheartedly did the Renegade TikTok dance to K Camp's "Lottery," and linked arms to swag surf while being led by a campaign surrogate.
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She watches reality TV in insomniac binges, masturbates joylessly while sexting with invisible and anonymous partners on her phone and halfheartedly rallies herself in the morning with the won't-back-down music of the proto-alt-country supergroup the Highwaymen before giving up and ordering her Amazon Alexa to turn it off.
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It's truly rare that you see something as jaw-droppingly uncomfortable as, say, Mark Foster staring into the Grammy audience with a mixture of amusement and terror as he warbles through "Wouldn't It Be Nice," like a child halfheartedly singing along to a song on the radio while they draw stick figures with chalk on the sidewalk.
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As anyone who has ever watched a game in an empty stadium will know, it is when the shouts of the coaches echo clearly around a ground, when goals are scored and only a handful of people halfheartedly celebrate them, that it becomes clear that it is fans who give soccer not just its background, but its meaning.
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Then she began "hustling nights and weekends," to refine the program and build a following, before deciding to quit her job and pursue Whole30 full time, Hartwig explains to CNBC Make It. "I found myself halfheartedly clocking my 9-to-5, then enthusiastically putting in another 30 hours a week writing blog posts, answering reader questions and traveling all over the country to speak about the program," she says.
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