halfheartedness

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• This halfhearted support is how we end up with bags of grey Skittles being released into the wild because “only one rainbow matters during Pride.”

• “It’s a halfhearted effort at complying with the governor’s demands as soon as possible,” said Suzie Djidjoli, a speech-language pathologist who was a member of a union bargaining team.

• Obama, the halfhearted visitor, had his face clinched in a frozen smile.

• The result is a series of halfhearted reforms by old men in camouflage.

• He gave a halfhearted, widely panned speech on the night he finished a distant third in New Hampshire.

• The United States will issue a halfhearted rebuke and some useless words about “deploring the deaths” that occurred on the ships.

• He began to make a somewhat halfhearted effort to explain what had happened.

• At the mouth of the alley stood Charles, wearing a halfhearted VampMob outfit of black t-shirt and jeans and white face-paint.

• Since teachers were either poorly paid or were hacienda guests, they offered halfhearted service.

• Two or three women, far back in the hall, start a halfhearted handclapping.

• And Antony took enough time from Cleopatra's side to make halfhearted preparations to resist.

• The others of the "indigenous" school have proved halfhearted and vague.