I refrained from judging him, half-consciously.
As the two youngest guys at Cliffs, we were both, at least half-consciously, in the market for an age mate.
We can half-consciously think that, if poverty isn't so bad spiritually, maybe it isn't so bad in other ways as well.
She still half-consciously considers N.Y. to be inhabited by a population that knows exactly what's going on & from which she is naturally excluded, except for a particular moment once in a while.
Joan Acocella, New Yorker (2004) "Fred was not a happy man; much of his adulthood was spent half-consciously seeking unrequited emotional situations that would inspire him and activate what Petrarch called the resonance of sighs.
Wolf's main argument – that rape is at least half-consciously a subordinating tactic deployed by men – has been feminist orthodoxy since 1975, when Susan Brownmiller published her canonical Against Our Will: Men and Women and Rape: "From prehistoric times to the present, I believe, rape has played a critical function.
Our own feelings for Kalimpong felt fake, unfair, and we left rapidly for England then the States, journeying to where we had, half-consciously, half-unconsciously, assigned the centre to be, learning other rude lessons in our failure to locate our own story.
One of the old-fashioned pleasures of "Empire Falls" comes from the delicious expectation that the villains will receive their comeuppance and that the good guys will find at least a morsel of the satisfaction they so desperately (and often half-consciously) crave.
These are the kinds of perfectly excusable rationales voters are likely to half-consciously employ.
In that moment, as I half-consciously answered a police officer's questions, I became fixated on the number 59.
What is it in the culture that has a critical mass of people half-consciously confusing their personal freedom with "freedom" for, say, Bank of America?
