Sentence examples for half-hearted try from inspiring English sources

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Young Carlos realised then the reality of Venezuelan life: because his country was underdeveloped, it could neither control the price of its resources nor run its own affairs.A half-hearted try at lawyering therefore didn't work; he was too busy reading leftish books.

By now, to those like me who have followed Mr. Malkmus's music over the last 10 years, it's a nostalgic expression, a little ironic reference to a time when little ironic references were de rigueur and the half-hearted try was the badge of the so-called slacker generation.

She did give it a half-hearted try.

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She had made half-hearted tries, but she resented anything she was asked to do for him.

However, Real made light of the disadvantage when Bale fired in a brilliant free-kick which Eray made a half-hearted effort to try to save.

I tried to be encouraging, but every half-hearted effort from her quickly depleted my well of schmoopieness.

In most cases, the incumbent tries the usual tactics, perhaps making a half-hearted effort to change strategies to be more like the newbie, or calling on politicians to help save them.

"I'd rather go to the Games and come out thinking I tried to win, not that I went out and crossed the line third with a half-hearted attempt, and regretting that.

It feels like a half-hearted attempt to me.

"Even though trying to bridge out a new title on the [Super Famicom] was a little backwards at the time, we didn't want to make a half-hearted attempt at it," Inafune explained.

Yet they will be subjected to the same old roughing-up treatment that the government has been half-heartedly applying for a decade to claimants it suspects of being half-hearted in trying to find a job.

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