Sentence examples similar to halfhearted acknowledgment from inspiring English sources

Aside from the occasional halfhearted qualifier — the acknowledgment, say, that Giuliani was acting "under terrible pressure" on 9/11 — the authors betray few traces of ambivalence about their subject as they hammer away at his handling of the events with which he will forever be linked in the nation's collective conscious.

Both candidates showed support for the 2nd Amendment -- though Reason's Jacob Sullum thought Obama's "acknowledgment of armed self-defense as a constitutional right" was "belated" and "halfhearted" -- but agreed that this country must curb its culture of gun violence.

"It was halfhearted".

Jason looked halfhearted, pathetic.

Enforcement has been halfhearted.

Therapies are halfhearted.

He nodded in acknowledgment.

It was a halfhearted reply.

Acknowledgment received.

No public acknowledgment.

This needs broader acknowledgment.