"Here's where the magic happens," intones Xerxes as he halfheartedly gestures at a needlessly large statue of a horse behind him.
"I'm not the kind of athlete who does things halfheartedly".
He halfheartedly embraced the bebop movement and in the late 1940s made several recordings with noted bop musicians.
The revolt of Raymond Trencavel, dispossessed heir to the viscounty of Béziers, halfheartedly supported by Raymond VII of Toulouse, was no more successful; its failure resulted in the vindictive destruction of the petty nobility of Languedoc, and many fiefs thereupon passed to the crown.
After a while, I managed to contribute some small talk, and so did Betty, both of us halfheartedly.
To the accompaniment of dulcet whale songs, he halfheartedly sodomizes them, feeling, at first, no joy at all.
You can hear the Beatles slog through it halfheartedly in outtakes from "Let it Be," the film of the band's late recording sessions, in which Paul and John reject it — was the title alone too much of a metaphor when they were all trying to keep the band together?
Where did that come from, I asked myself, before — as far as I remember — making some halfheartedly imitative gesture of piety, which probably involved a certain amount of squinting around or through my fingers.
In a twenty-seven-hundred-word screed released after the execution, in December, 2013, Jang was accused of "halfheartedly clapping" at an event and doing "serious harm to the youth movement in our country, being part of the group of renegades and traitors in the field of youth work bribed by enemies".
Instead, he goes along with the nonsense that Bowie and Walsh have halfheartedly dreamed up, including Teenage Girls (Krystina Alabado, Krista Pioppi, Brynn Williams), who sometimes wear masks and sing backup for Newton for no reason whatsoever.
There we expect illusions to be, if halfheartedly, penetrated.
