As the Hollande presidency stumbles past its half-way point, it is hard to overstate the depths of pessimism in the country.
"Oh wait … Its half-way through May.
I drained a bottle of whisky to its half-way line.
The isolation experiment, a mock Mars mission, complete with research work and lava-field expeditions in simulated spacesuits, has reached its half-way point.
On this side of the North Sea, it is Colin Matthews's Turning Point that will attract the most attention, though, for it's a major achievement, a 20-minute single movement that seems to change direction completely around its half-way mark, transforming from a lightning fast scherzo to a glacially slow unfolding that reaches a catastrophic climax.
When the series reached its half-way mark I wrote a piece comparing Sir Kenneth's "Civilisation" to Clive Bell's essay – a line of thought which was pursued farther last week in a "Times" leading article – and it was not a happy comparison, although there have been so few stabs at getting down to a definition of civilisation that the "Times" leader-writer and I are perhaps not to be blamed.
The important thing to ponder, at this its half-way point, is whether the defense of the Obama presidency that many of us have just waged will in the end turn out to have been a defense that was worth waging.
Pour the water into the film canister until its half-way full.
But it is half way to its 2015 target to run 15% of its fleet run on alternative energy.
The Nederhütte ("We rock you to the limit" is the extravagant claim plastered on its roof) lies half way up the Hohe Mut, and is a place of exotically large lager glasses and loud, artless Euro-pop from 4pm.
Dr Dalen and his team were able to identify the rough genetic code of the animal and to their surprise they discovered that its DNA was half way in between dogs and wolves.
