It was a studio apartment, with the kitchen only partly walled off and the bed in a corner of the room, smallish, without posts or headboard, covered in a bright Berber robe, the only object in the room of some slight distinction.
There's a fumbling, too, of the critical interpersonal rivalries between Sarah, Juno and Beth, while the hinted haunting presence of Sarah's absent daughter (a nod to Don't Look Now or Poltergeist?) only partly pays off in the film's splendidly downbeat finale.
But as often happened during the disaster, the workers' struggles only partly paid off.
In the process, black stains caused by drips at the joints of a band of terra cotta were only partly cleaned off.
No matter how many billions of dollars and how much effort and how many troops are poured into the region, without political commitment on all sides, the investment has only partly paid off.
Though this concept of crisscrossing parallel lives seems like an intriguing postmodern formula for examining the randomness of life in today's global village, Mr. Mitchell is only partly successful in pulling it off.
Though we Americans tend to think that we are the masters of our own destiny and that hard work pays off, we are only partly right: Many of us succeed at work and in life because of luck, too, according to Robert Frank's book, Success and Luck.
Even if true, this only partly gets Fannie and Freddie off the hook.
Due to criteria interdependency, the current linear applied approach used in building certification neglects criteria trade-offs and is therefore only partly suitable for holistic building improvement processes.
Attempts to close off this route have been only partly successful.
