Moral and legal barriers deter the half-hearted.
And the half-hearted arguments among friends who seemed to be merely going through the motions.
With reputational missteps, the half-hearted, half-baked mea culpa apology doesn't solve any problems.
Imagine the half-hearted, slightly ironic nearly-screams they would have produced.
A mystifying aspect of this is the half-hearted effort Mrs May has made to woo opponents.
As events in Bosnia, Rwanda and Somalia proved, the half-hearted defensive missions were a recipe for humanitarian disasters.
NFL devotees aren't enamored with the half-hearted efforts and third-string players featured in most preseason exhibitions.
Or giving myself the half-hearted answer that we simply got older and drifted apart, like people often do.
The half-hearted approach is reflected in other oddities such as the government diktat that speed cameras must be painted bright yellow, and accompanied by conspicuous road markings.
Gone is all that creaky, cutesy stage business — the half-hearted frolicking and flag-waving by the chorus, the scamperings of kids, the Aah-inducing piles of carpentry.
The last Cars album was the half-hearted "Door to Door," in 1987, and since then the stars haven't exactly realigned.
