Sentence examples similar to was so half hearted from inspiring English sources

Yet the financial crisis and the dramatic country bailouts still define the way Britain and its left thinks about the EU – an important reason why Corbyn's performance during the referendum campaign was so half-hearted and why even now he is unlikely to reproduce Sánchez's political daring to trigger and win a no-confidence vote on the calamity of a no-deal Brexit.

My apology was so half-hearted that everybody could see through it.

"And when paid assistants were assigned to it, their attempts were so half-hearted that it soon became more economical to let them work on some other problems, which they could attack with greater faith and enthusiasm".

"Under this administration," Trump declared, "we are putting American patients first". In fact, the measures he presented were so half-hearted that the stocks of major drug companies immediately went higher.

It's all so half-hearted.

When you salute, you are technically saluting the Queen, and so half-hearted or lazy attempts at a salute are unacceptable.

It is not hard to conclude that the prosecution was either badly mishandled, or pursued in so half-hearted a way as to assure an outcome favorable to the defense.

Why so half-hearted, comrades?

As one former rail boss said, the plan was half-hearted and half-baked; it was so unloved even Lord Whitelaw, Thatcher's long-suffering deputy, opposed the idea.

How could they be so cold-hearted?

What else in contemporary art is so whole-hearted?