Example sentences for: half-baked

How can you use “half-baked” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It took him and Appiah only four years to produce Africana . Even with modern technology, that is an astonishing feat, so astonishing that some will dismiss the book (I have heard some comments of this sort even before the book was published) as some half-baked enterprise.

  • Critics term it "a silly, roiling melange of special effects and overheated religious symbolism" that is at heart a "half-baked anticlerical screed" with "lots of broken glass, bird feathers, dripping blood and desperately fancy camera angles" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). (Click here to visit a fan page devoted to the film.)

  • It fetishizes the national sovereignty of half-baked multiethnic congeries (such as Somalia, ex-Yugoslavia, and Liberia) whose collapse into tribal warfare suggests they may not really be organic "nations" after all.

  • Similarly, rap is the logical consequence of pop's 30-year promotion of street cred over music: the reduction of the tune to a banal pneumatic backing track, the debasement of lyric-writing to a formless laundry list of half-baked hoodlum exhibitionism.

  • He constructed this image during his confused Paris years, 1886-88, when he tried out various Impressionist styles and, except for his self-portraits, produced work that looks half-baked.


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