Example sentences for: halfhearted

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

  • Springer's excuses are halfhearted (not to mention contradictory--it's not consistent to say that television doesn't create values, then lecture your audience about values).

  • Most critics like this "surprisingly genial and affecting comedy about the trials and tribulations of teenage rebellion during the Reagan '80s" (Jami Bernard, Daily News ). The title refers to two Salt Lake City punks whose tentative attempts at rebellion are more funny and halfhearted than seriously anarchistic: It's "an absurdist coming-of-age comedy" that's "better defined by its polish than by punk trappings" (Maslin, New York Times ). Some are not impressed with the film's watered down rebellion: "[T]his energetic but poorly structured, rather self-congratulatory look at spike-haired rebelliousness in mid-'80s Utah could strike unbiased viewers as more grating than gratifying," and the film "doesn't quite grasp how its slick, flashy package undermines any actual punk cred" it might have (Dennis Harvey, Variety ). (Brush up on your own punk cred by seeing how many of these bands you know.)

  • Analysts construed the project as a coalition bid for mainstream credibility; the Washington Post portrayed it as a halfhearted repackaging of the coalition's standard fare.

  • He works himself into a fake froth; does some calculated, halfhearted gonzo writing; then collects a fat check.

  • The Times attributed Pataki's halfhearted endorsement to "pressure from national Republican leaders to head off a fratricidal battle that could only help" Hillary Clinton.


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