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Mr. Santelli was griping about President Obama's new foreclosure mitigation programs—the ones I just characterized as half-hearted.

How to Clean Up the Housing Mess Alan S. Blinder 2011

Barry was quietly impressive, dovetailing with Parker to break a half-hearted Montenegrin attack, setting the stage for England's second.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Henry Winter 2011

The Tea Party, to the degree that it can be lumped together or even defined as a group, has given Gingrich an embrace that can probably best be described as half-hearted.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2012

With every TV camera trained on me, I put myself on the ice and delivered a half-hearted pep talk: you are going to try.

Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

Novak made a half-hearted attempt to grab one of the gutters, announcing his intent to use it as an oar, but the gutter held fast.

DELUGE (Part 43) – Brian Keene 2010

Brock pretty much posted what I was going to write about the rather half-hearted defense of equal representation in the Senate in Federalist #62.

Matthew Yglesias » Malapportionment Is Destroying the Planet 2010

Hence, their political protests are always cowardly and half-hearted — because they know that, at the end of the day, they can do nothing but bleat like sheep.

Matthew Yglesias » The Actually Existing Constitution 2010

With each half-hearted punch line, Mr. Obama became more and more like the king who knelt in the snow.

Rakim Brooks: Obama and the King Who Knelt in the Snow Rakim Brooks 2011

The half-hearted Republican resistance in the Senate to the health care bill is just another example of liberty sacrificed to decorum.

Conservative Republican Participation - Morton_C_Blackwell’s blog - RedState 2009

Good to see the Washington Post giving a half-hearted defense of Journalism.

WaPo calls White House ‘Agnewesque.’ - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009