He has the half-baked notion that if he buries the book in Michelle's backyard, his son will one day unearth it, and learn what kind of man his father was.

Throw in some half-baked mystical notions that these two lonely hearts are truly destined to be joined and you have what sounds like a hard-to-swallow sugarcoated cliche.

Their claim of local sovereignty was lame at best, a half-baked notion that arose in equal parts from misinterpretation of the U.s. Constitution and an arrogance that knew no bounds.

It would not enhance his career prospects to peddle such half-baked notions on his return to the Federation.

Dr. Paolucci said she did not warn the Governor's office of her position on Mr. Calandra's proposal, because, "personally, I don't think it's proper to bother people about half-baked notions."

He called it a "kind of half-baked notion" flawed by "fundamental ambiguities."

Shot through with a perception of character here, a visual effect there, Ms. Monte's conception of "Macbeth" remains a mosaic of half-baked notions, unconverted into cohesiveness.

We have evidence-" "What the prosecution has," Costello said, going for the kill, "are some half-baked notions unsupported by fact and not fully investigated.

He found loneliness so intolerable that he could not even allow an idea to mature before hastening to share every half-baked notion with someone else as soon as it crossed his mind.