He half-jokingly calls his predilection a sickness.

Jehan, who half-jokingly calls herself a Hindu-Pagan-Zen-Buddhist, said all of her movements were elemental, originating from natural phenomena.

Mr. Harwood only half-jokingly calls this period the golden age of patents.

Jaine Mehring, a former Bernstein analyst who now covers the food industry for Salomon Smith Barney, half-jokingly calls Bernstein a cult.

What he half-jokingly calls proper is really my morality.

Gray half-jokingly calls the scouts The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

His rival Pompey half-jokingly called him "Xerxes in a toga."

They are on the school baseball team and are such good friends they half-jokingly call themselves half-brothers.

The "sets in Vancouver" - 120 miles away - are the film and television stages of the booming production center that insiders only half-jokingly call Hollywood North.

The founder of ITA, Jeremy Wertheimer, said that the company began as what he half-jokingly called a "thesis avoidance project."