Once again we hear about his halfhearted efforts to rebel against a destiny in politics.

With some halfhearted effort, he regained control of himself and straightened in his seat.

When the Sisters came to give him his lessons, he put in only a halfhearted effort.

There had been a halfhearted effort to seal it up.

When the next compy came up and bit his ankle, he made only a halfhearted effort to kick it away.

This time, he could not be accused of performing with a halfhearted effort, which led officials to fine him last year.

A long cancerous draw on the cigarette; a halfhearted effort to blow the smoke out the window.

Other nations have made halfhearted efforts to help us.

He made a halfhearted effort to pull away from her embrace.

We started with the books, which had defied our past halfhearted efforts to weed them out.