with half a heart

"What kind of love is it that pushes a man away and leaves him with half a heart?"

Such babies are, in essence, born with half a heart.

Of any with half a heart or mind.

Gaze deeply into his or her eyes and say, "I love you with half a heart and a whole lot of conditions attached."

I hate a pygmy with half a heart and nine stomachs!"

It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

Leskit sat down, dropping a plate laden with half a heart of targ and a small piece of bokrat liver onto the table.

The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.

One thing I know now, I shall not die with half a heart at least, Nor shift my face, nor weep my fault alive, Nor swear if I might live and do new deeds I would do better.

The willowy McEnroe was, as usual, all hue and cry: He tore at his receding hairline, he dove to the ground, he somersaulted into the net, and he wore an expression of such pain that any opponent with half a heart would have found it tempting to put him out of his misery.

With half a heart he cursed the gods and fate that he no longer had the iron endurance of his stalwart youth; with the other half, he thanked those same gods that he should fall as he had always wished, face to face with a foe and with steel in hand.