I submit that they are half-hearted, and bear the stamp of political calculation based on that principle of essential minimum.
But if they belie those words, one is tempted sometimes to wonder if an open enemy would not be better than a half-hearted friend.
I believe that a rather half-hearted offer of student participation is likely to create a notion of hypocrisy and humbug.
I think that the present attitude will be that it can only be half-hearted.
The achievement of this goal has been marred by colonial dependence, teachers' attitudes, half-hearted policy-makers and a fever for literary education divorced from the local context (p. 212).
Many of his other works are sprinkled with half-hearted incognitos.
In the first five-year period after the war there was a half-hearted revival, but this did not succeed in reaching the earlier maximum levels.
But at the outset his deeds are only the wishes and fears of the average undistinguished man translated into half-hearted action.