Mourning made a halfhearted attempt to get at Bradley, but nothing else happened.

Most of the schedules you do see are halfhearted attempts.

Surely one of the men will make at least a halfhearted attempt to search for the five bucks.

She made a halfhearted attempt to move away from him, then gave it up.

She pressed her palms against it in a halfhearted attempt to push him away.

She yawned and made a halfhearted attempt to cover her mouth.

She had pretty well destroyed his halfhearted attempt to do what he thought was right.

It had been the man himself who called the code, but the team only made a halfhearted attempt at resuscitation.

Greg asked, making a halfhearted attempt to grab it back.

She made a halfhearted attempt to erase the moment of revelation.