He delves into the dirty officer's past and his connection with Linda Palmer, unaware that she has by this time shot and killed Tyler after she made a half-baked attempt to escape.

The history of obstetrics and gynaecology is littered with half-baked attempts by leading (male) members of the medical profession to blame women for involuntary childlessness.

Press Mocks the Idea The idea of tourism is mocked in the Soviet press as another half-baked attempt at entrepreneurial invention in a land lost in the economic wasteland of Communism.

I start with the assumption that this is a half-baked ideological attempt to funnel taxpayers' money to mates in the private sector, which does, however, require a bit of window-dressing to divert people's attention away from this.

Critic Leonard Maltin gave the film a mixed review, writing, "I'd always read that it was a half-baked attempt to rekindle some of the ingredients that made Casablanca such a success, and that's true.

Daniel's character transformation, however limited (he ranges from complete to partial arrogant jerk), is far more credible than any of the film's half-baked attempts at morphing into a conspiracy thriller involving his great-grandfather.

They are the inheritors of Cyril Connolly: well-off loafers with nothing of any depth to say, but awfully well-respected, especially in their half-baked attempts to be vaguely 'radical' or 'progressive'.

However, harmonisation of tax structures is not the way to achieve this: better design, cleaner fuels and research into alternative fuels are the way forward, not a half-baked attempt to extend the competence of the EU into tax.

This dictum, which appeared in the preface to still another half-baked attempt at a proper dictionary just a year before Johnson brought out his own, might as well have guided the Great Cham through his entire construction.

A few half-baked attempts by a family of idiots, with no real resources, no planning, no real structure to speak of; honestly, it's a miracle they lasted as long as they did.