They half-jokingly referred to him as their guru.

Many players refer to it half-jokingly as "NeverRest" and "EverCrack" (a reference to crack cocaine).

The Year 2000 team only half-jokingly refers to the meetings as a kind of quiz game called "Stump the Commish."

A sensitive boy, Marko has a talent for composing poetry; a character half-jokingly refers to him as "Kočo Racin II".

They half-jokingly refer to their journeys as "pilgrimages to the homeland."

Mr. Wittmann continued, only half-jokingly referring to the protest organized by Republicans at a critical moment during the Florida recount.

She half-jokingly refers to her program as the Marilyn Graman Finishing School for Feminists.

Generations of servicemen would probably half-jokingly refer to boot camp as "concentration camp," as Mr. Wicker calls it.

Born to poverty, he came to live regally and until his death half-jokingly referred to himself as "The Great One."

Television stations have adopted what many people only half-jokingly refer to as "all Elian, all the time" programming, and viewers, including even some Cuban-Americans, are beyond angry.