half-expressed

It taunted me for the half-expressed thought, for the fled insight, for the swelling note that midmost broke.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

Lots of anxious gesturing and half-expressed concern, but no discernible substance.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

But, based on what I have read, my half-expressed objections would be: 1. Ambrose and the Cappadocians were contemporaries so transmission from them to Ambrose at least has that difficulty.

Who is Origen? Fred 2008

I wasn't trying to be "half-assed" and my remarks was half-expressed because my linking and searching for links are typically a bit rushed and I have this notion that half-expressed remarks pique the curiosity.

Who is Origen? Fred 2008

‘You know that I am always stirring before that hour, at this season of the year,’ was the half-expressed consent.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

There are many passages in some of our greatest modern poets which are far too obscure; in which there is no proportion between style and subject, in which any half-expressed figure, any harsh construction, any distorted collocation of words, any remote sequence of ideas is admitted; and there is no voice ‘coming sweetly from nature,’ or music adding the expression of feeling to thought.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

But even while she was joking there was something of half-expressed consciousness in her words — as though she felt it to be foolish to speak of his coming as she might of that of any other young man, before people who knew her whole story.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

Scores of times he had professed his love to her with half-expressed words, intended to mean nothing, as he said to himself when he tried to excuse himself, but enough to turn her head, even if they did not reach her heart.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

There was no concealed or half-expressed meaning in his face.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

Bernard offered to his aunt what of solace and sympathy he had to offer, and made some sort of half-expressed apology for having introduced this wolf into their flock.

The Small House at Allington 2004