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  • Buddhism holds an exalted place in the half-informed Western mind.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • Unfortunately the half-informed, believing that they know rather more than they actually do are usually “ivory towers” types who have been assured by the manufacturer that all is well and that “user education is required”.

    Ground Control To Major Tom. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • The Chamber of Commerce is an organization for which -- partly because of its name perhaps, and partly because of its history -- many American cherish a vague and half-informed affection.

    David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010

  • The hundreds of millions of half-informed voters across the rich world, on whom consent for nuclear power ultimately rests, gazed on – bemused by the International Atomic Energy Authority's ill-judged attempt to soothe nerves by pointing to the dozens of Japanese reactors that had not blown up, and hoping against hope that the pumping of sea water into reactor two was not quite as desperate a measure as it sounded.

    Nuclear power: After the flood | Editorial 2011

  • Buddhism holds an exalted place in the half-informed Western mind.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • The Chamber of Commerce is an organization for which -- partly because of its name perhaps, and partly because of its history -- many American cherish a vague and half-informed affection.

    David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010

  • The Chamber of Commerce is an organization for which -- partly because its name, perhaps, and partly because of its history -- many American cherish a vague and half-informed affection.

    David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010

  • The Chamber of Commerce is an organization for which -- partly because of its name perhaps, and partly because of its history -- many American cherish a vague and half-informed affection.

    David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010

  • The Chamber of Commerce is an organization for which -- partly because of its name perhaps, and partly because of its history -- many American cherish a vague and half-informed affection.

    David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010

  • Edition which shall not destroy the spirit, and the half-wild, half-informed run of the whole.

    Letter 263 2009

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