half-joking

Around about the time my then-new-boyfriend, now husband, said - only half-joking - he wouldn't entertain the idea of marrying someone if they wouldn't take his name.

Carla Buzasi: A Woman's Right to Choose (Her Surname, at the Very Least) Carla Buzasi 2011

"It's kind of half-work, half-vacation... or maybe like nine-tenths vacation and one-tenth work," says Simonett, half-joking but still hoping to get a chance to go fishing.

Michael Bialas: Faces of Telluride, Part 2: Dave Simonett, Furious-Pace Face Michael Bialas 2011

We live in an age where many authors ponder their own experience over and over in styles that can be impenetrable, but Vargas Llosa looks at the world and writes about it with such wisdom that he doesn't fear being understood (there I go again, half-joking).

Jane Smiley: Noble Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa Jane Smiley 2010

It was only a few months ago they were joking (half-joking) with us about landing Will Smith to star in their original sci-fi project, "Earth Vs. Moon."

‘Zombieland’ Writers Reportedly Scripting ‘G.I. Joe’ Sequel » MTV Movies Blog 2010

We live in an age where many authors ponder their own experience over and over in styles that can be impenetrable, but Vargas Llosa looks at the world and writes about it with such wisdom that he doesn't fear being understood (there I go again, half-joking).

Jane Smiley: Noble Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa Jane Smiley 2010

We live in an age where many authors ponder their own experience over and over in styles that can be impenetrable, but Vargas Llosa looks at the world and writes about it with such wisdom that he doesn't fear being understood (there I go again, half-joking).

Jane Smiley: Noble Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa Jane Smiley 2010

But a television presenter declared -- half-joking, half-serious -- that "there will be no 'honey nor caramels' at the event this weekend... because they're bad for your teeth," in a clear reference to the likelihood of presenting the controversial rhythm with its direct sexual allusions.

Yoani Sanchez: Cuba's Communist Party Worries About Our Tastes in Music Yoani Sanchez 2011

I've come to the (half-joking?) conclusion that many of the journal reviews are so vague and namby-pamby that maybe they should resort to the movie-review star system.

A conspiracy theory of reviewing Roger Sutton 2009

But a television presenter declared -- half-joking, half-serious -- that "there will be no 'honey nor caramels' at the event this weekend... because they're bad for your teeth," in a clear reference to the likelihood of presenting the controversial rhythm with its direct sexual allusions.

Yoani Sanchez: Cuba's Communist Party Worries About Our Tastes in Music Yoani Sanchez 2011

We live in an age where many authors ponder their own experience over and over in styles that can be impenetrable, but Vargas Llosa looks at the world and writes about it with such wisdom that he doesn't fear being understood (there I go again, half-joking).

Jane Smiley: Noble Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa Jane Smiley 2010