halfness

There was a "whole heap" (to use a Kentucky phrase) of "halfness" in that State during the war for the Union, and there was much more there after the war.

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time, Including His Connection with the Anti-slavery Movement; His Labors in Great Britain as Well as in His Own Country; His Experience in the Conduct of an Influential Newspaper; His Connection with the Underground Railroad; His Relations with John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid; His Recruiting the 54th and 55th Mass. Colored Regiments; His Interviews with Presidents Lincoln and Johnson; His Appointment by Gen. Grant to Accompany the Santo Domingo Commission--Also to a Seat in the Council of the District of Columbia; His Appointment as United States Marshal by President R. B. Hayes; Also His Appointment to Be Recorder of Deeds in Washington by President J. A. Garfield; with Many Other Interesting and Important Events of His Most Eventful Life; With an Introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin, of Boston 1892

Without a turn such as that, and without the additional work of extending that bit of language into a larger dramatic whole, the anecdote amounts to little more than a clever but trivial riff on “halfness.”

Telling Tails Tim O 2009

Without a turn such as that, and without the additional work of extending that bit of language into a larger dramatic whole, the anecdote amounts to little more than a clever but trivial riff on “halfness.”

Telling Tails Tim O 2009

Solitude has austere lessons; it can teach us to spare both heroes and poets; and it weighs Shakespeare also, and finds him to share the halfness and imperfection of humanity.

Representative Men 2006

In the former there is a “wholeness” to the participation; in the latter there is a “halfness” because the producer rarely receives more than 50% of 100% of the net profits or some commensurate amount of gross.

The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004

In the former there is a “wholeness” to the participation; in the latter there is a “halfness” because the producer rarely receives more than 50% of 100% of the net profits or some commensurate amount of gross.

The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004

In the former there is a “wholeness” to the participation; in the latter there is a “halfness” because the producer rarely receives more than 50% of 100% of the net profits or some commensurate amount of gross.

The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004

In the former there is a “wholeness” to the participation; in the latter there is a “halfness” because the producer rarely receives more than 50% of 100% of the net profits or some commensurate amount of gross.

The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004

And was it her sacred duty to sit beside him in the green dress of Malintzi, in the church, the goddess admitting her halfness?

The Plumed Serpent 2003

Doubleness, it is clear, is the cause of a thing being double, and from it is derived halfness.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952