• You can tell the half-bright from the barking because the barking don't know how little they know, while the half-bright know enough to think that they know a lot, but don't know enough to know what part of what they know is actually worth knowing.

    BBC: A Point of View: Science, magic, and madness

  • The bright yellow cover of Power Questions is not half as bright as the simple ideas to be found inside.

    FORBES: To Why or Not to Why.... That is the Question!

  • Now these letters and emails come more often from the half-bright, some of them professional academics, than from the fully bonkers or barking.

    BBC: A Point of View: Science, magic, and madness

  • Chelsea ended the half besieging the Inter goal and their prospects looked bright for the second half, but it was Inter who proved the more dangerous on the break.

    CNN: Eto'o goal sinks Chelsea as Mourinho returns in triumph

  • The French side could have made it through to the last eight with a bonus-point win, and they at least gave themselves a chance with a bright first half.

    BBC: Sale 26-17 Clermont Auvergne

  • Looking ahead, the outlook for hiring is not as bright as Robert Half International had hoped to report.

    FORBES: After Smackdown, Robert Half Doesn't Look Half Bad

  • There was a marked lack of quality for large parts of the first half, although Wolves enjoyed a bright spell in the closing minutes.

    BBC: Wolves 2-3 Bolton

  • Miss Swapna hurts and committed Suicide when her dead body was in her home, she got job conformation letter through post. if she waits for another half an hour she had a bright future.. but a valuable Human life closed because of false decision.

    FORBES: The Problem With Netflix's Bet on Streaming: Hollywood

  • Connacht made a bright start and fly-half Keatley put the underdogs ahead with an early penalty.

    BBC: Munster 25-10 Connacht

  • The few bright spots in the first half were safe havens: gold and U.S. Treasury funds each gained more than 10% through June.

    FORBES

  • In the first half of 2009, not generally considered a bright spot for American retail, buyers of fashion footwear spent almost twenty per cent more through online-only channels than they had the previous year, according to the NPD Group, a market-research firm, while sales at shoe chains, department stores, and stand-alone shops were down about eleven per cent each.

    NEWYORKER: Happy Feet

  • In the half-light, the proscenium glowed like a bright department-store window, which shadowy people behind it were dressing.

    NEWYORKER: The Natural

  • On the bright side, my kids aren't spending anywhere near half of their childhoods in my car (oops, I mean their car).

    WSJ: Dan Zevin: Driving in the Car With Dad

  • After a bright start by the Pilgrims, Chris Hall netted a first-half brace for the visitors before Mark Haran's own goal in added time reduced arrears.

    BBC: Boston's winning run ends at home

  • On the bright side, the company plans to hike the menu prices in the second half of the year which could help reverse this trend and widen the margins.

    FORBES: Rising Food And Expansion Costs Could Weigh On Chipotle's Earnings

  • Circuit City has been struggling to turn a profit for the past year and a half, and if history is any guide, the future for Circuit City is not bright.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Mr. SHURKIN: He had this enormous talent of picking geniuses, of exceptionably bright people to work for him, and it took him about a year and half to screw it up.

    NPR: Electronics Pioneer William Shockley's Legacy

  • Liberal Democrat universities spokesman Stephen Williams said the government's target to get half of young people into university was proving to be "empty rhetoric" and that record numbers of bright young people would be turned away this summer.

    BBC: University budget cuts revealed

  • Hundred-year-old pine trees are snapped in half, crumpled metal signs still lie in the roads and there are simply a ton of houses covered in bright blue plastic.

    NPR: After Rita: Signs of Life in Lake Charles, La.

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