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  • The sound pulled me from a sleep as thick as quicksand, the room half-bright with moonlight.

    Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010

  • The sound pulled me from a sleep as thick as quicksand, the room half-bright with moonlight.

    Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010

  • Young bucks are dumb like that -- they'd rather learn one half-bright trick from another young buck who can thump them than learn a whole system from the old guy who lived long enough to get decrepit.

    A Time to Teach Steve Perry 2010

  • One of the most notable Rhodes 'scholars we have in our country is Senator William J. Fulbright, sometimes referred to as half-bright.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • Perhaps I, too, am only "half-bright", because I can't sort out where WST might think Fulbright's Illuminati-Rhodes Scholar-communist "evil" ends and where his "worthwhile" anti-Zionism begins.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • The GOP skids ever closer to the dustbin of history, where lie the Whigs, the Know-Nothings ... all the half-bright, half-baked ideas of political history.

    Dan Sweeney: The Case for Letting the Rats Slink Away 2009

  • Then in 2017, she can hand off the controls to the next half-bright disaster in waiting.

    Hillary Camp Hits Back At Obama On Iran 2009

  • In fact, Sen. Joe McCarthy was the utterly loathesome soul who who coined the "half-bright" epithet about Fulbright which Fagan dutifully repeated.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • Marty is a half-bright quisling not worthy of being called a Democrat.

    Richardson And Udall Not Running For New Mexico Senate Seat 2009

  • NICOLE KIDMAN - My life is becoming a nightmare in a way any half-bright viewer could have seen coming from the second I first turned up.

    Tales From The Script 3 - This Time It's Dogville juliette 2009

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