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Lawrence and her co-star, Robert Pattinson, play a city couple who move to Montana only half-believing in their own future together.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

I’d lost the privilege of even half-believing that the worst thing that could happen to me while pregnant was enduring bad blood draws.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2020

"As a half-believing Catholic," Aunt Augusta said, "I cannot answer that question with any certainty, but his body, what is left of it, lies in Boulogne."

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2012

Several chants could be heard coming from rooftops downtown, as word began to spread that Ben Ali was gone, with many only half-believing that a month of protests had forced the President out.

From Time • Jan. 19, 2011

The poet has been censured for “neither imparting nor feeling that half-believing seriousness which enchants us in the wild and magical touches of Shakespeare;” but the poet designed an exquisitely ludicrous fiction.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac