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A ceaseless roil of shadowy impressions fleeting and half-sensed, the piece is one of Carter’s grandest, most poetic achievements.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2013

By getting to know more and more aspects of his unconscious, the subject can give proper values to what were once half-sensed and disturbing urges.

From Time Magazine Archive

My mother sort of half-sensed who I was.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

At first glance her smiling greeting removed the half-sensed apprehensions of Gramont.

From The Mardi Gras Mystery by Bedford-Jones, H. (Henry)

Teddy tucked away for the night, she would dream over a half-sensed book.

From Martie, the Unconquered by Norris, Kathleen Thompson