half-dead

When the lights come back up, Gaga is now the woman in white, lying in the sand, half-dead among piles of discarded human remains.

“That men who have retreated for ten days, sleeping on the ground and half-dead with fatigue, should be able to take up their rifles and attack when the bugle sounds, is a thing upon which we never counted,” said German general Alexander von Kluck.

Win two do-or-die games for a team that suddenly feels like it’s already half-dead?

In August, the Louvre would be half-dead.

Dear reader, please do not judge the true-crimey cover of this early-2000s reissue — though that is what nearly made me leave it in the street, where it languished in a pile of autumn leaves and half-dead kitchen appliances.