Word: tepid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...again to win a majority. A curious sort of apathy, which could hardly be dismissed as electoral indifference when 94% of those eligible voted (compared to the 50% average turnout at major U.S. elections), hung over the campaign. Perhaps the reason showed in Party Boss Amintore Fanfani's tepid victory cry: "We can continue to guarantee progress without adventures...
...translation for a dramatics group. The play: Aristophanes' The Frogs, which, because it is less scabrous than most other Greek comedies, is the one most often served up in freshman courses. But even mild Aristophanes is as ripe as Roquefort, and scholars' English translations tend toward the tepid. Young's translation of The Puddocks (frogs) does...
...filmed in a Maine town, surrounded by stretches of seacoast and forest and country roads. The streets are lined with little white houses, and the shack by the railroad tracks is rather picturesque. To fit these settings, Hollywood has turned Mrs. Metalious' honestly dirty best-seller into a tepid idyll...
...Lord Rokeby (born 1712) had a yen for recitations, beards and baths (fresh or salt). "With commendable firmness," he would remain in the ocean "until he fainted and had to be withdrawn forcibly." At his country seat, Lord Rokeby built a bath "rendered tepid by the rays of the sun only," sat in it, reciting, with his long beard below the water line. In his declining years, he rarely left his bath, only relented on special occasions, e.g.: 1) "in order to receive Prince William of Gloucester at dinner," 2) to vote "in the general election of 1796" (Tory William...
...first struck by the lushness of the tropics and the tepid warmth of the climate punctuated daily with tropical downpour--until the luxuriance creates a sort of ennui...