Word: tepid
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Even some less demagogic observers have begun to attack the profession. Thursday's Wall Street Journal, for example, in its tepid endorsement of the president, said "containing the plaintiff bar would do more for the American economic performance than all of the infrastructure Bill Clinton proposes to build...
...smoothest the group's sound gets is in the first single on the album, "Sad New Day." Acoustic guitars accompany tepid raps and a silly chorus...
...need for a nation-state to take the lead demonstrates the impotence of the current United Nations. This impotence was understandable during the Cold War, with the dominating and polarizing influence of NATO and the Warsaw Pact making only the most tepid action possible...
...voters' springtime flirtation with Ross Perot grew warmer last week, while their feelings about George Bush entered the frigid zone. Bill Clinton's wooing of the electorate still received a tepid reaction, though there were hints that the Democrat could ultimately elicit more passion...
...trajectory of an angry outsider. For one thing, he writes these days for Rolling Stone, a publication rarely confused with, say, the New Republic. Greider's stance also sets him apart from both Establishment toadies and partisan true believers, for he is a jaded idealist almost as disgusted with tepid reformers as he is with the hoard-the-wealth excesses of the Reagan and Bush administrations...