Word: tepidity
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...particular scene when Costner visits Wright at her office, a co-worker slips a note to her that says "What a babe!" This is about as incredible as the women on Ally McBeal becoming all a-twitter over an irresistible John Ritter. A few longing glances and tepid declarations simply do not convince us of Wright's attraction to Costner. Maybe he has a great personality we never see. Or is it because he sure can sail a big boat? Looks can be deceiving, but we're certainly not blind...
...more than 14 years of age, sang the prayer with a passion and penitence that could have touched the most phlegmatic atheist. Wey's shrill reverberations outshone the rest of the choir and were responsible for evoking an applause more thunderous than any of the tepid clapping earlier in the program...
...behind the impressive statistics Harvard (4-3, 3-1 Ivy) laid down were a number of sub-plots that gave a little Halloween drama to this otherwise tepid rout...
...McBrien contrasts Pius' silence with John Paul II's risky but successful support of Poland's Solidarity trade union in the 1980s. Some analysts speculate that valid or not, the impulse to protect Pius crippled the Vatican's March statement We Remember, a long-awaited and ultimately somewhat tepid repentance for Christian treatment of Jews up to and during the Holocaust. The document defends Pius in both its body and a spirited footnote; the refusal to acknowledge his faults, critics claim, made the whole enterprise of repentance extremely difficult...
...among the much maligned MTV/Nintendo generation (that's us), the level of interest in baseball is not as tepid as the baseball punditocracy seems to believe. The diamonds continue to fill with little leaguers in the spring. Fathers still bring their sons--and daughters--to games. People still rent "Field of Dreams." Other sports may have gained in popularity, but it is a fallacy to assume this has come at baseball's expense. It is possible (at least theoretically) to be both a fan of baseball and a fan of another sport. So why the apocalyptic commentary...