Word: tepidity
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...among other things, increasing investment capital and food supplies. But the majority dismissed the program as no more than a tiny first step at best, lacking force to arrest inflation, curb unemployment, stimulate growth and promote recovery. David L. Grove, chief economist of IBM, characterized the program as tepid orthodoxy, more of "the oldtime religion with special dispensation for the poor...
Beinnd the thunder from the pulpit and the theater at the altar, Quinlan had a serious purpose: galvanizing ins tepid Catholics into self-starting Christians...
Unlike his Rockefeller counterpart, who metamorphosed unnoticeably from the strict Baptist faith of his grandfather to the tepid, gently-theistic civil religion so at home recently in the White House, Lamont turned into a shrill, at times evangelical Humanist. Not just a fly in the smooth ointment of his family's liberal Protestantism, but a gadfly among the "New Philosophers," correcting Dewey's semantics and grammar here, rescuing George Santayana from an ignominious Vatican tomb-marker there, always, always proselytizing for the American Humanist Association, the Ethical Union of America, and other similar religious-philosophical organizations...
...wears an American flag tie clasp, is also staying at the Rufus Arms. He would be everyone's idea of a silent American, except that he spends his evenings at the hotel bar drinking heavily, flapping his right-wing opinions wildly and baiting Adams about his own tepid liberalism...
...Rivals are interesting, but Sheridan just cannot sustain that interest for two hours. He tried by adding a secondary romance between Faulkland (Andrew Brooks) and Lydia's cousin, Julia (Maeve Kinkead). Brooks is especially good in his portrayal of the contrite and contrary Faulkland, running first hot, then tepid, then cold, then hot again...