Word: tepidity
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...dawn, the borrowed bride seems agreeable enough when her master, defying the laws of God and man, declares himself sole possessor of his prize. Though their tepid passion would scarcely justify a stern frown, it somehow brings on rebellion, invasion, indeed an all-hands orgy of picturesque violence. Enemy hordes besiege the tower, piling up in the moat while oil and dissension boil within. "Is this what we get for loving?" asks the fair captive...
...found her own rainbow. Poised, but grinning gleefully, she stood before a packed ballroom at Manhattan's Hotel Astor to accept the American Theater Wing's "Tony" award as the season's best musical actress for her Broadway debut in Flora, the Red Menace, a tepid comedy she heats up with a dramatic voice that brings memories of Garland yet is still her own. Her mother Judy couldn't attend; she was at the Neuropsychiatric Institute of the U.C.L.A. Medical Center in Los Angeles, recovering from what friends said was an allergic reaction to a drug...
...Shaped Room at the Top on Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. More than familiar to U.S. film and playgoers nowadays is middleclass, industrial England: the rows on rows of red brick prison houses, the suffocating parochialism, the intellectual sterility, the emotional desiccation, the measuring out of life in tepid teacups, the apotheosis of fornication as the only salvation. The milieu has become predictable and precariously close to a bore. One knows not only what one will meet in such a house but who the residents will be. The father will be a petty tyrant who punctuates every sentence with...
...Kennedy's plurality, although more impressive than many predicted, hardly represents a mandate for dominance; for he ran 1,700,000 votes behind Johnson and behind most Senate and Assembly candidates. In addition, he received only tepid support from labor and less than that from New York City's reform movement...
...office less than a year ago. Home has developed parliamentary agility. He has made the right tactical decisions, notably to risk several by-elections that he could have avoided; in sum they did not turn out badly for the Tories. He has been stumping the country, giving 29 rather tepid speeches and telling stories from the family joke book compiled by his wife. But his quiet jauntiness and aristocratic charm have gone over splendidly, while Laborite Harold Wilson's mixture of midnight oil and acid is unexciting...