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In frequent Confession we have everything that will guard us against tepidity.

Now that walking plants were established facts, the press lost its former tepidity and bathed them in publicity.

The apology was startling in its tepidity.

What Yale Repertory didn't count on was the tepidity of the play and the torpidity of the race.

But a retrospective look at four of the state's major theaters suggests that the season's overwhelming tepidity had as much to do with a lapse in artistic judgment.

The strongest response he can summon is a stumbling, apologetic acknowledgment that he might have acted differently, and the movie is the worse for his tepidity.

Their rapport is noticeable from their characters' initial attraction, through their head-over-heels period and on into tepidity, break-up, unsatisfactory best-friendship and back again.

His fingers found the oblong again and experimented, pushing here and there, The temperature shifted quickly and he found the spot that produced water of suitable tepidity.

The tepidity of most British cinema during the 1950s made Anderson resistant to the values of commercial filmmaking, and this cut him off from the possibility of developing his critical argument through filmmaking.

Raeder's deputy, Admiral Rolf Carls wrote with pride in his diary in October 1941 that "all our forces have been deployed so often and so recklessly that never can the charge of tepidity be levelled against us".

Even the tepidness of that recovery is positive for stocks, some experts argue.

Everyone can smell the tepidness of duty.

And it doesn't make sense either of the elaborateness of the Drop Squad's schemes or of their peculiar tepidness.

In the second gallery, the Germans weigh in, taking liberties with form, medium and emotion that feel positively bracing after the American tepidness.

It may be a Nato mission but the tepidness of the European effort has reflected poorly on the continent's political establishment and its ability to act collectively.

And the 30th for Charlie the Tuna's first ego-crushing rejection, with, nonetheless, still no 9-millimeter fin-gun being brandished, bless the tepidness of Charlie's rage.

The tepidness of the choir's bass sound undercut Rachmaninoff's exquisite Magnificat setting, and making something interesting out of Herbert Howells's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis would have taken far more energy than the choir produced.

Crime an Emerging Issue The relative tepidness of the response to the law on its first day suggests that the National Rifle Association will have trouble mobilizing its forces to repeal the Brady law, as the gun lobby has promised to try to do.

The polls failed to account for the forces that shaped the President's catastrophic week: the depth of Republican anger at Mr. Clinton, the tepidness of the nation's support for him and, most of all, the fact that when it comes to Congress, all politics really is local.

That same someone held a burning rush light over my eyes, or a blindfold of incandescence, or something so bold and sure in its tepidness I wanted never to open my eyes again, only to relax into this comforting band of light and see darkly through my own closed lids.

However, other campaign consultants argued that given the diversity of the party, the number of candidates and the tepidness of support for Mr. Gore in some quarters, the only thing Mr. Gore's exit had done was to ensure that Democrats were about to have one of their most wide-open contests in years.