Sentence examples for tepidity from inspiring English sources

He suffered from this obscurity and made many attempts to win Rome's favour, but in vain: his harsh judgment of the opposition in the Papal States to the Roman Revolution of 1848 and his concern to avoid useless conflicts with the Italian authorities after the annexation of Umbria in 1860 made Rome suspect him quite wrongly of liberal sympathies and of tepidity with respect to temporal powers.

For some hours, only a handful of guests paddled wanly under the halogen lights; the party had the tepidity of an aquacise class for the elderly.

There is a pattern that is settling in, the critic Jon Caramanica writes: "Mr. Phillips is the fifth fundamentally sensitive white male singer in a row to win the show, a fact probably indicative more of stagnation in the 'Idol' voting base than in a resurgent interest in tepidity".

Mr. Phillips is the fifth fundamentally sensitive white male singer in a row to win, which probably indicates stagnation in the "Idol" voting base more than it does a resurgent interest in tepidity and middle-of-the-road rock.

Up to that point in the song there's been a fair amount of caution and tepidity in the music — clichéd chord changes, percussion chimes and so on — but they cease to matter.

Kremlinologists pored over the words, detecting signs of tepidity in, for example, Mandelson's failure to lavish praise on Brown – confining himself to a bland statement that Hoon and Hewitt were not in the government and that "the prime minister continues to have the support of his colleagues".

He confessed to his own tepidity when he rated his own commitment to the cause as no more than a "seven or a seven and half" out of 10.

The tepidity of British support this campaign has confirmed will only hasten its demise.

He uses suburbia as a synonym for total 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.