They press a button, and the drink gurgles tepidly out of a bleepy machine.
Things have improved since 2010, but far too tepidly: Jonathan only gets a C minus.
Several respected Greek-Cypriots (including two ex-presidents) have warned against a "no" vote; the Greek government said tepidly on April 15th the plan had more "pros than cons" but Cypriots must decide.
After winning the party's nomination for November's US Senate contest David Perdue (pictured) tepidly thanked his opponent, congressman Jack Kingston, for running "a spirited race".
But key conservative groupings, including senior clerics and parliamentary blocs, have either failed to endorse him or have done so tepidly.
In a speech in 2009, Mr Netanyahu espoused the two-state solution, albeit tepidly.
He is persuasive in presenting her as the doughtiest of fighters for human rights anywhere in the world and one of the finest parliamentarians of her era.At first becoming an MP for the tepidly reformist United Party, she broke away with a band of more liberal colleagues to form the Progressive Party in 1959.
A sizeable majority of Likud's central committee and most of its 20 members in the 120-seat Knesset, Israel's parliament, also oppose the idea of two states, though Mr Netanyahu formally endorsed it, albeit tepidly, five years ago.
And though left-leaning advocates had called for such changes for years, many have in fact been implemented by Republican governors among them Rick Perry in Texas, Chris Christie in New Jersey and Nathan Deal in Georgia.Against this backdrop, Barack Obama's criminal-justice and drugs record seems tepidly sensible; a decade or two ago he might have been felled by the soft-on-crime charge.
Even the country's long-repressed 15% Kurdish minority, which is mostly Sunni Muslim, has only tepidly embraced the uprising.
The conquest of Languedoc, following the Albigensian Crusade (against heretics in southern France) that was only tepidly supported by Philip Augustus, was not complete until the 1240s, but the royal seneschalsies of Beaucaire and Carcassonne were already functioning when Louis VIII died.
