Now leveling off.

Pale she was, listless

Pale she was, listless And soft to the touch.

The album's commercial performance was initially lukewarm.

And many think that these countries are stagnant, but they are not.

It was positively tepid. By the time more was carried and properly scented...

Political and economic reform, when it advances, does so at a glacial pace.

Responses to America s call for democracy in the Middle East have been tepid at best.

All other kinds of lives are only lukewarm they are more ways of committing slow suicide than ways of living life passionately and intensely.

After a lukewarm reaction to the uprisings, Europe was eager to show its support for democratic movements in the region.

Committee reports are usually deadly dull, and UN committee reports are among the dullest.

The clients and freedmen, with a meal of robust if inferior food inside them, shuffle off to the now tepid baths before returning to their apartment blocks.

Regrettably, the response from the international community at the signing ceremony in Paris, on 14 and 15 October, was lukewarm.

As a result, the sanctions that have been imposed by the UN Security Council are so tepid that they are unlikely to be effective.

Women with hair and chins like Mary's may be angels most of the time, but, when they take off their wings for a bit, they aren't half hearted about it.

The fiscal response tax cuts and spending increases has varied considerably, being somewhat more tepid in debt averse Europe than in the US and China.

Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.

But Egypt s Muslim Brotherhood controlled government does not seem particularly eager to protect its Christian citizens in Libya it offered only a half hearted call for the release of its detained citizens.

Moreover, relations with China cooled after the Tiananmen Square shootings in 1989, and the Clinton administration had to devise a new approach.

Eichengreen is my friend, teacher, and patron, and his book is to my mind the best explanation to date of why policymakers in Europe and the United States have reacted to the most dramatic economic collapse in almost four generations with half hearted measures and half finished interventions.