He didn't seem concerned about the tepid response and wrote the line down in a notebook.

"The usual tepid response of photo opportunity and budget crumbs won't work any more."

Asked for comment, however, Comcast gave a more tepid response.

But even more surprising has been our relatively tepid response to the new technologies of exposure.

Yet the conservative court's decisions have met with only tepid responses from critics in the rest of government.

Many are angry about the team's lack of cooperation and the university's seemingly tepid response.

The speech drew a tepid response from the Republican audience.

Some analysts took the considerably lower amount to be the measure of a tepid response.

The tepid response suggests the market's lack of interest in Salon.

The film, however, garnered a tepid response from the critics.