But all this was very lukewarm sympathy; and except from his two great friends, Francesco Gori and Tommaso di Caluso, a difficult-tempered man like Alfieri could receive only lukewarmness.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
He looked carefully at the stages and modes of sin-venial sins, those tiny ulcers that weaken, poison and spoil the soul, even if they do not slay it-lukewarmness, that deathly slumber that engulfs the living thing into gradual death-and, finally, mortal sin, that one and only wholly hideous thing.
"By What Authority?"
Robert Hugh Benson
I am anxious that this circumstance should be put in its true light, and that I may be exonerated from an undeserved censure-and still more that your Excellency should commence the negociations of the treaty with me, which would be the best answer to the reports of the lukewarmness of my wishes in this business.
"Observations on the Present State of the Affairs of the River Plate"
Thomas Baines