The score is distinctly mediocre, the staging little better after a promisingly showy start to offset the extended longueurs of the overture.
Finally, look at how the venture has illuminated the players, to whom distinctly mediocre World Cup ratings are apparently a nasty surprise.
(New England, for example, prospered despite distinctly mediocre physical resources).
That was not because the coalition's record for running the economy was impressive; indeed, it was distinctly mediocre.
After Steyn's spell, de Wet's efforts seem distinctly mediocre, but then so would most folks'.
Because there's power in visibility and numbers, and the more of us who stand in the hot sun and refuse to apologize for our biological proclivities and celebrate those proclivities by eating distinctly mediocre American cuisine like corn on the cob the less we can be ignored, or pushed aside.
That's Gordon Gekko in the distinctly-mediocre Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
A distinctly satisfying thought.
"A distinctly unmemorable holiday.
Each has a distinctly different appeal.
