Kelsey Grammer is the latest US luminary to partake in the proud tradition of phoning in a mediocre performance for a small British film, but what are the worst examples of A-list shoehorning?
It was palpable: concerts played to packed houses of people willing to applaud even a mediocre performance as distraction from the difficulties of daily life.
If you tend to slack off, deliver projects late and turn in a mediocre performance you may laughed right out of your boss's office.
The economy added 169,000 jobs last month, a mediocre performance that is all the more disappointing in light of downward revisions to the tallies for June and July.
After three fumbling weeks, it was a mediocre performance.
It can survive in a mediocre performance".
In a sacred dance performed at night, the mediocre performance of one dancer who had been "very handsome last year" reminded Murasaki Shikibu "of the fleeting life of us all".
The most common source of mediocre performance of virtual machines is the use of a single slow hard disk.
"Capitol Losses: The Mediocre Performance of Congressional Stock Portfolios, 2004-2008" (with A. Eggers).
It seems to me that the mediocre performance of Derek Jeter coincides with the arrival of Alex Rodriguez.
The mediocre performance of American students on international tests seems to show that our schools are doing poorly.
