Sentence examples for a mediocre play from inspiring English sources

It's a mediocre play -- the stage version extracts the theme of righteous rebellion against injustice without the Faulkneresque darkness of the Kesey novel -- but the production is a crowd pleaser, played in the first act for laughs and the second for tears.

Adding the combustible Martin on the heels of a four-game losing streak and a prolonged chunk of mediocre play is the latest move indicating that the Knicks' depth hinges on an ever-shifting group of aging players.

Miraculously, he would follow up three quarters of mediocre play with a final quarter of inspired winning.

Since the end of Lou Holtz's coaching tenure in the mid-1990s, the program has been a revolving door of unsuccessful coaches, mediocre play and conflicted leadership.

But it's the extreme exception to the rule for a quarterback to have four consecutive years of mediocre play be given the starting job in his fifth year on a silver platter.

Hampstead has been in the doldrums; now Edward Hall takes over the theatre most strongly identified with new writing, with an appetising forward schedule but a mediocre inaugural play.

But this season's three months of curiously mediocre play have been ascribed to a Stanley Cup hangover.

Garcia's mediocre play this year has done nothing to boost any claim to a budding rivalry with Woods.

An outstanding defense and a singular talent on offense have enabled the Chiefs to get by with mediocre play at quarterback.

This mediocre play does seem indestructible -- and irresistible to actors of a certain age and to audiences, who have embraced numerous versions of it.

Admirably, Gasquet seldom has made excuses for his mediocre play.