As a result, being mediocre is OK as long as you are white.
"We believe it's important to win some battles as opposed to being mediocre across the board," Mr. Garton said.
This is a man who is as vindictive as he is mediocre -- willing to use his power to undercut those around him, but with no interest in overachieving.
I and my female friends and colleagues working on Capitol Hill in the 1980s and 90s used to dream about a time when there would be just as many mediocre women in Congress as there are mediocre men.
This is a show as half-baked in its conception as it is mediocre in its realisation, so that it often seems more like the umpteenth revival of an old production than anything new.
"His quality as a writer is mediocre, and it's only because of his political stature that he is entering the academy," Mr. Druon said by telephone.
Yet even with households going ever deeper into debt, the economy's performance over the period as a whole was mediocre at best, and demand showed no sign of running ahead of supply.
"As satire, Charlie Hebdo is mediocre and not very funny.
As for the author himself, he too was mediocre, as he makes abundantly and sometimes likably clear throughout the book.
Cornerback Aaron Glenn, a top punt returner in college but a poor performer in exhibition play as a rookie in 1994, took turns in practice today, along with Wayne Chrebet, who was mediocre as a punt returner in 1996.
