Sentence examples for dead level of from inspiring English sources

Russell saw clearly how classroom conditions prevented the kind of pedagogical culture he envisaged: "In education, with its codes of rules emanating from a government office, its large classes and fixed curriculum and overworked teachers, its determination to produce a dead level of glib mediocrity, the lack of reverence for the child is all but universal".

Prizes not only encouraged writers to aim for the dead level of mediocrity, they acted as an advance guard for the forces of establishment reactionism — wielding money instead of guns: "Someone always foots the bill, of course, and when the outcome doesn't smartly show the feet, they are inclined to squeak," he wrote, "to meddle, or to withdraw their moral and monetary support".

For The Evil Dead to work we need Walking Dead-levels of wanton head-splatterdom, and that means cable or on-demand.

It's pretty much dead level with the opening of Iron Man 3 (£13.71m including £2.32m in previews), and far ahead of the debuts for Iron Man and Iron Man 2. Guardians of the Galaxy kicked off with £6.36m, including £1.37m in previews – numbers that were considered a surprise success at the time.

That's almost dead level with the opening salvo of 2009's The Boat That Rocked: £1.80m, including £471,000 in previews.

Wreck-It Ralph is nearly dead level with the UK lifetime total of Tangled (£20.47m).

By the end, the writer and director, Pupi Avati, gives Nello good reason to fit into sumptuous clubs and shows how he can inspire teenagers to "Dead Poets Society" levels of devotion.

A Florida panther was found dead with levels of mercury high enough to kill a human.

Even though MCF-7 cells stably expressing wild-type heparanase had a somewhat lower expression, at protein level, than cells expressing catalytically dead heparanase, levels of exosomal syntenin-1 and CD63 in these cells were higher than in control transfected cells and in cells producing catalytically dead heparanase.

But seeing a defenseless child shot dead inflicts a level of horror too much for almost anyone, even when you have lived and campaigned through two intifadas.

This week, The Walking Dead reached a new level of brutality.