They're looking decidedly third-rate at the moment.
But without Rudd in the race, the field looks decidedly second-rate, and Turnbull's decision potentially has wider consequences.
Realizing the northward drift of business and population, Mr. Ochs resolved to build in what is now known as Times Square, then a decidedly second-rate neighborhood.
The continent that was supposedly discovered by Christopher Columbus is named for a decidedly second-rate Johnny-come-lately of an explorer named Amerigo Vespucci.
Craig Palfrey, from pension advice website Increase Your Pension, says: "If income and savings rates escalate in the future, as they are likely to do, this Government pension deal could look decidedly second-rate".
Strip away the puppet and the astonishing production – which really is of the highest quality – and the book is decidedly second rate, stuffed full of cul-de-sacs (a small monkey puppet makes a brief appearance, a wailing Victorian figure appears to warn of trouble ahead).
All of the stickers and bling you've added to your laptop are now decidedly second rate.
But if you're only looking for top-notch SEO, some of the best firms have websites that are decidedly second-rate.
The very bad thing is that he arrives in Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, a decidedly third-rate work that was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize last year, probably for its dealing -- however awkwardly -- with the Iraq war and the myriad post-traumatic-stress-syndrome cases it's caused for participants and, in a larger context, for the United States and the world.
And so we are about to enter a fractured, chaotic world of news, characterized by superior community conversation but a decidedly diminished level of first-rate journalism.
As Nomi, his apprentice and a decidedly minor character, Alie Carey does a first-rate job, coming across as a full-fledged, believable human being.
