Sentence examples similar to feeling second-rate from inspiring English sources

Firmly and squarely, Britain ends up in the periphery sowing the feeling of second-rate membership and giving the skeptical Europeans wind in their sails.

But in "Contempt" Mr. Godard draws something deep and disturbing from her: the title summarizes her feelings for her second-rate husband (Michel Piccoli), a screenwriter who can stand up neither to his producer (Jack Palance) nor his director (Fritz Lang).

"He has tried to free the spiritually imprisoned, loosen our tongues, loosen our bowels -- he's become a purgative of second-rate feelings, a twinkly, husky-voiced leprechaun, funneling counterculture mush through New Age mush".

You grow up feeling like where you're from is second-rate and nobody makes it unless they leave.

The "but" comes from an unspecific but widespread feeling that the United States treats Russia today as a second-rate power.

Second-rate ?

I am second-rate.

The music is second-rate.

"It was so second-rate".

Frugal does not mean second-rate.

Attended a "second-rate boarding school".