Sentence examples for is less than great from inspiring English sources

Bernie Williams may be one of the great Yankees, but there is one area in which his behavior is less than great ("Around the Yankees, 2,000 Is Becoming a Significant Number," June 13).

The forecast is less than great and, while the game isn't yet a write off, play won't start at 2pm as scheduled.

Mr. Trapani acknowledged that "the worst case for us is that the hotel is less than great; good, but not fantastic".

Mr. Freud is not great all the time (he takes too many risks to guarantee predictable results, despite the unflinching relentlessness of his emotional pitch) but his work, even when it is less than great, commands steady respect because of the intensity of his engagement with his subjects.

But Fisher has also faced the problem of any hall that is less than great; it cannot compare to Carnegie Hall or to Symphony Hall in Boston or to the major halls of Vienna or Amsterdam, where every great orchestra has played and the luckiest listeners have sat: halls where sound can seem to have both substance and space, surrounding and, at times, caressing the listener.

Yes, the financial climate is less than great, and it may indeed get much worse.

A happy alternative to great orchestras playing banal repertory is less-than-great orchestras offering one fascinating piece after the next.

How do the greatest deal with being less than great?

Perhaps there were moments in Ali's life when he was less than great.

Friday night's game may turn out to be less than great – the fixture is so wrapped up in its own nervous energy, it will be a minor miracle if anyone actually manages to catch the ball – but Youngs has it in him to do something very, very good.

Even when his films have been less than great - Gangs Of New York immediately comes to mind - he usually makes the outing worth the price of admission, in that case by giving a first-class ass-whipping to the vaporous Leonardo DiCaprio.