Sentence examples for it is second-rate from inspiring English sources
And altogether it "lacks the passion and the wider significance of An Inspector Calls," sighs Spencer, adding that it is "second-rate" and "far too mechanical and contrived for its own good, and Goold's surprisingly pedestrian production is unable to disguise its weakness".
It is second-rate sensation-mongering.
(It's commonplace to say it is second-rate, but everyone still likes it).
"I think the attendees kind of felt like it was second-rate because it was so small," he said.
"The bar has been set, and anything less will be looked at as if it's second-rate," Desmond Ryan, the executive director of the Association for a Better Long Island, a real estate developers' group, said of 1001 Franklin.
I could have done without the sub-Arthur Miller speeches about the glory days when industrial workers made an honest wage, but when "The Company Men" stays with its real business — the calamity of joblessness — it is first rate.
The singing is at best no more than halfway decent (Arnet and Berger), and some of it is third rate.
Richly aromatic and hearty, it is first-rate, as are the members' separate 2010 merlots released so far, and it surpasses the group's standard-setting 2007.
It is first-rate in every way, which is doubtless why Congress built a secret bomb shelter–"Project Greek Island"–for itself here during the Cold War.
That is: everything about it is first-rate — except the marketing, which creates a problem that requires a warning.
