Sentence examples for less than first rate from inspiring English sources

First, because it tended to confirm what I have begun to suspect — namely, that the President possesses an intellect that is sometimes less than first rate (disrespectful as such a statement may sound).

Too often, gifted young American conductors must stand by as less-than-first-rate Europeans are hired to lead American orchestras.

His opinions, relatively few for his tenure, are less than third rate, characterized by their cavalier approach to complicated issues".

No one mentions the delays or the instances of less than first-rate care.

The show takes up a lot of space, but most of the work on view is less than first-rate.

Teachers deserve nothing less than first-rate training for the complex work that we ask of them.

What's on the page or screen – in which there had been stubborn belief, perhaps even garlanded a bit with excitement – can suddenly appear less than first-rate.

Peter Harris, an ordinary-sounding name for an unexceptional man, is the second-rate character at the heart of Michael Cunningham's less than first-rate novel.

While you could have rearranged these dances end to end so as to last hours, and while no material here was less than first-rate, the experience was simply too short.

No one in the cast is less than first-rate, and that goes especially for Albina as a lovely Nerissa, Fortune-Lloyd as an unabashed Bassanio and Nwosu as an irrepressible Gratiano.

Less than first power dependence of rates of surface-photocatalyzed reactions on light intensity at high photon flux is known [4, 7].