Sentence examples for mediocre accomplishments from inspiring English sources

Accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and his daughters, Malia and Sasha, who sat in the front pew, Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, laid out his case in stark terms that would be difficult for a white candidate to make, telling the mostly black audience not to "just sit in the house watching 'SportsCenter,' " and to stop praising themselves for mediocre accomplishments.

Nevertheless, the following is a gratuitous humble-brag of his mediocre accomplishments: David R. Dixon is a husband, father, and Iraq war veteran.

It would take the median worker 67 years to earn the $3 million that the board of directors handed Kramer for mediocre accomplishments.

Weigl, duly taking up an academic position, soon faced a contretemps: an apparatchik of mediocre accomplishments denounced him as a Nazi collaborator.

Staying mediocre would accomplish nothing.

By most accounts, he has been at best a mediocre mayor, with few real accomplishments besides keeping police chief Bill Bratton, a man appointed by his predecessor.

It's hard to think of a single video game that can match the artistic accomplishments of the most mediocre Oscar bait.

For authors who aren't Mantel, pursuing historical fiction can be a ding to their reputation, stamping them as mediocre or less interested in literary accomplishment than playing in a historical sandbox.

A mediocre CV (stylistically, not with respect to your actual expertise and accomplishments) and a lot of networking is guaranteed to get you a job.

(He chalks up the "relatively slight accomplishments of Japanese science" to the "Confucian respect for elders that funnels support to mediocre older scientists instead of more talented younger ones" and a tendency to avoid debate).

The assessment is Chandler's own, tendered precisely because he was literary: "To accept a mediocre form and make something like literature out of it is in itself rather an accomplishment".