Sentence examples for mediocre and does from inspiring English sources

However, the average quality of child care in this country is mediocre and does not provide our youngest children with the support they need to arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

Is he locked up inside his own mediocre mind and does he run around tugging at doors and windows, trying to get someone to let him out?" I couldn't possibly comment.

"The Big Lebowski" received mediocre reviews and did little initial business, but over the years it has built an effervescent cult following.

However, it is also widely recognized that many young children in the United States, particularly lower-income children (Matthews, 2006), are in childcare programs that are of low to mediocre quality and do not support children's positive development (Helburn, 1995; NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2000).

However, they also started hiring mediocre engineers and did not put enough focus on keeping their talent density high.

Not acting upon valid critique might signal that you're too comfortable at your current (perhaps mediocre) level and don't want to be pushed or be forced to acknowledge a lack in skill or ability.

Van Gundy has shown himself to be an inflexible and mediocre coach in game tactics, and does not know how to learn from his mistakes.

Some of them are good and some are just mediocre, and you do them because they're in your professional interest.

"I went to America and did mediocre parts in mediocre films," he shrugs.

Are those workers who stay for years with the same companies unambitious and mediocre, or does the corporate grind make them so? asks author and Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway.

Here's a riddle from Graham Spencer, a general partner at Google Ventures who oversees its data work: Is it better to invest in someone who started a company in a mediocre year for returns and did well, or started one in a good year with mediocre results?