Sentence examples for mediocre and sometimes from inspiring English sources

Often it is mediocre, and sometimes much worse, which is why I often grumble in this column about the design defects of illegible signs, pretentious logos, unrecyclable electric toothbrushes, and so on.

On nearly every metric you might use to measure such quality, the United States is often mediocre, and sometimes at the bottom.

For every great broadcast there's a mediocre one, and sometimes there's a total disaster, like one day when every tape seems to be miscued.

What we said: "Although its premise sounded almost aggressively dreary at first – normal people in their own homes watching the same old mediocre programmes as you, and sometimes passing comment on them – it captured the public imagination remarkably quickly.

As for the author himself, he too was mediocre, as he makes abundantly and sometimes likably clear throughout the book.

We need elites to guide our views away from the mundane and mediocre trash that sometimes passes for movies, music, books and television shows.

The refereeing was often shady, the coaching at best mediocre and the level of play sometimes downright awful.

A lot of great things don't get celebrated and sometimes a lot of very mediocre things get celebrated.

This has been most visible in sports and the arts, where the best can become global celebrities and sometimes earn more than those who manage and advise them, whereas average performers receive only a mediocre pay.

Since his breakthrough as the ultimate thinking woman's crumpet in Pride and Prejudice, Firth has spent most of his time subverting his brooding Mr Darcy image by horsing around with amiable skill in a string of often mediocre, but sometimes very successful British comedies.

The Mixtures were mediocre and ecstatic and supercool; the live record rules, but sometimes I can't quantify exactly why.