He speculates that, if other therapies fail, "maybe all you need is a minor or mediocre effect in order to reduce suicides overall".
As often happens with intensely febrile young talents — including Munch, who, like Ensor, took to repeating the motifs of his early masterpieces, to mediocre effect — he calcified as he approached middle age.
The film took a pounding from critics for its mediocre 3-D effects, earning a score of only 28 out of 100 on Rotten Tomatoes.
Although the musical score was appreciated for its overall quality, both RPGFan and RPGamer found that there were too few adequately long tracks, with mediocre ambient sound effects to fill the dead time.
Meanwhile, the rest live in a world marked by insecurity, at best mediocre education and in effect rationed health care".
A museum provenance can exercise a halo effect on mediocre work, giving it a higher hammer price.
Although the vaccine has shown mediocre efficacy and its effect declines over time, it is still expected to become the first malaria vaccine to receive regulatory approval (Bouchie, 2013).
They worry in part about how good an education their kids will actually get if they're in over their heads academically, and they worry in part about the effect of a mediocre college performance on their kids' sense of self-confidence.
By EDM, I mean all the cannons and fireworks and mediocre music that accompanies the special effects.
So though Mary loves and would vote for Argo, Ron basically thinks that film had mediocre character development but that, in effect, Lincoln peaked in 1865, too soon for its Oscar prospects.
