Sentence examples for mediocre examples from inspiring English sources

But those moments were rare in an evening overstuffed with mediocre examples by first-rate artists like Monet and Matisse.

It wasn't the only work to go unsold; others included mediocre examples by Frank Stella, and Richard Serra.

Certainly, plenty of mediocre examples are around, clustered in Astoria, Queens, and dotting the streets of Manhattan, where they were briefly in vogue in the mid-1990's.

When Phillips tries to compete with its larger counterparts by presenting expensive artworks by big names, it struggles, and this auction was top-heavy with mediocre examples of big names, most of which were guaranteed — meaning the auction house had promised each seller an undisclosed sum regardless of the sale's outcome.

In the first of the fall's important evening auctions, the atmosphere was lifeless and the results were mediocre, with examples of artists including Picasso, Miró, Chagall and Leger failing to get even a single bid.

Ordinary tax cuts have a mixed record on helping the economy; growth after the Bush tax cuts was mediocre, for example.

He was then less than a year old, and as he grew up he came to despise the existing castle, believing that it represented a mediocre, half-hearted example of the Gothic style.

There are too many examples of mediocre care in hospitals that do not put patients safety [at risk] but that go unchallenged".

Early examples were mediocre, and developers lacked the tools to optimize the experiences they built.

Critics suggest that the open-access publishing model encourages mediocre work, noting that PLoS, for example, has succeeded financially only because one of its journals collects fees on thousands of lightly reviewed papers a year.

For example, a mediocre small-cap value fund now probably receives a higher rating than a superb large-cap growth fund.