His team considered pulling him from the race earlier this week after his mediocre form saw him slip out of contention.
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".
But the largely unconvincing nature of Celtic's attempts to impose themselves - entirely in keeping with their mediocre form in recent matches - had hinted at the possibility of calamity.
Given Rooney's increasingly mediocre form, however, it was harder to make that claim on Saturday.
It appears that when it comes to child care benchmarks the USA actually appears to be in better shape than many advocates and experts would have thought when compared to other countries or is it that the other countries are providing the same form of mediocre care as it relates to these child care benchmarks.
Nora Ephron's latest film is a dose of stodgy comfort food in the form of a complacent, mediocre film, with an exasperatingly flaccid and anti-climactic ending designed to fudge the unfortunate fact that one of the two characters in the title actually hates the other – for reasons that are never explored, for fear of spoiling the bland feelgood flavour.
But studio supervision, a useful form of quality control on mediocre filmmakers, risks diluting the distinctive qualities of unusually gifted filmmakers such as Trank, regressing to the mean without fulfilling the norm.
Tap, which is the dance form of jazz music, has been around more or less since the late nineteenth century, but, unlike jazz, which has been the subject of many deep-browed books, it has a small, mediocre literature.
He tried desperately to cultivate another form of fame, and though his performance -- first as an art dealer, then as a rock musician -- was mostly mediocre, he never disappeared from view.
"It's important because this favors quality apps with modest post-launch budgets over mediocre apps that throw a lot of money at ad networks and other forms of marketing".
