I mean yes, they've been on rocky ground – well not so much rocky ground as mediocre ground, like they've not even had the passion to argue let alone fuck, I mean I suppose he was working all those long hours but then they cut back a bit, but then he had a good thing going with that guy at darts, lots of nights out, forgot to invite Shan, she'd never come anyway, she hates that pub.
Granted, it was a distinctive, quirky outfit, but one that had been run into the ground by mediocre executives who had no vision, no strategy – and no operating system to power its products into the future.
Though profitable, Penney was seen as a mediocre retailer that was losing ground to competitors like Macy's and Kohl's.
As such, it wasn't exactly a steep hill to climb when it came to revisiting the concept (already franchised into the ground via several mediocre sequels in the '60s and '70s, and a not-bad TV series in the '90s), but helping matters inordinately is the decision to stack the cast with such appealing and eclectic performers like Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, and Vincent D'onofrio.
So far the ground zero memorial looks mediocre, like the Freedom Tower, and who knows how the site's other office buildings will turn out.
After Leonard's bogey at the 11th, where he missed an 18-footer for par after a mediocre shot from the greenside bunker, the ground was made up.
Follow them with some mediocre leaders and Ray Nagin and New Orleans started from ground zero.
This was not the classiest Test ever played – the seam bowling on both sides was too mediocre for that – but the climax on this intimate Queen's Club ground was compelling.
This is, of course, the gospel of the mediocre man: to ridicule somebody who tries something difficult on the grounds that the effort was not a total success.
Mediocre old paintings, from the prolific Dutch Golden Age, were cheaply available, as grounds to paint on; but the overnight creation of a convincingly antique paint surface was a challenge.
Of course there is a wider context that many so-called universities are dumping grounds for the unemployed, barely literate and demotivated, where they are taught by mediocre academics.
