Sentence examples for mediocre imitation from inspiring English sources

On an island inundated with mediocre imitation art, the originality of this bohemian art colony is refreshing.

To be honest, when I look at the products of engineers' work I can't help seeing them as mediocre imitations of the amazing creations of the natural world.

Burdette terms Barber's designs, "typically mediocre imitations of the current French-style hardly better than the arcane seated Liberty type they replaced".

Its Rubens exhibition this year was, like next year's Monet garden show, hugely publicised months in advance and generated tons of noise only to get rotten reviews when it finally opened and turned out to contain lots of mediocre Rubens imitations and not much of the great man himself.

I don't want to settle for mediocre or an imitation.

Utterly mediocre".

Teachers mediocre?

Success always breeds imitation.

"The Imitation Game"?

Mediocre left hand.

Success dictated widespread imitation.