Sentence examples for mediocre little from inspiring English sources

"This was not a mediocre little thing," he says.

I puffed up with American pride – Seth Kugel, former mediocre Little League third baseman in the 1980s, would surely save the day – and stepped up to the plate as the girls cheered.

You can support causes, but for fuck's sake understand why... .. "'Cos, after all, all I'm doing here is making pop music to the best of my mediocre little talents, so for fuck's sake let's go to the bar".

But just as the vast, square Imax screen magnifies panda-haunches and steep, jungle-clad gorges, its relentless scale also enlarges a half-baked, mediocre little adventure story into something almost grotesquely bad.

Which is not to imply that the shower scene, interrupted by a knock at the door — "I'm in the shower," Carrie cleverly replies — is more contrived or absurd than anything else that happens in this studiously mediocre little thriller, which was directed by Dominic Sena.

The sound quality is pleasantly mediocre, with little bass — it actually reminded me of listening to a decent transistor radio.

The result is a great sea of mediocre shiraz, little of which, fortunately, makes it way to this country.

The score is distinctly mediocre, the staging little better after a promisingly showy start to offset the extended longueurs of the overture.

The mediocre affair did little to lift spirits, with City, still unbeaten in the league, marginally the better side but unable to fashion the victory that would have taken them back above Manchester United at the top of the table.

Smith now has 20 games as a starter under his belt, and we have to resign ourselves to what appears to be the reason he slipped in the draft to begin with: He's a mediocre quarterback with little feel for the position, no command of a game and a knack for the crucial eleventh-hour mistake.

"You can harvest early and settle for mediocre, or be a little patient and have something special," Mr. Merwarth said.