Sentence examples for mediocre rather than from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, if things are just a bit mediocre, rather than inedible, and I'm dining in a group, I'd prefer to keep quiet – after all, there's no guarantee the kitchen can do any better, and, particularly if it's someone else's treat, complaining tends to sour the atmosphere.

And the secret to being a mediocre runner rather than no runner at all is to start slowly – very slowly.

An expert committee also criticised the statue as "run-of-the-mill mediocre modelling" rather than good art.

Lamoriello called Gardiner and Zyuzin -- who is on conditioning assignment -- the victims of the Devils' mediocre play rather than contributors to it.

My hypothesis would be that staff were stretched so thin that they ended up delivering more mediocre lessons rather than fewer really good ones.

If the somewhat disappointing bounce that Mr. Romney received in the polls after Tampa in fact reflected a mediocre convention rather than structural factors, this may have been the reason.

Appraising it near its end, Mr. Frankel wrote in The New York Times: "His formula, under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, for self and country, was to endure and to survive, to keep playing a mediocre hand rather than risk all for a better one, and to stay around for greater achievement another day.

We split our focus and produce two mediocre results rather than something that has had our full concentration.

Can the NHS be excellent rather than mediocre?

It is not just that once you have decided to fiddle the accounts you might as well make them look great rather than mediocre.

They may even tacitly admit the new plans have some virtue since the Blast, now described as "popular" by the ECB rather than "mediocre", will be not so readily overshadowed by the new competition, despite all the marketing.