For his many admirers, he is a daring, prophetic figure who anatomises with honesty life in the contemporary west and exposes the lot of the millions of mediocre, grafting individuals whose role in our financial and emotional economies is usually ignored.
David Wain is one of the founder's of the incredible MTV sketch comedy show The State, who later went on to direct the classic Wet Hot American Summer, along with a handful of mediocre comedies like Wanderlust, Role Models, and The Ten.
Textiles, for instance: "Industries with mediocre prospects play important roles".
Drafted with the third overall pick by the Tennessee Titans in 2006 and handed a five-year, $25.7 million contract, Young was thrown into a starting role for the mediocre team immediately.
One of the charms of Mr. Gehry's design is that it would recast mediocre towers in the supporting roles for which they are better suited.
The Jets, who ranked first in the N.F.L. in total defense last season but registered a mediocre 32 sacks, would use Taylor, 35, strictly in a pass-rushing role, an attractive bargaining chip.
Even though The Last Stand is, at best, mediocre, it's an extremely safe role for Schwarzenegger.
Baby boomer retirements may account for part of the slide, but pessimism about job prospects in a mediocre economy still seems to be playing a large role, economists say.
"I foresee Sven's role will be very similar to Hugo's (mediocre and predictable), but I think he will manage the issue with more diplomacy.
Same crock catchphrases to describe sloppy, mediocre painting, different decade and different conniving slackers playing the role of "the anointed one".
At the Swiss Institute Mr. Shaw, who sometimes assumes the role of other artists, presents work supposedly by a mediocre abstract painter named Adam Goodman.
