Finally, we visit the elder Barbara Bush Mary Testaat athehe family compound in Kennebunkport, bemoaning how her husband's legacy has been "obscured by a mediocre son" (W., not Jeb).
The anti-terror police have a programme (so far successful) to prevent another 9/11, but it cannot address root causes – American foreign policy – and the chances that the mediocre son of a self-made military man will try to show his father what's what.
Mr Gomez had refused to include Mr Bucaram's youngest son, a mediocre footballer, in Ecuador's under-21 team.
There was an entire elementary school year in which my son got consistently mediocre grades in math, in English, in everything, it seemed.
One thing that no drug can buffer is the nearly unbridled contempt Mary feels for her older son, Jamie, a mediocre actor in thrall to the bottle and to prostitutes, who give him what he needs and all he can take: temporary comfort.
George H. W. Bush's mediocre rating (28%) bested his son (17%), whose rating looked a lot like Richard Nixon's (15%).
Power, a native of Arecibo, P.R., and the son of a sugar-mill worker, had a mediocre rookie season with the Philadelphia Athletics in 1954.
In Lipsyte's third novel, Milo Burke, a failed artist, works in the development office of a mediocre university in New York to support his resentful wife and preschool-age son.
Besides the political problems that he bequeathed to his son Charles, James left a body of writings which, though of mediocre quality as literature, entitle him to a unique place among English kings since the time of Alfred.
He received numerous commissions, which he carried out with the assistance of a large workshop that included his own son Peter and his successor as city painter, Vranck van der Stockt, a mediocre imitator.
Another says that school admission based on residence promotes segregation: his clever son could not attend a good mixed school but had to go to a mediocre, heavily Pakistani one instead.
