Upstairs, a narrow terrace with daybeds hugs three sides of the building, with an after-work crowd not quite as cool as Salon de Ning's and mediocre views of office buildings.
Right down to its wood tables, bottomless mimosas, and mediocre beach view, Abigale is interchangeable with hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of restaurants actively contributing to the Etsying of modern society.
A recent Quinnipiac poll in Iowa finds opinions of Bush among likely Republican caucus goers to be mediocre at best, with 41percentt saying they view him favorably and 40percentt viewing him unfavorably.
On the other hand, persons might feel slighted because they hold utterly unreasonable views in the first place, e.g., if Nazis think that they ought to be treated as super-humans or if a mediocre painter expects others to view him as a genius (Margalit 1996, 9; Fraser 2003, 37 42; Iser 2008, 216 221).
Internet "classes" offered by Kahn Academy are said to produce outstanding results compared with mediocre public schools (you can view the courses on Google's YouTube channel here). Cutting edge thinkers say peer learning around problem sets is a critical element of the future workplace, where continuous learning is the only way to cope with continuous technologic change.
Depending on your point of view, where one may see the mediocre, others may see greatness.
If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.
Neither film can be called a masterpiece, but the two are viewed by Italian filmmakers as encouraging departures from the usual mediocre fare.
But it is distressing that Mr. Bush views the Peace Corps directorship as a place to park generous donors with mediocre résumés.
They view any system that redistributes wealth as leveling the distinction between the mediocre and the remarkable.
