Sentence examples for mediocre writing from inspiring English sources

There's a lot of mediocre writing on offer here; academics don't always have the knack of making their specialities infectious.

The story beneath the mediocre writing, however, was excellent.

IGN's Ramsey Isler rated the episode 6.4/10, commenting that it was "cheesy, with mediocre writing and some fairly bad performances from the guest supporting cast".

(On the other hand, I wonder if I would've even cared to think at all if I had access to a treasure trove of mediocre writing and ready made homework online at a click of a mouse?) But I digress.

A word like manopause is repeated and does not get a second laugh and barely earns the first one, but all is forgiven just to see De Niro's slowly building rage that is so funny that the mediocre writing can not take away from the audience's pleasure.

Adverbs are the classic crutch of mediocre writing, and they often serve only to clutter up a sentence.

"Time will sort us out, determine who was really good from who was mediocre," he writes in "Literary Life".

In the forties, the talented merged with the untalented and became almost indistinguishable from them, and the mediocre have been writing movies ever since.

When she's not studying, she can be found nerdily enthusing about the em dash, writing mediocre poetry, eating her weight in Nutella and girl-crushing on Nora Ephron.

He has failed to divine that he did develop a crush on a mediocre, unbalanced writing student with bewitching eyes and seductive clothes, whose work he lavishly praised (she was going to be a "star") and from whom he abruptly withdrew when the tone of her e-mails became so insane that he could no longer overlook it.

You've recently been quoted as saying: "Most writing is mediocre.