Sentence examples for merely mediocre from inspiring English sources

But Niger's harvest last November was merely mediocre, not disastrous.

For example, publication bias can make a merely mediocre drug look spectacularly effective.

So if the film turns out to be merely mediocre (which it has), they will feel let down.

With some fighting games, as with some sports games, it can take literally dozens of hours to become merely mediocre.

"Somewhat improved" and "Now merely mediocre!" won't look so great splashed on the marquee above 42nd Street.

This has helped to uphold the notion that people who excel at what they do deserve to be paid much more than those who are merely mediocre.

Having won a string of the evermore meaningless state titles and the 2006 Brazilian Cup, Flamengo had – apart from a third-place finish in 2006 – merely alternated mediocre campaigns and dangerous flirtations with relegation since 1992.

The movie isn't merely stylistically mediocre and emotionally simplistic, it's grossly ahistorical, shorn of the complexities and fascinations of the character whose name is associated with the film.

The reasons are many, but a main one is this: With so much competition out there now, you cannot afford to be merely OK, mediocre.

In football, as elsewhere, protectionism merely coddles the mediocre.

They do not look a bad team, merely a thoroughly mediocre one.