Sentence examples for on the mediocre from inspiring English sources

"On the mediocre days, there are two other voices­.

Speakers at the SALT conference, unsurprisingly, did not focus on the mediocre investment performance of hedge funds.

But DaJuan and his coach, Glen Jackson, were vilified for running up the score on the mediocre Pennsauken Tech.

I don't blame my rejections on the mediocre law degree I scraped: for most applications, I wouldn't have been vaguely considered without it, or even eligible to apply.

"Reviewing," Connolly writes with the experience of a lifetime behind him, "is a whole-time job with a half-time salary," a job in which the best of a writer "is generally expended on the mediocre in others".

Cyril Connolly caustically described the book reviewer as having "a whole-time job with a half-time salary," a job "in which the best in him is generally expended on the mediocre in others". Today, it's more of a part-time job with no salary.

A hot fund tends to cool off because, as more investors pile into a fund, even the most talented manager can run out of good ideas, moving on to the mediocre and soon to bad ones.

"A New Hope" at least had the merit of coming first — it had the element of surprise — along with a comically flat direction that appeared to be a parody of the mediocre serials on which it was based.

GM officials blamed snowy weather in the Northeast and its decision to back off incentives on pickup trucks for the mediocre results.

Detroit Pistons (16) The Pistons, fighting for their playoff lives, lost by 43 points to the mediocre Wizards on Monday night.

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.