Reviewing that film, Ms. Kael, who often praised Ms. Simmons's intelligence and grace, metaphorically threw up her hands: "Jean Simmons gives a reserved, beautifully modulated performance that is so much better than the material that at times her exquisite reading of the rather mediocre lines seems a more tragic waste than her character's wrecked life".
Lindsay Lohan's performance in the rather mediocre TV film "Liz & Dick" (which, however — I should have mentioned — features the admirable script conceit of a virtual posthumous interview with the protagonists) received unfortunately (and unwarrantedly nasty) negative reviews.
And when compared to the rather mediocre PR efforts of both Nintendo and Sega, you can see why those two brands continue to fade.
True, he did have a career day in a meaningless game against the rather mediocre and certainly indifferent Miami Dolphins in the season's finale.
There was also a single, soiled molar to build around: a version of the Napoleon scene that had, improbably, been made into a rather mediocre episode in a long-forgotten, cheaply made cartoon special in 1970, with the very elderly Groucho supplying his lines and Hans Conried doing the other brother's voices.
Upon its release, Rolling Stone magazine's review was unfavourable, writing that it is "not as interesting as their first" and "rather mediocre", highlighting the near-departure of Syd Barrett as one of its detractions.
That's because the stone, the object of so many New Yorkers' obsessions, is considered to be rather mediocre.
Visiting the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, he concluded: "The painting is rather mediocre".
Some found his endorsement of what seemed a rather mediocre conservative squeal a diminishment.
"PCs were bailing out what was, quite frankly, a rather mediocre performance".
