Sentence examples for the mediocre man from inspiring English sources

"I don't care what the rich man, the poor man or the mediocre man is doing.

This is, of course, the gospel of the mediocre man: to ridicule somebody who tries something difficult on the grounds that the effort was not a total success.

Onegin's pride, like Darcy's (and Pride and Prejudice cannot be banished from one's mind as one reads Eugene Onegin, though there is no evidence that Pushkin knew of it) makes him, at least, honest - though Nietzsche's comment that cynicism is the mediocre man's best chance at honesty is perhaps more accurate.

With so much self-restraint, limiting your expressions, and avoiding speaking up, you have become the mediocre man you are today, a being tamed by the system.

"Women are taking the place of the mediocre men," she added.

An anti-corruption drive, predictably described by the media as "housecleaning", has seen her sack many of the mediocre men she inherited, and raise the share of women in her cabinet above a quarter.

"I sometimes wonder what that must feel like, mediocrity... To what extent is [the mediocre man] aware of his mediocrity?

Despite Trump's bluster and bravado, this mediocre man came across as exactly what he is – middling and unimpressive.

These qualities, Wilson suggests, are the answer to the riddle of how such a mediocre man could eventually emerge triumphant.

It was to create a society in which the life chances of a mediocre woman are no different from the life chances of a mediocre man.

For all his vaunted intelligence, gravitas and foreign policy acumen, Richard M. Nixon was organically incapable of grasping what that "very mediocre man," Harry S. Truman, clearly understood about the Constitution: the sinewy separation of powers undergirding our tripartite polity.