Sentence examples for the rather mediocre from inspiring English sources

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.

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".

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.

Visiting the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, he concluded: "The painting is rather mediocre".

Since the bringing of the charges, the sales of his rather mediocre works are said to have risen more than fivefold.

That was the amazing total it took to get back to Queens in time for the Yankees to wallop the Mets, 9-0, in the second game, getting these two rather mediocre teams back to even for the day.

Now, many of the paintings are actually rather mediocre (an important point made by Kusserow in his history text in the catalog), but this one, painted from life by the famed John White Alexander (who had studied with Whistler), is not only artistic but dominating.

As Pound's cuts did with Eliot's original, Lish's audacious slashings liberated Carver's densely expressive artistry from the superfluous connective tissue of his rather mediocre ruminations (you can see samples of the changes online at the New York Times website).

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 Heidegger chose a poem containing these words at this time is surely no coincidence but, rather, another significant aspect of the otherwise mysterious attraction Meyer's rather mediocre poem held for him.