Sentence examples for underachiever from inspiring English sources

Operating out of one of the poorest and most geographically fragmented countries in Asia, it has been an underachiever for most of its existence.

Being chosen to host both the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics seemed due recognition that its days as a chronic underachiever were behind it.Special report Grounded A rough ride for Rousseff The price is wrong Leave well alone The road to hell Money no object Land of the setting sun Looks good Reality dawns Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsBut Brazil's economy did not play ball.

Instead Portugal was a chronic underachiever, suffering from years of low growth.

Still, the kingdom is not the only underachiever.

Latin America's perennial underachiever grew faster than Brazil last year and will repeat the trick this year, with a rate of about 4% against less than 2% in Brazil.

You don't want to be the underachiever in your circle of friends".

To himself, though, he remained an underachiever who never believed he had properly fulfilled his artistic or commercial potential.

Rutherford, however, intends to stick full-time with the mentor who has transformed him from an injury-prone underachiever into an Olympic champion.

He was regarded as an underachiever on the European Tour, having won only once – in Spain in March – after contending so often.

Ford's story is the stuff of dreams for any underachiever who ever dared to imagine a career in Hollywood: "C" student, ungifted in sports, moves to Hollywood and works as a carpenter to support then wife and two small sons.

As was the case with the character he played in "Rushmore," an oddball prep-school student with a rich inner life, viewers can identify with him, because although he's an underachiever he's smart and full of desire.