How To Use Mediocrity In A Sentence
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Mediocrity is not the lack of effort, but the lack of goals; dream is not without action, but the action is too late; the poor is not hard, but the lack of expertise; lazy not pace, but the pace is too shallow.
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And bonjour to mid-table mediocrity.
The Sun
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There was a time when success was considered elitist and mediocrity was the norm.
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Even in our sensual days the strength of delight is in its seldomness or rarity, and sting in its satiety; mediocrity is its life, and immoderacy its confusion.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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A high finish is usually followed by a slip towards mediocrity.
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And you could argue that the team seemed pleased with mediocrity.
The Sun
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Because they are so good, so smart, they stand out like beacons in a sea of mediocrity.
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They had burst the bubble of their mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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In truth the game never rose above mediocrity, as Dingle and Crokes struggled to find their range.
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And they accept that mediocrity is good enough.
Smithsonian Mag
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Next season Must aim for dizzy heights of mid-table mediocrity next season.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ostentation, mediocrity, social conventions, members of the church, doctors, niggards and men of letters, among others, were objects of his strict observation and his corrosive critics.
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La Bete selects an acting troupe as its focal point; but any arena that pits quality against mediocrity is an able substitute.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo
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The unexpected grabs attention and the unorthodox is the antidote to a world of mediocrity.
Why The White House is losing the health debate.
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It feels as though it settled for mediocrity rather than reaching for something a bit special.
The Sun
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I'm quite happy to let the right wingers be the "tolerant" ones, especially if what they tolerate is idiocy, mediocrity, and the destruction of what this country has and should stand for.
In Eugene, Palin says she eats granola too
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They had burst the bubble of their mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even in our sensual days the strength of delight is in its seldomness or rarity, and sting in its satiety; mediocrity is its life, and immoderacy its confusion.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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Mediocrity is not the lack of effort, but the lack of goals; dream is not without action, but the action is too late; the poor is not hard, but the lack of expertise; lazy not pace, but the pace is too shallow.
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And what a piece of petit bourgeois mediocrity it is.
Times, Sunday Times
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And what a piece of petit bourgeois mediocrity it is.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Such self-improvement balderdash will do nothing but relegate you to a career in mediocrity,’ Eliot contends.
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Yesterday, though, their mercurial brilliance was replaced by mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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A mediocrity, not disagreeable, always rules; supremity has been, is, and always will be the stick in the riffle around which the little whirlpool will always centre.
The Common Law
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Overall it was a well contested game but it never rose above mediocrity with Rangers just about deserving their win.
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It's the perfect antidote to modern day mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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They face the Hammers today with mid-table mediocrity beckoning once more.
The Sun
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We've gone out and proved we don't want to accept mediocrity any more.
The Sun
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And what a piece of petit bourgeois mediocrity it is.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I think of all the mediocrity in an area of expensive real estate like the City of London, and think how little a genius like Jan – and I don't use the term lightly – saw built in his lifetime, you can't help but think two things: one, the dice are loaded against great architecture; two: work harder.
The Saturday interview: architect Amanda Levete
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Only winning lets you tell the truth - every shade of mediocrity, of unsuccess, of half-success, involves you in little explanations, regrets, resentments, complaints, delusions.
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He was unaware of her gaze, and she watched him intently, speculating fancifully about the strange warp of soul that led him, a young man with signal powers, to fritter away his time on the writing of stories and poems foredoomed to mediocrity and failure.
Chapter 20
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For all of those moments, however, there are moments of tedium and mediocrity to sit through.
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April 17th, 2009 at 4: 09 pm mediocrity is the key to happiness. blablabla Says:
Deadlines!
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At 23, I have concluded that being a triplet is a constant reminder of my mediocrity.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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Yet the long and short of it is mid-table mediocrity is the best these two can hope for this season.
The Sun
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Core competency: the opposite of core mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thor, your whole "I'm too erudite to wallow in the sty of mediocrity with the rest of you pigs because I read * serious* books in third grade" schtick is seriously underwhelming me here.
Little Kids Can Write Books Better Than You
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He hated mediocrity and always strived for perfection and excellence.
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There are those who condemn it as mob rule that vulgarises society and as a belief that tolerates mediocrity and incompetence.
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A high finish is usually followed by a slip towards mediocrity.
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They know how to bang riffs out of their axes well, but it tends to get buried beneath the mediocrity and predictability of their songwriting.
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Anti-Enlightenment philosophy had a great influence on 19th-century Romanticism, which repudiated reason in favour of nature worship, and counterpoised the genius of the artist to mass mediocrity.
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The execution is sometimes clumsy and story threads occasionally fumble about but the sheer determination to go further with the premise, pushing beyond the barricades of mediocrity and aspire for at least some of the weightiness of the source material, that kind of relentlessness ultimately made it a success.
Row Three » Review: Blindness - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions
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Yet shining like a ray of blissed-out sunshine and catapulting its way into your consciousness amidst this mediocrity is the quite simply gorgeous title track.
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Now we are asked to hold hands and dance around the maypole together, celebrating mediocrity.
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Neither realms are renowned for rewarding mediocrity and underachievement.
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Clearly, the selection process for membership ensures the selection of balbutient loggerheads with butyraceous brains jectigating in the reniform hallways of mediocrity.
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He survived on mediocrity, excelling at little but being passable at most things.
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The raise of mediocrity is dangerous because those who are uninformed, undecisive and disoriented (don't know and don't care about truth) - are easier to scare and manipulate.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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It feels as though it settled for mediocrity rather than reaching for something a bit special.
The Sun
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The grand mediocrity of today--everyone being the same in survival and number of off-spring--means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in upper-middle-class India compared to the tribe.
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It was the rebel that you most loved, the belligerence that couldn't accept mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The alternative is to accept mediocrity and find excuses for failure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those who have the inner drive don't accept mediocrity.
The Sun
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So you think you are saving yourselves from madness, but you are falling into mediocrity, into hebetude.
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As this is growing wearisome, I would now recommend for a change something else for a pleasure -- namely, the unconscious astuteness with which good, fat, honest mediocrity always behaves towards loftier spirits and the tasks they have to perform, the subtle, barbed, Jesuitical astuteness, which is a thousand times subtler than the taste and understanding of the middle-class in its best moments -- subtler even than the understanding of its victims: -- a repeated proof that "instinct" is the most intelligent of all kinds of intelligence which have hitherto been discovered.
Beyond Good and Evil
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Isn't it amazing how these people continue to keep their day jobs amidst this kind of mediocrity?
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They are often brusk to the point of rudeness, intolerant of mediocrity, and direct in manner.
John F. Ince: Where Are the Investors Who Will Back the Googles of Tomorrow?
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Deregulation promotes programming in which mediocrity supersedes excellence, and conformity and orthodoxy are reinforced at the expense of diversity.
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Too many people accept mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elsewhere, local authority treatment could descend to little more than fashionable mediocrity.
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Such practices create real grievances, encourage mediocrity, and are bound to inflame sectarian resentment.
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But do not make the mistake of turning that advice into a euphemism to disguise your own comfort, calculation, lukewarmness, easygoingness, lack of idealism and mediocrity.
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St Lucia will be on display for the cricketing world - a world that shuns mediocrity, that rewards quality and class.
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History teaches that we are not only tolerant of mediocrity - we thrive on it.
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Mediocrity is not the lack of effort, but the lack of goals; dream is not without action, but the action is too late; the poor is not hard, but the lack of expertise; lazy not pace, but the pace is too shallow.
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He is a phoenix rising from mediocrity, an actor in perpetual renaissance.
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Openness to other cultures and the future gave way to inward-looking rivalry and mediocrity, as a closed tribal mentality reasserted itself.
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Perhaps the main reason for acoustical mediocrity is the small size of TV cabinets.
Sound suffers on slimmer, smaller TVs
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Each spot on the payroll was precious, a weapon to defeat the threat of mediocrity.
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From every act, from every word of the persona he has presented to the camera since the early 1970s, there emanates at once a mediocrity and a magnetic allure.
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Now imagine sitting there for almost two hours of cinematic mediocrity.
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Why, too, are most of us afraid to excel, settling instead for mediocrity?
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Reading's season is a story of people unwilling to accept mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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After that we see Hanoverian mediocrity, followed by Victorian pomp, and Windsor flexibility – changing nationality and name as wars with Germany, their ancestral home, demanded.
Crown & Country by David Starkey - review
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Despite valiant efforts from the cast, the two hours that follow it prove to be nothing more than a descent into the quicksand of mediocrity.
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I'm supposed to be celebrating mediocrity here, but to be honest it's getting a little boring.
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Married to a stereotypical, asexual soccer mom with two young kids, he sees Kathy as his escape from such mediocrity.
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Unfortunately, it doesn't take long for things to begin the slippery slide into mediocrity before plunging off a precipice into idiocy.
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He gave six reasons for its increasing tendency toward mediocrity and irrelevance.
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Instead they encourage mediocrity to flourish and this is now the third consecutive pitch upon which any cutting edge has been blunted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mediocrity is not the lack of effort, but the lack of goals; dream is not without action, but the action is too late; the poor is not hard, but the lack of expertise; lazy not pace, but the pace is too shallow.
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This upload is our mightiest metaphor for the merrymaking of the measureless mediocrity that makes up the 21st century.
Cody Brotter: Generation Friday: How Rebecca Black Gave Millennial Kids Their Label
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The problem for teachers who are passionate about teaching is that they live in the Bushian Nightmare of educational testing companies, textbook publishers, educational software vendors, and other "monied" friends of the Republicans propping up the mediocrity campaigns of tin-horn pedagogic dictators like Johnson who want to quash the programs that will produce the next generation of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and performers of our cultural heritages.
Brian Ross: Magnet Education Attracts Unwelcome Clash With No Child Left Behind
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He doesn’t believe in mediocrity, is committed to his purpose and passion, and in Bikini Bottom (where he lives), Spongebob is a Linchpin.
2010 March « Being En Pointe
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I love how the pundits who post on this blog are ready to consign Bell and Johnson to the scrapheap which is baseball mediocrity when they are both still in their early 20s, still learning and really have barely begun their professional careers.
Blog updates
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At first glance, the metaphor - a rising tide of mediocrity - seems inapt, even odd.
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A general, happy mediocrity was almost the utopian ideal.
DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
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Even in our sensual days, the strength of delight [95] is in its seldomness or rarity, and sting in its satiety: mediocrity is its life, and immoderacy its confusion.
Christian Morals
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The optimum racing line is lost and the lap times fade away into mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Martial, however, was one of those men who are capable of reckoning on the future in the midst of their intensest enjoyment; he had already learned to judge the world, and hid his ambition under the fatuity of a lady-killer, cloaking his talent under the commonplace of mediocrity as soon as he observed the rapid advancement of those men who gave the master little umbrage.
Domestic Peace
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Even in our sensual days, the strength of delight [95] is in its seldomness or rarity, and sting in its satiety: mediocrity is its life, and immoderacy its confusion.
Christian Morals
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He hated mediocrity and always strived for perfection and excellence.
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Along with their brother Andrei, who wants to become a philosophy professor, they all dream of returning to cosmopolitan Moscow and escaping the mediocrity and provincialism of their lives.
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There is far too much mediocrity in this squad.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better. Gordon B. Hinckley
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Some readers think he's a demonic force for mediocrity, others believe he's an apostle of decent design for the masses.
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It was an Australian view intolerant of mediocrity in any aspect of a test team.
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Thor, your whole "I'm too erudite to wallow in the sty of mediocrity with the rest of you pigs because I read * serious* books in third grade" schtick is seriously underwhelming me here.
Little Kids Can Write Books Better Than You
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Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. Colin Powell
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He dismissed Stalin, Patenaude reports, as an "outstanding mediocrity" and the "gravedigger" of the revolution.
Undefined
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This was part of the most sickening aspect of Irish-American life in those days: the assumption that if you rose above an acceptable level of mediocrity, you were guilty of the sin of pride.
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But he may well have chosen the wrong ship to board with his undoubtedly quality brand of mediocrity.
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Nearly the entire 200 kilometre stretch of road was lined with the epitome of mediocrity; a mess of atrocious looking utility hovels, sheds, shops and repair facilities.
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People want change, a change from the governance of mediocrity to a vibrant, clean and responsive administration and whosoever can ensure this will not only be acceptable to the people but will be also viewed with pride.
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Reading's season is a story of people unwilling to accept mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gone too is the sad figure of the politician who for some years has been making the arduous ascent to political mediocrity only to find that he/she has lost on the fifth, sixth or umpteenth time.
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His colorless mediocrity exemplifies why I lost interest in the team.
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He also assimilated the three characteristics called gunas (namely tattva virtue, rajas power, passion and tamas mediocrity), specified in the Sankhya literature, into his teachings.
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Academic school or not, in a hotbed of college basketball like Philadelphia, mediocrity is not tolerated silently for long.
Pennsylvania - Team Notes
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It left the Blues with only one win in their last ten matches as they settle for mid-table mediocrity.
The Sun
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That doesn't mean they'll settle for mediocrity; their criteria can be very high, but as soon as they find the pasta sauce or the business card that has the qualities they want, they're satisfied.
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I believe this means the hoard of treasure on which he sleeps at night is 6 gold pieces, 2 silver, and 3 electrum smaller than first estimated, and that his enchanted Turtleneck of Mediocrity is probably working at only +3 instead of an Industry-Killing +6.
Dan Brown ebook stats not so crazygonuts
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A second lesson about the difference between sustained success and mediocrity or perpetual failure is that winning is boring.
Times, Sunday Times
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By that stage the relative comfort of mid-table mediocrity could easily have turned into another grim relegation battle.
Times, Sunday Times
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But instead of the life of soul-destroying mediocrity that he expected, Jack realises that he rather likes the role of husband to the unfeasibly nice Kate and father to their darling children.
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You see, he's a talented and driven composer and director who loathes mediocrity above everything else.
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They had burst the bubble of their mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was delighted had edged away from danger zone since he over in November and now safely wallowing mid-table mediocrity.
The Sun
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So says The Knife, who, as their name suggests, are not a conventional band content to offer vacuous platitudes served on a diet of mediocrity.
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It's Satan working his evil will through the world, contenting us with mediocrity.
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Mediocrity is not the lack of effort, but the lack of goals; dream is not without action, but the action is too late; the poor is not hard, but the lack of expertise; lazy not pace, but the pace is too shallow.
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Mediocrity is not the lack of effort, but the lack of goals; dream is not without action, but the action is too late; the poor is not hard, but the lack of expertise; lazy not pace, but the pace is too shallow.
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Mediocrity is not the lack of effort, but the lack of goals; dream is not without action, but the action is too late; the poor is not hard, but the lack of expertise; lazy not pace, but the pace is too shallow.
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The grand mediocrity of today--everyone being the same in survival and number of off-spring--means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in upper-middle-class India compared to the tribe.
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Is that even a viable alternative or is languishing in mediocrity a sentence worse than death for most over-achieving lawyers?
Sui Generis--a New York law blog
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So now, six years in, what should these shysters, lawyers, and purveyors of vacuous mediocrity do next?
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Or is it one of those juicily promising titles that holds out the prospect of bizarre riches only to offer mediocrity?
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The execs who panicked and hired David Lee Roth showed they were the equal of Stern in their unimaginativeness and mediocrity.
The king of all media « BuzzMachine
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Or, on the other hand, perhaps the revisionist account is just as much nonsense as the story that Hanjour "persevered" and "overcame his mediocrity".
911Blogger.com
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The emphasis has to be on quality not quantity, otherwise the game will drift down a cul-de-sac of mediocrity.
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Streetwise Javine tries admirably to stand out from the mass mediocrity of manufactured clones that constitute rivals.
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We have a few champions and a multitude of also-rans; we have winners and losers; and we associate excellence with the former and mediocrity with the latter.
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On those rare occasions when he assays an argument, it's indisputable that nothing will ever rescue him from mediocrity.
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That the film is still brilliant with its 50 minutes of extra material is no surprise - a film this good would have to fall an impossibly long way just to get near to the realm of mediocrity.
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This upload is our mightiest metaphor for the merrymaking of the measureless mediocrity that makes up the 21st century.
Cody Brotter: Generation Friday: How Rebecca Black Gave Millennial Kids Their Label
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Mediocrity is not the lack of effort, but the lack of goals; dream is not without action, but the action is too late; the poor is not hard, but the lack of expertise; lazy not pace, but the pace is too shallow.
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While in recent years his work may have fallen into something of a slough of mediocrity, these works are drawn from the period when he was at his strongest, the two decades between 1961 and the early 1980s.
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For Scotland's future credibility, teachers need to start promoting politics as a high calling in need of rescuing from the slough of self-serving mediocrity in which it is presently mired.
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The opening half was a dire affair with the standard of hurling never rising above mediocrity.
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There was a period when that would have been considered an admirable glimpse of wounded pride over a lapse in standards, but now it looks like a symptom of frustration and mediocrity.
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She also debunked a Western belief that health is synonymous with mediocrity and suffering with art.
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He has been severely criticized as peevish, neurotic, rising only to mediocrity, but it was not an easy war to win.
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As for the joyous and lepid consul, he jokes upon neutral flags and frauds, jokes upon Irish rebels, jokes upon northern and western and southern foes, and gives himself no trouble upon any subject; nor is the mediocrity of the idolatrous deputy of the slightest use.
Political Pamphlets
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At least with Mozart there are a substantial number of works of unsurpassable genius rising from the routine mediocrity of about three quarters of his output.
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And honestly, I tend to agree with Marvel when it comes to the 'late or half assed' question, DC seems to think promptness covers up for mediocrity.
Neil Gaiman: ‘George R.R. Martin is not your bitch.’ | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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The majority of players are more familiar with failure and mediocrity than brilliance.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘In this regard the institute would like to serve notice to employers and non-professionals that they will fight all those that support mediocrity,’ he said.
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He may not be the best actor, but his charm and charisma help him elevate any role above mediocrity.
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Thus what Weismann terms "panmixia," or free intercrossing, will co-operate with Galton's law of "regression towards mediocrity," and the result will be that, whenever selection ceases to act on any part or organ which has heretofore been kept up to a maximum of size and efficiency, the organ in question will rapidly decrease till it reaches a mean value considerably below the mean of the progeny that has usually been produced each year, and very greatly below the mean of that portion which has survived annually; and this will take place by the general law of heredity, and quite irrespective of any _use_ or _disuse_ of the part in question.
Darwinism (1889)
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It is a hard-edged, hard-nosed, hard-boiled, in-your-face and deeply profane concept, and any approach contrary to that will once again flush film 1's legacy of emotional truth into the sewer of mediocrity, sealing the property away - perhaps forever - in the caverns of the untouchable.
Robocop Screenwriter Says Darren Aronofsky is Still Attached | /Film
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Both are using the power of privilege and big corporate money to compensate for their mediocrity.
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Both are using the power of privilege and big corporate money to compensate for their mediocrity.
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This adminisration is driving us further into mediocrity every day.
White House lauds Senate Democrats' health care deal
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His colorless mediocrity exemplifies why I lost interest in the team.
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“Watering the seeds of self defeating thought with rationalization is how mediocrity blossoms but allowing your branches to live in the light of the truth is how the fruit of your love will bare.”
Writing Workshop: What are YOU writing? | Write to Done
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There is a genuine issue about how far a ceiling on pay might merely encourage mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is not, in fact, time for Scotland to Move On, with nothing changed, the numpties in place, assimilating an acceptance of mediocrity into the national psyche.
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Is St Lucia doomed forever to be an island synonymous with mediocrity?
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But even they can't entirely salvage the mixture from a gradual descent into mediocrity.
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In an age of information overabundance, we need cultural elites more than ever to stand over and above the cultural morass of mediocrity.
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Such was the difference in the strength of the respective teams that the series never rose above mediocrity.
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Mediocrity is not the lack of effort, but the lack of goals; dream is not without action, but the action is too late; the poor is not hard, but the lack of expertise; lazy not pace, but the pace is too shallow.
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It looked like another slide down the slippery slope of mediocrity for the Woodman.
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He had not succeeded in surpassing a decent mediocrity.
An Unbeliever by Azorin | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
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It allows deep significance to be read into mediocrity, vacuity, cheapness, meanness.
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Don't get caught up in the cesspool of mediocrity when it comes to your choice of casual footwear.
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If you have an ardent desire for the Lord you will steer clear of the mediocrity and conformism so widespread in our society.
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Many will quietly admit they prefer a hair-raising flirt with relegation to mid-table mediocrity.
The Sun
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Too many of his roles were simply indifferent, and the Pink Panther films slid into mediocrity.
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This is a film that revels and delights in its own mediocrity, and is unashamed of the smallness of its dreams.
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The bit marks a turning point in this film, the first substantive clue to What's Really Going On but also the point at which EAGLE EYE begins to drown in the consume of its own mediocrity, derivativeness and overall lack of anything resembling vision.
Eye carumba!
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The film's willingness to get into the more difficult aspects of life and relationships, and to stay with them rather than sugaring them over, saves it from mediocrity and makes it worth a look.
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Our educational system continues to slide further and further into mediocrity.
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It feels as though it settled for mediocrity rather than reaching for something a bit special.
The Sun
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The towns sprawled out of control, while rural mediocrity fed on itself.
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Reading's season is a story of people unwilling to accept mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our cultural pooh-bahs simply can't bear to admit that the scene they presume to be such a part of is a bastion of mediocrity.
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The emphasis has to be on quality not quantity, otherwise the game will drift down a cul-de-sac of mediocrity.
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Rational Review
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In an almost-literal sense, they anti-trust American consumers to turn down bland crap from entitled behemoths, and instead create marvelous, idiosyncratic workarounds to industry mediocrity and idiotic government restrictions.
Reason Magazine
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Prisons are chock full of no-name average slobs who murdered a bunch of people by simply shooting them, so you should view a gun as nothing but a gateway to a world of boring mediocrity.
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The House of Commons, inundated by a quota system guaranteed to promote mediocrity, had become a government harem populated by political eunuchs.
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It feels as though it settled for mediocrity rather than reaching for something a bit special.
The Sun
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We have reduced all and everything to the level of mediocrity so that nothing and no-one stands out or is in any way offended.
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This thrashing and hating is boring, and I am ready to start my long pathetic slide into complacency and mediocrity now.
If you can't dig on esther, you turn and leave town
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These problems allowed mediocrity to rise too often to the top.
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It's the perfect antidote to modern day mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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In "reck room" we dream of greatness but accept mediocrity.
Art review: 'Patrick McDonough: reck room' at Flashpoint
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Lulus S: Let's see if the rabbitoh curse of mediocrity blights the most talked about recruit of 2011.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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But a mill-village is one vast expanse of mediocrity and prosaicness, and it would take a bigger nature than Peter's to recognize the beautiful in such a life.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
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He was unaware of her gaze, and she watched him intently, speculating fancifully about the strange warp of soul that led him, a young man with signal powers, to fritter away his time on the writing of stories and poems foredoomed to mediocrity and failure.
Chapter 20
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The enduring struggle to provide mediocrity for all continues.
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For him, Americans' intellectual mediocrity would seem to be a self-evident truth, but his own observations hardly exemplify the kind of reflectiveness a reader of such a book has a right to expect.
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In its notice of the play in August 1823, the Mirror of the Stage; or, New Dramatic Censor found Mrs. Weippert (whose initial it gives as "I.") of particular interest: "as a singer, this lady's merits are not above mediocrity; but whenever she is put into characters suited to her talents, such as pert servants, or romping hoyden's [sic], she displays considerable vivacity and spirit.
Cast and Characters
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Yes, this is the new face of chain restaurants: individual concepts, adapted to specific locales and audiences, with none of the anonymous mediocrity that made "chain" a dirty word in epicurean circles.
Neil Zevnik: A New Paradigm? Now Serving: A Nice Dose of Healthy and a Healthy Dose of Nice
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Anything less than a win will be greeted with howls of derision by a public who have grown sick of the culture of rugby mediocrity.
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They had burst the bubble of their mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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No, mediocrity is not good enough.
Smithsonian Mag
