I realized how our leadership brings forth mediocre organizations and dispirited people.
Kalen Porter sang a mediocre song mediocrely, so I went out into the hallway on the platinum level to see what I could see.
Two things make home working a really viable prospect for a mediocre hack like myself.
His system turns mediocre players into good ones and good players into great ones.
So I guess the conclusion is that this is a mediocre, eminently forgettable album.
The body politic is stagnant, its membership mediocre and undeservedly self-satisfied.
Another mediocre season will not see him offered three more years in charge of Edinburgh and so he might as well go for broke.
If we don't allow any quality commercial development then the town is doomed to a mediocre fate.
The hotels I hate are the really, really mediocre ones that pretend to be really, really good ones.
Unfortunately, the quality of the titles ranged all the way from mediocre to abysmal.
The offence was mediocre, not managing to aid their defence and goalie whatsoever.
We waited 50 minutes for our mediocre and pricey lunch dishes to be delivered to our table.
I thought it was slightly better than mediocre, which was precisely what I was expecting.
I do think that there is a lot of mediocre music that has been coming out lately, so I sort of agree.
The industry is still too accepting of mediocre illustrations and photography in general.
It was a match of mediocre quality, although neither side was short of commitment.
At best, they were mediocre and at worst, merely a repeat of some of his past successes.
In spite of the huge efforts of the committee prior to the meeting attendance was mediocre.
The more I think about it, there were some pretty poor teachers at the school, and most were mediocre.
Grandera appears to have two ways of running, quite brilliant or utterly mediocre.
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Both sides gave a mediocre performance in the first half and created scarce chances on goal.
The first story was great and the others various degrees of mediocre to all right.
By ignoring or removing either sentiment is how so much design work becomes mediocre.
Clearly the combination of diet root beer and too little ice cream had produced a mediocre product, a shadow of a true root beer float.
One of the problems, he noted, was that the militiamen were mediocre and undisciplined.
The site itself is fine, but the pompous paragraphs of twaddle regarding the most mediocre of indie rock bands can be a real hoot!
Its visuals are disappointingly mediocre, featuring bland and utterly uninspired track designs.
But nobody is forcing club chairmen to pay silly money for mediocre players.
I hitched up my shorts and struck out for shore, bodysurfing the mediocre waves.
By the 1970s, the sheer quantity of mediocre boxy office buildings had given the style a bad name.
The result was a mediocre dessert which was saved from being unpleasantly dry, but which still left an unnecessarily sour taste in the mouth.
They are mediocre nonentities who demand to know your tax history, your type of business, your social status.
The romance sputters thanks to mediocre acting on the part of Gruffudd and Alba.
What I usually don't write about is what I find okay, mediocre, adequate, generic.
Tuesday the 17th is one mediocre day, without waves and with onshore wind, however in the after noon sets become visible underneath the slop.
That mediocre, built-on-the-cheap excuse for a bypass is overdue for an upgrade.
It's got passable graphics, a mediocre soundtrack, and gameplay that depends in large part on your ability to mash the Square button.
In an age where publicists' hype tells us more than we want to know about mediocre writers, Coetzee rarely gives interviews.
A few truly compelling works were generated, but also several mediocre ones, along with a couple of real clunkers.
They hired a football coach who had been at a big school, but had a mediocre record.
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Yet all of this mediocre imagineering will probably not matter much to the genre crowd.
A dumpy coloratura soprano, her voice was not even mediocre, it was preposterous.
They have a talented squad, but their performances are so often colourless and mediocre.
I am incandescent with rage about the overselling of that mediocre piece of less-than-fluff that masquerades as the ultimate romantic comedy.
Why isn't the greatest comedian considered a better actor than a mediocre drama queen?
A mediocre shot and a lack of speed are offset by his physicality and court sense.
As a vocalist, however, he only emphasises the insipid nature of his songs, most of which are reminiscent of mediocre 80s pop.
I'm sorry, Nick, anyone but that insufferable, lying, supercilious, talentless, mediocre, tiny-minded creep Charlie Boy.
What's so unconventional about mediocre food, chic interior design and waiters dressed in black?
They are a mediocre team in a mediocre division contending for a divisional championship.
He was casually dressed, his speech was mediocre in delivery, but most tellingly, his body language conveyed a cool arrogance.
There was, I concluded, some reason for ironic pride in this rather mediocre revelation.
But they can also burn up time, serve as a forum for politicking, and end up ratifying mediocre plans.
It is obvious that a truly energy efficient fridge does not cost any more money than a mediocre one.
The Argentinian is ripe for the taking as his record suggests a mediocre fighting ability and a powder-puff punch.
The same certainly applies to computers and low-end cards with built-in mic preamps, where the performance is mediocre at best.
But the good stuff survives and most of the lousy and mediocre stuff disappears, and people remember golden ages that never were.
The majority of entries are mediocre hotel dining rooms serving yesterday's cooking, food for tourists.
For two decades many classified growths produced wines that were mediocre at best, even in fine vintages.
Their defense was weak, their special teams mediocre, their running game average.
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These are undoubtedly his most successful movies in a film career which contains a wide mix of the good, the bad and the mediocre.
The judges rated her only mediocre, but she placed third in her group in no small part due to Simon picking on her for her weight.
It's easy to fall in love with particular images, even mediocre ones, but with time it also becomes easier to winnow the wheat from the chaff.
The third disc of this set contains a mediocre anime film with great animation and music.
If mediocre students pray for easily answerable question papers, the bright ones seek good memory power.
The sweetbreads were fine, raised above the mediocre by a wonderfully sweet and light pastry.
Of course, while a few of these products qualify for the prized honour of being a Best Buy, most are mediocre or, even worse, complete rip-offs.
Rich has swapped daring disco days for mediocre middle-age, a comfort zone of arty films and fruity red wines.
You can always aspire to the mediocre and attain less, or you can aspire to the great and hope that you get somewhere close.
The Transporter combines decent action with a mediocre story to produce a very average film.
What's wrong with being average and mediocre in studies, if you're excellent at life skills?
This is mediocre summer fare at best, and its allure is strictly limited to a narrow target audience.
Worse yet, the sushi and sashimi that Tuesday night were mediocre, and a few items were downright terrible.
The strong cast is what makes this sometimes mediocre material work as well as it does.
The end result, a small budget mediocre film earned its money and was termed a hit.
Al and Laura would argue that positive market research will also get you a mediocre product.
In addition to a draggy book, there are tunes that can only turn rather untuneful to avoid seeming reminiscent, and lyrics that are ruggedly mediocre.
Though there are glimmers of brilliance, quite frankly, too many of the songs are too mediocre to fulfill the potential of an intimate, listenable live album.
The playoffs are no time to be clever by benching your most talented players because they have bad matchups and start experimenting with mediocre players in good matchups.
Others were putting up a mediocre fight against the unwashed.
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Because something is popular doesn't automatically mean it's mediocre.
Mostly this process will clear away a lot of dead wood, discrediting a crowd of mediocre directors and actors that no one will care about in two years' time.
Well, he got the boot after a series of mediocre interviews.
His tap-dancing is poor, his singing mediocre, and his hairdressing skills are not well developed at all, so what else could he do to make a living, I ask?
Ivan Assen II, son of tsar Assen I, ascended to the throne in 1218 after dethroning the mediocre ruler Boril with the assistance of Russian and Kumanian troops.
Fill all fans to the brim with beer, put strippers in a hot tub behind one end zone, and captivate them with 10 nubile dancers until they don't even notice the mediocre play.
Against Slovenia, a perfectly good goal that would have won the match was disallowed by a mediocre autocrat from Mali.
She made a graceless comment a few days ago, to the effect that she doesn't expect much of a speech, but several hundred Republicans will cheer no matter how mediocre he is.
Just how far I have come from my days of respecting Motson was confirmed yesterday where he destroyed all enjoyment of watching the cup final with his mediocre tattle.
He also took cobbling lessons, eventually becoming good enough to do a mediocre job replacing a pair of soles.
Chelmsford, a man of weak character and mediocre talents, marched into Zululand only to suffer one of the most humiliating defeats in British military history at Isandlwana.
At its mediocre worst, a la Pasternak, this subgenre of betrayal lit can be whiny and self-indulgent.
Greta Garbo played tragic lovers, exotic temptresses and steely heroines, anchoring many mediocre melodramas and haughty period pieces like a pro.
She can go from mediocre to champion in the space of a couple of sets.
For years they've produced cars with enormous grunt and mediocre handling.
The depressing thing was how ubiquitously mediocre things were.
Japan used to be the place where worn-out American players went to die, but with expansion, those American players can continue their mediocre play right here in the States.
Against a sky of blackness, where pride is abundant and magnanimity scarce, that little man, that mediocre personage, shines with uncommon refulgence.
At the risk of sounding haughty, I would say that the art is mediocre.
They tried to put the money to good use, but they got mediocre results.
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And this widening and immoral disparity surely may drag down our national numbers from the mediocre to the bad.
No one likes being picked on or singled out due to their appearance, especially when they're dandy actors likely bound for the mediocre lights of a Bollywood typecasting.
I popped into the new coffee shop I spoke of a few days back and was served with a highly mediocre cup of sludgy end-of-day coffee masquerading as an Americano.
And the best lines of another great poem were later set to Joseph Woods' arhythmic and unbefittingly mediocre tune to comprise our National Anthem.
Perhaps there are men or women of secret visionary ability in there, suffocating beneath the weight of mediocre debate and petty parochial feuding.
Four days of gavel-to-gavel convention watching have reminded me, a professional speaker, of the difference between bad, mediocre, good, and great speechifying.
In fact, though, Magritte is channeling the techniques of a mediocre hobbyist or sign painter, and translating them into fine art.
It's not hard and roses aren't really all that fussy, but the creation of a proper rosebed can mean the difference between mediocre roses and absolutely fabulous ones.
The end-product, therefore, was a mediocre, vegetally high-acid wine, sometimes sweetened to make it palatable.
His satires dealt with common Elizabethan topics, such as corruption in the legal system, mediocre poets, and pompous courtiers.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Despite mediocre generalship, they managed to capture the Russian port of Sevastopol, compelling Tsar Alexander II to ask for peace.
From the 1970s, after his completion of Anne of the Thousand Days, Burton began to work in mediocre films, which hurt his career.
He later expresses this same worry, and tells of being in mediocre spirits due to his lack of progress in his logical work.
This is also a mediocre rank in the Asia Pacific region specifically, but ahead of countries like Indonesia and China.
As easily as mediocre carpenters can draw circles by employing a compass, anyone can employ the system Han Fei envisions.
Play switches from an overhead run and gun to a platform jumping shooter in this mediocre game.
His poker-faced timing makes the most of even mediocre one-liners, and beneath sequoian impassivity lurks an engagingly warm persona.
Despite a mediocre grade in English, Pat just managed to sneak in to the university.
Red Sox reliever Matt Albers spent three mediocre seasons with the Orioles, who opted not to re-sign the 28-year-old after the 2010 season.
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New origins like Vietnam need high value coffees to shed their image of mediocre quality flooders.
But it is doggedly, almost deliberately mediocre in every way.
The first American UAV, the jet-powered Lightning Bug of the 1960s, cost enormous amounts of money and delivered mediocre results.
For Garrett Stewart, the mediocre and saccharine hyperrealism or failed classicism of these portraits is functional.
To call them mediocre, uninspiring, and stale would be overly generous.
Opener Feelin OK has a mediocre pace and outlook suiting its title but its a false flag.
But he did not do himself any favors with his cabinet choices, many of whom had mediocre records that indicated corruptibility.
Despite mediocre generalship, they managed to capture the Russian port of Sevastopol, compelling Tsar Nicholas I to ask for peace.
We won't have to pay pirate prices for mediocre schwag after all.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill put Britain back on the gold standard in 1925, which many economists blame for the mediocre performance of the economy.
It isn't that Adams is a virtuoso of many talents. It's that he has a combination of many often mediocre abilities that combine to create a formidable talent stack.
For every NSX, Integra Type R, that first CR-V or the eighthgeneration Civic there are long periods where the company brings us puzzlingly mediocre stuff.
His cooking is good to mediocre and most of the time, simple and filling.
This mediocre dot method has nothing to do with the aesthetic of the painters we are defending here, nor with the technique of divisionism they use.

But her encompassment, as is so apt to be the case here, was pitiably mediocre.
We pass, then, into a corridor hung with two large and very mediocre landscapes, representing Tivoli and Terni.
Petrarchism became a fashion among the mediocre and a school among these above the common.
Verloc, whose affair the police has managed to smother so nicely, was mediocre.
My frog brochure meets that difficulty and whets the appetite of the most mediocre.
As for me, I was as mediocre as the play itself, which is saying a great deal.
Besides composing some mediocre poetry, Yang Hsiung wrote on acupuncture, music, and philology.
Salman Khan, well known for his dry humour has been caught up in a controversy, after calling music director AR Rahman mediocre.
It's as mediocre as it sounds, a schizophrenic creature feature unsure whether it wants to send up its genre or let out a primal yawp.
Almost any mediocre can compile a mass of information from the cyclopedia.
Against such as were streaming up the hill toward them a single mediocre swordsman such as Ghek was worse than no defense at all.
The picture of perfection itself is cold, negative, and mediocre.
Their Utopias inspire in the mass of mediocre minds a disgust of reality and a contempt for the secular logic of human development.
Here Phoebus, whose imagination was endowed with but mediocre power of creation, began to find himself in a quandary as to a means of extricating himself for his prowess.
The Scot fought his way through the field after a mediocre start before holding his nerve during a late yellow flag period to make a clean restart and take victory.
Assuredly, Didymus of Alexandria is no mediocre philosopher.
By us ordinary mortals of a mediocre animus that is only too anxious to pass by wicked giants for so many honest windmills, adventures are entertained like visiting angels.
He has brought in some mediocre players and some absolute stinkers.
Otter, meek, mediocre, and self-satisfied, wore an air of importance.

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