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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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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Queen's was ranked number seven in the CIS, while Waterloo was unranked thanks in part to their continuing slide into mediocrity. |
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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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In contrast with the townscape, which was brilliantly inventive, individual buildings were of ephemeral mediocrity. |
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There is also hope in the fact that Putin's previous careers as a spy, bureaucrat and politician were marked by mediocrity, not achievement. |
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But even they can't entirely salvage the mixture from a gradual descent into mediocrity. |
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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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I appreciate simplicity. The mediocrity. Of being absorbed in my thoughts. The life of a solivagant. It's who I am. It's all I know. |
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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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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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So you think you are saving yourselves from madness, but you are falling into mediocrity, into hebetude. |
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She also debunked a Western belief that health is synonymous with mediocrity and suffering with art. |
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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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For all of those moments, however, there are moments of tedium and mediocrity to sit through. |
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Each spot on the payroll was precious, a weapon to defeat the threat of mediocrity. |
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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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Streetwise Javine tries admirably to stand out from the mass mediocrity of manufactured clones that constitute rivals. |
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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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Too many of his roles were simply indifferent, and the Pink Panther films slid into mediocrity. |
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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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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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It was an Australian view intolerant of mediocrity in any aspect of a test team. |
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Now we are asked to hold hands and dance around the maypole together, celebrating mediocrity. |
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It allows deep significance to be read into mediocrity, vacuity, cheapness, meanness. |
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The opening half was a dire affair with the standard of hurling never rising above mediocrity. |
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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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In truth the game never rose above mediocrity, as Dingle and Crokes struggled to find their range. |
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He survived on mediocrity, excelling at little but being passable at most things. |
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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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You see, he's a talented and driven composer and director who loathes mediocrity above everything else. |
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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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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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But he may well have chosen the wrong ship to board with his undoubtedly quality brand of mediocrity. |
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Such practices create real grievances, encourage mediocrity, and are bound to inflame sectarian resentment. |
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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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There was a time when success was considered elitist and mediocrity was the norm. |
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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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He gave six reasons for its increasing tendency toward mediocrity and irrelevance. |
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She drags the overall film down to the level of mediocrity, so that what we're left with is a decent TV movie, but nothing more. |
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For this, surely, is an age of celebrity, of style over substance, meretriciousness over content, mediocrity over intellectualism. |
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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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With it, Sloan hoped to propel the school out of sleepy mediocrity and make it a top-tier institution. |
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Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces. |
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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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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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Married to a stereotypical, asexual soccer mom with two young kids, he sees Kathy as his escape from such mediocrity. |
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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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So now, six years in, what should these shysters, lawyers, and purveyors of vacuous mediocrity do next? |
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Alas, it's just a situation comedy about the nervous breakdown of a middle-class mediocrity. |
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But when the blueprint demands mediocrity, why bother mucking it up with excellence? |
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It looked like another slide down the slippery slope of mediocrity for the Woodman. |
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Neither realm is renowned for rewarding mediocrity and underachievement. |
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These problems allowed mediocrity to rise too often to the top. |
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He was a Renaissance man in a world filled with teeming mediocrity. |
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I left the Episcopal Church when I finally faced up to my own spiritual mediocrity, so cleverly disguised as a neo-Jansenist pose against an Anglo-Catholic background. |
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He was described as the apotheosis of mediocrity by MacArthur, but he was much wiser and shrewder. |
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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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A standard can be a mark of excellence, something to aspire to, but in a mass-produced and mass-marketed world, standards mean an unending pursuit of sameness and mediocrity. |
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The enduring struggle to provide mediocrity for all continues. |
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He hated mediocrity and always strived for perfection and excellence. |
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Why, too, are most of us afraid to excel, settling instead for mediocrity? |
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Now imagine sitting there for almost two hours of cinematic mediocrity. |
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Is St Lucia doomed forever to be an island synonymous with mediocrity? |
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If the point was to create a paean to mediocrity, then Linklater has made maybe the definitive work on the subject. |
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Does the mediocrity of the job market mean that America no longer needs people who deal with abstractions? |
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While the Giants receded into two decades of mediocrity, the Jets took over New York. |
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He wrote poems as a high school student on the side, but was never too serious, for fear of failure or mediocrity. |
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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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The towns sprawled out of control, while rural mediocrity fed on itself. |
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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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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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Deregulation promotes programming in which mediocrity supersedes excellence, and conformity and orthodoxy are reinforced at the expense of diversity. |
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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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His colorless mediocrity exemplifies why I lost interest in the team. |
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He is a phoenix rising from mediocrity, an actor in perpetual renaissance. |
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Traditionally, there are a handful of obvious top choices, followed by a grab bag of mediocrity, potential and the occasional diamond in the rough. |
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The development on the Bolton Street frontage is even more extreme in its mediocrity in conception, and its singular unattractiveness. |
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Also, to move an organization or class forward or away from mediocrity, it may be necessary to caringly confront. |
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In adversity I wish for prosperity, and in prosperity I am afraid of adversity. What mediocrity may be found? |
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Before I get to why I dislike mediocrity in MLB, there is no evidence that revenue sharing has resulted in more competitive balance. |
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The result is the kind of gray mediocrity and bureaucratic indistinguishability typical of late communism. |
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I loathe it, for it is made up of mediocrity, hate, and dull conceit. |
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The 1980s was a period of relative mediocrity after the turmoil caused by the Rebel Tours of South Africa and the subsequent retirement of several key players. |
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With a thousand and one shoot 'em ups out there, it's a worrying prospect that this classic may be drowned out by others' mediocrity or ignored by post credit crunch savers. |
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A team notable for mediocrity through the tenure of two head coaches this season suddenly emerged under Karl as a hustling, ball-hawking, defense-obsessed group. |
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Snuggle's is housed in what was once a mid-sixties estate pub, the perfect place to wind down a life as a nearly man. Suburban mediocrity writ large. |
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