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Example sentences for: mediocre

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One thing that separates intuitive artists from hacks and "players" is their difficulty doing even mediocre work when their cylinders aren't firing.
Frank Sinatra, Wayne Newton, and Louis Prima each arrived with mediocre status and suddenly found themselves with names as big as the marquees on which they were written.
I'm thinking in particular of Frances McDormand's unflappable pregnant cop in Fargo ; John Turturro's Barton Fink, the mediocre leftist playwright who tries to go Hollywood; and in the new film, Jeff Bridges' incarnation of Jeff Lebowski, a k a the Dude, an amiable stoner who is drawn into a Big Sleep -inspired kidnap scheme.
In an earlier column, I wrote about the segmentation of Internet stocks into winners and losers, and in recent weeks we've seen a mediocre Christmas further segment the Net sector by taking a real toll on Internet retailers.
Unfortunately, many good bench scientists are mediocre theorists, often by choice.