Example sentences for: mediocrity

How can you use “mediocrity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A writer with a strong and original voice will always influence lesser talents: Imitation is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

  • Rodchenko and his friends in the various groupings of the left wing of Soviet art in the 1920s saw themselves as embattled representatives of the true spirit of the Revolution, in the face of various currents of reaction, mediocrity, timidity, and stasis.

  • Resentment is narrated, like Another City , by a grumpy writer who lives at the Chateau Marmont hotel; at the same time, Dunne himself appears as a character, as a columnist-novelist named Fawbus Kennedy who is variously called "the kind of nothing this culture has been moving toward for decades," a "third-rate middlebrow Depends ad," and a "pompous mediocrity of a type unprecedented and decidedly unwelcome in this kind of grave proceeding."

  • Despite this record of unadulterated mediocrity, a fog of optimism continues to envelop Coppola.

  • Some people are destined for greatness, some for mediocrity.


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