Example sentences for: mediocrity

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

  • Pundits reaffirmed Bulls star Michael Jordan's divinity and Jazz star Karl Malone's mediocrity.

  • Some praise the museum for its uncharacteristic timeliness and for recognizing that Versace "was one of the fashion titans of this century" (Julia Szabo, Newsday ). Others say the Met unwittingly reveals the mediocrity of his designs, which got noticed only because celebrities wore them.

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

  • Not only do the poems look better in the Collected Poems (which, to be sure, omits great ones early and late); they are also unencumbered by comparison with the "uncollected poems," which include a lot of mystifying mediocrity.

  • And despite having written 2,500 newspaper columns, he (usually) avoids the dull mediocrity that mires so many regular op-ed writers (Anthony Lewis, Ellen Goodman ...)


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