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Example sentences for: third-rate

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A third-rate mystery tricked out with a great cast and some tony cinematography, the movie unspools like an elderly director's swan song--a bitter, late-Romantic threnody for the lost integrity of an American archetype, co-opted by the evils of a shabbily materialistic culture.
But the release of Dylan's second-rate material has only caused his fans to bay louder for third-rate Bob Dylan.
According to the mythology, Coppola was given third-rate scripts and managed to transform them into second-rate entertainment like The Cotton Club , Gardens of Stone , and Peggy Sue Got Married . (Coppola, who had been notorious for delivering his own movies late and over budget, earned a reputation as a reliable director.
Without the force of government behind them, Pol Pot would have been fairly harmless and Hitler, a third-rate artist.
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."