Sentences with phrase «better than the mediocrity»

Just sporadic flirtations with better than mediocrity.

I followed him closely at charlton and thought we may be on to something then he came back, and Il be honest here, he did nt look the same player at all and I asked myself was he just better than the mediocrity surrounding him at charlton, but he really has become one of my favourite players now, hes got great character and like Andy said hes one of the good guys the game has to offer.

Not exact matches

Yet it is the better guide not primarily because artists are wiser or better informed than the professional academic» when they are silly or misguided, which is often, their rhetoric - fueled errors are even more stupendous than those of the jargon - intoxicated, tenured mediocrity.

When, therefore, we have recognized that lawlessness is a rampant peril, we must also see close alongside it the multitudes of people who are merely law - abiding, who accept the dead level of general mediocrity as standard, who are no better than the enforced average, and who in consequence are living alike for themselves and for the social welfare utterly unsatisfactory lives.

However, his overview states that «the mainstream supermarket coffees reviewed here offered mainly mediocrity, bracketed by a couple of excursions into pretty good and more than a couple into sheer repulsiveness.»

What should the ambition of AFC be, fro some here it seems that they are content with carrying on with this stale mediocrity, or should we have the ambition to strive to be as good if not better than Barca and Bayern.

I don't support players I support the team... And I certainly don't support overpaid mediocrities just, coz they wear the arsenal kit but who can't deliver us more than third or fourth place... That said coquellin is a good player with potential to improve what we need now is an accomplished DM from whom he can learn... Missed kondogbia who is a better player and younger which might have been a problem... Same goes for Carvalho... Sven bender probably best around for us if not the pole... Both older more experienced more rounded footballers and wiser than coquellin... sadly wenger doesn't any longer have the brain or brawn to improve this team....

There's no better feeling than digging your hometown team — yes, the Knicks count for north Jersey — out of mediocrity and back into the playoff picture.

strange how people like mediocrity, if you knew I have more reason than many to like and support Wenger but I put Arsenal love before everything and only a fool or a blind can think that Wenger is doing good with Arsenal, I would not be upset if the team was in this position if all the required signing had been done and the team was managed and rotated correctly as no one has sure right to success.It only hurts when the requirements are not dealt correctly and are dealt only with silly excuses.Fools for the fools, some claim to love Arsenal...

so a player who feels what and how the fans feel about the mediocrity of the club is now slated to be bigger than the club... wenger spent a donkey years at the club and won nothing yet he stays in fat contracts and yet he is not bigger than the club, remember last season when he complained that the salaries of the emirates workers was affecting the club transfer... imagine what a joke arsenal has become... admin pls think of something better to write about and leave sanchez out of this... van pussy was a legend...

I hope I'm wrong but this could be the most damaging win when it comes to transfers... winning 1 game, after about 20 minutes of really good play, is of little consequence in the grand scheme of things... only those with the most selfish of intentions would suggest otherwise... the only reason we're even in this predicament, where were celebrating our first victory of 2018 against a bottom half squad who is managed by possibly the only individual more antiquated than our manager, is because of Wenger's ridiculous mishandling of his contract last year combined with his mishandling of the contracts of our top players this year; a fact that he himself admitted to... so before you get too excited about the possibilities of our current roster don't forget what has happened over the last several years and pray to the gods of football that real quality reinforcements like Auba are on the way, which could have happened years ago for less money and we might have been holding a trophy of some significance, or this brief respite will be followed by the usual mediocrity and stagnation

Arsenal failed as a club as soon as it started d business model preferring money rather than success on n off the field n fans accepted it allowing mediocrity as a standard... now 6th place will be accepted as d new standard with fans agreeing that it's good

Not at all.Most who want Wenger out recognise quite clearly the job thenewManager has is not easy.Wenger has allowed complete apathy to set in around the whole club so whoever is appointed will have work to do before we can even dream of being title contenders.You come across as a very typical Wenger lover who knows his time is up and is almost wanting the new Manager to fail.Guess what?The fanbase are not easily fooled but will accept a transition as long as we progress.We still have the core of very very good players who are more than capable of being competitive in this league and with the right additions we can be a force.But we need a Manager who MANAGES AND COACHES THE TEAM.This is clearly beyond Wenger and has been for too long now.It is quite clearly shown by our current league position of SIXTH.And yet you still continue to accept this.The Club needs to raise its expectation levels or else even mediocrity will be beyond us.

do nt get ozil on the bench... his euros finished 7 weeks ago... or is it just another excuse to give walcott a chance to demonstrate his mediocrity... anyway a better team than last weekend but still vulnerable to pace of their attacking options

This week has been a total embarrassment to our club.Even the French players no longer want to join us.At least the top top players.I think all this will come back to haunt Arsenal and Arsene.Sadly all the other clubs are in a much better position than us.The complacency has been been sickening to many supporters and runs so deep now I fear years of mediocrity.

Giroud must compete for that position with Lord Bendtner as he is abit hungrier for goals than Giroud who loves playing as an attacking midfielder.He is just not good enough.Scoring one goal for the sake of discharging you duty is a joke which i thought Wenger shouldn't condone at all.He has seen great strikers and am sure in his hearts of hearts he knows Giroud is not good enough.Had he not been French he wouldn't have been guaranteed a place at the Emirates and neither of the other top 4 teams would entertain his mediocrity.

We might be deluded to think that we can be an elite club again, but is better to dream than accept mediocrity.

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

Better to break up now than have another goodness knows how many years of mediocrity while you hang in there being unhappy.

The film feels a little less amateur than «Pusher», - a cheap debut feature for some underexperienced Dane trying to make abstract art - and it's that which brings the final product closer to decency, because many of the missteps that ruined «Pusher» feel more considerable in this superior, but still misguided effort, which has a good bit to commend, but even more to complain about as questionable «story «telling notes that ultimately send the final product crashing into mediocrity.

The Hanna - Barbera animation is better than the studio's usual bare - bones mediocrity, and the voice cast is superb.

It's not quite enough to rescue «Café Society» from the mediocrity that plagues most of Allen's recent films, but for a filmmaker who seems completely bereft of new ideas, it's a lot better than it should be.

It's like saying that each episode of George Lucas's prequel trilogy was better than the previous: maybe so, but why should we pay for the privilege of watching the bumbling trial and error as he gropes his way towards mediocrity?

Accountability: As the city moves toward a landscape that is devoid of failing schools, New Orleans may develop an accountability system that better fits a system of schools where the threat is mediocrity rather than failure.

Our kids deserve better than the patchwork of mediocrity that has largely been the norm throughout American public education.

For most of the past three decades, districts such as Carmel - Clay, Hamilton Southeastern, and Westfield - Washington have only had to provide teaching and curricula to the children of executives and middle managers of such Fortune 500 outfits such as drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co., and healthcare giant WellPoint, who fled from the Circle City for traditional district schools perceived to be better than the failure mills of woeful Indianapolis Public Schools and even the relative mediocrity of its 10 sister districts.

Well, almost 10 years into this so - called experiment in mediocrity, e-books are still here and more and more indie authors are earning more than pocket change for their work — and the blinders are still, at least as far as most of those in traditional publishing are concerned, firmly in place.

S - E are consistently getting better than the FF13 days and this has been the case for the past 4 - 5 years whereas Nintendo had to fill in the holes with mediocrity making the purchase of the WiiU more of an insult as the years went by.

The same, alas, can not be said of the 5.0 - megapixel selfie camera which is at best decent but more often than not leans towards mediocrity, with details often being the casualty.