Sentences with phrase «by the mediocrity of»

«Today, meritocracy of capitalism has been replaced by the mediocrity of multinationals that promote anti-competitive practices.»

At the time the most important art journal of France, L'Artiste, in its issue of March 12, 1848, extolled the «genius of liberty» which had revived «the eternal flames of art» (obviously it had been less effective in reviving the rhetorical power of its writers), and the next week, Clément de Ris, writing in the same periodical, while slightly chagrined by the mediocrity of the first «liberated» Salon, nevertheless maintained that «in the realm of art, as in that of morals, social thought and politics, barriers are falling and the horizon is expanding.»

Not exact matches

I agree with Spengler that it is mediocrities who feel threatened by the idea of genius.

Weigel stresses the importance of John Paul's consistent emphasis on the promise of the young and highlights the remarkable response to World Youth Day in Rome in 2000, when John Paul called the young to an unexpected heroism: «It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives... the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity.»

If the world is not really the land of perfection, then by his double - mindedness he has surrendered himself to the power of mediocrity or pledged himself to the evil.

In a BBC interview in 1958, Eliot concluded that «when one considers the classless society, even so far as it has adumbrated itself in the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.»

The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.

The argument against abortion (used, I am sorry to say, by Pearl Buck) that the fetus may be a potential genius has to be balanced against the much more probable chance of its being a mediocrity, or a destructive enemy of society.

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.»

If he'd stop throwing tantrums about wanting to be a striker and concentrate on being a winger and adds a dash of consistency and work rate to his game, not consistency in mediocrity then he could stay... he has to earn his spot on a game by game basis.

It was lazy of Wenger to emphasize a family atmosphere especially in recent seasons, it almost, if not created a culture where everyone patted each other on the back fostering mediocrity, in the real world of the premier league and elsewhere, it is important to be fired up by competition even among the players, and with a manager of Wenger's stature, I'm sure he has enough in his locker to make sure said competition don't get nasty and counterproductive to overall team performance.

We may break the chains of mediocrity as soon as tomorrow if all goes well and judging by Milan's recent form, it is all very likely!

so, we are going to be 6th place this yr, and this after 5th last yr, its where we belong, I said at the beginning of the season, we are becoming everton, once a big club, slowly dying off as the others pass us by, bottom line, spend or accept mediocrity.

In fact, just the type of faintheart who Kroenke and Wenger loves and who keeps us as also rans by accepting mediocrity.

I see little chance, once Wenger is replaced by a manager who will NOT accept mediocrity, surely by May, of Merts having any role to play and hope and pray that is the case.

Wenger / we scrape the holy grail 5th place, Stan hands out another extension to continue the cycle of mediocrity fueled by greed and lack of football ambition.

I don't even know what we deserve and what we don't deserve... I only know after 14 years or so of mediocrity and lies told by wenger and the board arsenal fans deserve to be happy... we've watched teams like Monaco, Leicester, atletico Madrid, juventus come out from relegation to win the league yet we are not even planning to even try to get there..

The 1920 season was followed by nearly 20 years of unalloyed mediocrity: two seventh - place finishes (in an eight - team league) and 10 sixth places, including five in succession from 1925 through 1929.

The dream overseen by Wenger and Ivan can not happen (not in todays world) and now having realised that have both settled into a comfort zone of mediocrity.

Unless Arsenal fans do the same as Liverpool fans with their ex-American owners, we will be tormented by generations of mediocrity.

What is really unnerving and will go as a dark age for AFC in years to come is how this man took one of the richest teams in the world by ramsom... completely inexplicable how we are subject to take this mediocrity for another 2 years or as long as Le Fraud decides he will stay as he thinks is his born birth right...... Legacy??? a man who lost his self respect this way has no right to claim a Legacy not even for what he accomplished almost a generation ago... of course and also inexplicably he still has supports from some Fans.....

Your article seems to be glorifying mediocrity by awarding a 9 to a Manager that has just managed to overcome his nemesis in one out of 14 games even in a somewhat friendly meaningless game that will have no bearing come May 2016!

am tired of this WOB bashing by «true gooners» who cowardly and happily accept mediocrity in the name of stability and longterm «success».

i think this could officially be the start of the end for wenger his blind arrogance has cause him to buy welbeck in the sheer belief that AGAINST THE ODDS HE CAN BEAT THE REST OF THE BIG 4 WITH ONE ARM BEHIND HIS BACK we should be buying top top top european c / l standard players not sunderland spuds everton standard players thats about welbecks standard of club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for kloof the end for wenger his blind arrogance has cause him to buy welbeck in the sheer belief that AGAINST THE ODDS HE CAN BEAT THE REST OF THE BIG 4 WITH ONE ARM BEHIND HIS BACK we should be buying top top top european c / l standard players not sunderland spuds everton standard players thats about welbecks standard of club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for kloOF THE BIG 4 WITH ONE ARM BEHIND HIS BACK we should be buying top top top european c / l standard players not sunderland spuds everton standard players thats about welbecks standard of club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for kloof club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for kloof him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for kloof goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for kloof the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for klopp

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

but lately we've been washed up by the act of mediocrity and insensitivity.

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.

I think he should step down by the end of this season else we'll continue to suffer in this mediocrity.

However, at the same time - some of the (necessary at the time) mediocrity in our personnel is still present, but exiting season by season - this season it will be Flamini & Arteta, at least - and due to that fact we are playing catch up still.

Hopefully, Campbell will prove me wrong by magically finding form after several years of weakness and mediocrity.

Alexis looks round and he sees that some of his members lack the passion he has and he sees they're happy to accept mediocrity like winning the aussie cup, And where hes from he knows very well you can get results by being arrogant and roofless.

Unfortunately for him, Allardyce's Anglicism means he's cut out of the picture by the world's most ambitious clubs and left squeezing results from mediocrity.

Wenger has made this club massive, and we have all stuck by him for about a decade of mediocrity.

You often wonder what goes on in the head of Wenger when he gives interviews and press conferences sometimes... yes, we have come from behind to win the title twice but we did that with group of players who just refuse to lie down and die, unless the present squad populated by nice guys and wimps who don't need a 2nd invitation to throw in the towel, players who are not in the least ashamed of celebrating mediocrity with silly selfies and garbage sound bites....

Not the level of relative mediocrity espoused and accepted by Kroenke and Gazidis.

I don't however blame the writer for posing this question but explain his thinking by saying that, sadly, he seems one of the many on here who are content to accept mediocrity and so poses this question to others — who do NOT include you and me and those like us - who blithely condone mediocrity.

So, by your definition, all the managers of those clubs are only going to secure mediocrity and failure.

By the end of the third year he had enough of the mediocrity at the club which could never compete for the title and was relegated to the Europa League.

I am not surprised by his obvious stubbornness, the only thing that surprises me is that there are people who still believe that wenger is the right man to lead us to the title after 12 YEARS, not months, of mediocrity.

Then the same freak show will continue and Wenger will then be handed a handsome extension to continue the cycle of mediocrity backed by a board and owner who could not give a monkeys chuff about our club, let alone football.

«Dallas is the picture of mediocrity this season, barely getting by Carolina last week.

This breeds an atmosphere of mediocrity and satisfaction helped by an owner who just doesn't give a s # it.

The lack of professional excellence in performances and the docile encouragement of mediocrity by the manager culminating in a large number of squad players earning their pay, without featuring in competitive matches.

The two clubs have by far risen above the collective mediocrity of last season put on by supposed title challengers which helped carve Leicester's path to thesilverware just after fighting to avoid relegation the previous season.

@bullfrog I largely agree with you there, and the point about simulators is one made by my colleagues with regards Esteban, but having coached Kobayashi and Perez from junior category mediocrity to F1 podium finishers is a respectable feat, albeit minor versus the young driver successes of Williams and Force India.

what a load of utter bollox, we should be buying players so that these guys shouldnt want to leave in the first place, yes Fabregas is a Catalan but being surrounded by mediocrity and consistant under - acheivement isnt exactly compelling him to stay, as loyal as he is and as much as he loves Arsenal.

That has somehow separated them from a saturated area of mediocrity and should be celebrated by fans across the area.»

In a campaign full of twists and turns, not to mention some of the most shocking defending seen at Chelsea for a number of years, Willian has remained a constant, an omnipresent source of class surrounded by mediocrity.

A mindset that breeds mediocrity by refusing to bend to the evolving market, that is European football, which demands that for a team to succeed they require and need to purchase at least some players of a «world class» level.

Sarkozy saw his mission as reviving France from the mediocrity of the Jacques Chirac years by implementing unequivocal Rightist ideas.