Sentences with phrase «more than mediocrity»

Trust me, I am not expecting anything more than mediocrity.

It's not infuriating simply due to the fact the movie never achieves anything more than mediocrity and although you scoff and tut, you never really care enough to be enraged.

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Once one has settled upon one's own mediocrity and despaired of doing or being anything great, one sets one's heart on nothing more than distraction.

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.

As Pope Francis said in his La Civilta Cattolica interview, the Church needs to be more than «a nest protecting our mediocrity.»

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.»

You should be more concerned about the mediocrity of your incompetent President (Nigeria) who spent 4 months in another country on medical tourism than a Legend like Wenger.

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....

As long as we accept mediocrity like this, we'll never get more than the top 4.

Mediocrity and fence sitting has lived among and divided us Gunners for far too long and spurs winning the title will be bring a jolt of reality back to us, there's nothing we hate more than the chicken getting one over the Canon.

The problem with AFC aside from the gutless money grabbing glory shy board, owners and manager is fans like the writer of this inane ridiculous article; fans who more than satisfied with mediocrity and take delight in trotting out silly stats to back up their lack of ambition and will... 2 loses in 15 games the writer said but conveniently forgetting to mention what impact the 2 loses had on the table, moral and the significance of winning these 2 matches.....

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...

Come on your just a Wenger lover you obviously have more support for the manager than the team so save your insults for fans who pay hard earned money to watch mediocrity week in week out..

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

Maybe if Arsenal had a manager and fans who saw challenging for the title as a priority and showed more ambition than winning the Fourth Place Cup, you might not be in danger of slipping into midtable mediocrity.

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.

We have allowed mediocrities to earn fortunes, nonplaying injured captains to linger for 18 months or more, and the whole team to at least appear more interested in hair styles than busting a gut.

There may be some that fall through the net — we managed to sign Ozil, Sanchez and Cazorla who would fit into almost any team — However, more often than not, if we try to recruit from this age - group we will be destined for mediocrity and Mustafi and Xhaka are testament to this theory.

We could see it was consistent mediocrity, but more on the side of absolute failure than success, and as soon as we got some top managers in our division, absolute failure has unsurprisingly become reality.

More often than not the Rapids have failed to qualify for the playoffs and have been mired in mid table mediocrity.

We have put up with 10 years of mediocrity and pay the top prices in the league, Wenger no longer seems tactically aware, he seems more concerned with saving money and keeping Kronke happy, rather than keeping the fans happy.

Stan kroenke couldn't give a shit if we don't win the league for another 20 years as long as he has someone in charge to balance the books and get us into champions league — I'm sorry to all those akb's but our beloved arsenal are worth more than that, more than just making up the numbers in the CL or scraping into the top4 - I'm done with all you that believe mediocrity is the new norm and that we should thank our lucky stars we have someone like arsene in charge..!

Against Reading yesterday, most of St. Andrews seemed far more gleeful at the prospect of Aston Villa dropping a division than their authoritative and impressive victory over the champions — and therein lies a clue to the mediocrity of the last half century — clubs that measure themselves against A. N.

It has been more than a decade, and what followed it was strings of mediocrity, to just downright awful.

I wish for Romania that the research and academic environment becomes free of corruption, free of mediocrity, free of plagiarism, and much more open than it is.

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.

Why settle for mediocrity, when you could have had something that strives to be more than just another by the numbers movie.

It stands in the absolute point of mediocrity; a platform game that you'll finish in less than 2 hours and then you'll just move to the next one without giving it any more thought.

The pop - cultural consensus on horror director Tobe Hooper would seem to be that, with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he somehow made one of the genre's defining masterpieces right out of the gate only to squander a promising career on a string of strange mediocrities that ultimately marked him more as a hack - for - hire than an auteur in the tradition of more respected contemporaries such as John Carpenter, Wes Craven, or George A. Romero.

Unfortunately it's Canadian so it's probably some half - assed mediocrity that you guys are desperately insisting is more than it is.

These negative issues with the movie are more slightly disappointing predictions coming true than disastrous nose - dives into mediocrity.

More than that, Gods of Egypt will in itself become a fable of the failures of blockbuster cinema, how drama or a even a slightly compelling script can't compete with the sheer mediocrity of a product manufactured to meet the poor, and misguided standards of what the modern movie resembles today.

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.

Only once you complete a solo trip, you will understand that there is much more to life than just the mediocrity.

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.

Overview Take one of the most successful horror franchises in the video game world and hand it off to a tactical military game developer and throw in more than enough mediocrity and you have Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City.

The game was a widespread disappointment, even more so than the usual launch - title mediocrity since...

There are occasional moments of brilliance, but they are more often than not lost among a sea of mediocrity.

More often than not, the game is an exercise in frustration, which unfortunately characterizes The Flame in the Flood most accurately: a promising, interesting survival game that is ultimately left to drown in the waters of mediocrity by its own core mechanics.

Your argument is no more than an optimistic appeal to the mediocrity principle.

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.

The Canadian Real Estate Association has more than 105,000 members, which makes it crucial for high - calibre professionals to distinguish themselves from mediocrity.