Sentences with phrase «than mediocre»

If you submit your book to a mediocre literary agency, you can't expect anything more than mediocre results.

Come on people, you can do so much better than this mediocre list.

Some people actually care for the less than mediocre titles as well 1st party or not.

But now, thanks to the growth of the independent public - school movement, parents can - and do - have choices for their children other than mediocre neighborhood schools.

It's our belief that our clients are served better if we focus being excellent at one line of insurance rather than mediocre at many.

We much prefer being really good at this rather than mediocre at many things.

Zero confidence now that his ceiling is anything higher than mediocre.

That is still probably a better reception than this mediocre film will draw.

Once that is accepted as truth, better teachers might demand to be paid more than mediocre ones.

High contrast and proper gamma is more immediately noticeable than mediocre color gamut and accuracy, which is only easy to see when it's very poor or compared with a superior display.

And it sounded more mediocre than mediocre - to - bad to me.

But when all is said and done, it's nothing more than a mediocre on - rails shooter.

We support allowing for the creation of charter schools in «C» districts because students deserve better than a mediocre education.

Some are truly outstanding and a much better choice than a mediocre breeder.

For example, a good student will be more likely to get a break on a car insurance quote than a mediocre one.

Writing a cover letter requires a little more than mediocre writing skills.

I think a great agent from out - of - town in some cases can be a better option than a mediocre local agent.

Until you are able to do that, the resumes you receive will be less than stellar and just slightly more than mediocre.

At least the other films try to be something better than mediocre, even if they never succeeded.

The premise is interesting enough to bring me into this film, but somehow the director gets bogged down with the problem of inserting too much ridiculous blood and gore into every scene that it becomes less than a mediocre movie.

New Yorkers — who lead the nation in per capita state taxes, whose schools spend more than any other state in the union per student (with less than mediocre results to show for it), who rank dead last in surveys of where companies would locate new businesses — New Yorkers should storm the capital, evict the purported «leaders», turn the building into condominiums and re-locate the «state capitol» to a double - wide on Lafayette Park.

This less than mediocre sitcom has a very narrow target audience; very likely, the show even insults the target audience with one dimensional

Unfortunately Edge of Time captures none of what was so enjoyable with Shattered Dimensions leaving us with little more than a mediocre experience.

Other than the mediocre Game Boy Advance version from 10 years ago, we haven't seen a version

Unfortunately the repetitiveness and dragging narrative holds it down from being much more than a mediocre title at best.

Of course the slightly better than mediocre La La Land (14 nominations) is probably just going to win everything so there's really no reason to even watch.

Does a top student at a «lower - tier» law school demonstrably have less potential to become an outstanding lawyer than a mediocre student at an «upper - tier» law school?

Sales superstars rise to and defeat the challenge of no much more often than mediocre salespeople; that's one of the qualities that make them super.

Because you deserve better than mediocre modified cornstarch this Valentine's Day.

DLo showing that he could handle substantial minutes and «keep up» at age 19 is a good thing (noting that his overall production has never been any better than mediocre by NBA standards, especially if you take into account his subpar defense).

Walcott, Chamberlain, Wilshere Ramsey and Gibbs the British «Core» are not much more than mediocre battlers, injury prone and all have fallen short of the predicted super star status.

I'm still dubious because he really hasn't been more than mediocre offensively in 700 + plate appearances at AAA level.

So, congrats to the Warriors on 73, a number that seemed impossible in the NBA but is worse than mediocre over MLB's arduous campaign.

It's unfortunate, then, that Yooka - Laylee is no more than a mediocre attempt to capture nostalgia from the days of yore.

But it's a lot more artistic and original than a mediocre movie like Escape from Planet Earth that's almost certain to meld in your mind with similarly - fashioned generic family entertainment.

On balance, one could argue that Seven Psychopaths warrants a better rating than a mediocre ** 1/2, but the aftertaste is so bitter that it diminishes the sweetness that started off the meal.

That is still a better reception than this mediocre film drew, with its pitiful $ 4.7 million gross making it the third least - attended film released to 2,000 or more theaters this year.

Without audio, it's unplayable in anything other than the mediocre single - player mode.

More unforgiving than the mediocre image quality is the poor sound quality.

Because Vanderhoek decided he'd much rather have the nation's top educators teaching classes of 30 students rather than mediocre folks teaching classes of 20 students.

It would be ideal if the MAT personnel all had education connections, but it would be far more preferable to have a top financial expert with no teaching experience than a mediocre financial expert with plenty of teaching experience.