| 单词 | mediocrity |
| 例句 | Madness,’ the parrot called it, but to me, anything less is mediocrity.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The strength of this immutable desire saved her from the mediocrity and sadness of her fate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z He felt all those nonwinning awards would be “a shrine to mediocrity,” and such a thing was beneath me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z There was no room for mediocrity, especially now with conclave coming up. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It’s why picking the right candidate for a job is so difficult and why, on more occasions than we may care to admit, utter mediocrities sometimes end up in positions of enormous responsibility. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The political empowerment of the working class, Galton believed, would just provoke their genetic empowerment: they would produce bushels of children, dominate the gene pool, and drag the nation toward profound mediocrity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was for me, even if the Academy’s habit of rewarding mediocrity, especially if it comes with a British accent, remains intact. Film: Oscars? Red Carpet (Parallel Universe) 2011-03-02T12:42:49Z "I have no appetite for sitting in a room and watching 150 power point slides, filled with corporate mediocrity and corporate politics - I have no stomach for that at all," he said. Olympus whistleblower eyes movie deal with le Carré sons 2012-11-26T09:57:51Z Convinced that most cultural output was dross, Gibson was on a mission to battle mediocrity. Diana Gibson, mercurial mentor on L.A.'s stage scene, dies at 69 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z But the music in Spider-Man is deadening in its mediocrity, tuneless and forgettable, with rhymes that rarely employ words of more than one syllable. Not kerCHING, just thud 2011-02-14T21:35:14Z Digested read, digested: Never has mediocrity seemed more appealing. Digested read: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua 2011-01-31T21:30:02Z “Larry Sanders” was an extremely funny TV show about a mediocre TV show produced by characters grappling with its mediocrity. A TV Comic Invites a Young Staffer to His Country House. Then Something Funny Doesn’t Happen. 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z My guess is that it will be another high priced mediocrity. An Early Look at the Grill, in the Former Four Seasons Space 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The embargo for reviews lifts, ominously, on the day of release – though advance word from colleagues who have seen it suggest it’s an attractive mediocrity rather than an outright catastrophe. Not coming soon: the star-studded films that almost didn't get released 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Who but a Palin could have figured out that aspiring to mediocrity could be so effective? "Dancing with the Stars": Kurt Warner lumbers on 2010-10-26T12:30:00Z The tongue-in-cheek show, which celebrates movie-making mediocrity, took place a short walk from the venue for Sunday's Academy Awards. Christian comedy wins four Razzies 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z In enshrining mediocrity such individuals had alienated themselves further from their deepest potential. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z “The remoteness of the masterpiece and the peril of mediocrity make it impossible, most days, to put anything down on paper.” The Buildings That Drove Their Creators to Despair 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z You can feel the pressure on her to find something nice to say, to remain pleasant in the face of so much fakeness and mediocrity in the people around her. In HBO’s ‘Olive Kitteridge,’ the power of negative thinking Even his advocates exhausted the thesaurus entry for reliability, if not mediocrity. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z In five years, perhaps, we will look back and remember Revelations as the one bald spot of mediocrity marring an otherwise lush field of creative ambition and insightful design. Video Game Review: Revelations, Latest Assassin?s Creed Video Game by Ubisoft 2011-12-12T22:57:21Z I'm asking because I wanted to understand why you willingly subjected yourself to nine hours of a series that established its predictability and mediocrity by the third episode. "The Stand" finale is aggravating confirmation that Stephen King still needs more Black friends 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Millions of people watching a third-rate vocalist seem great amongst a sea of mediocrity. Paul Weller: the upsetter 2010-08-26T20:30:00Z He's also the living, breathing definition of entitled mediocrity. "Y: The Last Man" presents a fascinating dystopia that probes the artifacts of our gendered world 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z “Black mediocrity is still exceptional, right? It’s still worthy of documentation and still worthy of being highlighted from an archive.” The radical power of ordinary Black life 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z At Morandi, the main courses were almost impressive in their mediocrity, but the pasta was just swell, which may be all the place needs to keep its chairs full. Restaurant Review: Keith McNally’s Cherche Midi 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z I don't think that I necessarily agree with that, but in this particular season finale, three bakers faced off, and two of them are exemplars of mediocrity, although with lovely personalities. How the "Great British Baking Show" flaked out on us when we needed it most 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z At all. where the D*g drools delight with very mediocrity, in complicity. Jubilate: An Homage in Catterel* Verse 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z But nowadays that would be praise, and movies like this must set their own standard for mediocrity. Movie Review: Katherine Heigl in Film Based on Janet Evanovich Novel 2012-01-27T23:23:10Z In the latest episodes of "Cobra Kai" viewers learn the way of third season mediocrity and the merciless lesson of nostalgia's diminishing returns. In its third season, "Cobra Kai's" one-note villain knocks it off its game 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z It’s the one claim in this book that strains credulity, given the clarity with which Oluo shows how white men’s mediocrity — entitlement tethered to unearned power and accolades — makes life harder for everyone. In America, Is Power in the Hands of Too Many ‘Mediocre’ Men? 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z With that, the team embarks on a journey out of mediocrity. Japan falls for novel on management guru Drucker 2010-12-24T12:46:06Z “People in the film business see this, but not fashion. They accept this mediocrity, and it just amazes me.” The Image Chaser 2013-12-04T20:44:57Z It’s called brash honesty, and we see her take joy in it every time she shoots down a man who wants to be rewarded for his own mediocrity. Pamela Adlon on the insistent satisfaction of "Better Things" 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z We don't notice what he says and does, and only perceive an ageing northern mediocrity. Ed Miliband looks as gormless as Wallace but in a totally different way 2012-12-16T00:06:04Z His achievement, especially when one considers the mediocrity into which French music had declined in the years before his birth, was sui generis miraculous. John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z There are many possible reasons for the American men’s enduring mediocrity in soccer. Review: Life is Soccer, and Soccer is Life, in ‘/peh-LO-tah/’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z They are both victims of a hypocritical, repressive, male-dominated world, though the actual men in their lives are weak, preening mediocrities. ‘Shirley’ Review: A Writer as Scary as Her Stories 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Despite, or because of, its deliberate embrace of mediocrity, there’s nothing not to like about Kjartansson’s art. Ragnar Kjartansson’s exuberant work at Hirshhorn is a party celebrating mediocrity 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z But Mr. Belafonte never embraced that sort of monarchical title, rejecting “purism” as a “cover-up for mediocrity” and explaining that he saw his work as a mash-up of musical styles. Harry Belafonte on His Artistic Values and His Activism 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z The highlight this week was Brydon asking Coogan how it felt to have a career in nosedive after massive success early on; Coogan's reply was that it was better than always having been a mediocrity. TV review: Dispatches: City of Fear; Accused; The Trip 2010-11-23T06:59:00Z The impact of his performances has sometimes been hindered by the mediocrity of the productions themselves, unfortunately. ArtsBeat: Highlights From a Decade of Watching Shakespeare 2011-08-02T21:55:05Z There's a surfeit of mediocrity along with that, of course, but even the act of sorting that chaff was pleasing. Best TV of the Decade, from 2010 to 2019 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z "The film is about mediocrity, how we deal with our limitations," he says. Oscars 2015: Director Alejandro G. Inarritu sees the 'Birdman' in us all 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z They have defaulted to mediocrity, surveillance, the algorithm. Seeking Art That Expands the Possibilities for a Troubled World 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z This is a man who’s an outsider, who’s intelligent, who doesn’t tolerate mediocrity, who is incredibly efficient, but also has his weaknesses and comeuppances. Sherlock enters new year as global TV phenomenon 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Like voices crying in the wilderness — rising above that vast wasteland of movie mediocrity — came the roar of the auteurs in 2014. Daring films lifted the artform in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z In the meantime, we get to read articles about the dozen "plays about college" this season; a steady rain of woke mediocrity. The Problem With Broadway Revivals: They Revive Gender Stereotypes, Too 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Unforgiving for mediocrities with ambitious estimates, the market is booming as never before when important paintings appear, and performs extremely well if more modest works are offered in a cleverly devised context. Auctions: Bring on the Old Masters 2011-02-04T12:00:05Z He's a dreadful snob, really, but of the most adventurous kind, drawn to life's underbelly and in thrall to extremes, but bored to death by mediocrity. Rupert Everett: the queen of mean 2012-09-28T22:01:28Z With us the ability to detect mediocrity or anything else is rare. Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But in a stroke of brazen genius, the marketing department tasked with selling the shoddy true crime tale decided to embrace the mediocrity of my review and found a devious solution. How my negative review of Legend was spun into movie marketing gold 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Stock Woolstencroft, architects of the dismal Stratford towers, are attempting to continue their march of mediocrity with schemes on the other side of the park. London's Olympics legacy faces early disqualification 2013-07-21T18:30:01Z Nine years of what has come to feel like stifling mediocrity. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The rest of the lineup, though, is marked by a determined mediocrity. Review: When It Comes to New Marvel Shows, Skip ‘Inhumans’ and Try ‘The Gifted’ 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z How much of the inanity and mediocrity around him would he absorb? Dennis Hopper's strange, brilliant career 2010-05-29T18:04:00Z Says Roth: “There’s been such a small pool of elite athletes who have had the resources to break out of that mediocrity.” Think you could be an Olympic curler? Don’t make these women laugh. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Where it's like you have to stand out to be noticed to get those opportunities, and I'm just like, I feel like true equality is embracing mediocrity. "True equality is embracing mediocrity": Aparna Nancherla on imposter syndrome and fear of failure 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z But, no matter what hours she kept, the ordinary viewer of 2019 struggled to stay afloat in the godless river of televisual content: an unrivalled deluge of prestigious mediocrity, anesthetic trash, and fleeting curiosities. The Best Television of 2019 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z One of the many questions it conjures is whether the screenplay’s ham-handedness is a deliberate attempt to illustrate Clay’s mediocrity. Movie Review: ‘The Words,’ With Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid and Bradley Cooper 2012-09-06T22:03:02Z Starring people who aren’t trained actors, in video footage over four screens that includes outtakes and mistakes, the piece amplifies the book’s contrast between great aspirations and mediocrity. Ragnar Kjartansson’s exuberant work at Hirshhorn is a party celebrating mediocrity 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z I actually thought Michael was great, and in a sea of mediocrity he is standing out as the only contestant who can give Crystal Bowersox a run for her money. "American Idol" recap: Kara weeps, I drink 2010-03-11T15:12:00Z "And how do I know this? How? Because I, too, am here! At Railton College, mediocrity's capital!" Bob Odenkirk scores with "Lucky Hank," a frustrated guy who shares DNA with his "Saul" conman 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The novel that contains him—a cataract of useless paperwork tumbling from a reservoir of pique—skewers, mostly cheerfully, the mediocrity and bickering it deems endemic to academia. “The Shakespeare Requirement” Is a Sad-Professor Satire That Burns with Moral Anger 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The neo-soul revival had to wade through a lot of mediocrity before it finally found a real voice in this James Brown impersonator, who found his own persona. Bumbershoot daily highlights 2013-08-29T20:39:56Z They are nothing, a tiny belch of mediocrity. Jay Rayner: thou shalt eat veg! 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Those howling about mediocrity, under this theory, are really afraid for their expensively acquired status. Je suis circonflexe 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z “Friday the world watched America swear in as its 45th president the concept of white-male mediocrity,” Bee joked to start the show. WATCH: Samantha Bee mocks President Donald Trump’s lackluster inaugural weekend 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Oluo’s central argument is this: “White male mediocrity is a baseline, the dominant narrative . . . everything in our society is centered around preserving white male power regardless of white male skill or talent.” Ijeoma Oluo’s ‘Mediocre’ dissects white supremacy in America. She’d rather be writing about something else. 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Walker isn’t afraid to use such words as excellence and mediocrity. Perspective | A voice for the arts, and social justice, joins the National Gallery of Art board 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z "Talk about delusional people," Jackson said, in the midst of the mediocrity. 'American Idol' judges come down to earth in the City of Angels 2011-02-04T06:46:04Z Although the Eurovision Song Contest might be derided as a campish monument to mediocrity and kitsch in some countries, it is for others an eagerly awaited celebration of Europe's diverse cultures and languages. Eurovision head says global contest a "challenge" 2011-05-16T10:48:35Z She used to say to me, ‘Mum, I hate mediocrity. I never want to be mediocre.’ Amy Winehouse’s mom opens up: “I did not expect to lose Amy when I did” 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z She is also Kit’s old high school friend and rival, the person whose competitive edge lit in Kit a burning determination to succeed and helped to propel her from academic mediocrity. Competing Scientists Plus a High-Stakes University Lab Equals Murder 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z She stops short of claiming that the whole of a mediocrity is worth more than the sum of its parts; it is the uniqueness of her whole that excites. Christine Smallwood: Phyllis Rose’s “The Shelf: From LEQ to LES” 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z That," adds Punzo, "is what life has become: the exultation of mediocrity. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z “But she is still in that umbrella. There’s room for variety, but acceptance also makes way for mediocrity and extremism, to be honest.” John Cameron Mitchell on Hedwig, Caitlyn Jenner and how 'queer' has changed 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z “But I think we’re drowning in mediocrity. I just try as hard as I can to raise the level of consciousness. It’s so hard to get people to see good films.” Rex Reed Bangs a Gong on the Mediocrity of Modern Life 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z “Usually the handmade is representative of luxury and individuality, and the machine-made is presented as mediocrity,” Mr. Bolton said. When Fashion Meets Technology, You Can Wear Your Tweets 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z To me, this is a recipe for mediocrity. Why gifted education doesn’t make sense Much to my amazement, I did manage to finish my novel – a torpid affair about sheep and angels – which the critics predictably praised, failing to recognise its inherent mediocrity. A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgård – digested read 2013-04-21T17:30:01Z Believers contemplating works of such timid mediocrity must conclude that the Paraclete has not breathed on Catholicism for many a generation. Catholic art was once the domain of Titian. Now, we get Susan Boyle 2010-09-19T21:15:00Z The film jumps the shark and drowns in mediocrity. "Heart of Stone" stars Gal Gadot in a lackluster Europudding action flick 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z His own self-serving autobiography, we are told, "gratefully acknowledges the assistance of mediocrity's holy trinity: the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Toronto Arts Council". Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z Although this extraordinarily rich educational opportunity is sneeringly referred to as a prizes-for-all culture that generates mediocrity, that wasn't my experience. From Hare to Hytner: leading cultural figures oppose the EBacc 2012-12-14T22:50:00Z These outbursts represent a real departure, not only from the anodyne mediocrity of other bots, but also perhaps more significantly from the dystopia we have grown accustomed to dreading. When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Importing the superior acting ability of Damian West and Ruth Wilson is the only thing that saved The Affair from drowning in its overwhelming mediocrity. Golden Globe Awards Winners Include ‘Boyhood’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Lean and sinewy and with a direct, semi-warm affect, he focuses on fighting as an escape from mediocrity and from a difficult home situation. Critic?s Notebook: ?Caged,? ?Jersey Shore? and ?Teen Mom? on MTV 2012-01-08T22:55:19Z “Purism is the best cover-up for mediocrity,” he told The New York Times in 1959. Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Many deride the contest for serving up mediocrity, while others are enthusiastic followers. Azerbaijan wins Eurovision Song Contest 2011-05-15T00:17:46Z Along the way there are many flops and and even more mediocrities. Center Theatre Group's starry 50th: From offending Ronald Reagan to Trump-era provocations 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z But, he added, “they have not been anesthetized by mediocrity into dreamless boredom.” Alain Tanner, Leading Director in Swiss New Wave, Dies at 92 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Still, many Britons are fond of him, for if the English, as Self claims, like their mediocrities, they absolutely adore their eccentrics. George Orwell was not a language fascist: Why we keep misinterpreting his words 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z He could be too impatient, too demanding; he feels that the industry is based on mediocrity, and on the assumption that the audience is stupid and therefore can’t cope with anything complex. Christoph Waltz: 'Try as you might, you can never break free from your past' 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z "Seeing people as statistics I think leads into the swamp of mediocrity and despond." Garrison Keillor goes from 'Prairie' to L.A. with a new book in tow 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Inspired by Jean Baudrillard’s essay “The Conspiracy of Art,” this work rages against mediocrity, unoriginality, banality and nothingness. Critic?s Notebook: Crossing the Line Festival 2011-09-20T21:15:12Z The movie delivers on Wood’s famous mediocrity, but astounds you with its sincerity, even when its clumsy, which, for most of its hour-plus running time, it is. Critic’s Notebook: Looking at Gay Movies Before Stonewall 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z “Judge for yourself” sounds like a declaration of independence, but too often it rationalizes settling for mediocrity. Whose wine judgment matters most? Your own, of course. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z That was less the fault of that show, which is quite entertaining, than Marvel’s inability to raise it above the glut of mediocrity surrounding it. "Loki" speaks to Marvel's biggest concern – if only the studio will heed it 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z As it stands, she’s the only thing saving the series from terminal mediocrity. Is Renee Zellweger's Netflix thriller the best trash TV show of 2019? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z As the series progressed, “it went off the rails,” he said, and ultimately “descended into complete mediocrity.” Stephen King Has Thoughts About Stephen King TV Shows 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s a mark of mediocrity, on the part of an artist or, for that matter, of a critic, to judge works by their ostensible subjects rather than by their approach to them. Can a Musical Sponsored by a Toilet Manufacturer Be a Work of Art? 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Netflix is still capable of making great shows – dramas like Stranger Things and The Crown, prestige documentaries like Last Chance U – but they’re surrounded by an increasingly wobbly pile of mediocrity. What happened, Netflix? You were king of the hill – now you're circling the drain 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The tongue-in-cheek show, which celebrates "movie-making mediocrity", took place a short walk from the venue for Sunday's Academy Awards. Saving Christmas takes Razzie prizes 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z The gender ratio is that of a rooster and his hens, and in this setup, Mr. Siddi’s recessive mediocrity is all the more glaring. Review: Juan Siddi, With His Own Troupe, Makes a Return 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Yes, Galactia is a genius, and everyone around her is a mediocrity by comparison. Review: ‘Scenes From an Execution’ Features Jan Maxwell as a Difficult Artist 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Still, he’s always on his high horse admonishing his peers, his critics and his audience for their moral and intellectual limitations, or nobly wresting control of productions that otherwise would have sunk into mediocrity. ‘The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir,’ by David Hare 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z As a boy, Mr. Wilson later said, he was aware that he differed greatly from the “vegetable mediocrity” surrounding him. Colin Wilson, Author of ‘The Outsider,’ Dies at 82 2013-12-12T17:03:34Z Season 12 confirms that we'll take that any day over the mediocrity that defined the 11th season finale that left the fandom dissatisfied, the baker's least desired taste test verdict. "Great British Baking Show" was a showstopper, redeemed this season by fantastic contestants 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z On the contrary, the absolute and unbroken mediocrity of “Thor” is evidence of its success. | 'Thor': Have Golden Locks, Seeking Hammer 2011-05-05T15:52:08Z I realize that makes this movie sound indistinguishable from nearly every other piece of family-targeted animated big-screen entertainment out there, and I’m sorry to report that the Lego movie enterprise has lapsed into intentional mediocrity. Review: ‘The Lego Ninjago Movie’ Sticks to the Instruction Manual 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z As he points out, James Bryce wrote 130 years ago, “The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity.” Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z But Kendall's diligence is no match for his mediocrity, and he's often unable to muster the intellectual limberness required to handle the complex systems he keeps trying to manage. "Succession," Trump, and the end of the American myth of meritocracy 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Novels are judged by their artist’s biographies instead of their prose; readers are inured to mediocrity. A Critic Who Worships Literature, and Defends His Faith Accordingly 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The idea that the fictional “legends” of mediocrity that inhabited these shows’ universes could instill such rapt respect from musicians people actually revere is as delusional as the idea that these shows are commercially viable. Rock'n'roll suicide: is TV's bromance with rock nostalgia finally over? 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z “See now, I’m not attracted to mediocrity or normalcy or things like that,” she told Sawyer. Perspective | Lisa Marie Presley understood how to live life as a nepo baby 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Brand, with his stringy hair, stretched-out body and nutty British demeanor, is more like the beast of burden, charged with hauling this grim load of mediocrity to the box office. | 'Arthur': A Lush Life Revisited, With Nanny on Board 2011-04-07T21:14:56Z Instead, "How can an artist who painted a couple of truly brilliant knockouts also have painted such a boatload of mediocrity?" The Kimbell captures 'Painter's Eye,' but it can't elevate Caillebotte 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z He never settled for mediocrity — that was boring. ‘Action Park’ Looks Back in Amusement and Terror 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z Instead, go out on a limb: you'll either be a big success or a terrible failure, but either is better than mediocrity. 2012's 'best' commencement speeches. So far 2012-05-24T15:05:00Z In the past, this form of mediocrity often offered modest charms and incidental delights. The Exemplary Badness of “War Dogs” and “Hell or High Water” 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The hothouse atmosphere of festivals can be misleading and turn mediocrities into events, certainly, but the noisy clamor of such hype is always outweighed by the joys of experiencing discoveries and revelations with others. A Sundance With Brains and Guts, Disemboweled and Otherwise 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z If intellectual striving is pretentious, then what do we call an insistent resignation to fleeting mediocrity? It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z More often than not, that stood for rudderless mediocrity. Film: Disney Ties Lots of Hopes to Lots of Hair 2010-11-20T19:13:00Z “Choose or Die” almost sounds like a marketing slogan for Netflix’s scroll of mediocrities — but no, it’s just another horror movie on the streaming service. ‘Choose or Die’ Review: Press Start. Or Not. 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z This was a 75-minute reminder that mediocrity actually steals your life from you. This one tastes bland, too: Sweetlife and the decline of the American music festival 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z “The El Paso I grew up in was a very mediocre town that was comfortable with its mediocrity.” For Tex. congressman, Obama’s immigration plan is both ‘noble’ and ‘terrible’ Everything that followed was marketing with all the mediocrity that implies. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z “Aaugh” is the same sort of thing, but with the added, existential realization, say, that your life to date is one big hamburger drowning in the watery ketchup of your personal mediocrity. Do you know the difference between ‘aargh’ and ‘aaugh’? 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z A cool reception greeted mediocrities with some very rare exceptions. Art Review: At the Auctions in London, Finding Wheat Amid the Chaff 2011-02-11T15:54:23Z It was a feast of mediocrity: passable eggs and bacon, anemic sausage, tasteless potatoes and a pastry basket of store-bought mini-muffins and croissants. Check In,Check Out: Hotel Review: Koa Kea Hotel & Resort in Kauai 2010-07-01T18:44:00Z Add today's stratospheric art market, where he hovers near the top, and even dull mediocrity hums with the blunt authority of vast wealth. Alas, mere 'Shadows' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Brilliant description of the mediocrity and frustration rife in the small town bourgeoisie of the era. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z It’s not that “All American” is so bad, but its mediocrity reflects an inability to capitalize on so much potential. Review: ‘All American’ Can’t Quite Find the End Zone 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The screenwriter and actor said he attributes much of his success to his willingness to try new things without being afraid of failure or mediocrity. Festival of Books: How actor Jason Segel rescued his own 'Nightmares!' 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z There’s more parity–which is not nearly the same thing as more mediocrity. Is There Too Much Great TV or Too Little? 2013-11-13T15:28:27Z After death, it seems, fortunate mortals ascend to a plane of celestial mediocrity. Starring Steve Buscemi as God, “Miracle Workers” Is Sappy, Juvenile, and Sharp All at Once 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z He never appeared more compromised than he did up on the Grammy stage last year when he was shoehorned into a nonsensical duet with Imagine Dragons, a Las Vegas rock band of astounding mediocrity. Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar: Two Americas and one big Grammy 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s all very rousing in the usual way, but “Turbo” leaves a slightly sour aftertaste, and not only because of its own brave choice of mediocrity over excellence. Movie Review: ‘Turbo,’ From DreamWorks, Shows One Way to the Finish Line 2013-07-16T22:28:39Z There is much talk of overpopulation, mediocrity and cryogenics. Gerard Byrne: A state of neutral pleasure – review 2013-01-20T06:00:04Z I mean, we all found him hilarious, and refreshingly raw, and uncompromising as the creator of a daring show plopped into a turbid sea of sitcom mediocrity. Salon’s Sexiest Men of 2012 2012-11-14T13:22:00Z The proof of their mediocrity is that admirers of Austen or Mr. McEwan will find no reason for complaint. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z “Obscurity is a disease soon cured by mediocrity.” Review | The tortured love life of Tennessee Williams, as seen through a novelist’s eye 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z For each splashy profile of the 30-year-old writer that has preceded publication, there is an equally pointed critique of her earnest mediocrity or the whiteness of her imagination. Review | Sally Rooney’s latest novel is a lucid, nuanced story about coming of age in a broken world 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Some readers, in fact, may tire of the long descent into mediocrity and find parts of the book plodding. Book review: ‘Hope’ by Richard Zoglin Reaching that “Space Chimps”/“Planet 51” level of good-looking mediocrity is an achievement. ‘Escape from Planet Earth’: A mediocre blue-alien adventure has landed 2013-02-19T17:58:54Z The initial spectacle of mediocrity condescending to genius is painful, but the subsequent triumph of self-taught brilliance over credentialed ignorance is thrilling to witness. Review: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Will Make You Rethink Race 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z But when the performance slows down, the creative mediocrity of the movement shows. Review: In ‘ROBOT,’ Machines Perform With Humans at BAM 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z One of the costs of racism, xenophobia, or any form of pathetic provincialism is that freezes the prejudicial person in a permanent state of mediocrity. The case for open borders 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z At the cable channel known as Syfy, mediocrity not only rules, it seems to be something of a guiding principle and a business model. Syfy’s ‘Ascension’: A great idea, lost in space 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z There are just enough of those — physical, verbal and conceptual — to lift “Tag” above the slough of mediocrity in which big-screen, big-studio comedy seems, at the moment, to be mired. Review: ‘Tag,’ You’re It. Playing the Long Game Into Middle Age. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z It’s hardly surprising that an industry that often functions as a protection racket for white male mediocrity should specialize in spectacles of white male self-pity. Hollywood on the Brink 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z But while Mr. Molina and Mr. Cage supply a measure of well-compensated eccentricity, their labors ultimately serve to emphasize the grinding mediocrity of the enterprise. | 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice': Nicolas Cage Teaches a Dweeb He?s Magic 2010-07-13T21:29:00Z Llewyn is at least partly depressed about the way mediocrities do well in this world: silly singing acts in cable-knit sweaters. Cannes 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis - first look review 2013-05-18T22:10:24Z “Others, like Vanity Fair's editor Tina Brown, argue that he appreciates intelligent disagreement; he simply has no patience for mediocrity.” Anna Wintour and Tina Brown: Inside their Condé Nast rivalry 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z As visual sensibility declines, damage and, occasionally, mediocrity can be overlooked. Auctions: Roman History Leaves a Trail, and Fascination Follows 2011-06-17T11:30:06Z Added to the mediocrity and ineptitude of our ruling class there was an oil boom, which has produced an unparalleled period of decadence and decline. Chinua Achebe: A life in writing 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z Do you tell people that you quit over creative differences or because of the group’s mediocrity? Style Invitational: You’ve got the powers — what would you do with X-ray vision? 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Worst of all, he will be forced to work under that bespectacled embodiment of mediocrity, Lou. ArtsBeat: ‘Mad Men’ Watch: The Dark Knight Returns 2014-04-28T11:54:49Z A barrel-shaped figure in a much-worn black suit, overcoat and fedora, his face half-covered by a grizzled beard, he would appear to be a posturing mediocrity, a mountebank with a smooth line in Irish gab. ‘Faith Healer’ Review: Michael Sheen Stirs the Embers in the Ashes 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z Consensus reigns - a recipe for mediocrity perhaps, or for opportunity if you're a sharp young thing wanting to catch a disaffected audience at the fringes. An X-Factor castoff does the Sugarcubes? All part of pop's new politics 2010-05-14T14:03:00Z The world worships excellence and runs on mediocrity. In ‘Whiplash,’ a Young Jazz Drummer vs. His Teacher 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Almost singlehanded, he rescued the craft of editorial cartooning from a fen of mediocrity, then turned his sharp pen on the most important issues of his long lifetime, from tyranny to human rights. The Man Who Made Presidents Cringe: HBO’s Herblock 2014-01-27T10:45:19Z Last year, Anne Midgette, chief classical music critic for The Washington Post, wrote an article asking why the orchestra was “so lackluster, haunted by the curse of mediocrity.” Gianandrea Noseda to Lead National Symphony Orchestra 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Netflix is saddled with a ton of mediocrity underneath the good stuff that shows up in the press. The rules of TV are coming "Undone" 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s not another glib, phoned-in piece of franchise mediocrity but rather a work of evident passion and conviction. Review: ‘Tomorrowland,’ Brad Bird’s Lesson in Optimism 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Historically, the process for picking architects was as bureaucratic as one might expect, and just as likely to produce bland mediocrity. Edward Feiner, 75, Dies; Revolutionized the Look of Federal Buildings 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Clichés are, of course, exactly what Zhao espouses: He is fond of phrases such as "We live in the big family of our nation" and "Say no to mediocrity." Hong Kong film festival offers view of a changing China 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z It’s unclear whether the move owed more to the show’s decent performance thus far or the contrasting mediocrity of Fox’s other new shows, but it amounts to a vote of confidence regardless. 'Gotham' Recap: Land Deals and Flutes of Death 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z I’ll just go ahead and reboot my 2005 review of the first Fantastic Four origin story, which I said was ‘fantastic only in its commitment to mediocrity.’ Here Are Some of the Roughest Critiques of 'Fantastic Four' 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Rather than just shrugging at this concession to major label mediocrity. This week's new singles 2011-07-22T23:07:26Z And while the guy obviously knows how to push buttons, it seems that because of the mediocrity of his music, Thicke will eventually escape the controversies that have followed him. Robin Thicke ignites discussion with ‘Paula,’ but these songs aren’t worth talking about The more democratised art becomes, Paterson – a poet, not coincidentally – goes on to argue in The Book of Shadows, the more we recognise in it our own mediocrity. Calling on the audience to live the dream 2010-08-21T06:00:00Z He’s definitely capable of better — maybe not of great, but let’s say of pleasant mediocrity — and his current work feels like a classic cry for help. Adam Sandler hates you 2012-06-16T22:00:00Z An election has never transpired for you without Stewart’s nightly skewering of political convention and old-school media mediocrity. Can we go on without Jon Stewart? Of course we can. He’s shown us how. 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Chua argues that western parents. with their emphasis on nurturing their children's self-esteem and allowing free expression, have set their children up to accept mediocrity. Tiger Mother's book makes case for ultra-strict Chinese parenting 2011-01-12T13:28:01Z But the real challenge may be the mere mediocrities. What Makes a President Great? Clipping? Sipping? Slashing? 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z About a slightly different category, you write, "reading a bad book by a good writer is compelling in a way that reading a good book by a mediocrity never is." ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Joe Queenan on Books Classic, Trashy and Otherwise 2012-11-30T15:00:16Z The mediocrity of Stahelski’s film is that he has nothing to say. The Tasteless Intricacies of “A Cure for Wellness” 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z He’s a nobody, she says — a “terrifyingly normal” bureaucrat and a mediocrity, not a monster. ‘Hannah Arendt’: a ferocious portrayal of a blazing intellect 2013-07-19T12:59:40Z So is this ascent from jaw-dropping badness to mere mediocrity a step upward? | 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark': 1 Radioactive Bite, 8 Legs and 183 Previews 2011-06-15T02:30:06Z This sense of persecution still persists today: Achebe believes that Igbo people are the engine of Nigeria's advancement, stifled by a corrupt elite that prefers power and mediocrity to meritocracy. There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe - review 2012-10-05T21:55:01Z An alternative version might be that the whole thing is a cosy conspiracy of mediocrity perpetrated by Oxbridge directors, venal producers and supine critics foisting their suspect taste on the culturally browbeaten theatre-going public. Find a play. Squat a building. Steal a van. Now make a show 2010-06-28T14:04:00Z On their third album, the band capture the romanticised lifelessness of these places; the desire to shrug off the daily burden of some unnamed mediocrity. Arcade Fire discover beauty within the darkness of The Suburbs 2010-07-22T16:13:00Z Miller took one of the better-known characters from Stephen King's ginormous novel and transformed him into a slavering, blithering idiot, adding one more thing to despise atop a mountain of mediocrity. "The Stand" finale is aggravating confirmation that Stephen King still needs more Black friends 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z I’d too often felt misled by the Swedish Academy, as if I were Hansel in the fairy tale, toward the well-appointed houses of glum mediocrities who wished to eat my high spirits alive. ‘Shake It Up’ Aims to Put Rock Writing in the Pantheon 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z But I don’t mean to blame the cultural situation for the specific failings of the movie, which rises to weary, belated mediocrity entirely on its own steam. Movie Review: ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,’ by Peter Jackson 2012-12-13T18:58:19Z Although some of these films were quite good, the model generally favors mediocrity over excellence and the status quo over innovation. “UnReal” and the broadening of prestige TV: Will the Emmys reward excellence if it doesn’t look like “House of Cards” or “Mad Men?” 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The audience obsessed over our mediocrity because Jamie and I were such a strange duet. The Robert Mapplethorpe photo you haven't seen: The one he took of me 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Kent was not really much of a painter, despite his Italian training; the writer and art historian Horace Walpole rated his efforts “below mediocrity,” an assessment that rings true today. Art Review: ‘William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain’ at Bard 2014-01-02T22:03:54Z “In a TikTok-driven musical industry, it’s easy to get away with mediocrity,” he added. Signature Moves With Sean Bankhead 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z And South Africa, my friend, is about mediocrity. Hip-hop: who represents Africa? 2011-02-17T21:59:01Z Everything blurs together into a mind-numbing field of mediocrity, a sad finale to the center’s viewing program. ‘The Intuitionists’ and ‘Small’ 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Must popularism and mediocrity always be happy bedfellows? Dance Review: Big Names, Good Looks and Nude Body Stockings 2014-03-20T12:08:35Z Yes, the Academy often recognizes mediocrity and overlooks excellence. Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott on the Oscars 2012-02-18T02:03:03Z Mainly, his broadside against the modern world's "mindscape of mediocrity" is a familiar one, which massages rather than challenges our prejudices. Lee Camp ? review 2011-03-30T17:54:00Z But these only emphasize the hectic, willful mediocrity that characterizes the rest of the movie, and far too many of its kind. Movie Review: ?Dr. Seuss? The Lorax,? With Ed Helms and Danny DeVito 2012-03-01T17:57:47Z Strictly Ballroom would be a more obvious choice to represent the “klutzy-pupil-shines-thanks to-hunky-instructor” category, but this celebration of mediocrity is irresistible. From Travolta’s twist to strobe-lit raves: 10 of the best dancefloor scenes in cinema 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z He’s practically dead-eyed, as if his soul has been sapped by the corporate overlords who roll out mediocrity after mediocrity with his name on the marquee. ‘Red Notice’ Review: When the Stars Don’t Shine 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z "It's basically a film about mediocrity, about ego and his ambitions," he said. Inarritu amused by life imitating art in 'Birdman' awards push 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The measured mediocrity of the Jason subplot underscored a broader malaise. What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z This was also the year that gave us two productions that by themselves made you forget the prevailing mediocrity of Broadway and remember the singular power of theater to astonish. Hath Not a Year Highlights? Even This One? 2010-12-17T03:30:28Z But what outlet do they have if the cloud is raining down mediocrity? Being indie in politics 2010-05-21T09:30:00Z It’s a rare young writer who doesn’t wonder if the hell of mediocrity is the only one in which he’ll reign. Review: Book 5 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z For a writer, this is incredibly rich territory—just as long as you are ready to bear the boredom, the mediocrity, and the disillusionment. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z We’re too inured to mediocrity to object to it now, but the motel in Cumberland still demoralized me. Almost heaven, West Virginia: Driving country roads in search of America today 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Photograph: Neale Haynes In a year of unsurpassed mediocrity, cliché and downright lunacy, food television has just had one low point after another. Food TV: a crop of lemons 2013-01-23T10:45:00Z He was introducing moronic everyone-gets-a-trophy reforms in extracurricular activities, not just tolerating but encouraging mediocrity in the school’s music program—“a right to squeak” initiative. The Poisonous Reach of the College-Admissions Process 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z “Desacralization” was the slogan of the twentieth century; it’s the slogan of ignoramuses, of mediocrity and incompetence. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Some, such as this year’s Tomb Raider film and the zombie-themed Resident Evil efforts, almost achieve mediocrity. Movie adaptations of video games are still mostly terrible. Why has no one cracked the code? 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z In 2013, audiences weren't yet annoyed by TV's mediocrity deluge and the too-frequently abused “it gets better” school of streaming narrative progression. Assessing the Apple TV+ new series, from "The Morning Show" to "For All Mankind" 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z In this era of smoothed-out TV mediocrity, you need pull to make a show this bad. ‘The Idol’ Is Ending Sunday. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z And he's here to elevate white man mediocrity. In praise of "Yellowjackets" hubby Jeff, who elevates the mediocre white man to an art form 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Sooner or later, everything that was rare and special will either be commodified into mediocrity or revealed as just another skin-deep consumer choice that once masqueraded as something more soulful and mysterious. "Neighbors From Hell": The perversion of the suburbs, unleashed! 2010-05-29T23:01:00Z Given its competition — chain bakeries, salad-by-the-ounce counters and shops that sell boxed sandwiches — it could stay afloat with efficiency, consistency and mediocrity. Is Lodi Too Good for Rockefeller Center? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z But too often, she writes, we fail to say what we mean, and at Xerox people sometimes “supported each other’s mediocrity.” In Her New Memoir, Ursula M. Burns Recounts Blazing a Trail to the Top of Xerox 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z And I sure don’t like the idea of bougie Princetonians using a regime of enforced mediocrity to kneecap enterprising Chinese immigrants. The Poisonous Reach of the College-Admissions Process 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Some have opined that the mediocrity among the general pool of contestants this season was higher than usual. How the "Great British Baking Show" flaked out on us when we needed it most 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Atypical comic character study of a modern Japanese woman struggling to get a better job, boyfriend, life, etc, in the face of mediocrity. This week's new films 2011-07-08T23:07:35Z The term soon became linked with an emerging European middle class, and, in the eyes of the artistic Who’s Who, its celebration of mediocrity. Notes on cocktail camp: From tiki to the boozy juice box, a celebration of the unstuffy drink 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Moreover, she wrote, “Men bosses are also less tolerant of failure or mediocrity in a woman director than in a man.” “A Real Director Should Be Absolute”: Lois Weber’s Prescient Thoughts on Filmmaking a Century Ago 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The magazine's editors hedged even more bets by adding a three-star rating, the rock press equivalent of consigning a record to eternal mediocrity. "Nevermind" 30 years on — how Nirvana’s second album tilted the world on its axis 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The former was sold in 1996, expanded, slipped into mediocrity and shuttered last spring; the latter was sold nine years ago. Bread Furst review: The loaves are up front, but so much more awaits 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Feature animation currently finds itself in a golden age of mediocrity, with sensationally inventive technical means tethered, more often than not, to drab and cynical imaginative ends. | 'Rango': There?s a New Sheriff in Town, and He?s a Rootin?-Tootin? Reptile 2011-03-03T23:01:04Z Despite its overwhelming mediocrity, The Great Indoors has been performing shockingly well, averaging around eight million viewers in the 18-49 year old demo per airing. TV for hipsters: how two new shows are trying to appeal to the cool kids 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z And while they took different approaches for the gala — austerity for Bell, melodrama for Miller — both ballets had a way of sliding into a hole of reductive mediocrity. Review: The Costume Dramas of New York City Ballet 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The difference between inspired creation and frantic pretending is the difference between magic and mediocrity, between art and junk, or to cite a conveniently available example, between “Toy Story 3” and “Despicable Me.” | 'Despicable Me': 3-D Animated Feature With the Voice of Steve Carell 2010-07-08T22:20:00Z In an interview, Mr. Barry said the group aspires to mediocrity and has sometimes achieved it. Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Writers’ Catalyst, Dies at 63 2012-05-30T04:03:13Z To borrow a phrase from Cheryl Strayed, "I've embraced my own mediocrity," where I write about the failings and inadequacies of myself. Snagglepuss, LGBT hero: Legendary Hanna-Barbera character reborn in new comic series 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z On the whole, it succeeded more than it failed, and on the whole, its failures were mostly just the plateau of mediocrity. What was so good about “The Good Wife”: After it ends this Sunday, there will never be a show like it again 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z But so goes the TV business, an industry that errs on the side of elevating mediocrity at the expense of creativity. It was Conan O'Brien's choice to leave late night this time – and we've never identified more 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z So why is the National Symphony Orchestra so lackluster, haunted by the curse of mediocrity? The National Symphony Orchestra’s forte for falling flat 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Still, long absences and an ocean of TV mediocrity has a way of casting past shows and their shortcomings in a rosier glow. "Dexter: New Blood" is less of a revival than another stab at a satisfying closure 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Arguably, too viable: more titles were turned out, formula set in, then mediocrity; 2006 saw the production of a parody of such films, Another Gay Movie, which in turn spawned Another Gay Sequel. New-wave queer cinema: 'Gay experience in all its complexity' 2012-10-04T18:59:01Z If you seek to do many things, you’ll taste a wider variety of human goods, but you may end up a well-rounded mediocrity — a dilettante. Remember the ‘10,000 Hours’ Rule for Success? Forget About It 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The ads for some baby-reading products infer that children who first encounter reading after this critical period for spoken language may be doomed to mediocrity or even dyslexia. Can babies read? 2012-09-12T16:08:00Z Aside from Jones’ gutsy performance, what lifts the film above mediocrity is its serious engagement with the generals’ dilemma. ‘Emperor’: Tommy Lee Jones deserves a salute 2013-03-08T03:51:27Z Much of Rand’s work, I said, was about the moral status of the individual human soul in an age of mediocrity. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z Can she find contentment with a kindly mediocrity? She's out of My League 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z A B-movie director with artistic pretensions, he drowns his fears of mediocrity in drugs, alcohol and whichever woman happens to be closest to him. What to Remember Before ‘GLOW’ Comes Back for Season 2 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z You wouldn’t want to judge literary fiction on the basis of its mediocrities. Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z And this brings us to another culture-wide irritation boiling over of late, a general sense of being fed up with mediocrity being reward. How the "Great British Baking Show" flaked out on us when we needed it most 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z And throughout, Mr. Daniels is vibrantly ambiguous — a beleaguered and terrified mediocrity, made larger somehow by a monstrous act, whose deepest motives remain obscure, probably even to himself. Review: ‘Blackbird’: The Past Returns, Taunting 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Starkey, by contrast, is a profound mediocrity: he's shrill, cruel, yet a deeply ordinary writer and thinker. Has Newsnight lost its way? 2011-08-20T23:06:06Z Only now, as I face the sugarcoated mediocrity that is starting to look like the rest of my life, am I free to lament this term. My formerly adventurous life 2012-07-13T23:00:00Z I desperately wanted to explain to my son that none of these corporations would stop being racist as long as racism continues to incentivize white mediocrity. Raising a Black son in a white world 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z Such graces are in short supply when mediocrity is in abundance. "Cowboy Bebop" is an off-key adaptation that captures the jazzy color but not soul of the original 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z This "Pet Sematary" remake isn't the most egregious offender of overused horror clichés, but it is an exemplar of the genre's worst mediocrities. "Pet Sematary" stinks like a rotting corpse: Stay away and watch the original 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z One on which James spends a lot of time, because he worked in it, is TV – a field in which politicking mediocrities ascend by blaming others for their disasters and taking credit for pure luck. Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks by Oliver James – review 2013-02-14T07:00:02Z A similar fate of smug, too wacky mediocrity seemed inevitable. Catch-22: has George Clooney broken the curse of the unfilmable novel? 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z To quickly dispense of the mediocrity, you would be wise to avoid the single-player campaign. Game On: 'Battlefield 3' 2011-11-02T17:15:04Z So, there is little tolerance for mediocrity - and there was none, in Thursday's performance at the Vienna State Opera. Going to hell in style: 'Don Giovanni' in Vienna 2013-03-08T13:30:14Z Meanwhile, the work itself risks shifting, and faces the threat of hackdom, of mediocrity, of the compromises and the complacencies, the calculations and the self-deceptions, on which popularity and celebrity depend. “Popstar”: A Well-Tuned Satire of Celebrity Self-Indulgence 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z He denounced the “shouting mediocrity” of three-quarters of the poems that he published in an early private booklet, dismissing the verses as “hopeless old friends whom you know will never get a job.” Books of The Times: Philip Larkin?s Complete Poems, Edited by Archie Burnett 2012-04-09T21:28:30Z The Rauches say they were fascinated by the idea of a bronze medal as a symbol of mediocrity. Sundance 2015: Melissa Rauch goes from 'Big Bang Theory' to angry gymnast 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Other agendas included vanity, fame, financial gain, the motivation of a physical challenge, a break from the monotony or mediocrity of life, she said. Behind the scenes of reality TV: 'You're a little bit daft to apply' 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Michael Lehmann’s Heathers is Clueless’s dark predecessor, a meaner film than Mean Girls, an indictment of bullying and mob mentality and a culture that champions mediocrity and the status quo. Boyhood, Moonlight and beyond: the best coming-of-age movies 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z It seemed at the end of last season that the Broncos quarterback had dipped into permanent mediocrity. Is Russell Wilson back to his old self after late rally against Bills? 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z To continue to support mediocrity in the most profitable sector of a major Los Angeles institution would be an insult. Plaschke: To give UCLA football any shot at relevancy in Big Ten, Chip Kelly must go 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z The sky wasn’t quite falling, but it was losing its balance, as mediocrity seemed to be a best-scenario by year’s end. Yes, the Seahawks are lucky. Yes, the Seahawks are good. 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Back in my school days, a “C” grade was a certification of rank mediocrity. Column: America's retirement system is mediocre. The new House speaker wants to make it downright awful 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z If you toss all those ingredients into a pot, the resulting stew smells a lot like mediocrity. Pac-12 power rankings: UW rises after epic win over Oregon, while WSU drops 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z “There was no place for the niceties of mediocrity, no false praise. When Louise speaks you believe her because she doesn’t hide inside of civility.” Louise Glück, Nobel-winning poet of terse and candid lyricism, dies at 80 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z If that says something about the mediocrity of the Mexican's performances, it also speaks to the excellence of Verstappen's. 'Verstappen as close as it gets to unbeatable' 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z The “Patriot Way” was built on championship banners and parades, but it has turned to mediocrity since Brady left town. Analysis: Zach Wilson proved Robert Saleh, Jets’ confidence in him was deserved 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z We cannot accept mediocrity — our kids’ well-being and futures are on the line. WA schools and students don't have to settle for mediocrity | Op-Ed 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z The danger that Washington’s new regime will have to avoid is settling for mediocrity and diverting from the plan. Reset and refresh: Wizards avoiding using ‘rebuild’ to describe their rebuild 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z It may be that this part of the Louise’s story has been obscured by what came next: a long slide into mediocrity following the bankruptcy 26 years ago. This L.A. Italian restaurant chain was an incubator for star chefs. Now, one location remains 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z OSPI, on the other hand, appears to be aimed primarily at cheerleading mediocrity. Cheerleading mediocrity is not good enough for WA's education department | Editorial 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Moore, 51, pledged back then that he was done with the “mediocrity” of the franchise. Packed house: New Commanders era begins with soldout, win 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z From 120 years of combined classroom, school, district, and system leadership successes, we know the impact of mediocrity on a million Washington public school students is severe. WA schools and students don't have to settle for mediocrity | Op-Ed 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z They do nothing but drag us down to their lowest common denominator level of desultory mediocrity, jealousy, mendacity, dishonesty and entropy. Not made by great men: Enter the Little Man theory of history 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z One wild with peril, the other mild with mediocrity. 'A teetering World Cup poised to thrill' 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Cal has been mired in mediocrity - and athletic department debt - since not long after Rodgers was drafted by the Green Bay Packers 2005. ACC becomes latest power conference to expand cross-country by adding Stanford, Cal and SMU 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z For most of their history, the Angels have been beset by mediocrity and misfortune. 2023 MLB waivers: Guardians claim three Angels and the Reds grab a fourth 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z We agree that mediocrity shouldn’t be cheered in Washington. WA schools and students don't have to settle for mediocrity | Op-Ed 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Having broken out of the prison of their own mediocrity, Scotland quickly stepped on the gas. Scotland beat Georgia in final World Cup warm-up 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z But I think unlocking a weirder side of AI might involve finding ways to break or mess with it so it doesn’t just generate mediocrity. Will AI replace writers — and the rest of us? An L.A. scholar-poet games out the future 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Not only did Williams pass for 4,537 yards and 45 touchdowns, but he helped Southern California return to national prominence after several years of mediocrity. Pick Six: Can USC’s Caleb Williams join Archie Griffin as a two-time Heisman Trophy winner? 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z “I have to work hard to prove my excellence, while men have to work hard to prove their mediocrity,” one female soldier said. Female soldiers in Army special operations face rampant sexism and harassment, military report says 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z Yes, they’ve spent much of the season teasing fans with short bursts of success only to regress back into mediocrity, but the ingredients for returning to the postseason are intact. Mariners’ second-half magic, playoff optimism are back after Angels sweep 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z The Twins have opened a bit of distance between themselves and the mediocrity that is the rest of their division. Minnesota Twins are opening a gap in the AL Central. Can they finally end their postseason skid? 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z None of this should come as a major surprise to M’s fans, who have watched their team mire in mediocrity for most of the season. Why the Mariners’ Paul Sewald trade comes off as a bit of a surrender 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z There’s a trade deadline approaching in which a few decisions could either sink the team, spark a surge or keep it mired in mediocrity, and I’m reminded: just a single playoff appearance under this regime? With little success, doubt Mariners regime will improve this team is justified 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z But Monday’s loss left them 5-6 since the break — the very essence of the mediocrity that has marked their season. Why the Mariners are in the worst place to be at the MLB trade deadline 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z There are myriad factors that have contributed to the Mariners’ mediocrity this year — a subpar offense, injuries and a close-game regression to the mean to name a few. Julio Rodriguez delivers for Mariners, just not when they really need it 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z He recently criticized Putin as a “nonentity” and a “cowardly mediocrity.” Russia detains a hard-line nationalist who accused Putin of weakness in Ukraine 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z “The country cannot survive another six years of this cowardly mediocrity at the helm,” Mr. Girkin wrote in a Telegram post on Tuesday, referring to the next presidential election in Russia. Russia Detains Igor Girkin, a Critic of Putin’s War Effort in Ukraine: What to Know 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z “This created a culture where there’s no place for mediocrity, there’s no place for those unwilling to compete.” She’s a Smash Hit in Latin America, Even if Her Korean Mom Disapproves 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z For the first four innings, the Mariners seemed destined to take a step back in their never-ending dance between a winning record and a losing record — call it the mambo of mediocrity. Mariners overcome early deficit, hold on to beat Twins 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Put a dot in front of the five, and the meaning is unmistakable mediocrity. Angels distressingly stuck at .500 with one game remaining before All-Star break 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z Yet it was another difficult day for the Mariners, a team that was expected to contend but is mired in mediocrity with the midpoint of the season drawing closer. Corbin throws seven shutout innings as Nationals take another series by beating Mariners 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z And because of that seasonlong mediocrity, perhaps it’s illogical to expect the Mariners to win any game against any team. Mariners turn winnable game into nine-inning slog vs. Yankees 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z The changes are a sweeping overhaul of the Wizards, a franchise that has been mired in mediocrity over the last five years. Chris Paul, Kristaps Porzingis trades reinforce Wizards’ new rebuilding direction 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z His prognosis is cautionary: Los Angeles could end in greatness or “arrogant, militant mediocrity.” A guide to the guidebooks that told the world Los Angeles was a paradise 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z “I think streaming has changed things, but what we want to make sure is that streaming is not a boon for mediocrity,” he added. Streaming is in the ascendance. But movie theaters are not going to go quietly 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Rather, Winger revealed he had the authority to commence a full-scale rebuild — if that’s the direction he determined the Wizards, a team mired in mediocrity, needed to take. Bradley Beal trade rumors fly as Wizards mull whether to rebuild 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z He spoke with The Envelope by phone recently to discuss “Saul’s” end, insights from the brink of death, and mediocrity. Despite his grouchy 'Lucky Hank' role, Bob Odenkirk finds himself oddly happy 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z It's not a sudden departure mid-season to a club that Celtic fans could call mediocre, as some did in their fantastically melodramatic banner when Rodgers vanished down the road - 'You traded immortality for mediocrity. 'All bets are off as Celtic's continuity takes centre stage' 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z How much longer will he accept the mediocrity he has been surrounded by? Who were on an upward curve and who were sleepwalking? 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z “There are ways it can be useful. But too many people are using it against us and using it to create mediocrity. They’re also in violation of copyright. They’re also plagiarizing.” Could AI pen ‘Casablanca’? Screenwriters take aim at ChatGPT 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z “Well, listen, I love and believe in the excellence of Black men, so no, my dear, Cs and Ds or any other form of mediocrity is not OK,” she argued. 'Would you date a bus driver?' debate roils social media, and Eboni K. Williams fires back 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Hank has a speech early on about mediocrity, and you worked with your son Nate on a podcast called “Summer in Argyle,” which also focused on mediocre people. Despite his grouchy 'Lucky Hank' role, Bob Odenkirk finds himself oddly happy 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Concerns this franchise may find itself wading in mediocrity for the next several years were high. Seahawks seemed destined to draft quarterback but Geno Smith rendered all that moot 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z New York, which has spent years stuck in mediocrity or worse, closed out the series with an impressive 106-95 win on Wednesday night. Knicks show toughness, togetherness in overpowering Cavs 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Our apparent mediocrity has only ascended in the centuries that have passed since Copernicus’s suggestion. How Far Should We Take Our Cosmic Humility? 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z What the Wizards had to overcome were not bumps and bruises but years of being stuck in an endless cycle of mediocrity. Wizards fire president and general manager Tommy Sheppard 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The Washington Wizards fired general manager Tommy Sheppard— marking a major shake-up for a franchise that has been mired in mediocrity. Wizards fire general manager Tommy Sheppard after four seasons 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Moments later he called the company together to publicly apologize to the man, blaming his outburst on his own mediocrity as an actor. Review | Ethan Hawke on a new biography of the elusive Sam Shepard 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Philly is a city moving past its history of sports mediocrity, considering the Phillies, Eagles and Union all reached their championship rounds this past season. 76ers take aim at Nets, hope for 1st NBA title since 1983 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Still, despite the success, Wrexham finished the 2017-18 campaign 10th in the National League, the team’s 10th straight season mired in mediocrity or worse. These days, it’s always sunny in Wrexham 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Indeed, as this game descended into a morass of mediocrity after an entertaining opening phase, the placings of Liverpool in eighth and Chelsea three places below almost qualified as flattery. 'Chelsea & Liverpool display morass of mediocrity' 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z The move puts the Hall of Fame coach back in the Big East Conference, looking to boost a storied St. John’s program that’s been mired in mediocrity for much of this century. AP source: Rick Pitino accepts coaching job at St. John’s 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The move puts the Hall of Fame coach back in the Big East Conference, looking to boost a storied St. John’s program that’s been mired in mediocrity for much of this century. Rick Pitino accepts coaching job at St. John’s 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z "More of the same is not a manifesto," said Ms Forbes, "it's an acceptance of mediocrity." SNP leadership: The battle raging for the party's soul 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Hopkins takes “full responsibility” for UW’s decent to mediocrity, but the perpetually positive-thinking coach believes he can fix the problems he created. Mike Hopkins will return as UW men’s basketball coach next season, Husky AD says 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z One morning, she rose bleary-eyed for a flight, sighing about the inevitable culinary lounge mediocrity and gate-adjacent price-gouging of her upcoming food options. Perspective | Stop eating airport food Ewing returned to Georgetown as arguably its most famous alum looking to resurrect the program after years of mediocrity, but things only got worse. Patrick Ewing out at Georgetown after program bottoms out 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z She also told Mr Yousaf that "more of the same is not a manifesto. It is an acceptance of mediocrity". SNP record trashed by Kate Forbes, says Tory leader 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z It is completely possible to live a fulfilling existence under the quiet oppression of mediocrity. Commentary: Go ahead and major in English. You'll be fine! 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z What’s more, the Heat and the Hawks — the last two teams to eliminate the 76ers — have both flirted hard with mediocrity this season. Analysis | Joel Embiid still believes after a career of painful losses 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z But it is highly preferable to a decade of litigation, underperformance with investors, a growing inability to attract the best talent — and a slow road toward mediocrity. Opinion | Why Big Tech should break itself apart 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Of course, Hopkins would have loved to have had Nowell return for another year considering the Huskies have fallen into a four-year malaise of mediocrity since he left. The Huskies are going to give former star Jaylen Nowell the send-off he never had 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Public sector unions exist to make the world safe for mediocrity by opposing, as Howard says, any reform aimed at introducing merit or other forms of accountability. Opinion | How public employee unions damage schools, policing and government itself 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z With Turkey’s best and brightest either imprisoned or sidelined, a spirit of mediocrity has permeated the country’s governance. Opinion | Turkey’s earthquake death toll might be more than just a natural disaster 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The extremes highs and lows have made this season particularly frustrating for the Wizards, a team marred in mediocrity with a 24-27 record. Wizards can’t stop blowing leads as blame goes all around 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z After soaring in Hopkins’ first two seasons, both resulting in Pac-12 Coach of the Year honors, they have settled into a four-year rut of mediocrity — or worse. Another loss to Arizona, another loss to ranked team, show UW men, Hopkins running out of time 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z Four years ago, Stromer entered a program gutted by the transfer of star Ziaire Williams to Sierra Canyon, hope waning after a decade of mediocrity. Dusty Stromer leads way as Notre Dame turns back Sierra Canyon 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z He’s a man for this age, one in which facts are fungible, the truth is opaque and mediocrity can take a person far. Perspective | The ‘lying congressman’ and his crewnecks 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z There was still, however, enough quality on the pitch to produce better than the monument to mediocrity erected by Liverpool and Chelsea over these 90 minutes. 'Stalemate shows Liverpool & Chelsea's mid-table reality' 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z They value consistency, even if that consistency is troubling mediocrity. Plaschke: Surprise! Brandon Staley is still the coach in Chargers’ biggest bet yet 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Because the Hotline has grown weary of all the Mountain school mediocrity and was in the mood for a change. Pac-12 men’s basketball power rankings: Despite wins, UW and WSU don’t climb 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Both are apologists for the mediocrity of U.S. public education that is top-heavy with leftist administrators. Opinion | Virginia’s investigation of Thomas Jefferson High School is warranted 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Then again, the Big Ten West is a muddled mass of mediocrity. Jon Wilner’s ‘ridiculously early’ 2023 Top-25 college football rankings 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z What we have, then, is a documented record of mediocrity. Perspective | Ron Rivera’s record is damning. Does Daniel Snyder care? 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Their best path out of this purgatorial mediocrity is to be so bad that they are repeatedly drafting in the blue-chip range of the lottery. Analysis | New Year’s resolutions for three wayward NBA teams 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z But they were also politicians, self-serving and ambitious, often well-born mediocrities flying high above their general level of talent. Perspective | Learning an old lesson from the Tudors: Grifters gonna grift 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z After realizing that the final fruitful years of his career could be spent mired in mediocrity, LeBron James is claiming his mind is wandering. Column: LeBron James hints at wanting to leave Lakers. They should let him 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z It’s just a game of perception, and after three years of mediocrity, he needs to win this one badly. Perspective | The Commanders need a jolt at quarterback. Will Carson Wentz do? 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Although the Wizards have selected near the end of or just outside the draft lottery for five straight years, they remain mired in mediocrity with their current cast of young players. Perspective | For these going-nowhere Wizards, it might be time to embrace losing 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The rest of it is background noise, another Commanders season now possibly heading for mediocrity. LOVERRO: Hard truth is the Giants just tougher than Commanders 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Little by little, piece by piece, the Cubs watched homegrown stars go elsewhere, chipping away at a once-talented roster that sunk steadily into mediocrity. Analysis | The Cubs got their shortstop. How much better does that make them? 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Messi, of course, pulled Argentina round with his second in extra time but France, revived from the earlier mediocrity, were level again through Mbappe's penalty. 'No-one can now deny Messi is one of game's greatest' 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z “Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.” Review | These ‘Christmas crackers’ offer surprises for lovers of language 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z By contrast, the scale of movie theaters exposes the lack of obsessive attention to detail or dedication to craft that can doom a half-baked blockbuster to creative mediocrity. Opinion | ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ proves there’s nothing like a movie theater 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z If we want to settle for safe mediocrity, by all means keep him on. Your messages to Southgate as he considers future 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z And second, Carroll is tasked with molding mediocrity into something formidable. Seahawks’ run-defense woes appear to have even Pete Carroll stumped 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z He said it when telling them that complacency and mediocrity would no be tolerated. 'I'm coming': Coach Prime gets right to the point in first Colorado team meeting 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Marcel will come to a similar conclusion at the end of the novel, seeing the aristocratic elites who dazzled him in his youth as mediocrities, elevated to the status of demigods by his imagination. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z That said, a closer look at Maryland’s season reveals a program that has advanced to mediocrity. Perspective | Maryland football has raised its floor. Can it ever raise its ceiling? 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Christine Cruzvergara used to sit in her office — decorated with a plaque that read, “Allergic to mediocrity” — and dole out advice about ambition. It’s All That Young Job Seekers Are Asking For: Stability 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Instead of exemplifying the best and the brightest, Walker personifies muddled willingness, nonchalant mediocrity, inexcusable indifference to truth. Perspective | The problem with scarcity 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z And this year, let’s face it, mediocrity reigns. Analysis: As NBA’s first quarter ends, the contenders emerge 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z The movement to save U.S. schools from mediocrity with standards for instruction began in the 1980s, about when I started covering education. Perspective | Another big right vs. left learning standards debate. Who cares? 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z Personally, after eating my way through the sandwiches at Lapu Lapu, I think the owners are waging a larger, if perhaps more silent, battle against the mediocrity of American breakfast menus. Review | The superb Lapu Lapu battles the mediocrity of the American breakfast 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z The amazing Thompson-Robinson kept trying to throw on that cape of his but he could not lift up this program from mediocrity this time. Commentary: UCLA's choke job robs L.A. of grand return to college football's big stage 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Against the Vikings, Taylor Heinicke reminded why he’s a talented backup quarterback — a role important for any team to find success — but not consistent enough to get the Commanders out of the realm of mediocrity. Self-inflicted wounds, offensive limitations stall Commanders’ progress 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z As educators, we must use data to make informed instructional decisions for our students so that we can crawl out of this pervasive hole of mediocrity. Opinion | Virginia schools need politicians to get out of the way of learning 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Get Ovie on a line with Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay, as Howe had with Detroit, and these Capitals might have shot at something beyond mediocrity. Week 4 NHL power rankings: Where the Kraken stand after three-game win streak 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z On the cusp of turning 30, Julie Powell was living in a cramped Queens apartment and working a dead-end job as a secretary — feeling destined, as she put it, for “a life of terminal mediocrity.” Julie Powell, food writer behind ‘Julie & Julia,’ dies at 49 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Great quarterbacks offer the stability that keeps the top two levels stocked with compelling teams, alleviating any concerns about the underlying mediocrity. Perspective | Where did all the good NFL teams go? 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z One in which mediocrity marks the best of times. It’s Year 6 at Washington for Mike Hopkins, and it’s time to take a step forward 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z And my burns never felt purposeful, only documentation of my mediocrity. ‘Miles Walked, Miles Driven’: This Year’s College Essays About Money 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Yet by any measure, the Wizards remain stuck in a cycle of mediocrity. The Wizards are stuck in the no man’s land of the NBA 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The Pasadena schools have had an unfair reputation for mediocrity, mostly because more than half of their students are from low-income families. Perspective | Program so accelerated that 8th-graders take AP Calculus. Will that work? 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Another factor that could complicate trades this season is the NFL, and particularly the NFC, is a big mush pot of mediocrity. Analysis: Rams seem to need help after win over Panthers, but Christian McCaffrey isn't answer 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z While the Tide has become college football’s greatest dynasty with six national titles, Tennessee has burned through coaches and been mired in mediocrity. No. 6 Tennessee beats No. 3 Alabama 52-49 on late FG 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z He knows how excited the fans are for a home playoff game after 21 years of baseball mediocrity, and he seems to recognize just how vital fan energy and excitement is to the team’s success. Julio Rodriguez says playing in front of Mariners fans in playoffs is ‘what it’s all about’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Two decades of mediocrity and hope, drudgery and longing have brought an outpouring of joy and enthusiasm for the Seattle Mariners. It’s cheaper to fly to Houston to see the Mariners than to see them in Seattle 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z At long last, good times had returned to Montlake after two forgettable years of mediocrity. Promising Huskies have suddenly become a struggling team that has lost two straight 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z But toward the end of the regular season, he flashed mediocrity: He has a 6.00 ERA in his past four starts. Max Scherzer will start Game 1 for the Mets. After that, it’s a mystery. 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z However, after recent military setbacks in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, he criticised Russia's military leadership, describing one commander as a "mediocrity" and bemoaning a lack of basic logistics. Chechen leader vows to send teenage sons to frontline 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z You — one of the Mariners’ most dedicated fans — have stuck with them through two decades of near-misses, rebuilds, futility and mediocrity. What would the Mariners making the playoffs mean to you? We want to hear from you 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z England sent their supporters home happy with what they had seen and this deserves to be called a step in the right direction after the misery and mediocrity of Hungary and Italy. 'England show spirit - but how can Maguire start?' 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z While Davis’ absences are the single biggest reason for the Lakers’ mediocrity during that span, he is encouraged by the offseason roster makeover that provided LA’s Big Three with a fresh supporting cast. Westbrook back with Lakers after offseason of trade rumors 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z How will Marguerite fare among those of us who conspire to accept mediocrity? Review | ‘The English Understand Wool’ is a little gift to Helen DeWitt fans 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z After years of mediocrity, two undefeated teams put on a show that ushered in a new era of a storied Thousand Oaks rivalry — student sections and sons of coaches going head to head. Thousand Oaks tops Newbury Park in double-overtime thriller 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z He would rather walk away than be reduced to mediocrity. Clayton Kershaw is leaning toward returning next season, but the question is where 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z That murderer’s row of mediocrity went a combined 38-62 in the seasons when Washington won. Can UW finally make a non-conference statement against No. 11 Michigan State? 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z He expressed his preference for "buildings that have grown out of our architectural tradition and that are in harmony with nature," deriding post-war architecture and modern urban planning for its "sheer unadulterated ugliness and mediocrity". Poundbury suburb showcases King Charles's vision of British life 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Here the cult of the presidency invests absurd glory and expectations in that office’s occupants, who generally are mediocrities because politicians, like lawyers and plumbers and columnists, etc., produce a bell-shaped curve. Opinion | Elizabeth II’s death underscores continuity in an era of disjunctions 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Although mediocrity is as rampant as usual, this is at least the golden age of the grovel. Opinion | In the sandbox also known as academia, it’s the golden age of the grovel 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Harris spent all but one of his 13 seasons in the NFL in Pittsburgh, arriving as a rookie out of Penn State in 1972 to a team attempting to escape decades of mediocrity. Steelers to retire Franco Harris’ No. 32 on Christmas Eve 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z The Broncos are far from the only team that has fallen into an endless morass of mediocrity while it waits for the golden QB to land in its midst. Here’s why the Seahawks shouldn’t tank for a franchise QB 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z "Quiet quitting is doing the bare minimum required of you at work and being content with mediocrity," she told the BBC. Quiet quitting: The workplace trend taking over TikTok 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z David is doomed: He has ascended to his level of mediocrity with nowhere to go but down. The 75 best TV shows on Hulu right now, according to our experts 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z As a reward for transforming the former World Series champions into an emblem of mediocrity, Moreno is expected to sell the franchise for more than 10 times what he paid for it. Hernández: How can new Angels owners sell Shohei Ohtani on Anaheim? Follow the 2012 Dodgers model 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z In 1841, Emerson published his essay “Self-Reliance,” which urged readers to think for themselves and reject the mass conformity and mediocrity he believed had taken root in American life. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Two more years of injury reports, two more years of bad drama, two more years of embarrassing mediocrity. Column: LeBron James' new contract guarantees one thing — more Lakers mediocrity 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z The Orioles will play the next month and a half with no pressure, having entered this season with expectations of mediocrity before handling their trade deadline without much urgency. Analysis | In the lazy days of August, a hazy, fragile playoff picture emerges 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z D.C. and its educational and civic institutions should be attempting to address these issues head-on, rather than perpetuating mediocrity. Opinion | D.C. is a world-class city without world-class health care 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z A significant factor in this three-way tussle could be special teams, where the Chargers are trying to improve after a recent run of — at best — mediocrity. These are the Chargers to watch closely in preseason opener against Rams 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z The suggestion of accepting mediocrity is enough to make his voice rise. Falcons defensive guru Pees determined to raise expectations 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z He appeared on ITV's breakfast show Good Morning Britain and was feted in the United States, where Blythefield in Michigan celebrated his mediocrity with an annual event. The 'Phantom of the Open' who tricked his way into golf's elite 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z “We no longer see the world with all its mediocrities,” Katia is heard saying at one point. Review: As both a doc about volcanoes and a scientists' romance, 'Fire of Love' kicks ash 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Describing himself as a small cog in the state apparatus who was in charge of train schedules, his professed mediocrity gave rise to the philosopher Hannah Arendt’s theory of the banality of evil. Nazi Tapes Provide a Chilling Sequel to the Eichmann Trial 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Even more importantly, they fear that, without unearned male privilege, they'll be exposed as the mediocrities that they actually are. Our summer of misogynist rage: Toxic men unleash a wave of violent threats aimed at outspoken women 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z From beginning to end, the menu achieves mediocrity at best, setting the value proposition far askew. Restaurant review: STK Steakhouse brings over-the-top glam to Bellevue at Canlis-level prices — is it worth it? 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z “We do want to get better but not at the expense of rushing back to mediocrity,” Weltman said. Magic still weighing all options with top overall draft pick 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Vanya, who has dedicated the better part of his life to the estate in the belief that the professor is doing profound work, comes to realize that his idol is just another mediocrity. The actors in Pasadena's 'Uncle Vanya' ruminate, fulminate, kvetch — much like life 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The addition of a third wild card greatly increases the chance that mere mediocrity keeps you in contention for a playoff spot. Things are finally looking up for the Mariners, but here’s why they were never out of the playoff chase 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z A mediocre bullpen staff overperforming began the retreat to mediocrity by underperforming. Letters to Sports: Angels' fall stems from a familiar failing 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Because it’s happening with far too great of frequency this season, specifically during this current descent past mediocrity and building speed toward irrelevance. M’s dominance over A’s ends at 13 straight as Seattle falls 7-5 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z When mired in mediocrity, he tore down his swing and began to rebuild it. Spieth among PGA favorites in quest for career Grand Slam 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Welch’s arguments are one more reason the Biden administration should withdraw its plans that could restrict the growth of those successful charter systems, a recipe for mediocrity. Perspective | Disadvantaged kids hurt by keeping pandemic’s relaxed teaching style 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z The players are now finding themselves constantly challenged; competitiveness rather than a comfort blanket of mediocrity is now everywhere at the club. How Arteta has led Arsenal to brink of top-four return 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z As savage as Swift or Céline, somewhat reminiscent of Flaubert’s “Dictionary of Received Ideas,” these blistering pages indict a bourgeois culture of selfishness and mediocrity. Review | Finding wisdom in Charles Baudelaire’s mad scribblings 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z The veteran core of the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team arrived on campus looking to help turn around a program mired in mediocrity — in its best moments — for the previous decade. Georgetown men’s lacrosse getting used to winning Big East championships 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z Denver had been dealing with a revolving door of mediocrity at the most important position ever since Peyton Manning retired seven years ago but now has Russell Wilson in place. Record 8 teams head into NFL draft without 1st-round pick 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z It’s a sin to support mediocrity, and to be star, half the people have to love you and half have to hate you. 50 Comics Share Memories of the Comedy Store: "It’s a place you go to get dark and find your light" 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z But it also accused the board of "putting its thumb on the scale to keep Kohl's mired in operational mediocrity" and said directors squandered the credibility with shareholders through a secretive and confusing sales process. Macellum presses Kohl's for more transparency in sales process-letter 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z The program fell into a period of mediocrity under Holly Warlick, leading to her firing in March 2019 and Harper’s return to Knoxville. Louisville, Lady Vols to battle for a spot in Elite Eight 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Their mediocrity has been especially glaring in a year when the Braves gave Atlanta its first World Series title since 1995 and the Georgia Bulldogs won the college football championship. After thrilling playoffs, Hawks limping into NBA postseason 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Despite its potentially harrowing subject, and a strong central performance, this oddly restrained film seldom breaks free from mediocrity. Review | ‘Alice’ dares to go through the looking glass but gets lost soon after 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the chances of another new and much more compelling adventure with Neo may never be seen after the box-office mediocrity of the latest movie. ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ 4K Ultra HD movie review 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Two years ago, they emerged from the depths of mediocrity late in the season, winning nine of their last 11 games before only a pandemic could stop them. UCLA has found the season's final weeks to be winning time under coach Mick Cronin 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Has there even been a more dangerous team that has spent so many months teetering on mediocrity? A Brewing Rivalry Goes the Nets’ Way, for One Night 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z The failure of Coach Ewing to lift a program that had slipped to mediocrity does not tarnish the legacy of Big Pat. Perspective | Georgetown’s Patrick Ewing era needs to end, but it doesn’t have to be a tragedy 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Nobody knows exactly where to assign the blame for this mélange of mediocrity — not even the Lakers' front office, which hasn't yet scapegoated Vogel for the struggles by firing him. Lakers stumbling through season of high expectations 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z So many teams have fallen into an endless morass of mediocrity — or worse — simply because they couldn’t find an adequate QB to round out an otherwise playoff-caliber team. The Russell Wilson trade seems justifiable, but the Seahawks had better be right 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Nobody knows exactly where to assign the blame for this mélange of mediocrity — not even the Lakers’ front office, which hasn’t yet scapegoated Vogel for the struggles by firing him. Lakers stumbling through season of high expectations 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Victory, pricking United’s conceit, could make the other nine months of bleak mediocrity worthwhile. In Derby Without Drama, City Wins a Laugher 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z It’s their last chance to fix the Lakers brand before it sinks into what could be a decade of mediocrity. Plaschke: Lakers must trade LeBron James. It's their best path forward. 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The Celtics spent subsequent weeks wrestling with mediocrity — two wins here, three losses there — without much continuity. Given a Chance at a Mediocre Season, the Celtics Said: We’ll Pass 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z A major reason for such anticipated mediocrity was a bullpen that had seemingly improved, at least in terms of experience, with only a few minor offseason additions. Mariners position overview: On paper, Seattle’s bullpen could be even more talented than in 2021 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Cincinnati’s decision to draft McPherson mended years of mediocrity and misfortune at the position. The Can’t-Miss Kid: Bengals’ Rookie Kicker Aims for Perfection 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z That doesn't mean the Rams are built to burn brightly before fading into mediocrity. Rams' flashy moves grounded in solid plan, says GM Les Snead 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z That doesn’t mean the Rams are built to burn brightly before fading into mediocrity. Rams’ flashy moves grounded in solid plan, says GM Les Snead 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z They’re stuck, mediocrity caked all over this team 55 games into a season in which success could be achieved only with a championship and everything else means failure to one degree or another. Lakers don't measure up against Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Cincinnati was mired in mediocrity for so long, the team's previous trip to the Super Bowl in 1989 seemed like fairy tale stuff. Bengals provide hope, blueprint for lowly teams 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Cincinnati was mired in mediocrity for so long, the team’s previous trip to the Super Bowl in 1989 seemed like fairy tale stuff. Analysis: Bengals provide hope, blueprint for lowly teams 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z When McVay was hired by the Rams, he sought coaches who shared his vision and could help him turn around a franchise mostly wallowing in mediocrity for a dozen years. Taylor, McVay reunited as opposing HCs on Super Bowl stage 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z They hired new GM Ryan Poles out of Kansas City’s front office and Eberflus, hoping they can turn around a franchise mired in mediocrity the past decade. Bears hire Colts’ Williams to be their defensive coordinator 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z The Washington Football Team era, memorabilia experts say, has mostly been defined by on-field mediocrity and off-field scandal, namely allegations of a misogynistic work environment and accusations of exploitation of the team’s cheerleaders. As Washington Football Team rebrands, former identity fuels a collectibles market 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Even the rooms, the Lakers on this predictable path towards mediocrity until they change it. Anthony Davis no longer taking bold stance on his Lakers predictions 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Well, for the Storm it would mean a return to mediocrity. Superstar Breanna Stewart leaving Seattle in free agency would send the Storm back to mediocrity 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z It would be refreshing if the responsible parties, all mired in mediocrity, spoke candidly — and truthfully — about what is really going on. Letters to Sports: Lakers bosses won't fix their problems by firing Frank Vogel 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z Ralf Rangnick's side survived a torrid opening 45 minutes, when their performance was laced heavily with mediocrity - as De Gea made key saves from Mathias Jensen and the home side missed other big chances. Rashford seals Man Utd win over Brentford 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z But their performances didn’t showcase anything about the NFL except for its laughable insistence on trying to present mediocrity as compelling parity. Perspective | The NFL chose quantity over quality, and its product suffered 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z He said the next general manager should “tackle the culture of mediocrity” at Metro, and “failure to do so will cause a backslide in the progress Wiedefeld made.” Metro’s general manager to retire after six years as top executive 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z The chaos created by the Lakers’ mediocrity — the team has hovered around .500 the entire season — has forced the team to try to reinvent its identity multiple times. Sources: 'No current plans' to replace Frank Vogel, but Kurt Rambis makes voice heard 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z “With the popularity of Telemann and Vivaldi,” he said in 1969, “one realized how much people desire banal and comfortable mediocrity.” Perspective | Finding order (and a hometown connection) in a lost recording of a Bach masterwork 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z But right now mediocrity doesn’t sound all that bad for the Panthers. Tepper, Panthers a long way off from sustained success 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Moving forward, he still can play his role as the marketable face of a team trying to build on its early-season success and wipe off the smudge of mediocrity from its reputation. Perspective | Bradley Beal’s greatest act of leadership came from a syringe 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z The New York Giants are doubling down on mediocrity. Analysis | What to know from NFL Week 16: Joe Burrow and Josh Allen shake up the AFC playoff race 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z But at age 33, he’s fully capable of regaining his elite status — and attempting to find a replacement could mire the franchise in years of mediocrity. With Seahawks out of playoff hunt, ‘Tell the Truth Monday’ must be extended to 2021 season 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Dollar-slice operators say they exposed the mediocrity of those midrange slices and provide an essential source of food in an increasingly unaffordable city. The $1 Pizza Slice Becomes Inflation’s Latest Victim 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z But in only his second career start, Gilbert impressed with mediocrity; he completed 20 of 31 passes for 194 yards and an 81.9 rating. Outmanned Washington is ground up by the Eagles in a 27-17 loss 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z General manager Trent Baalke’s “value approach” to free agency delivered more mediocrity to the league’s worst roster. Woeful Jaguars need total tear down, full-blown restoration 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z The Minnesota Vikings are $7 million over the cap but can easily restructure some contracts and continue their traditional state of bland mediocrity. Some N.F.L. Teams Face a Financial Cliff Despite Raised Salary Cap 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Electric dominance has been replaced by stultifying mediocrity. The Seattle Seahawks’ Boom Is Busted 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z No other sport has such an obsessed following that it can combine off-field shame with on-field mediocrity and enhance its relevance. Perspective | The standards for NFL relevance have never been lower 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z But like it’s been all year, nothing says “Lakers basketball” more than a quick return from excellence to mediocrity. LeBron James left frustrated by another wasted Lakers effort in loss to Grizzlies 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The Browns’ record is still shaded in mediocrity. Browns’ Mayfield renewed by bye, confident for stretch run 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Make no mistake, Vogel will take the fall, and if the Lakers don’t rise above the mediocrity of their current 13-12 record, especially with James being active again, it will be sooner than later. Column: If Lakers continue to stagger, Frank Vogel unfairly will be the first casualty 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z These mediocrities, drunk with their own self-importance, equate celebrity, power and wealth with wisdom. Ghislaine Maxwell's trial is a sideshow — powerful, abusive men will not be held accountable 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z “Atlanta, Carolina, Minnesota and New Orleans are 5-7. It’s going to be an epic race of mediocrity,” he wrote. Perspective | Washington Football Team’s new name, new look — and new game — means there’s a lot to cheer 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s going to be an epic race of mediocrity. Perspective | The Taylor Heinicke experience is nerve-racking, but it’s giving Washington a chance 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z She says he told her he was “astonished” at her “mediocrity,” that she had to “kill the old Elizabeth” to become stronger. Opinion | The false feminism of Elizabeth Holmes and Ghislaine Maxwell 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z “He was so disappointed in my mediocrity and he was trying to teach me how to be better.” Elizabeth Holmes says Theranos’ former president abused her 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z If she didn’t do what Balwani said, Holmes said, he would yell and tell her he was “so disappointed in my mediocrity.” Elizabeth Holmes accuses ex-lover, business partner of abuse 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z They’ll be “bricklayers,” to quote a former Husky head coach, building a bridge between mediocrity and something more. Vorel: Despite a disastrous 2021 season, here’s what Washington football fans have to be thankful for 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z And for a Washington Football Team combating mediocrity with grit, he represents the quintessential exasperating, exhilarating QB1 for all the drama. Perspective | The Taylor Heinicke experience is nerve-racking, but it’s giving Washington a chance 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Trump and Carlson are doing this, even though they know full well that it's encouraging more insecure men to view political violence as a way to ameliorate their own gnawing fears of mediocrity. Why Donald Trump exalts Kyle Rittenhouse: Nothing gets the base going like violence 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z “Politics is the art of what’s possible,” said Bitar, who fears Chile’s best years may be behind it and the country could slip into a malaise of mediocrity seen elsewhere in the region. In uncertain times, Chileans vote with ballots and wallets 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Fangio promised when he was hired there would be no “death by inches,” pledging that attention to detail would halt the franchise’s slide into mediocrity. Fangio keeps status quo though winds of change in forecast 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z When the success faded, and mediocrity set in, Knausgaard found it comforting. The World Cup Loses Its First Star 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Granted, the Seahawks are currently the 14th seed in the NFC, so there’s a traffic jam of mediocrity competing for those final couple playoff spots. ‘Seattle doesn’t look built to make a run’: National media react to Seahawks’ Week 10 loss to Packers 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Condotta: A faint one, if due mostly to the mediocrity of the middle of the NFC and the addition of the third wild card slot last year. Four Downs with Bob Condotta and Adam Jude: Answering questions after the Seahawks’ lousy loss to the Packers 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z As the Giants’ aging stars departed, the team descended into mediocrity. Sam Huff, Fearsome Hall of Fame Linebacker, Dies at 87 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z But the addition last year of a third wild card spot and an NFC loaded with mediocrity means playoff chances remain, even if getting more remote by the week. In first game back, Russell Wilson and the Seahawks shut out by the Packers 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z “But when they lower their eyes to the local leaders that are there, they see mediocrity.” A.N.C. Suffers Worst Election Setback Since End of Apartheid 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z “I’m unafraid to call out irresponsible, un-American behavior. If we settle for mediocrity, we get what we deserve.” Why Amazon Is in Business With Judge Judy 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z It would be a rise only to mediocrity, but after how poorly this season started, that would be quite a jump. Perspective | Washington’s loss to the Packers was its most complete game of the year. That’s a problem. 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Pitt entered Saturday just 3-4 as a ranked team under Narduzzi, part of “one step forward, one step back” cha-cha with mediocrity the Panthers have struggled to escape from since joining the ACC in 2013. Same old Pitt? Pickett, No. 17 Panthers proving otherwise 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Some teams, like the Trojans, are struggling to escape theirs — and will now be looking to a fresh face to break the cycle of mediocrity. Which college football head coaching job is better: USC or LSU? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It's not just Carlson and the Proud Boys who have figured out how to monetize male mediocrity and fragility. Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan and the Proud Boys: How the fragility of the male ego fuels the far-right 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z They are weakening it by contributing to the democratic tendency toward groupthink and the mediocrity that can come from trying to please the majority. What does a university owe democracy? 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z And that’s a recipe for sustained mediocrity, no matter how effective the receivers might be with jump balls in the end zone. Pac-12 football power rankings: UW, WSU near bottom of conference 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z The courts in all tyrannies are dominated by mediocrities and buffoons. The corporate state came for human rights lawyer Steven Donziger — and we're next 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z But it’s their entertaining mediocrity that he finds so enlightening. Review: At South Coast Rep, 'A Shot Rang Out' proves to be an eloquent misfire 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z There’s optimism this team could finish as one of the best in the past decade of Maryland football, a stretch that has been defined by instability and mediocrity. Ohio State, Maryland’s Big Ten tormentor, is up next after ugly loss to Iowa 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Even the more recent moderate success with Carson Palmer at quarterback and Marvin Lewis as coach has faded in a morass of mediocrity or worse. Buying or selling these NFL storylines through Week 4? 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z The Steelers may luck out and tumble to the bottom of the NFL, but Mike Tomlin may be too good of a coach with too talented of a defense to avoid falling beneath mediocrity. Analysis | Ben Roethlisberger and the downside of the Forever Quarterback 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z It would be a shame to let the good feeling that developed slip away by virtue of a lackluster offseason, and watch the Mariners slide right back to mediocrity. After awakening fan base during playoff chase, Mariners have reason to ‘Believe Big’ this offseason 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Cluttering the space with commercial mediocrity sadly suggests a return to business as usual. Why the Netflix musical 'Diana' is theme-park schlock and a bad sign for Broadway 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z It did that dozens of times this summer before settling into its real level, a handful of games below that standard of mediocrity. Commentary: Another mediocre Angels season is met mostly by shrugs. Why? Because it was expected 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Clemson has hidden the ACC’s mediocrity ever since Florida State began taking on water, but it couldn’t last forever. Perspective | Clemson’s struggles show how hollow ACC football remains 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z USC should be better than living in fear of having to buy its way out of mediocrity — the school and its donors certainly used to have the money. Commentary: College football Saturday review: USC coach Clay Helton must go after loss to Stanford 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z There’s now a website, Overemployed, that, in a disabused tone somewhere between “Office Space” and “Fight Club,” offers practical tips for aspiring two-timers, while elevating mediocrity to a point of principle. My Colleague Is Secretly Holding Two Jobs. Should I Expose Her? 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Former coach Jay Gruden managed to last into his sixth season, but he was stuck in mediocrity for the bulk of his tenure. Perspective | The Washington Football Team’s modest approach could yield a major payoff 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z It was a shocking display of mediocrity after an upbeat training camp that ended with soaring hopes. UW delivered a stinker for the ages against Montana. Can they find a way to recover? 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z These are smart football fans who have seen way too much mediocrity the last decade-plus, and they knew exactly what was coming — San Jose State pulling to within 13-7. Commentary: USC offensive coordinator Graham Harrell still has to show he was worth a big raise 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z We just must NOT excuse or Accept mediocrity. Rwandan President and Arsenal fan Paul Kagame frustrated by defeat 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z But in the days after Mr. Trump’s electoral defeat, as the president filled top military and intelligence posts with people the general considered loyal mediocrities, General Milley got nervous. Opinion | What if There Wasn’t a Coup Plot, General Milley? 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z All that happened on Thursday, though, was a step back into the morass of mediocrity. Angels fall back to .500 with 4-0 loss to Oakland 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Baker says that we underestimate the mediocrity of most grocery-store produce, which tends to be tasteless and also offers little in the way of novelty. Learning to Love G.M.O.s 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z “Is this an exercise in mediocrity? Do we want fourth- and fifth-place votes deciding leadership?” After New York Tests a New Way of Voting, Other Cities May Do the Same 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z “Californians are tired of having a governor whose operating themes are hypocrisy, self-interest, half truths and mediocrity,” Ose says. Here they come! California lists recall election candidates 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z The baseball analysts and experts, who were less than inspired by the roster returnees and lack of offseason additions, predicted something less than mediocrity. How the Mariners exceeded expectations in the first half of the MLB season 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Backspin: A rough start to the year, a big win at The Players Championship, and then mediocrity. BRITISH OPEN ’21: Capsules on 10 contenders for claret jug 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z |
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