| 单词 | second-rate |
| 例句 | Reluctantly, I concluded that they were the hands of a good-hearted but second-rate person. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By the measures that seem to matter most, Truman High is, at best, second-rate. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Even if my once enviable role now seemed vaguely second-rate, still I determined to try twice as hard to prove they’d made the right choice. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted them to have pride in their own heritage, not to see it as a second-rate imitation of European culture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z What kind of second-rate hoarder brings trash rather than supplies? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Was she so pathetic that she would ramble on, offering bits of her own story, bits of herself, like some second-rate Scheherazade? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He feels that he is a first-rate dog and has no wish to be a second-rate human. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But Ebright, reacting to rumors his father had heard, had come to suspect that Pocock was sending him second-rate or defective equipment in order to hobble Washington’s principal rival. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It seemed obvious to Jule now that Imogen—who had felt shallow and second-rate next to Tupperman’s intellect and masculinity—would have made herself feel stronger and more powerful than he was by betraying him. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z My dad looks at me from head to toe, and I feel like the second-rate slacker he’s always taken me for. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The price of a hotel in Toronto, he said, even a second-rate hotel, is becoming offensive. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But nothing quite worked, and though its producers clearly aspired to the inspirational bombast of Steven Spielberg or perhaps Leni Riefenstahl, they could barely muster a second-rate pastiche of Charlie Chaplin. Perspective | Trump wanted a photo op. He delivered the most ominous message of his presidency. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Before Nureyev, the company was generally considered a second-rate ensemble; a 1972 review by Clive Barnes in The New York Times is memorably headlined “Anyhow, the Food Was Good.” Paris Opera Ballet Visits U.S. for First Time Since ’96 2012-07-08T03:53:12Z Every time I discovered a woman artist, people would say: 'She's so second-rate', or 'Oh, she married so-and-so'. Susan Hiller 2011-01-30T00:02:04Z One Socialist leader called her a “second-rate politician,” while another speculated that if she became president, “Who would take care of the children at home?” Ségolène Royal is Not Willing to Be a Footnote 2013-07-05T20:15:16Z Mr. Pittas offered two sets of dispiritingly second-rate songs by Duparc and Brahms in which the music never quite managed to elevate the texts’ kitschy earnestness. Review: Jennifer Johnson Cano and Dimitri Pittas at the Morgan 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z From this, many second-rate theologians have concluded that they were singing the Magnificat. Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives by Pope Benedict XVI – digested read 2012-11-25T19:30:02Z But then such details are glossed over throughout “Rain,” a cover-band-tribute show souped up with some second-rate video interludes. Beatles tribute asks: When I get older, will you still love me? 2011-02-09T22:56:37Z "We were east of Vine Street on Hollywood Boulevard, and we were at the second-rate theater in Westwood. Then they moved us to bigger theaters." Carl Gottlieb took a bit out of 'Jaws' script and created a monster hit 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z They were overconfident, not complacent, too quick to dismiss Japan’s military as second-rate and blind to the threat of modern aircraft armed with torpedoes. The U.S. military expected a Japanese attack in 1941 - but not in Hawaii, explains 'Countdown to Pearl Harbor' 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z “Very soon after I went to the symphony,” Mr. Halsey recalled, “he took me aside and said, ‘You probably could earn a living as a second-rate orchestral conductor.’ Simon Halsey, Preaching to, and for, the Choir 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Williams, a movie star with practically no experience as a singer and dancer, is making her Broadway debut as the world’s best-known second-rate nightclub performer. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2014-03-27T18:40:41Z Scrooge challenges the trio, criticizing their methods, dismissing their visions — even rushing them along, because he’s a very busy man with no time for second-rate hauntings. ‘Christmas Carol’ Review: Brooding Scrooge Gets Ghosted 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Even though she, too, was far more talented than the second-rate children of decadent American parents, she tried to resist my will at every turn. Digested read: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua 2011-01-31T21:30:02Z JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian moviegoers are facing a bleak year of second-rate foreign releases and lowbrow local productions as Hollywood studios, the government and movie importers remain locked in a protracted standoff. Indonesians bemoan Hollywood blockbuster blackout 2011-06-28T11:15:12Z After a while the Emin fudge starts to seem not so much a brilliant deconstruction of the nude as pretentious and second-rate drawing, lazy in its refusal to really get to grips with form. Tracey Emin should have had more fun at the seaside 2012-05-25T15:16:36Z In your lifetime and mine, the Daily Mail went from a second-rate London tabloid to a global brand that dominates entertainment coverage. Did the Internet kill Amy Winehouse? The director of a heartbreaking new documentary on the rise and fall of a “digital girl” 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z He knows he'll either skate through the blowback since he's a tenured professor or be fired, freeing him from the shackles of second-rate academia. Bob Odenkirk scores with "Lucky Hank," a frustrated guy who shares DNA with his "Saul" conman 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The homes are interesting for architecture buffs but I can’t recommend them unreservedly as rentals: the mix of shabby vintage furniture and second-rate modern appliances gives the whole project a slightly amateurish feel. In Frank Lloyd Wright Country, Architecture and Apple Pie 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z When there are real heroes to extol such as the Baum Group and the Scholl family, we don't need this deeply compromised, third-rate novel by a second-rate writer. Letters: Alone in Berlin is morally compromised 2011-01-11T00:04:00Z But he holds that position at a second-rate university located in Pennsylvania's rust belt, where he strains to overcome the blessed curse of tenure. "We don't get to carry on forever": Bob Odenkirk's next chapter post-"Better Call Saul" and collapse 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z You would think that, as a writer, I’d avoid using them in e-mails and text messages, because on the face of it it’s a second-rate writing style. Tell Me a Story with a Happy Ending, Part II 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z This is a first-rate novel with a second-rate subject: the American man's suburban malaise. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z I recognise that there is great classical music, but there is frankly also second-rate classical music. The conversation: Classical music vs rock'n'roll 2012-07-13T19:30:02Z The real hero here is not an individual but a large, complex organization, the American Navy, that quickly grew from second-rate status to become the world’s premier maritime force. George Washington, William T. Sherman and Viking Marauders 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z One-Eye is the battered but undefeated fighting slave of some second-rate tribesmen, somewhere in Britain, who put him up against all comers in competitions for food, booze, women, gold or whatever's available. "Valhalla Rising": What to see instead of "Inception" 2010-07-16T00:30:00Z But, having brilliantly displayed the bulletproof egoism of the second-rate, Rylance cannot persuade us of Valere's transformation into a populist champion. Review 2010-07-08T01:12:00Z Through his parents, Mr. Leo vividly evokes the second-rate nightmare of repression, intolerance and low-level menace dramatized in the film “The Lives of Others.” Books of The Times: ‘Red Love,’ a Memoir of East Germany 2014-04-13T21:01:38Z But the quality of many of the works seen Wednesday varied from second-rate to downright appalling. Auctions: Modest Impressionist and Modern Art to Please the Crowd 2011-05-05T14:00:04Z But its screenplay is mostly second-rate soap opera and its direction plodding, with many scenes held, awkwardly, longer than they need to be. 'The Grace Card': a hard-to-swallow tale of redemption 2011-02-24T20:38:06Z The movie as it exists now, in any case, seems to have been assembled in a spirit of anxious caution, with the hope of making something as derivative and second-rate as possible. Movie Review: ?Thin Ice,? With Greg Kinnear and Billy Crudup 2012-02-17T00:20:13Z And when he condemns Picasso writing as "second-rate celebrity literature" I can't help thinking of Richardson's association with the magazine Vanity Fair. Picasso – separating truth and fiction 2013-07-10T14:32:55Z Later, another Cecil scholar calls him “a first-rate example of the second-rate poet who enters into common consciousness more deeply than many greater masters.” Books of The Times: ?The Stranger?s Child? by Alan Hollinghurst - Review 2011-12-11T21:24:58Z Hathaway was a second-rate studio director who never made a great film, or did anything of lasting value. I was Dennis Hopper's henchman 2010-06-03T21:29:00Z Amanda Evans has given up the job she loved in California so that her husband, Mark, a second-rate academic, can pursue a Fulbright-funded study overseen by the U.S. Review | 3 great new audiobooks for your holiday weekend — and beyond 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z “Harvey’s idea was not to be a second-rate Lincoln Center,” Ms. Hopkins said, “but to be a first-rate BAM.” President of BAM Will Leave Next Year 2014-02-04T23:30:11Z As designed by Parker Lutz, the stage brings to mind a rather lurid, second-rate airport hotel. ‘Sorry Robot,’ a Musical Sci-Fi Noir at New Ohio Theater 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z But the best picture designation has been an odd stain on Gladiator’s reputation over the years: a film that might have been remembered as a satisfying revenge spectacle instead looks like a second-rate prestige picture. Did Gladiator really deserve the best picture Oscar? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Conversely, when sellers hold back, mid-range, often second-rate works tend to flood the market, drawing scant interest and tepid bidding -- if any. Brighter days seen for beaten-down art market 2010-04-16T16:29:00Z The truth is the reason the apologists want a second-rate military commission option is because of what we did to the detainees, not because of what the detainees did to us. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z Next to that, Last Christmas looks second-rate, absurd, inexplicable. Emma Thompson’s ludicrous Last Christmas is the perfect Brexit festive movie 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z But I'm not sure that the movie's second-rate drama, or its shards of manly philosophy, come anywhere close to justifying the arduous and frequently graphic violence of the journey. "Sanctum": James Cameron presents an underwater cave thriller 2011-02-03T01:31:00Z For one bunch of people, you're cashing in on people's political beliefs and human needs in order to peddle your second-rate music. Martin Carthy and Tom Robinson's notes on a revolution 2010-06-13T20:29:00Z Error-ridden second-rate video, I'd add, given that we see a montage of the Fab Four arriving in New York on British Airways, several years before the airline was created. Beatles tribute asks: When I get older, will you still love me? 2011-02-09T22:56:37Z Dashiell Hammett was thought of in his day as a second-rate popular author, but today his The Maltese Falcon is cherished as a classic. Can Agatha Christie be political? 2013-05-27T15:14:54Z Nothing is thrown in for effect; there are no second-rate songs; he revives what was then a dated repertoire of classic material and brings it to life. The Pure Artistry of Frank Sinatra 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z James Tyrone is an actor who has enslaved himself to the same moneymaking play, living on the road with his wife in second-rate hotels full of dubious company. Even with Jessica Lange and Gabriel Byrne, 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' fails to connect 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The problem to date has been that, like most omnibus films, the quality of the segments ranges wildly, so that the odd effective short winds up sandwiched between shorts that are decidedly second-rate. ‘V/H/S/94’ Review: The Right Snuff 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Lloyd Webber may be dismissed by some as a second-rate Puccini, but at its best his music can summon feelings in an audience without necessarily cheapening them, and the cast sang strongly and clear. Why are we snooty about musicals? 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z Yes, the book is second-rate, but you are a child of God. Bull Connor spat in my teenage face: The civil rights march that changed me forever 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z But there’s also no need for anyone to keep trying to spin beloved fairy tales into second-rate franchises. Review: ‘The Huntsman,’ a Study in Hollywood’s Overstuffed Playbook 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Or would we be getting second-rate substitutions and missing out on the highlights? Gluten-Free Dining in Italy 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The exhibition in the Arsenale is so rambling it is bound to contain one interesting thing among acres of second-rate installations. How to survive Venice 2013 2013-01-02T14:56:10Z As digital television becomes the norm, we'll presumably stop seeing the formerly niche channels as somehow second-rate and the broadcasting landscape will take on a new shape. Was BBC1 right to drop Blue Peter? 2012-05-16T12:22:00Z The qualities that make Seymour Hersh a first-rate reporter — his hustle, his wonkiness, his nighthawk drive to unearth a radioactive fact and then top that fact — make him a second-rate memoirist. In ‘Reporter,’ Seymour Hersh Recounts Leaping Tall Deadlines in Single Bounds 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z There is form for the Booker being awarded to first-rate writers for second-rate work. Howard Jacobson shouldn't win the Booker 2010-09-28T09:52:00Z All we knew of Jack Nicholson’s Jack Napier prior to his transformation into the clown prince of Gotham in 1989’s Batman was that he was a second-rate hood with a weakness for statuesque blondes. Funny peculiar: will Joaquin Phoenix's Joker be the strangest DC movie yet? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Yet from her underprivileged upbringing in rural Oklahoma, she brings a quiet empathy for servants and women, second-rate citizens in Kuwait. 'Small Kingdoms': an insightful portrait of contemporary Kuwait 2010-03-19T22:27:00Z Things get even weirder as Currin’s queasy paintings embrace the past-its-prime imagery favored by many tenured faculty at backwoods art schools and second-rate universities. John Currin has a way with awkwardness 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Thomas tended to brush aside praise, calling himself “a second-rate Charles Laughton,” but his audiences were enthralled. A Dylan Thomas Centennial in New York 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z As the movie’s biggest name, Vaughn regresses to his second-rate deadpan comedy roles of old, forcing his way through a comedically constipated performance. ‘The Binge’ Review: They’ll Drink to That 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z This was a pastiche of second-rate fantasy fiction that actually read, quite often, like second-rate fantasy fiction. Review: David Mitchell’s ‘Slade House’ Plunges Into a Battle of Immortals 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z “This was considered to be a second-rate orchestra and probably was, if we are talking about quality, until I made radical changes,” Mr. Kocsis told The Worcester Telegram & Gazette in Massachusetts in 2003. Zoltan Kocsis, Pianist and Conductor, Dies at 64 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Amazingly, this choice was cheaper than the rigmarole of finding a space, having a party planner make it look good and having a caterer supply it with second-rate food. | Designing a Dream Daytime Wedding 2014-02-06T14:00:33Z The produce sold at the Walmart where she works is second-rate, often slimy, mushy or merely bland. Books of The Times: Tracie McMillan Writes ?The American Way of Eating? 2012-02-20T22:14:42Z I assumed I’d sit at the bar and nurse an expensive drink as I listened to second-rate music, but I was quite happy to be wrong. A $100 Weekend in Chicago 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Even when Erdrich is not in top form, her books are readable, in the sense that even when Emmylou Harris sings second-rate material it sounds pretty good. Shades of Atwood and Vonnegut in Louise Erdrich’s Dystopian Novel 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Bradley also predicted that visitor numbers would continue to fall, as people are unable to get to libraries in the centre of a city, and as decreased budgets lead to second-rate book collections. Libraries crisis set to get 'much worse' this year 2013-01-15T16:22:15Z The first falls into the hands of an oafish, second-rate cornetist who suffers from a bad case of envy and the unshakable delusion that he’s a better musician than Bolden. ‘Tiger Rag’: a novel of jazz and its devotees 2013-01-30T19:30:54Z Aside from being morally repulsive, their goal amounted to second-rate science, since biological strength lies in genetic diversity, not sameness. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z Even those from the grand bourgeoisie, like the Morisot sisters, were given stunted, second-rate educations. You know Monet and Manet. This female Impressionist deserves your attention, too. 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z When these two plays were staged in New York by Lincoln Center Theater in 1985, they were widely dismissed by critics as second-rate Mamet. Review: David Mamet’s ‘Ghost Stories,’ Bedtime Tales With a Gunshot 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z As Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom knows only too well, "after you've been first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate". The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z Even a second-rate magician would better serve these kids than what they're forced to sit through now: a shell game, at knifepoint. "Prince of Persia" royally blows it 2010-05-28T00:20:00Z But how do vegan brands show consumers that they are more than just second-rate, er, copycats of the animal-skin mainstream? Yes, Virginia, There Was a Vegan Fashion Week 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z That she has never been inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame is a total disgrace, especially when I see the second-rate talent that has been inducted. Pop mourns Donna Summer 2012-05-18T01:02:00Z What I get instead is a lot of second-rate hip-hop, former American Idol contestants who’ve landed recording contracts, or—worst of all—“I listen to anything.” I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z I can only assume it is symptomatic of a generation of second-rate hacks who are trying to drag true genius down to their level. Blackadder marches again and Zach Galifianakis votes for Boris 2012-10-10T08:11:05Z The building was wildly controversial and was condemned by Time magazine critic Wolf Von Eckardt as a “brazen gesture” that appeared to be “transposed from some second-rate set for Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute.’ Michael Graves, innovative architect and designer, dies at 80 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z It is also pleasingly clear-eyed about how the wheels fell off the franchise, about how it expanded too far too quickly, saturating the market with second-rate products until it lost $400m in a year. The Toys That Made Us: Netflix's show will make you rethink your childhood 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z And as a writer he found fame not in his own right—by his own admission, he was a second-rate poet—but as a translator of Marcel Proust. Remembrance of lives past 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Diogenes, the second-rate, second-century AD epicurean philosopher, ensured his own survival by having his thoughts inscribed on the wall of his home city of Oenoanda in what is now Turkey. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Conversely, when generalised, a garden may lack all focus, becoming a greenish blur, which exactly describes some of the second-rate impressionism included here. Impressionist Gardens; Another World: Dal?, Magritte, Mir? and the Surrealists 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z “If Wagner had only written his 3,000 pages of prose, he would be remembered as a kook, a second-rate maniacal thinker,” Steinberg said. Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z There's a well-rounded portrait of the stodgy, patrician Edward, who has "the bluff, handsome exterior and rather shabby interior of a first-class, second-rate politician". Patience by John Coates - review 2012-10-09T07:00:02Z The only thing remotely surprising about this movie is how profoundly second-rate it turned out to be at every level of conception and execution. “Suicide Squad”: One mediocre anti-superhero movie reveals Hollywood’s multiple disorders 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z And his creations are both bewilderingly versatile and incurably second-rate. L.A. Dance Project Has Vivid Performers and Fine Repertory. There’s Just One Problem. 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Make no mistake, he said: Wizdom dancers are not second-rate performers. With age comes ‘Wizdom.’ The Wizards’ 50-and-older dance squad is thrilling crowds. 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Not only is the book stylishly and inventively written, but it also depicts in loving detail an entire world — that of run-down, second-rate racetracks and the people and animals who inhabit them. Writer Races to Victory From Way Off the Pace 2010-12-16T21:39:33Z He doesn’t need to lean on another MC; he’s honed his game to the point where he can make even one of the most decorated rappers look like a second-rate schlub. Drake Wrestles His Insecurities on New Album Nothing Was the Same 2013-09-26T17:20:05Z Military commission apologists should have the integrity to stand up and tell the public the truth about the small category of cases they believe are best-suited for the second-rate procedures of the tarnished military commissions. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z It might also be about what’s wrong with us, and why we seem to be a nation of easily distracted and not particularly bright children who find more meaning in second-rate melodrama than substantive discussion. Anthony Weiner’s downfall and Donald Trump’s rise: Everything that’s bad and stupid about politics in one lesson 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z And for another lot of people, you're cashing in on your pop success to peddle your second-rate political beliefs. Martin Carthy and Tom Robinson's notes on a revolution 2010-06-13T20:29:00Z He lacks athletic, academic, social and grooming skills, relegating him to the third table in the cafeteria of a second-rate private school, where, solo, he strives “to drink as many chocolate milks as possible.” Books of The Times: ?Elliot Allagash,? Tale of a Bully, by Simon Rich 2010-06-14T23:08:00Z Some groups incorporate video better than others, but the live stuff always looks second-rate by comparison, and the constant flipping back and forth does weird things to a show's rhythm. SketchFest: Comedy without borders 2011-01-10T06:00:00Z Although the exclusions based on hierarchies of taste and prejudice are lamentable, some of the curious inclusions that now seem odd, including second-rate post-impressionist work, are often charming. Review | A somewhat nearsighted look back at American modernism 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z She produced five second-rate novels and many magazine pieces, and then, at the age of 49, wrote a 619-page book about etiquette that revealed society’s secret code. How Emily Post's Heirs Built an Etiquette Monopoly 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z If anything, it tries much too hard, stuffing great gobs of second-rate action, secondhand humor and warmed-over sentiment into every nook and cranny of its relentlessly busy 3-D frames. | 'Despicable Me': 3-D Animated Feature With the Voice of Steve Carell 2010-07-08T22:20:00Z Harcourt-Reilly is a preposterous device, the kind of thing found in a second-rate detective novel, where conflicts don’t evolve and resolve so much as they are explained away in tediously long monologues. Theater Review | 'The Cocktail Party': Shaken and Stirred at a T. S. Eliot Comedy 2010-03-19T22:09:00Z But every boom has a bust, and cynical, second-rate imitations featuring haunted mansions, rampaging demons and evil children soon overran the marketplace. Review | Horror novels are having a renaissance. Here’s what to read. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z I think most people are comfortable with the idea that if you're a brilliant doctor, surgeon or barrister, you'll get quite rich – nearly as rich as a second-rate management consultant or an inept banker. Why shouldn't a teacher earn more than Dave? After all, he's a class act 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Navy was a second-rate force on the world scene, but if American sailors discovered the North Pole, it would confirm the country's ascendancy. 'Kingdom of Ice' uncovers a polar adventure frozen in time 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Her book included all the requisite elements — second-rate college, inane administration, exasperated English professor — but the entire novel was a series of recommendation letters written by Jason Fitger, a highly vexed and acerbic teacher. Review | Irritated by tweedy academic types? Read this wonderful campus comedy. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Now, don't get me wrong: As second-rate, thoroughly ripped-off military propaganda movies go, "Battle: Los Angeles" is reasonably effective. "Battle: Los Angeles": Bizarre fantasy of imperial decline 2011-03-10T02:01:00Z DreamWorks has made plenty of money off the "Shrek" and "Kung Fu Panda" franchises, but the studio has never quite shaken off the sense that they're the second-rate, cynical hucksters of the animation world. "Rango" and the rise of kidult-oriented animation 2011-03-03T02:02:00Z That’s one valuable anecdote in this exhaustive oral history, which traces the 16-year sprint that turned “The Daily Show” from a second-rate cable presentation into a vital institution in American politics and the media. When Fake News Was Funny 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z All in all, an amusing but second-rate novel from one of Britain’s funniest writers. Books of The Times: ‘Skios’ by Michael Frayn 2012-06-27T21:35:39Z The late critic hurled some of the greatest rhetoric of the late 20th-century at the growing insanity and corruption of the second-rate rich man's club that calls itself "the art world". A Monet for £27m? The real price of the art boom is its sleaziness 2012-11-08T15:06:30Z The show is set in a Victorian music hall, where the actors, a second-rate touring troupe from London, are putting on their own, very hammy version of Dickens’s last, unfinished novel. ‘Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ Dickens’s Unfinished Novel 2012-11-25T00:40:06Z “Joker,” an empty, foggy exercise in second-hand style and second-rate philosophizing, has none of that. ‘Joker’ Review: Are You Kidding Me? 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z They endure miserable digs, second-rate theatres, terrible weather and the fact that their local promoter seems more excited about a new young comic called Norman Wisdom. Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Does this mean she’s lazy, afraid of work or destined to be second-rate when the going gets tough? Can we help our children be motivated to succeed? 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Waters had by now left the band, and the music was mostly second-rate – but the cover image was arguably Thorgerson's ultimate piece: 800 hospital beds, arranged in perfect lines on Saunton Sands, in Devon. Storm Thorgerson, Pink Floyd and the final secret of the world's greatest record sleeve designer 2013-04-19T17:32:49Z There are moments when “Fallen Kingdom” operates in breezy awareness of its own ridiculousness, embracing its second-rate, secondhand status as a way for people with no other plans to grab some air-conditioning. Review: ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Brings the Gang Back. Sigh. 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z The same might be said of Nabokov—for “Camera Obscura” shows that he was indeed capable of writing a second-rate novel. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z And, in an interview that appeared in the London Review of Books, in the issue after Kureishi’s story, Roth lamented that “animated talk about second-rate movies” had displaced any sort of discussion about books. Philip Roth Versus the Movies 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z There was “a disconcerting similarity to ‘Get Smart’ in togas,” and “the Batmobile was really second-rate Detroit in comparison with the vehicular sophistication of James Bond.” Friday File: Recalling Batman’s Star Turn at Shea Stadium in ’66 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z But a sloppy, second-rate performance was exploited by a fired-up Manu Samoa, who pulled out one more final trick to almost complete a shock win. England avoids huge Rugby World Cup upset with comeback one-point win over Samoa 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z America's second-rate welfare state does much better in directly serving seniors than anyone else, so it makes an inviting target for conservatives. Leftists, save yourselves! It's a bad moment for nihilistic self-indulgence 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z But there is one name that eagle-eyed observers who have closely followed this story will note is missing: Mike Lindell, the comically self-important maniac who founded the second-rate linens company MyPillow. Requiem for Mike Lindell: He wasn't important enough to get his own indictment 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z After all, the media companies are going to spend only so much for the rights to broadcast second-rate games. Pac-12 mailbag: WSU, Oregon State will have company when next realignment strikes 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z What’s on-screen too often feels like wan, second-rate imitation, and the few differences seem motivated less by a spirit of imagination than one of joyless anxiety. Review: Halle Bailey makes a lovely ‘Little Mermaid,’ but this remake is less than shipshape 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z “It’s their sovereign right, but here, in fact, many see that such attempts to divide the world into first-rate and second-rate countries are now seen by many with a smile.” In a summit celebrating democracy, China sees an avenue for attack 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Fans appear not to have figured out that, because of the excessive violence, they are watching second-rate football. Opinion | The NFL isn’t going away, and it is getting better about injuries 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Through backdoor connections, Wang found, an official had set up a parallel network that whisked patients to a second-rate clinic in Beijing’s far north, generating revenue for hospital management but causing life-threatening delays. Fleeing Xi’s China, journalist makes fresh start abroad 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z His control was considered second-rate by Japanese standards. Hernández: Shohei Ohtani's evolution as a pitcher continues to trend upward 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z For a second-rate strongman, Mr. Orban, prime minister of a landlocked country with a population on par with that of Honduras, has punched way above his weight. Opinion | The E.U. must punish Viktor Orban, Hungary’s authoritarian leader 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z And Russia’s conventional military force has shown itself to be second-rate, at best. Opinion | A potential new snag for Putin: The retreat of Jack Frost 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Attempts to make the fabric elsewhere have been second-rate. Can an Iconic Italian Wool Survive a Changing Economy? 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z “Sometimes you need extra protection for the minorities so that they don’t feel that they are second-rate citizens,” said Gupta. At 75, India’s democracy is under pressure like never before 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z “But now we have nation states in China and Europe that are heavily investing in both science and high-end manufacturing. And if we do nothing, we will become a second-rate economic power.” Opinion | The chips bill means the Era of Hands-Off Government is over 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z “But now we have nation-states that are heavily subsidizing science, research and advanced manufacturing, and if we do nothing, we will become a second-rate economic power within a generation.” Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semiconductor chips 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z “It seems like our city is a second-rate city because of it,” he said. Washingtonians seek monkeypox vaccines out of state, since they can’t get them here 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z But the barbs are strained and second-rate, and nothing about them suggests the workings of a particularly keen mind, let alone Anne’s famously generous spirit. Review: Netflix's Jane Austen adaptation 'Persuasion' is a dreadful film, never to be borne 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z I’m not sure how I can do that when I feel second-rate to three women who have his children, and yet I don’t have a child with him. Perspective | Ask Amy: I found out my boyfriend has another child 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z It feels like second-rate reality TV, properly relegated to, say, the CW. Perspective | LIV Golf’s wealth is absurd. So is its product. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z In “Lost Illusions,” an aspiring writer wends his way through a gantlet of sex workers en route to meet a second-rate publisher keeping shop in the red light district of the big city. Review | ‘Lost Illusions’ is Balzac for the 21st century 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z In recent years, his rhetoric has turned vile, however, scorning Bosniaks as “second-rate people” and “treacherous converts” who sold their original Orthodox Christian religion “for dinner.” Bosnia on the Brink 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z In his excoriating polemic, Horne noted: "Australia is a Lucky Country run mainly by second-rate people." How Australia became the anxious country 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Judge Epstein noted in his ruling that Ms. Sonmez had kept her job after her public statements and had not stated that she was given “second-rate stories.” during the two coverage bans. D.C. judge dismisses a discrimination case against The Washington Post. 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z That’s suspect at best, particularly when the golf being produced feels more like a second-rate carnival than a first-class competition. Perspective | LIV Golf’s wealth is absurd. So is its product. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Jackson, armed with integrity, eminent qualifications, respect of her judicial peers and a rock-steady temperament, stood well above those reveling in the disgraceful performance of her second-rate attackers. Opinion | Voters, remember your role in giving Judge Jackson the chance she deserves 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z “There was a feeling again that we were offering a very second-rate option,” she recalled. As Virus Data Mounts, the J.&J. Vaccine Holds Its Own 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z “It will weaken his country. He‘ll have to make a very, very difficult choice of whether to continue to move toward being a second-rate power or, in fact, respond,” Mr. Biden said. Biden imposes new sanctions, export controls to punish Russia for Ukraine attack 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Local fashion designers, long dismissed as second-rate, command higher prices. How China Under Xi Jinping Is Turning Away From the World 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The joy and relief was clear, even if he was up against those considered second-rate opposition on the World Tour. Triumphs, tears & tantrums - will Cavendish get another shot at Tour history? 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Their new stadium is adjacent to a second-rate amusement park and their search for expanded game-day parking has resulted in an unsightly decade-long effort to remove a local youth soccer league from its fields. Hernández: Don't blame Rams for sorry spectacle of 49ers fans flooding SoFi Stadium 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z He abandoned teaching as a career after the White-minority government, as part of its crusade to codify white superiority, passed the Bantu Education Act, consigning Blacks to poorly funded, second-rate schools. Desmond Tutu, exuberant apostle of racial justice in South Africa, dies at 90 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z He abandoned teaching as a career after the White-minority government, as part of its crusade to codify White superiority, passed the Bantu Education Act, consigning Blacks to poorly funded, second-rate schools. Desmond Tutu, exuberant apostle of racial justice in South Africa, dies at 90 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z And Iran, for all of the regime’s malevolence, is a second-rate power at best. Pearl Harbor and the capacity for surprise from today’s adversaries 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Now they're eager to present their second-rate publicity stunt as a courageous blow for individual liberty. N.J. Republicans bum-rush the state house, endangering cops, state workers 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Player One was not only beat up, but he suffered through an obvious attempt at a cover-up that makes Mater Dei football look like some second-rate gang of bullies. Plaschke: Mater Dei must make changes after video exposes football program culture of hazing 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Black residents faced discriminatory hiring, second-rate schools and militaristic policing that became notorious for its abuses. In South L.A., a legacy of limbs lost to diabetes tells a larger story 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Lange has set his fiction in bars, cheap hotels and gambling halls because he likes bars and gambling and, when money was tight, second-rate hotels in the desert were his version of a Hawaiian vacation. Why an acclaimed L.A. mystery writer turned to vampire bikers in the desert 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Cox answered that Black and Latino children living in low-income communities receive second-rate public educations compared with white students whose parents can afford private schooling. Column: Where the Republicans running to replace Newsom in the recall say they stand on the issues 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Beijing has resisted calls to join new arms-control talks because of fears that new limits would forever enshrine its status as a second-rate nuclear power compared with Washington and Moscow. China is building more than 100 new missile silos in its western desert, analysts say 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Die Welt called it a "bitter and sobering end to the European Championship mission," in an article headlined "Only second-rate. What now?" German press mourn 'bitter' end to Euros campaign 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Former House Speaker Paul Ryan, weighing in on the fight for the Republican Party’s future, is urging conservatives to reject Donald Trump and “second-rate imitations.” Ex-Speaker Ryan to GOP: Reject Trump, `2nd-rate imitations’ 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z If the perception takes hold that rich countries are dumping second-rate shots on poorer nations, those suspicions could harden, slowing the worldwide rollout of desperately needed doses. Western Warnings Tarnish Vaccines the World Badly Needs 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Why would your body hold on to second-rate B cells? Your Immune System Evolves To Fight Coronavirus Variants 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z “I thought to myself: ‘I don’t really see the point of getting vaccinated with a second-rate vaccine’,” said Malika, who did not want her family name published. Science says it's safe, but some in France don't trust AstraZeneca vaccine 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z That may trigger a backlash from people who wrongly suspect that for some reason or another, they are being offered a second-rate vaccine, he said. F.D.A. Clears Johnson & Johnson’s Shot, the Third Vaccine for U.S. 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Plus, he played in a conference suddenly seen as second-rate. Don’t sleep on former UW Huskies corner Keith Taylor, whose draft stock could soar after turning heads at the Senior Bowl 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z TAIPEI, Taiwan — China on Friday accused Britain of turning Hong Kong residents into "second-rate" citizens as the country prepares to welcome tens of thousands of people fleeing Beijing's crackdown in the Asian financial center. China to stop recognizing special U.K. passports for Hong Kongers as Britain opens door 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Critics warned that the books by Professor Harold Rugg taught that America was only a second-rate nation, a cruel capitalist regime. Betsy DeVos and the politics of fear: A not-so-fond farewell to Trump's education secretary 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Rightly or not, he was also deemed one of the sport’s most frustrating players, losing to second-rate opponents and struggling at times to elevate his game for matches he was expected to win. Alex Olmedo, first male Latin American Grand Slam singles champion, dies at 84 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z They pitched in and supported one another through false starts and second-rate bosses. How a Brooklyn Sisterhood of Black Women Became National Power Brokers 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z The court filings in battleground states are pathetic efforts to assuage a wounded ego, pursued by second-rate lawyers, with no hope of success. Opinion | Trump is putting this country through something unprecedented. Here are three scenarios. 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z “The U.K. is plotting to turn a large number of Hong Kong people into second-rate U.K. citizens,” he said, accusing Johnson’s government of “violently” interfering in China’s affairs. China to stop recognizing special U.K. passports for Hong Kongers as Britain opens door 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z They are more likely to live in crowded housing and work essential jobs, whether in grocery stores or hospitals, and have a long history of second-rate health care. Road trip: In Mississippi, love in the time of coronavirus 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z They see her as a phoney and a lightweight filled with excruciating talk about kindness, and besides that she is a second-rate politician who will hold back New Zealand’s chances of a post-Covid economic recovery. New Zealanders have recognised the good luck that Jacinda Ardern is ours 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Writing in the New York Daily News, critic Terry Teachout recalled the days when acoustic guitar recitals consisted of “fluff: second-rate Spanish pieces, miscellaneous arrangements and transcriptions, encore-type lollipops.” Julian Bream, classical guitarist of profound influence, dies at 87 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z There’s no video to show that black children still are often systematically shunted to second-rate schools and futures, just as they were in the Jim Crow era. Opinion | What if There Were No George Floyd Video? 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z From the use of fitting systems to creating an experience with the fledgling golfer in mind, junior clubs are no longer second-rate. Best Junior Golf Clubs - Golf Digest 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Alexander Lambsdorff, another leader in Parliament for the opposition Free Democrats, said he feared Germany was being relegated to second-rate status by Washington. Germans demand U.S. ambassador, a 'biased propaganda machine,' be replaced 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The second fundamental problem with our health care system is that it delivers these second-rate outcomes at enormous cost. Opinion | Trump Makes the American Health Care System Even Worse 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Russia, by contrast, is seen by the U.S. administration as a second-rate power, albeit with a huge nuclear force. While US worries about China, Europe stays focused on Russia 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z He writes minimally about his own creative process for the same upper-crust reason that he writes minimally about his suffering—only second-rate people go on and on about their inner lives. The Pleasure and Pain of Being Cole Porter 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z All of which is putting most Americans on a path toward second-rate jobs in the global economy. American firms aren't beholden to America – but that's news to Trump 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Benny passed a father with his young daughter, who prevailed upon him to do a brief show, and who didn’t seem to notice that his miming skills were distinctly second-rate. The Safdie Brothers’ Full-Immersion Filmmaking 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z No one really landed any telling blows, with the whole show descending into second-rate light entertainment. Johnson and Corbyn fail to land blows in second-rate light entertainment | John Crace 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z As campaigning ramps up ahead of next month's general election, he warned that leaving the EU would leave the UK a "second-rate player". Donald Tusk: Don't give up on stopping Brexit 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Burton will likely start in place of injured teammate Dorian Thompson-Robinson, putting the onus on a backup in the battle of second-rate teams. UCLA's attendance woes could take a 'record' turn against Oregon State 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z The 1998 impeachment of President Clinton was as consuming and tawdry as second-rate burlesque. Watergate was a TV spectacle. Just wait for the reboot: Trump 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z A national crisis turned first into a North Korea tribute act then to a second-rate turn on the comedy circuit. More vacuity than vision in Johnson's after-dinner chat to the faithful | John Crace 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z But this effort made Johnson look like some second-rate despot holed up in his bunker, terrified of an actual encounter with his people. Brexit: government publishes Operation Yellowhammer documents – live news 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z On top of that, the vast majority of the watchfaces available look second-rate and don’t match the sleek hardware of the Versa 2. Fitbit Versa 2 review: smart fitness tracker, dumb smartwatch 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z It was only after more than a decade of feeling weak, second-rate, wimpy and writing myself off as a hypochondriac that I started to formulate the questions that needed to be asked. Why don’t doctors trust women? Because they don’t know much about us | Gabrielle Jackson 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z As his second-class degree suggests, his is a second-rate mind trying desperately to persuade us it is a first-rate one by using Latin tags and improper jokes. Calling the French ‘turds’ shows Boris Johnson is the eternal spoilt 15-year-old | Stephen Moss 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z From my visits, Jollibee’s is never greasy or soggy, the oil never rancid like some second-rate chicken shacks. Attention, Seattle! Two famous Filipino fried-chicken chains are in your backyard. Here’s why you should go 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z That brings us to the old saw about how second-rate books make first-rate movies, and first-rate books make clunkers. The botched new ‘Catch-22’ adaptation reminds us that some novels are unfilmable 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z First, there’s what Washington wanted and expected out of Foster, a first-round talent with a second-rate past. Perspective | When it’s the Redskins and Reuben Foster, even a freak injury makes you wonder 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Reisner knew he could get great musicians on Sunday, even at a second-rate venue like the Open Door. Is This the Greatest Photo in Jazz History? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z But across the Golden State, politicians, academics and voters tend to react to our second-rate status in visceral terms. How California’s early primary illustrates the state’s political inferiority complex 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Until that streak ends, MLS will always be viewed as a second-rate outfit, even in its own backyard. Column: Major League Soccer seeks respect in own backyard 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z “The Godfather” is a second-rate book, but it was the basis of one of the greatest movies ever made. The botched new ‘Catch-22’ adaptation reminds us that some novels are unfilmable 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z But he stood firm in his refusal to give up the country’s crown jewels - its hard-won and expensive nuclear program - for an offer that the North would consider second-rate. Analysis: Even without a deal, Kim makes gains at summit 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z But he stood firm in his refusal to give up the country's crown jewels — its hard-won and expensive nuclear program — for an offer that the North would consider second-rate. Analysis: Even without a deal, Kim makes gains at summit 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Selling tickets to watch second-rate opponents is increasingly difficult, even for the powerhouses in the football-crazed SEC. No more cupcakes: Imagining a proposed Pac-12-Big 12 ‘strategic alliance’ 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z After all, there are no second-rate comeback albums or awkwardly staged reunions to taint Talk Talk's legacy. Obituary: Mark Hollis 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z It’s impossible for film to do justice to Faulkner’s novels except, perhaps, for “Sanctuary,” which he deliberately wrote as a second-rate potboiler, disparaging it as “a cheap idea … deliberately conceived to make money.” The botched new ‘Catch-22’ adaptation reminds us that some novels are unfilmable 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z And even if oral vitamin K prophylaxis is second-rate care, it is better than no prophylaxis. High risk: anti-vaxxers in the delivery ward 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z The article quoted an unnamed minister describing the plan as a bid by “second-rate staff desperate to keep their jobs.” World Digest: Feb. 2, 2019 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z The article itself quoted an unnamed minister describing the plan as a bid by “second-rate staff desperate to keep their jobs”. UK PM's office denies report of June 6 election plan 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z “Everyone just looks at you as if you’re like second-rate … kind of a knockoff,” Kris said. Will Johnson, grandson of UCLA great Marques Johnson, carries on legacy — at Oregon 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Liviu Dragnea, the leader of Romania’s governing Social Democratic Party, accused the bloc in December of “discriminatory” treatment, telling party members, “Romania will no longer accept being treated as a second-rate country.” Romania, Fighting the E.U., Prepares to Lead It at ‘Crucial Moment’ 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z One teacher said that IT was once seen as "almost a second-rate subject". IT classes slow to connect to smartphones 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z The PM plans to focus on the "stigma" attached to social housing and will say tenants are "not second-rate citizens". PM to announce £2bn for social housing 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The London was a second-rate ship of the line, carrying some 70 guns and more than 300 crew. Historic warship's secrets go on display 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z But nor did he warm to Britain either, finding it a second-rate country of "bum politicians, scruffy writers and crooked aristocrats." Obituary: VS Naipaul 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z That order includes Russia playing a central role, instead of being treated like a pariah or a second-rate has-been. Just Sitting Down With Trump, Putin Comes Out Ahead 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z “Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album” is not a bootleg, a rehearsal or a throwaway album of second-rate work. Music Review: ‘Lost’ 1963 John Coltrane album a treasure 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Sung-Yoon Lee, a Korean studies professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, was even less impressed, calling it “eerily reminiscent of second-rate South Korean government promotional videos.” Coming Attractions: Trump Showed Kim a Faux Movie Trailer About a Transformed North Korea 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Rhode Island continues to be hurt by sky-high property taxes and too much red tape, as well as second-rate public schools, with only weak and timid reforms contemplated. Editorials from around New England 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z His second-rate and understaffed legal team seems overwhelmed by the widening and deepening scandals. Opinion | President Trump is sowing the seeds of his own demise 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z For years, cybersecurity experts viewed North Korea as a second-rate hacking force whose attacks were disruptive but reasonably easy to decode. How North Korea’s Hackers Became Dangerously Good 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Prior salary is a “second-rate surrogate” for those job-related factors and likely masks continuing pay inequities, the court said. Salary history cannot justify sex-based pay gaps: U.S. appeals court 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Another second-rate year, and the walls start to close. Analysis: Why spring practice means more this year for the Pac-12 than ever before 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Please, do not give the second-rate reality TV star in the White House any ideas. Sermons and Shouted Insults: How Erdogan Keeps Turkey Spellbound 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z It’s a frightening prospect that today’s 16-year-old budding hoop and grid superstars, with little historical perspective, might be eschewing the Pac-12 as a second-rate conference. It’s time for the Pac-12 to get serious about being able to compete nationally again 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Even at a respectable 18 and 8, the Titans are a third-place team in a second-rate conference. Remember the Titans: Forty years after Cal State Who, Fullertons take on Purdue 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Miami is decidedly second-rate as a tech hub, so he was stuck in a limbo that made Roam useful, if not ideal. When You’re a ‘Digital Nomad,’ the World Is Your Office 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z My editor, declaring me at least a second-rate reporter, kept me on the job. Sadly, no one will get to testify on alleged fraud committed by Trump University 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z “Whoever thinks second-rate international participation is not so bad will find themselves in international insignificance - quicker than some think,” said Seifert, who called for more “beacons” of the league. Bayern dominance hurting Bundesliga and maybe the club, too 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z New York Times social writer Charlotte Curtis was a “coiffed asparagus, exuding second-rate intellectualism.” Review | Tina Brown’s stories of glitz and gossip read more like cautionary tales 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The conference cannot afford to have a second-rate on-field product, one that makes the College Football Playoff far less frequently than its peers. Analysis | Why Pac-12 football needs a competition committee for continued success 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The bowl results substantiate, if not bolster the narrative that the Pac-12 was a second-rate conference during the regular season — that it didn’t deserve to sniff the playoffs. Analysis | After 1-8 bowl season, is it crisis time for Pac-12 football? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z If Britain must send a side back to Russia for a return tour, he wrote in 1945, “then let us send a second-rate team which is sure to be beaten”. From Korea to Russia, 2018 set to show again that sport is politics by other means | Andy Bull 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Marc Ferris: Why does World War I still get second-rate treatment in our capital? Opinion | The story of the White House’s famous magnolia tree 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Within the dance world, Martins is generally considered to be a second-rate choreographer. Five Dancers Accuse City Ballet’s Peter Martins of Physical Abuse 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Diverting as it was, its pleasures felt curiously second-rate; you had to wonder if the filmmakers had more up their sleeves than smart jokes, cute droids and an appealingly diverse new trio of leads. 'The Last Jedi' brings emotion, exhilaration and surprise back to the 'Star Wars' saga 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Friday was nominally Senior Day, a second-rate rivalry game, the last home game of another disappointing season. UCLA buying in to a high-stakes game, playing with big Chip Kelly 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z Republicans only care about winning: they've elected draft dodgers, nincompoops, second-rate legacy cases and crazed entertainers. An Alabama Senate Candidate Keeps Democratic Leaders Away — but Not Their Money 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Harrelson never quite gets there; he’s locked inside a second-rate makeup job, and all too aware of expectations involving the portrayal of an extremely famous figure. ‘LBJ’ review: Biopic offers a mild portrait of 36th president 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z "It tends to be the kind of third-rate people or some of the second-rate critics that get all sniffy about it. This is a way of saying: 'Yeah - shut up.'" Jack Reacher creator shares thriller secrets 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Easley noted that during the presidential campaign, Trump spoke often about what was wrong with America, and said it was second-rate. Ahead of number retirement, ex-Seahawk Kenny Easley talks injuries, hits Trump on protests 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z He hasn’t been able to hire people for many administration jobs, and many of those he has hired have proved to be second-rate, botching everything from handling the Russia probe to repealing Obamacare. Opinion | A Trump lawyer caught gabbing about Russia at lunch racks up career errors 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Once a headliner at Carnegie Hall, he found himself booked at second-rate nightclubs. Shelley Berman, influential comedian who acted alongside Larry David, dies at 92 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z “Like the Living Dead in a second-rate horror film, the premiership of Theresa May staggers on oblivious,” The Standard wrote. Britain’s Theresa May Makes News by Saying She Won’t Quit 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z “Covering second-rate politics can do that to a man.” Review | A tale of the 2016 campaign, with rallies, rage and plenty of beer 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z “We feel like second-rate citizens,” says a veiled Muslim woman living in Yangon. Militant Buddhist monks are stoking sectarian tensions in Myanmar 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Marc Ferris: Why does World War I get a second-rate memorial in our nation’s capital? Opinion | The Mall needs a memorial for the war on terrorism 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z And while the purging of crackpots ought to be celebrated, what if all that remains are talk show hosts, sycophants and second-rate economists? Opinion | William F. Buckley Jr. and the collapse of the conservative movement 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z “Growing up, I always felt second-rate because I wasn’t like the kids you saw on TV,” he said. Hitting the bamboo ceiling: In Hollywood, Asian American actors see few lead roles, and pay discrepancies when they land one 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z The alternative to this is Theresa May’s offer, which effectively means that unless they manage to acquire British citizenship, EU nationals become second-rate citizens in Britain. Brexodus has begun. We EU nationals know staying on is too big a gamble | Joris Luyendijk 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z It is deplorable that the First World War has received such second-rate treatment in the nation’s capital. Opinion | Why does World War I still get second-rate treatment in our capital? 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z “Achievements by the second-rate gender pale in comparison to virtually everything great in human history was accomplished by men, not women.” ‘Wonder Woman’ Could Be the Superhero Women in Hollywood Need 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z When it comes to detecting odours, we have long dismissed human abilities as second-rate. Not to be sniffed at: human sense of smell rivals that of dogs, says study 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z He then played in various other second-rate U.S. professional leagues and in Israel but never was able to catch on in the NBA and was soon back on the playgrounds of New York. Street-ball legend Fly Williams accused of running massive heroin-distribution ring in Brooklyn 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z “We are a cultural, economic and intellectual powerhouse-in-waiting and we are not going to be second-rate, second-class or junior varsity to anybody.” Gov. Joe Piscopo? Candidates in two states try to use lessons learned from Trump. 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z And the Islanders bounce around second-rate options in the New York area while holding out hope for modern arena to call their own, as always. Which NHL teams are moving? A guide to hockey's latest relocation rumors 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Now, flipping — buying second-rate homes, rehabbing them quickly, and selling them for a profit — is back. There’s a crowdfunded alternative to house-flip financing 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z The film took another culture's traditions, he goes on, and translated them "into the tired platitudes of a second-rate Disney animation". Is the Eagle Huntress really a documentary? - BBC News 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z The decision seemed to confirm Russia’s role as a second-rate power in the Middle East. Putin, the perpetual spoiler, tries his hand at a peace process 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z “I’ve always seen American democracy as a second-rate democracy,” he said, “because the parliamentary system is better in nearly every way.” A Chinese graduate student who can’t get enough U.S. politics ‘decodes’ Trump 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z With the reduction of responsible and professional staff and organizations, news has been abdicated to second-rate non-reporters. Climate change in 2016: the good, the bad, and the ugly | John Abraham 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Sports, on why there will always be a TV market for second-rate bowl games: “Because watching Eastern Michigan-Old Dominion is still better than listening to uncle Bob rehash the presidential election, am I right?” Raising a ruckus over pole dancing 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The French official who spoke to the AP said although France’s big political parties are managed like businesses, their IT practices are often second-rate. After US election hacks, France girds against cyberattacks 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Although the play was second-rate, the teams were perfectly matched, leaving a final over in which six runs or one wicket would have won it. Cricket’s Brazilian outpost: how CCC thrive in the ‘corridor of sun certainty’ 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Trump isn’t going to treat Putin like a thug and his country as a second-rate power. Trump Will Thaw Chilly U.S.-Russia Relationship 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Instead, his compulsive need to be seen herding beautiful women around like a second-rate Hugh Hefner kicked in, and he was pitching this unbearably dumb idea to ABC. Will Donald Trump turn the White House into his fantasy harem? Why not — he already did that with his business 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Does this mean you’ll just be a second-rate version of the writer you love most? 7 Ways to Improve Your Writing, According to Experts 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Even among the military, there are complaints that the United States often provides outdated hardware, second-rate hand-me-downs. Rodrigo Duterte, Pushing Split With U.S., Counters Philippines’ Deep Ties 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z A perfect street shot is a magical thing but it’s also the product of hours of stalking and second-rate B-roll. Meet the Unsung Street Photographer of 1980s New York 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z As Sunday’s dreary game entered its final minutes, the Giants, newly rebuilt but suddenly reeling, were tied with the New Orleans Saints, a team with a second-rate defense weakened anew by injuries. Giants Beat Saints With a Field Goal That Ends a Lackluster Game 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z “Women are considered second-rate citizens. They are fully aware that this is happening, the leadership. It’s happening with their blessing.” At NIH, one woman says gender bias has blocked promotions 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Pennsylvania's 66 million Steamtown National Historic Site, a collection of second-rate locomotives and rolling stock, was touted to attract up to 500,000 visitors a year and revitalize rust belt Scranton. National Parks in Peril 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z No one should ever believe the vague economic promises made by presidential candidates, but even by those standards Clinton’s second-rate Bernie Sanders ventriloquist act was unconvincing. Trading places: If the Democrats are now a coastal elite party and the GOP are the populists, Trump is only the beginning 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z “He wanted me to split the cost of entertaining his list of nine hundred second-rate celebrities?” Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Perhaps most important, temp agencies were not seen as second-rate employers. How the 2% lives 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z As the camps proliferate and more second-rate schools enter the market, quality may suffer. Risks and rewards 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z A great tale but one that will do little to elevate the perception of IndyCar as a second-rate series. Buoyant IndyCar geared up for challenge ahead 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z The team had gone from being a bunch of second-rate pretenders to a name known to football fans nationwide. Football culture grows up: Response to Baylor’s firing of Art Briles shows that justice finally more important than winning games 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Apple is well known for resisting any impulse to splurge on second-rate ideas. Rethinking Apple’s Recipe for Success 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z No one would accuse Yo-Yo Ma of being a second-rate talent because he merely plays notes written by Bach. Education's Dirty Little Secret 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Low point - Carwyn Jones forced to deny Welsh health care 'second-rate' Wales Election 2016: Party highlights and lowlights - BBC News 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Milken transformed the once second-rate firm into a powerhouse by creating the market for so-called junk or high-yield bonds, loans to companies not previously considered creditworthy. Junk bond king Michael Milken looms large in L.A. finance industry 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z All of this for a luxury item—and a second-rate one, at that. The Disturbing Secret Behind the World’s Most Expensive Coffee The return for all that tax money is questionable: poorly built roads, ports and bridges, and second-rate education and health services. Brazil’s Giant Problem 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Twenty years after “Pulp Fiction,” the influence of Quentin Tarantino is evident in countless second-rate crime thrillers that blend violence and humor and set it to a vintage pop soundtrack. ‘Mr. Right’: Falling in love with a hit man 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Why does US Soccer treat their one marketable asset as a second-rate outfit? US Soccer's wage gap is America's shame | Les Carpenter 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The U.S. government’s work on social media looked second-rate by comparison. How the White House is trying again to counter Islamic State propaganda 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z In December 2014, a federal judge ruled that Florida’s Medicaid program provided the children enrolled in it “with a second-rate health care system so poorly funded it violates federal law.” Florida editorial roundup 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Destruction of cultural heritage is not a second-rate crime. ICC's first cultural destruction trial to open in The Hague 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z For a few minutes, a sizable chunk of the entertainment world was humming in the bowels of a second-rate Canadian arena, brought together by basketball. Views from the three-point line: a trip to the Drake-centric NBA All-Star Celebrity Game 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Michael is the film's lost soul, a man who, when measured against boyhood dreams of fame, failed in the battered rings of second-rate arenas. For 'Prescription Thugs' filmmaker, drug abuse hit close to home 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z From what we know about Snyder, he won’t want his new stadium to be considered second-rate to the one near Los Angeles. LOVERRO: Rams’ stadium saga underscores challenges Redskins may also face 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck,” he wrote. From lucky to plucky 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Asked whether scientists viewed engineers as second-rate, the prince said there was, he assumed, a certain amount of jealousy and anxiety as to whether engineers might be better. Prince Philip says engineers key to global population solutions - BBC News 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Any lingering comparisons of Wilson to second-rate quarterbacks or foolishness about Trent Dilfer is gone. Yes, Russell Wilson is a game manager. He might also be the NFL's best quarterback 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z So yesterday, Apple launched Apple Music on Android, and it isn't leaving Android users with a second-rate experience. A first look at Apple Music on Android 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z "Companies shouldn't be allowed to offer expensive vacations, prizes and other kickbacks to agents in exchange for selling costly, second-rate investment products to unsuspecting customers," Senator Warren said in the report. Life insurers admit to offering 'kickbacks': Senator Warren 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z With no captions or dialogue, and no clear link to the first season’s story, it’s a gambit that might easily veer into self-indulgence, or come off as second-rate Terrence Malick. The Existential Risk-Taking of “The Leftovers” 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z "Do I want to end up in Lebanon, where I will be treated worse than second-rate?" asks a young bank employee in Damascus' upscale Abu Rummaneh district, a frequent target of rebel shelling. For those left in Syria, life among the ruins takes on a ghostly air 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z How can Vladimir Putin, with a sinking economy and a second-rate military, continually dictate the course of geopolitical events? How America can counter Putin’s moves in Syria 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Women were second-rate members of society and marriage in the 1950s. 4 ways women are still getting punished economically for their sex 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z “In the long run, what he is trying to do is to get a second-rate power a first-rate strategic position in the world.” Vladimir Putin keeps tumultuous world guessing 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z In fact, judged technically, it was second-rate, or worse. Part of Corbyn's speech 'first written for Miliband four years ago' - Politics live 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z He said Mr. Gabay wanted better public housing, and a public education system that did not settle for “second-rate equipment and second-rate standards or politicians who protected the bureaucracy at the expense of the students.” Cuomo, Eulogizing Slain Aide, Deplores Violence and Urges Tough Gun Laws 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z It's time for US operators to focus wholly on being first-class wireless carriers, not second-rate electronics retailers and app developers. Mossberg: It’s time to free the smartphone 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z The passive acceptance of second-rate results for women flies in the face of the mythical characterization of the Marine Corps as the most elite of all of the services. Colonel Germano: Low Expectations Limit Female Marines 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z “Anybody trying to be a second-rate version of somebody else is just a bad plan, I don’t care who it is,” Matheny said. Cardinals draw on deep reservoir of talent to lead baseball 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z In fact, judged technically, it was second-rate, or worse. Part of Corbyn's speech 'first written for Miliband four years ago' - Politics live 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z That part of Vasastan, Mr. Carlsson says, “used to be a second-rate area but most of my friends now live in this neighborhood.” Stockholm’s Vasastan Has a New Luxury Draw 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Back then, a diploma from even second-rate universities was a golden ticket. Chinese Millennials: New Minds In An Old World 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z The team was a bit lost that year and was decidedly second-rate, riding bikes from a relatively obscure brand. Finding a Path to Success in the Second Tier of the Tour de France 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z A gang of surly ruffians from Manchester, led by a disgruntled civil servant,they formerly sounded like nothing more than also-ran Sex Pistols or second-rate Buzzcocks. Joy Division: 10 of the Best 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Because Lawrence was an experimentalist, not a theorist, some physicists considered him a second-rate scientist: “a mechanic,” sniffed one theorist. The experimenter behind the creation of the atomic bomb 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z That is a recipe for, at best, second-rate results. Building a Winning Political Team 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Ultimately, it was these teams that built the early Apple, held it together under second-rate management through the hard times, and exploded with innovation in Apple’s resurrection and triumph. “My model for business is the Beatles”: Why Steve Jobs was no lone hero 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z But many people still view apprenticeships as a second-rate career choice. Apprentices: How easy is it to create three million more? - BBC News 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z “As an actor, you work in certain environments where you feel the material is second-rate, and you have to cling to something else to focus your character.” ‘Rectify’ returns for Season 3 of a murder’s aftermath 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z "As an actor, you work in certain environments where you feel the material is second-rate, and you have to cling to something else to focus your character." 'Rectify' creator and stars discuss Season 3 of a 'domestic epic' in a murder's aftermath 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Others short-change themselves by filling too many jobs with second-rate talent. This Quick Diagnostic Can Turn Feuding Stars Into United Winners 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Certainly, Neumann can sound superior as he derides the FBI as “like a second-rate soccer team” and compares it unfavourably with the FSB. Russian defectors living the dead end of the American dream in distant Oregon 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Too many schools — including career and technical education programs — are delivering second-rate academics and yesterday’s skills. IBM Smarter PlanetVoice: P-TECH: Tackling Youth Unemployment One Student At A Time 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z A majority of American public school children are eligible for free or reduced price lunches, and they often get second-rate teachers in second-rate schools — even as privileged kids get superb teachers. Beyond education wars 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z And in the current climate, there’s not just a surplus of talent, but also a surfeit of second-rate players, which raises the risk of a senior-level hiring misstep. Biotech's R&D talent opportunity 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z When he started playing golf professionally, the sport was regarded as a questionable pastime for rich, out-of-shape white guys and a second-rate spectator sport. Tiger Woods Deserves to Take His Shot at the Masters 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Jenna was hilariously blind to her many shortcomings, oblivious to her second-rate career and talent. Laughs stream with Jane Krakowski on Netflix’s ‘Unbreakable’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z So, instead, the agency registered and ran second-rate domains like newjunk4u.com and nickleplatedads.com. These are the silly URLs the NSA uses for cyber espionage 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z “Those who are condemned to second-rate broadband are a message to all of us,” Wheeler said. Net Neutrality: FCC Passes New Rules for Internet 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Johnson has spent the season serving as the backup to Jaroslav Halak, but on this day he put in a performance that was anything but second-rate. Braden Holtby shines as Capitals edge Islanders in shootout 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z Faced with this new normal, smart owners with second-rate venues can either evolve – by renovating or building a brand new one – or struggle to remain financially competitive within their leagues. The New Financial Reality For Stadiums: Sports Are Often Secondary 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The decision not to implement a second-rate fingerprint sensor was probably the right one for Motorola and Google. It's Apple's fault that the Nexus 6 doesn't have a fingerprint sensor 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Idiocy is the order of the day, as the country slides ineluctably down the slope of second-rate irrelevancy and other nations, starting with China, eat up our capital and our very soul. Better but Still Troubled: Our Take on the State of the Union 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The idea that Mark Karpeles was the real kingpin of Silk Road appears—for lack of a better phrase—too good to be true, the stuff of second-rate Hollywood. Was Mt. Gox CEO The Dread Pirate Roberts? The DHS Once Believed It 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z “I think they kind of felt second-rate,” he said. At Brooklyn Bowling Alley, Finding an Impetus for Autonomy 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z The dispute prompted Assemblyman Pat Hickey, R-Reno, to refer to the GOP caucus as “a second-rate Vegas lounge act.” Rift among Republicans in Nevada Assembly deepens 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z If a fund doesn’t deserve to survive — if performance is undistinguished and second-rate — kill it off. All I want for a gift is ... better disclosure 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Wow, I'm a Democrat and voted for Obama twice, but even I am wincing at this concerted effort by the Times recently to try to cover for what is definitely a second-rate presidency. Our Unrealistic Hopes for Presidents 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Another person said the university taught that “abuse victims are considered `second-rate Christians.’ Bob Jones University Faulted Over Treatment of Sex Abuse Victims 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Perhaps the third-rate management gets replaced with second-rate management. Six Rebound Stocks To Buy 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z This is a man who finds safe haven in a London hospital after spending much of his life in second-rate carnivals as a freak attraction - and then blossoms. Review: Bradley Cooper terrific in ‘Elephant Man’ 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z And Dirk Nowitzki is still chugging away, although he is scoring slightly less than he did last season and his defense, always second-rate, looks to be withering along with his legs. N.B.A. Game of the Week: Mavericks at Grizzlies 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Lame-duck presidents must resort to second-rate personnel in their second terms. Five myths about lame-duck presidents “If you were seeing second-rate works selling for huge values, then you’d say there’s dumb money out there,” he said. With Art, Investing in Genius 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z These days, when Inter and AC Milan meet, it’s a second-rate spectacle. ‘Little derby’ shows how Milan clubs have fallen 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z But not for the Bucks or the other second-rate teams. Wizards haven’t won over this town yet Smaller classes would be nice, but show me a small class with a second-rate teacher and I’ll show you a small second-rate class. Guest: Halt turnover in school administration to improve education 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z The building materials were second-rate and the workmanship was slipshod. Effective, Successful Leadership - Walk the Talk if You Want to Lead 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z And that’s a recipe for cooking up a second-rate society, one that does not engage with the notion of collective responsibility. The Wire creator David Simon: why American politics no longer works 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z The country is said to be little better than a second-rate oligarchy. 'Impulse Society' blames hyper-capitalism for America's social ills 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z The state-run Global Times newspaper said in an editorial this week that if Scotland votes yes then Britain will descend from "a first-class country to a second-rate one." Why China's wary of Scottish independence 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z The next day, to protect ourselves from the black people who were angry with us, my family and another piled into a single car and drove to a second-rate motel in West Virginia. From Tiber Island to Ferguson: A childhood is different after race-related riots His father had five grades of schooling — and Spencer said he himself was taught by teachers in segregated schools who managed to give him a quality education despite “second-rate salaries, secondhand books and second-class facilities.” McDonnell judge presides with humor and impatience Any startup that wants to compete with those incumbents will have to pay fees as well or be relegated to the second-rate public internet. Can anyone stop Comcast? 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Jason T. Fitger is a professor of creative writing and English at Payne University, a second-rate school in a backwater state where his department is accorded about as much esteem as the school's janitorial services. Book Review: 'Dear Committee Members' Is Worthy of a Recommendation Letter The United Kingdom may now be a second-rate power, but the City’s unparalleled legacy as a global financial capital still underpins its pre-eminence. The Most Influential Cities In The World 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z This is not to quibble with any woman’s sacred right to choose, merely to highlight the casual acceptance that disabled lives are second-rate and can be discarded as too burdensome. Will my disabled daughter have a place in this genetic wonderland? 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Like most of what happens in Congress these days, these second-rate star chambers do little more than create cable TV sound bites and base-motivating outrage. The Real IRS Flap Is About Dark Money, Not Emails 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z “As Judy Garland said, ‘Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of someone else.’” After 50 years, Class of 1964 gives advice 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z If one group is established as representing the top universities - then does that blight everyone else as a second-rate option? Is the Russell Group really an 'oligarchy'? 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z His father was a top banana, a lead comic, but only on second-rate circuits. Mickey Rooney, 1920-2014: A Man Who Mastered ‘Putting On a Show,’ Dies at 93 2014-04-07T04:39:37Z His son, Eamon, added, “How long are you going to be a second-rate team in your own city?” Looking Adrift at Citi Field, Mets Keep Their Wallet Closed 2014-03-28T03:00:44Z But at less-esteemed universities in smaller cities, the level of science is often second-rate, says David Zweig, chair of social sciences at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. China: At a crossroads 2014-03-05T18:50:55.862Z Foreign firms from drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline to Apple Inc are facing tougher scrutiny in the world's second-biggest economy as China targets key industries to protect consumers from bloated prices and second-rate products. China accuses Qualcomm of overcharging, abusing dominance 2014-02-19T06:52:51Z "A suit again? How about a woolly jumper for a change?" while Leahbeth Williams describes him as "some second-rate magician with that jacket". The Loop: Stuck in a time warp? 2014-01-31T18:34:21Z "A first-rate city with a second-rate country attached", is how one American friend of the BBC's economics editor, Stephanie Flanders, described London. read 2013-12-23T00:21:41Z The one-sided shellacking of second-rate teams is at an end. England await Kiwi beauty and brutality 2013-11-17T09:07:03Z He realised a second-rate product was never going to break the sport outside the States. Is Britain the NFL's 51st state? 2013-10-26T22:07:54Z The same stifling sort of nostalgia can be seen at festivals padding out programmes with second-rate vintage acts and promoters encouraging third-rate groups to reform. The Rolling Stones at Glastonbury: why grandad rock rolls 2013-06-28T20:00:10Z Assumed to be homeless, he was given second-rate medical treatment. Why Gaudí's birthday deserves its Google doodle celebration 2013-06-25T11:34:50Z “It would turn America from a first-rate power into a second-rate power.” The price of our defense 2013-05-27T16:00:00Z Record prices were bid for the rarest works, but for the overpriced or second-rate, there was little to no action. Record Auction Price for Barnett Newman at Sotheby’s 2013-05-15T03:52:34Z In the long term, it will imply that we're resigned to becoming second-rate. Our green and pleasant Poundland? It will be if Mr Pickles calls the tune 2013-05-11T23:06:03Z On the face of it, CB schemes would be a huge improvement for millions of people in second-rate DC schemes. How can we bridge the pensions gap? 2013-05-11T06:00:33Z “When I joined this business we were seen as second-rate bankers by the rest of the bank,” says the head of transaction banking at one large bank. Why scale matters: We happy few 2013-05-09T15:00:33Z Sadiq Khan MP, Labour's Justice spokesman, told the Law Society Gazette: "No one wants a second-rate system where you are forced to accept whatever representation you are given regardless of quality." Eddie Stobart drives into legal aid row 2013-05-08T06:59:12Z And this may work in a call-center environment or in a second-rate corporate culture where people resign themselves to the fact that they will get more if they accept being treated like children. You're the Boss Blog: Where the Happy Talk About Corporate Culture Is Wrong 2013-05-07T11:00:33Z Yet he has routinely and jokingly claimed that he regards himself as little more than "a second-rate provincial hack". Stuart Hall: life and times 2013-05-02T09:30:05Z Our twin habits of giving men automatic precedence while seeing anything associated with women as second-rate seem to be unbreakably powerful. Like it or not, Anna Soubry has a point on 'girly jobs' and women in power 2013-04-24T14:49:33Z If any of Chelsea, Tottenham and Newcastle lifts the trophy looking glum faced, in front of a subdued stadium refusing to celebrate victory while muttering about second-rate competitions, I'll eat my hat. Five reasons to celebrate the Europa League 2013-04-04T09:48:26Z Unfortunately, while Kildall missed deadlines because he wanted to debut the most innovative operating code of the time, Bill Gates offered IBM a paltry, second-rate product. Innovate vs. Imitate? The Biggest Successes Are Imitators 2013-02-25T17:46:16Z Panetta said this month the United States risked becoming a "second-rate power" if sequestration went ahead. Ending long break, White House and Republicans renew budget talks 2013-02-22T00:04:28Z America will almost overnight be reduced to a second-rate power, quickly to be overrun by hordes of foreign insurgents empowered by America's retreat from the global stage. America's military can handle anything ... except a budget cut 2013-02-20T20:19:50Z Back then, web-based journalism was deemed risky and second-rate compared with 'real' journalism at newspapers or magazines. Science communication: From page to screen 2013-02-13T18:20:54.523Z His sentiments echoed those of outgoing Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, who recently said that the sequester would turn the U.S. military “into a second-rate power.” McCain says ‘maybe’ to new taxes to avert sequestration 2013-02-10T23:31:53Z We get a second-rate team and help pay California taxes. What Seattle Times readers are saying 2013-02-02T01:36:40Z The pilots almost universally hated the place, cursing the second-rate Mexican food and the motel room scorpions that kept them company during what could be weeks of waiting between flights. Two Men. One Sky. The Silent Realization of a Purer Form of Flight 2013-01-12T20:22:14Z "We want this to be a fantastic place, not a second-rate project," Zapata said. Goal: Design Unveiled for Haiti Stadium 2012-12-25T19:33:33Z While they would make for expensive and strange geographic bedfellows, that path would still be preferable than riding along with a second-rate football league and a truly slapdash basketball operation. On Basketball: Returning Home By Leaving Big East 2012-12-14T02:58:10Z But nutrition is perennially in a second-rate henhouse, where not only are those with no particular knowledge of hens invited to stand guard and opine, but so, too, are the foxes. Is Dairy Healthy or Not? 2012-11-30T15:03:00Z The man who spearheaded that advance was never content to be second-rate. Ageless And Peerless In An Era Of Fabless 2012-11-29T02:28:07Z Nokia, a Finnish telecoms firm, would be much healthier today if it had reacted more swiftly to market warnings, rather than keeping a second-rate boss in place while Apple destroyed its business. Schumpeter: Taking the long view 2012-11-22T16:03:01Z Too many second-rate offerings bogged down the evening. Art Gets Blame for an Anemic Sale at Christie’s 2012-11-08T04:41:48Z The proportion of those in comparison to second-rate lawyers and third-rate politicians is probably fairly low however. Hollywood propaganda 2012-09-29T17:30:00Z In a review, Le Monde calls the incident “second-rate, vaguely sad and, in a word, scary.” The Trouble With Valerie 2012-09-17T05:00:00Z You get complacent about everything, and then you’re O.K. with being a loser or O.K. with being second-rate. The Texans, After Tasting the Playoffs for the First Time, Want Seconds 2012-09-08T17:24:38Z "The vice presidency became a second-rate office, something to which only second-rate men would aspire," Mr. Tally wrote in "Bland Ambition: From Adams to Quayle," and he said that Clinton led the parade of mediocrity. City Room: When the Vice Presidency Was a Job for New Yorkers 2012-08-27T17:01:02Z If we don’t protect innovation, we’ve relegated ourselves to a second-rate nation.” Apple, Samsung Patent War Puts Future of Innovation At Risk 2012-08-23T11:45:50Z As a designer, I was convinced that we would end up with committee-led second-rate architecture and design or the political meddling that beset the Millennium Dome. Letters: The bright side of the Olympics 2012-08-13T20:00:03Z Photograph: Lehtikuva OY / Rex Features Let me start by saying that I am not a proponent of directing academics away from blue-sky towards second-rate contract research for the highest bidder. Going for broke: how universities can deliver on their economic potential 2012-08-07T12:36:37Z Once curiosity wore off — which happened far quicker that I’d hoped — my primary reaction was boredom, like watching a second-rate dinner theater production of The Pirates of Penzance. Music by Kim Jong Un’s wife 2012-07-30T00:00:00Z It featured allegations of editorial abuse of power, inflated impact factors and, not least, Elsevier’s ‘package’ sales strategy that requires libraries to subscribe to second-rate journals. I was sued for libel under an unjust law 2012-07-11T17:20:10.597Z American opera houses of the period displayed a marked bias toward the Old World, with first-rate American singers often passed over in favor of second-rate European ones. Evelyn Lear, Versatile Soprano, Dies at 86 2012-07-05T01:10:53Z Often, companies do things that make sense to management, and yet make the company looks like it's run by refugees of a second-rate clown car. 3 Easy Ways to Make Your Company Look Bad 2012-06-11T17:29:14Z "That she has never been inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame is a total disgrace especially when I see the second-rate talent that has been inducted." Tributes to Donna Summer pour in 2012-05-18T02:16:40Z He failed to acquire the delicacy even of the second-rate men who handed down to Matsys the traditions of the 15th century; but his example was certainly favourable to the development of art in Swabia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The orchestra and chorus here are like those in our second-rate provincial towns, only more harsh and incorrect. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z A book-keeper, or a second-rate pakeha, not a trader, might be valued at say his weight in tomahawks; an enormous sum also. Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 2012-04-05T02:00:37.337Z She went from London to Germany, where she danced for a time, to but scant applause, at second-rate theaters, and at last could get no more engagements. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Then the music was excellent, as, indeed, it was obliged to be to satisfy the requirements of Manchester connoisseurs, who are not to be put off with second-rate bands. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, Nov. 11, 1887 2012-04-02T02:00:24.930Z Of course, you can’t win without players, so what are the odds that the school’s sixth choice can bring top-10 talent to a second-rate program? Blog for people who don't have all day to read blogs 2012-03-29T15:21:00Z Yes, but the achievements of women painters have been second-rate. Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day 2012-03-29T02:00:13.340Z As a city it can never be anything but second-rate; the new residential part near the parks is like the good districts of any average town. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Here, as among the Franks, the ministeriales were the officials of second-rate importance surrounding the king, the highest being known as the ministri. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z In an orchard or a giant-tree forest, you feel second-rate someway. Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z When the cream of the stock has been secured, the enterprising adventurer disposes of the skim milk to the second-rate local shops, and sets sail with full pockets. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z From French league president Frederic Thiriez down, the refrain is often the same: top players will flee to countries with lower taxes, leaving France - the 1998 World Cup champion - with second-rate football. Column: The death of football in France? 2012-03-07T22:36:09Z The slightest manifestation of jealousy or self-complacency is enough to261 mark a second-rate character of the intellect; and I fear that especially in Goethe, such manifestations are neither few nor slight. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z In second-rate productions, it is astonishing to witness the ease with which the weather is ordered about. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z But Gauguin's personality was of a kind unable to endure the society of second-rate people. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z Except for the fortified tower it looks like a second-rate caravanserai. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z It is divided in its own mind, it is ruled by second-rate men. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z There actually seemed to be a vulgar conspiracy among the down-at-heel rural judges—a conspiracy to boost second-rate stock and to turn a blind eye to the virtues of overpriced transatlantic importations. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z It is to her own supineness, to her indifference and lack of ambition to attain the rank to which she is entitled, that she is indebted for her second-rate position. The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 2012-02-04T03:00:17.917Z These are the unfailing signs of the second-rate undergraduate who wishes to be taken for a sporting character. Peter Binney A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:10.423Z It's the place where the second-rate gets the finest show in the world. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z The Texans were to run a race for their lives, but every animal that was entered for the race was in good condition, and not one of them was a second-rate runner. The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z I had been thrown up out of the freemasonry of the preliminary struggle into a kind of backwater of established second-rateness, where there were also second-rate manners and morals and social perceptions. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z But on the whole I think they are more than generous to second-rate performers. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Down the block, his victim headed into a distinctly second-rate apartment hotel. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z In no walk of life does second-rate intellect reap so high a reward or meet with such great esteem. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z "A few days ago she showed it to me; bare walls, with a few second-rate pictures, a curtainless bed, a common wardrobe." The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z The less we dogmatize about his works and ways, the freer will the world be of secondary, second-rate commentaries. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z At six o'clock our hero issued from his house once more, and trudged off to dine at a restaurant on the Nefsky, near the police-bridge—a second-rate sort of place, but French. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z First off, it was one of those second-rate places that boasted no doorman. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z It is second-rate work, not scientific activity, and reminiscent of magic, conjuring and hocus-pocus; yet in the face of the interest of the patient this cannot be considered. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z Such a conditional and tentative policy, on the part of a second-rate power, in a period of universal tension and turmoil, was most difficult; but Griffenfeldt did not regard it as impossible. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Few things are as distressing as the sciolism of a second-rate English editor of a classic. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z It was a good place—and all for the price of a second-rate hotel splotched with Baedekers. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Just so a man may have zeal about things that are good and right, but from second-rate motives, and not from a desire to please God. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z Of course they are not, as they would like to claim, the "elect" of humanity, but comprise just as many worthless second-rate individuals as those who possess a different sexual organization. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z When I left home for Winnipeg I joined a second-rate variety company. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z But we waste time and effort debating the merits of the second-rate research of second-rate applied mathematicians in second-rate universities. Dot Earth Blog: You're Driving a Bus Full of Kids With a Curve Ahead 2011-11-23T17:50:41Z Perhaps in a hundred years or so, in some flourishing town where I discovered nothing but wilderness, they will commission a second-rate sculptor to make a fancy statue of me. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z They counted every thing else as second-rate, and of subordinate importance, compared to the one thing that they put before their eyes every day they lived. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z With one highly-prepotent bull we can raise a high-class herd, even if we start with second-rate females; while a bad bull will ruin the best herd in the county. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Naturally to no second-rate European power, for in combating England, England so lately victorious over all her enemies, powerful support was necessary; and for powerful support to whom could she turn but to France? Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z Their heads had still difficulties to conquer, but no more dangers; and themselves masters, or on the point of becoming so, at home, they could not fail soon to triumph in the second-rate States. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z It's treating me like a very second-rate establishment. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z He put up at a second-rate hotel, engaged his room, and then came down into the reading-room to keep watch of the men who tarried there. The Haunted Mine 2011-10-28T02:00:23.833Z "With one highly-prepotent bull," a high-class herd may be raised, even though inaugurated with second-rate females. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z "A second-rate play-actor, too," echoed Lydia First, "and ended by lending money at usurious interest!" The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z If they consented to admit us, it was only in a very small number and in second-rate offices. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z But, my dear chap, its absurd to act according to an unrealisable ideal in a world that's satisfied with the second-rate. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z True; but a century, you know, is nothing in the life of a nation:—England, to speak the truth, was only a second-rate power until the reign of George the Second. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z The fans, of course, who are left to watch a second-rate team play uninspiring baseball in a decaying ballpark. Sports of The Times: Look Around Baseball: It?s All ?Moneyball? Now 2011-10-14T14:36:37Z The military operations fell into the hands of war-experienced mercenaries, led by two great, and many second-rate, generals, and of nobles to whom war was a polite pastime. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z If we follow down this path it will not only drain much of the future color from our collective lives, it will also lead us gradually ever more toward America becoming a second-rate, lackluster nation. Steve Jobs' Liberal, Hippie Education 2011-10-11T16:01:42Z She wasn't going to be caught looking what she called "second-rate" by this Mr. Graham Guthrie when he came. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z I address you from the bosom of a Parisian ménage—from the depths of a second-rate boarding-house. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Theirs is not quite the Putin-Medvedev relationship, but it bears a certain resemblance, sort of a second-rate Moscow on the Hudson. City Room: The Day: Like Putin, Like Bloomberg 2011-10-04T12:44:55Z It was a flop, since hardly anyone wanted to pay $30 for the privilege of seeing a bunch of second-rate films 60 days after their theatrical releases. 3-D glasses showdown: Who will blink first, Sony or theaters? 2011-09-30T21:35:28Z Then you were not in the habit of visiting the second-rate theatres or other places. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z She had saved him from the second-rate, dingy life he had been so dingily ready to accept. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z I’m told there’s some remarkably superior second-rate society provided here for strangers. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Be 35 sure to choose first-rate historical books; never waste yourself upon second-rate histories. Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z It was the first Grand Slam match victory in more than two years for Gulbis, a first-rate moneyed player from Latvia frequently undone by a second-rate everyday work ethic. 2011 U.S. Open: Ernests Gulbis Forgoes Partying Well for Playing Well 2011-08-31T01:01:07Z Are the J-shaped blades he runs on, as far as sprinting goes, second-rate substitutes for biological limbs? Column: For Pistorius and sports, doubts must stop 2011-08-27T19:47:08Z “It’s better to be different than a second-rate version of what the last person was,” Mr. Pfeffer said. At Apple, Cook Has Tough Act to Follow 2011-08-26T01:48:05Z The samurai and gentry gathered in and around second-rate towns in large territories belonging to powerful daimyo may be included also in the same group. An Introduction to the History of Japan 2011-08-25T02:00:29.177Z "Why is it that my Kate has to put up with so many second-rate men?" would pass with tormenting persistence through the mind of this matron. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Because it is so nice to hear second-rate scandal about third-rate people. Mr. Punch at the Seaside 2011-08-24T02:00:23.487Z He had no mind for fished-up authors, nor did he ever indulge in swaggering rhapsodies over second-rate poets. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z The master, whose upper hand he had just acknowledged—whose aid had been so freely given him in really vital moments—was forsaking him at the turn of a wretched, second-rate case of common thievery! The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z So the summing up is that the first part is first-rate, and the second part is, on the whole, second-rate. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.103Z The best we can do is to have our plays done by a scratch company at some second-rate house, or, if it's a first-class house, they give us bad time. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Those who praise the second-rate or the tenth-rate in terms appropriate only to the first-rate are derelict to the first duty of the critic—which is to help the reader to choose the best. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Jenny desperately wanted another child, but not at the risk of becoming a second-rate parent. Magazine Preview: The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy 2011-08-10T12:00:04Z In little places a man with a good turnout is more likely to do business than one who looks second-rate altogether. The Lost Heir 2011-08-07T02:00:09.367Z Dil was simply bewildered with the lights, the blare of the second-rate orchestra, and the crowds of people. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z Nor does he believe in employing second-rate intellect. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z Colonialism is scarcely an adequate explanation for this devotion to the first-rate, second-rate, and third-rate writers of a foreign country to the neglect of the first-rate writers of her own. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z It is one of the great privileges of second-rate men, that they are permitted in some degree to follow the bent of their inclinations. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z Still, a Republican field that is privately viewed as second-rate by many party leaders and that could be forced to the right by conservative activists isn’t the stuff of a formidable general-election campaign. Letter From Washington: High Unemployment Could Put Obama Out of Work as Well 2011-07-24T20:00:59Z With evident delight, he quoted a description of him by the Vietnam War historian Stanley Karnow as “looking like a saxophone player in a second-rate nightclub.” Nguyen Cao Ky, South Vietnam Leader, Dies at 80 2011-07-23T21:25:11Z Rodney Street, London, where Mill was born, was a small, narrow, second-rate, odd, out-of-the-way suburban thoroughfare. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Or is he simply a second-rate, expatriated Englishman, a colonist who is to say ditto forever and a day? Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z One resident insisted the man killed was a second-rate wedding singer. Blunt Anthem Tells Syrian Leader It?s Time to Go 2011-07-21T18:10:06Z His enthusiasm for some second-rate and third-rate Italian paintings, and his failure to understand Michael Angelo, seem to show the same tendency. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z It has only recently been discovered that Smart was anything more than a writer of second-rate eighteenth-century poetry. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z It was really like a second-rate TV drama. Coming Out in China: The True Cost of Being Gay in Beijing 2011-07-14T04:00:00Z One night at a club I asked Brander Matthews if I should introduce him to a second-rate English man of letters who had been made a guest of the evening. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z From his early writings I seem to gather an impression of a Louisville more ready to praise what was second-rate than what was first-rate, and practically, indeed, without any scale of appreciation whatever. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z Shell's then chief executive, Jereon van der Veer, admitted in a private email at the time that the company had a second-rate safety record and pledged to spend substantial sums of money to improve it. Oil and gas spills in North Sea every week, papers reveal 2011-07-05T21:34:43Z For the others he had expected to find very second-rate types, possibly overdressed, certainly underbred; forward and gushing or awkwardly shy. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z In fine, though there are some who would fain mislead us in the matter, it is clear that Robertson was but a second-rate actor. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z While the pundits and politicians debate whether we are on the path to recovery – or whether we’re headed for a double-dip recession — a larger question looms: Is America becoming a second-rate nation? A Declaration of Innovation 2011-06-29T14:00:17Z Actresses, especially second-rate ones, thus find themselves in the dependence of a few coteries of journalists, whom they spare no pains to conciliate. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Articles of furniture, the most indispensable, are totally unknown in the dwellings of most of the second-rate nobles. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z These troublesome homeowners, the theory goes, can't afford to move from their low-paying second-rate job in, say, Paduka, Kentucky, to their dream gig in Walla Walla, Washington because of their burdensome housing situation. Don't Blame Underwater Mortgages for Killing Jobs 2011-06-24T01:01:49Z While fascinating, these kinds of data probably aren’t exciting to someone peddling a second-rate product. Brain Scans Predict Pop Hits 2011-06-21T13:15:02.600Z |
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