The principle does not distinguish between great minds and mediocrities.
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And it would have done so by bolstering Hollywood's congenital elevation of flashy, often sexist mediocrities.
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She knows how good she is, and he really doesn't suffer musical fools or musical mediocrities gladly.
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It would, surely, border on idiotic for him to leave for one of the Premier League's habitual mediocrities.
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"I speak for all mediocrities in the world," Salieri says in the movie, which Shaffer adapted from the stage.
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Finally, you drive away honorable and qualified people from government so that only ones left are mediocrities and lowlifes.
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But her core insight into how even mediocrities can be institutionally benumbed and conscripted into heinous projects remains fertile.
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Now, with Bright 2, Netflix is proving that traditional studios aren't the only ones who can greenlight sequels to expensive mediocrities.
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To call Salieri the "patron saint of mediocrities," as Shaffer does in his play, sets the bar for mediocrity too high.
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And Vargas Llosa has published so many novels — 18 in all — that the tours de force can get lost among the mediocrities.
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The flip side of this freedom, of course, is the risk that charter schooling will serve as a beacon to hucksters or mediocrities.
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How singular and pivotal one book dealer can be in a North Carolina that now seems run for and by Charlotte's D+ mediocrities.
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Even in more sweepingly ambitious novels, there's usually one or two mediocrities flitting about, sad and self-conscious, and I attach myself to them.
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But like a few others, you have to shuffle through a lot of fashionable mediocrities and tiresome gimmicks before you find something really worth noting.
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As far as comedy is concerned, "cancel culture" seems to be the name mediocrities and legends on their way to mediocrity have given their own waning relevance.
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It's those periods between desire and gratification – via any number of bruises, flirtations, disappointments and mediocrities – that make supporting a genuinely shit football team a unique form of torture.
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But the Parliamentary Labour Party is a deeply unimpressive lot; only in a very small and stagnant pond would profound mediocrities like Hilary Benn or Angela Eagle be the biggest fish.
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I'd too often felt misled by the Swedish Academy, as if I were Hansel in the fairy tale, toward the well-appointed houses of glum mediocrities who wished to eat my high spirits alive.
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And that's repeatedly proven to be a successful approach: Movies like Get Out, Hidden Figures, and Wonder Woman, for example, have broken through the glut of monochromatic big-budget mediocrities to achieve huge box office success.
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In a pair of novels, he's been more slyly devastating, portraying a country run almost entirely by backstabbing mediocrities, and a society where a woman who shows any gumption or intelligence usually ends up dead or disfigured.
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But as the market has expanded for these services, at least some superstars are emerging from the marketplace, people who can offer more value for you in a week or two than the mediocrities can in a year.
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But they certainly did not create the political system in which an unqualified ignoramus like Trump, surrounded by an entourage of amoral mediocrities, could rise to the head of the Republican Party, and from there to the White House.
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" Cohen savaged the team assembled around Trump -- "The President-elect is surrounding himself with mediocrities whose chief qualification seems to be unquestioning loyalty" -- and argued that "by all accounts, (Trump's) ignorance, and that of his entourage, about the executive branch is fathomless.
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Last summer, the idea of being Donald Trump's running mate was so fraught and distasteful that Trump was forced to choose from a shortlist of Republican Party mediocrities, has-beens, and hangers-on—including ethical basket-cases like Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
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The rest of the Angels, by contrast, are extremely Just OK. Andrelton Simmons is fun to watch play defense and Albert Pujols can still jack a pitch or two out of the ballpark, but for the most part this is a roster of has-beens and mediocrities.
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Ryder and Turturro deliciously capture an under-examined archetype of the Trump era: the frauds, mediocrities, and social climbers, including many American Jews on the right, who have embraced a president who flirts with anti-Semitism and who has emboldened far-right violence against Jewish communities.
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The Washington Wizards are one of the Eastern squads that could go either way, and with a 12-6 record over their last 18 games, they're starting to show signs that they could make a second-half push past rival mediocrities such as the Indiana Pacers, Charlotte Hornets, New York Knicks, and Chicago Bulls.
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The Brexit vote could almost have been designed to reveal long-festering problems with the country: an elite educational system that puts too much emphasis on confidence and bluff and not enough on expertise; a political system that selects its leaders from a self-involved Oxbridge clique; a London-focused society that habitually ignores the worries of the vast mass of British people; and a Conservative Party that promotes so many pompous mediocrities.
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" The book, "My First Thirty Years," goes on: "Sometimes I wish that, as I lay in the womb, a pink soft embryo, I had somehow thought, breathed or moved and wrought destruction to the woman who bore me, and her eight miserable children who preceded me, and the four round-faced mediocrities who came after me, and her husband, a monstrously cruel, Christ-like, and handsome man with an animal's appetite for begetting children.
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There it all is — the spectacular flameouts, from semitragic former generals ending up in court to harlequins flitting through White House corridors; the kooky theories of "The Fourth Turning," which informed Stephen Bannon's understanding of American history; the impulsive hires of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the national security adviser H. R. McMaster, and their humiliating tweet-singed send-offs; the jumped-up mediocrities incapable of writing a memo and the multimillionaires on the make with schemes to outsource the Afghan war; the birther conspiracy theories about Barack Obama; Kellyanne Conway's invocation of the Bowling Green massacre and alternative facts; the constant expletive-laden discourse in which major American foreign policy decisions were conceptualized by the president as variations on the Anglo-Saxon monosyllable for sexual intercourse; the contempt for human rights, loyalty to allies and fidelity to covenants.
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Today there is no necessity for it. Now a lot of mediocrities grind > away at their studies. But with mother's and father's money, they manage to > buy not only diplomas but also positions.
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Fields, pp. 19-20. Barry Strauss argues that the crisis really started with "The Spartacus War" in 73 BC, adding that, because the dangers were unappreciated, "Rome faced the crisis with mediocrities".Strauss, p. 96.
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He determined what was moral and right, like a hall monitor." Antoine de Baecque wrote that these writers respected Rivette, but considered him "brusque, arrogant and dogmatic" and that he "did not hesitate to excommunicate adversaries or mediocrities." However Cahiers writers André Labarthe and Michel Delahaye praised him; Delahaye said that he "was the most brilliant, with a peerless charisma.
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Cristian Vasile, "Propaganda and Culture in Romania at the Beginning of the Communist Regime", in Vladimir Tismăneanu (ed.), Stalinism Revisited: The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe. CEU Press, Budapest, 2009, pp. 378–379. The report also condemned the Art Ministry for promoting "mediocrities" as cultural inspectors,Vasile (2010), pp. 127–128 but avoided any proposal for actual liberalization.
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Critical response was mixed. Gannett News Service described it as "taut and stylish, a reminder of what can happen when fine actors are given great words." USA Today was less impressed, even suggesting that Carol Serling "should have left these two unproduced mediocrities in the garage where she found them." Ultimately, ratings proved insufficient to justify a proposed sequel featuring three scripts adapted by Matheson.
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The name of the hypothesis refers to José Ortega y Gasset, who wrote in The Revolt of the Masses that "astoundingly mediocre" men of narrow specialties do most of the work of experimental science. Ortega most likely would have disagreed with the hypothesis that has been named after him, as he held not that scientific progress is driven mainly by the accumulation of small works by mediocrities, but that scientific geniuses create a framework within which intellectually commonplace people can work successfully. For example, Ortega thought that Albert Einstein drew upon the ideas of Immanuel Kant and Ernst Mach to form his own synthesis, and that Einstein did not draw upon masses of tiny results produced systematically by mediocrities. According to Ortega, science is mostly the work of geniuses, and geniuses mostly build on each other's work, but in some fields there is a real need for systematic laboratory work that could be done by almost anyone.
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In Arghezi's magazine Facla, Banu and Locusteanu were viewed as "triumphant mediocrities" and "street organs", on the same artistic level as Radu D. Rosetti and Maica Smara.Remus Zăstroiu, "Elemente de critică literară în periodicele socialiste dintre 1900 și 1916", in Anuar de Lingvistică și Istorie Literară, Vol. 18, 1967, p. 143 Nevertheless, with Ion Pillat and Adrian Maniu as caretakers of the literary pages, Flacăra also turned to more radical forms of modernism.
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Back in the present day, Volger is too shocked to absolve Salieri, who surmises that the "merciful" God preferred to destroy His beloved Mozart rather than allow Salieri to share in His glory. Salieri promises, with bitter irony, to pray for Volger and all the world's mediocrities as the "patron saint" of their order. As Salieri is wheeled down a hallway, he absolves the hospital's patients as he passes by, and listens to Mozart's obnoxious laughter in the air.
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It was apparently the French and Swedes—not the English—who favoured Conrad's candidacy. Jeffrey Meyers remarks: "[T]he [Nobel] Prize [in literature] usually went to safe mediocrities and Conrad, like most of his great contemporaries... did not win it." Jeffrey Meyers, Joseph Conrad: A Biography, 1991, p. 355. Nałęcz coat-of-arms In April 1924 Conrad, who possessed a hereditary Polish status of nobility and coat-of-arms (Nałęcz), declined a (non-hereditary) British knighthood offered by Labour Party Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
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The dustjacket blurb read as follows: > M. Poirot, the hero of The Mysterious Affair at Stiles and other brilliant > pieces of detective deduction, comes out of his temporary retirement like a > giant refreshed, to undertake the investigation of a peculiarly brutal and > mysterious murder. Geniuses like Sherlock Holmes often find a use for > faithful mediocrities like Dr. Watson, and by a coincidence it is the local > doctor who follows Poirot round, and himself tells the story. Furthermore, > as seldom happens in these cases, he is instrumental in giving Poirot one of > the most valuable clues to the mystery.
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In his hands, dramatically different poets like Lorca and Rilke, Montale and Machado, not only all sounded alike, they all sounded like Robert Bly, and even then not Robert Bly at his best. But as if that weren't bad enough, Bly consistently held up these diminished versions as models of poetic excellence worthy of emulation. I promoting his new poetics (based entirely on his specially chosen foreign models) he set standards so low that helped create a school of mediocrities largely ignorant of the pre-modern poetry in English and familiar with foreign poetry only through oversimplified translations. Bly's weaknesses as a translator underscore his central failings as a poet.
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Norwich too strikes a cautionary note. While agreeing that Adrian was "the greatest pope since Urban II", he argues that it would be difficult not to "tower...above the string of mediocrities who occupied the throne of St Peter during the first half of the century, just as he himself is overshadowed by his magnificent successor". Duggan argues that, although "the future of the papacy was to be determined by other men and other events, but he had played his part in guiding it securely through an extremely critical phase of its long history". Ullmann has called Adrian "diplomatically very well versed and experienced, dispassionate and purposeful in his government".
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Ewing was an amiable and well-liked politician who had a gift for telling stories, of which he wrote many. He also wrote scholarly works and published Progress of Australasia During the Nineteenth Century with Sir Timothy Coghlan in 1903, and Review of the Rival Railway Schemes for the Connection of the Tableland of New England with a Deep Sea Port on the North Coast in 1913. Often scornful of the "titled mediocrities" of parliament, he was nonetheless knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1908; this was said to have been recommended by Alfred Deakin as a joke, and, according to colleague Richard Crouch, Ewing took it as such.
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Boileau himself, a great, though, by no means infallible critic in verse, cannot be considered a great poet. He rendered the utmost service in destroying the exaggerated reputations of the mediocrities of his time, but his judgment was sometimes at fault. The Lutrin, a mock heroic poem, of which four cantos appeared in 1674, is sometimes said to have furnished Alexander Pope with a model for the Rape of the Lock, but the English poem is superior in richness of imagination and subtlety of invention. The fifth and sixth cantos, afterwards added by Boileau, rather detract from the beauty of the poem; the last canto in particular is quite unworthy of his genius.
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Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as an encyclopedia of right-wing writers. The book is composed of short biographies of imaginary Pan-American authors. The literary Nazis—fascists and ultra-right sympathizers and zealots, most from South America, a few from North America—portrayed in that book are a gallery of self-deluded mediocrities, snobs, opportunists, narcissists, and criminals. About Nazi Literature in the Americas, Bolaño told an interviewer: :(Its) focus is on the world of the ultra right, but much of the time, in reality, I'm talking about the left... When I'm talking about Nazi writers in the Americas, in reality I'm talking about the world, sometimes heroic but much more often despicable, of literature in general.
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William Mann of The Times opined that, in their over-reliance on pastiche and "private jokes", Lennon and McCartney had ceased to progress as songwriters, yet he deemed the release to be "The most important musical event of the year" and acknowledged: "these 30 tracks contain plenty to be studied, enjoyed and gradually appreciated more fully in the coming months." In his review for The New York Times, Nik Cohn considered the album "boring beyond belief" and said that over half of its songs were "profound mediocrities". In a 1971 column, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice described the album as both "their most consistent and probably their worst", and referred to its songs as a "pastiche of musical exercises". Nonetheless, he ranked it as the tenth best album of 1968 in his ballot for Jazz & Pop magazine's annual critics poll.
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He is the author of three books: I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted (2010), Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal (2013), and American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road (2017). Hatching Twitter told the story of the Twitter's early days and its four founders—Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, and Biz Stone—who are portrayed as "mediocrities, narcissists and mopers who seem to spend as much time on scheming, self- promotion and self-destruction as on anything else", according to Tim Wu's review in the Washington Post. It was on The New York Times bestseller list and was voted Best Book of the Year on The Wall Street Journal Reader's Choice. The book was optioned by Lionsgate and is currently being turned into a TV series.
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