"Mediocrity was the dominating element of big conglomerates and, in the new digital age, digitalization goes exactly after mediocrity," he said.
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If there's one thing that 18 years of teaching at academic institutions has taught me, it's that, in terms of leadership, mediocrity begets mediocrity and narcissism begets narcissism.
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" "He's not going to accept mediocrity in those positions.
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Don't settle for mediocrity — fight hard for career happiness.
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I was horrified by the culture of mediocrity and homogeneity.
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It's hard to work up a froth about mediocrity, though.
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Without the right people, a business is doomed to mediocrity.
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And yet, his mediocrity was celebrated while Curry was ousted.
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And this was her chance at calling out male mediocrity.
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Hell, I was an unlikely candidate for Wall Street mediocrity.
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No matter what we do, we cannot settle for mediocrity.
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And far more pressure to lift his team above mediocrity.
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Mediocrity is a sickness that ruins your life over time.
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To compete, the Rays need a complete absence of mediocrity.
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Can't we give them an imaginative childhood free of mediocrity?
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The Mets couldn't even claw their way up to mediocrity.
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Where it's like, there needs to be room for black mediocrity.
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Regardless I refuse to conform to the mediocrity of Hillary Clinton.
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Dave Grohl's rockstar meltdown is pitch-perfect in its arrogant mediocrity.
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There is no reason to accept mediocrity as the new normal.
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In a land of mediocrity, the slightly above average is king.
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Nine years of what has come to feel like stifling mediocrity.
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Is the way Australia funds the arts a recipe for mediocrity?
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Cutting of basic science budgets will inevitably lead to national mediocrity.
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But this season they have been served a slice of mediocrity.
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It's unadulterated mediocrity from a company that excels in luxury and ingenuity.
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To bring out Prince to improve this mediocrity is a damn embarrassment.
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To bring out Prince to improve this mediocrity is a d— embarrassment.
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No longer will there be a monopoly on mediocrity in this state.
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If you flew to Wyoming for 7 tracks of mediocrity...oof. pic.twitter.
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However, they are busy and have no interest in settling for mediocrity.
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At some point, when will political mediocrity stop ruling the island-colony?
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Your flaws — your unsuccessful attempts at greatness or even mediocrity — are real.
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Instead, it will likely leave you feeling languished or mired in mediocrity.
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The rest spent the intervening 50 years trapped in mediocrity or worse.
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Sade is a shining diamond life in a sea of unwavering mediocrity.
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Its recent deals have had drab results, suggesting a pivot to mediocrity.
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Don't do this, and you will have a hot mess of mediocrity.
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In 2014, we talked to The Bug about his war on mediocrity.
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Let's be honest here, 29 has had nothing but disappointments and mediocrity.
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Campbell's bonus is an awful lot of money to pay for mediocrity.
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Soon you have the hot mess of mediocrity with no easy fix.
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The Rockies owe their sudden ascension into mediocrity to their young stars.
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In this league, the long view picks at the lock of mediocrity.
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Rachel chose a ring and a life of mediocrity over something real.
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The history of Supreme Court nominations is largely one of planned mediocrity.
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When you're committed, you stop justifying mediocrity in the name of authenticity.
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The rest of the lineup, though, is marked by a determined mediocrity.
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There are plenty of teams that would love mediocrity at the position.
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After years of flailing mediocrity, smartwatches have gotten good enough to be mainstream.
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READING John F. Kennedy's application to Harvard College is a study in mediocrity.
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So far, though, the push will take the giant insurer only toward mediocrity.
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I'm just happy that they're finally being called out on their longstanding mediocrity.
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He promised to hike taxes, and spend the country out of financial mediocrity.
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Finding a good chatbot in the current sea of mediocrity is nearly impossible.
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Not amazing, but not terrible—a fastball down the strike zone of mediocrity.
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But despite Season 7's general mediocrity, it didn't all leave us cold.
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So far, though, the push will only take the mega-insurer toward mediocrity.
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" Bognanno handled the request by leaning into barefaced mediocrity: "I probably… settled, maybe?
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Active managers have long argued that indexing the market is settling for mediocrity.
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Even the majestic Streep can't save it from mediocrity, which is saying something.
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Let's keep it that way and move on from this mountain of mediocrity.
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His scale is not the gastronomic mediocrity, but the dance between the worlds.
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You can't run a great business with mediocrity — or retreads or yes-men.
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Because we need a visual reminder of our stubborn tendency to elevate mediocrity.
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He just plays, almost always at a level below stardom but above mediocrity.
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The question now is how Mahomes responds to his first flirtation with mediocrity.
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High-quality Bitmoji TV shorts could rescue Snapchat Discover from its own mediocrity.
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Sometimes, it takes just as much work — maybe more — to remain in mediocrity.
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There are many possible reasons for the American men's enduring mediocrity in soccer.
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Baltimore Ravens (4-23) — The Ravens are the NFL's ideal picture of mediocrity.
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From there, he headed to Milwaukee, a long time safe-zone for mediocrity.
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It's a strange thing, this settling into the new rote normal of mediocrity.
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Since then, he's cycled through flashes of mediocrity, solidity, flat-out awfulness and brilliance.
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Should parents aim for the best and risk mediocrity, or settle for the good?
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This is white male mediocrity playing out at its finest on so many levels.
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The rare dose of perfection is far better than the consistent drip of mediocrity.
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The status quo that — at best — dwells in a muck of mediocrity always prevails.
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Only fanatic listeners could sift through mountains of mediocrity to find occasional unpolished gems.
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Since Thomas's 2011 departure, however, the program has slid into disappointment and renewed mediocrity.
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Also, would that be considered remarkable consistency, remarkable mediocrity, or a little of both?
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To not allow blowouts in a sport is to promote mediocrity and minimal effort.
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B.E.: Your mention of "mediocrity" and evil inevitably recalls the work of Hannah Arendt.
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Numerous 8-8 and 9-7 seasons could be viewed as consistency, or mediocrity.
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For brands nearing that cliff of irrelevance and mediocrity, maybe that all makes sense.
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And it can blind us to the joy that can be found in mediocrity.
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Sustained mediocrity with a promise of somewhat better looms as a land of delights.
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You have to establish common language about what is mediocrity and what is excellence.
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Sitting with the mental stress and disappointment of mediocrity is an enormous daily drain.
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THE INCREDIBLES 2 "They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity," Mr. Incredible warned in 2004 in "The Incredibles," inadvertently setting a high bar for a sequel, which has to rise well above mediocrity to avoid running afoul of its own ethos.
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Photo: GettyIf teens are the litmus test for what's cool, Facebook is hurdling into mediocrity.
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In years past, Berman had been joined by notorious mediocrity Trent Dilfer for this game.
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"There's no room for mediocrity in retail," Barry said Monday on a call with reporters.
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And they spare their countries the spectacle of dynastic politics, which can lead to mediocrity.
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SADTU's political influence means it can get away with stunning levels of mediocrity and corruption.
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But it's worth noting that the Blair Witch Project franchise seems veritably cursed with mediocrity.
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Apple used to strike fear but this time, Cook is paving a trail of mediocrity.
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Those howling about mediocrity, under this theory, are really afraid for their expensively acquired status.
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But unglamorous clubs have previously won the Premier League, only to revert to relative mediocrity.
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Banal mediocrity is the state to which these movies aspire — and few even manage that.
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The surrender of sovereignty to Brussels felt like another rung on the ladder towards mediocrity.
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"To make change happen, to make a difference, mediocrity doesn't get you there," she said.
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Burns is forthright about his opinions, letting us know where he sees greatness and mediocrity.
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Better to gamble and hope to hit the jackpot than to settle for mediocrity,right?
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Instead, all they ask is that their inescapable mediocrity is fun, or pretty, or entertaining.
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"We don't want to be trapped in perpetual mediocrity," Seattle General Manager Jerry Dipoto said.
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We could lead the way on climate change adaptation and innovation yet we choose mediocrity.
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Unlike beloved childhood characters Shrek or SpongeBob, Bee Movie's mediocrity is what makes it memeable.
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And it's music for people, they don't want to go along with happy-happy mediocrity.
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Unfortunately the 100 million fans at home weren't given a respite from the game's mediocrity.
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Worse, he sees teams content with mediocrity: Fewer clubs are competing to sign the stars.
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They lift a game that is almost fatally weighed-down by mediocrity from the top.
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And argued that it shows the mediocrity and subzero standards we all accept in heterosexual men.
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Swifties, the fandom fueling Swift's mediocrity, have been riding the high of her topping the charts.
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"The Crimes of Grindelwald" is somehow both hectic and leaden, a thing of exhausting, pummeling mediocrity.
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Her openness, however, was coupled with a fierce intolerance of mediocrity in all of its forms.
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Once one of the most innovative phone makers, HTC has had a long slide toward mediocrity.
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Soon, hopefully, the abject mediocrity will fade and we'll forget everything that was boring or bland.
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The Pistons are one of several Eastern Conference teams to have incidentally handcuffed themselves to mediocrity.
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Oasis's popularity makes sense when put in the context of the mediocrity of mid-90s music.
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The major complaint with teachers' unions is that they protect mediocrity in spite of the leadership.
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The mediocrity was thrown into sharper relief by what's been going on elsewhere in the division.
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Nostalgia and vague mediocrity, yeah, but it's our own and no one else will ever understand.
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Thanks, Mr. Wu, for underscoring the importance of embracing mediocrity in relaxing, engaging and fulfilling avocations.
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If I don't like myself, it's because there is nothing in my insignificant mediocrity worth liking.
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Or, are we going to restore the distinction between excellence and mediocrity, truth and a lie?
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But I like having that expectation on my shoulders because it takes me out of mediocrity.
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Arizona Cardinals (3-7-1) Like many other bottom-dwellers, you are cheering for mediocrity today.
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" He said the Pulitzer Prize for fiction "takes dead aim at mediocrity and almost never misses.
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Comparing yourself to others helps us to keep reaching for our goals and not settling for mediocrity.
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Instead of bailing on this mediocrity, it appears the team is content to continue on this path.
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We're so used to mediocrity that we have to go that extra mile to make ourselves exceptional.
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On one hand, it means we are subject to listen to mediocrity much longer than is preferred.
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The Fermi Paradox is still a relevant problem, one that even the Mediocrity Principle can't sufficiently address.
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But the hits are few and far between in a sea of mediocrity and empty attention-mongering.
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But it was Krzyzewski's predecessor, Foster, who re-energized the program after it had languished in mediocrity.
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Point B spread out across the Aughts, as McConaughey took a sojourn through the wilds of mediocrity.
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Literary criticism has been routinely lambasted for its niceness, its lack of intellectual rigor, and its mediocrity.
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Our ability to identify these stages and maximize their potential will lift us from mediocrity to accomplishment.
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Those are the things that make the difference between living a life of mediocrity or outrageous success.
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This lazy mentality is a destructive decline into deep mediocrity, and no way to make America great.
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First, you have a cap on how good you can be, and that cap is probably mediocrity.
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As you have probably guessed, that night in 2011, like so many others, ended in utter mediocrity.
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Instead, either Cashman or his masters stuck New York with the last four years of expensive mediocrity.
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Defenses know this, too, and consistently elite regular-season offenses have devolved into mediocrity in the postseason.
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Beyoncé, we know, is not a woman who tolerates mediocrity, least of all with her own image.
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Code Red is an elite Dew flavor brought down by the mediocrity of White Out and Voltage.
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Traditional conglomerates do not have a future because, he says, their inherent lack of focus drives mediocrity.
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The occasional worthwhile show is lost in a sea of mediocrity, as producers push quantity over quality.
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By being with people who chase after success, not mediocrity, you get motivated to accomplish great things.
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Their problem isn't that they willingly and intentionally dive face-first into a brick wall of mediocrity.
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Their problem is that the path to mediocrity is simply more clear than the path to greatness.
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Mistrust and mediocrity were rife, yet, Ms. Merkel has noted, few really thought the system would collapse.
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Mediocrity, she added, "will certainly be replaced by technology, but the true concierge artist can never be."
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Jeff Fisher is less a person right now than a stand-in phrase for 'mediocrity at best.
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Settling for mediocrity is hardly going to help it hang on to or recruit top-notch investment bankers.
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And in the circumstances of life, they embraced a path that guided them to some form of mediocrity.
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Parents like her should opt out, no matter that escaping the district meant no guarantee of escaping mediocrity.
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In the end you'll just be back there, in a near-empty pub, condemned to your own mediocrity.
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Quenneville, who won three championships in Chicago, was hired by the Panthers to coach them out of mediocrity.
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"You could do more to achieve parity but you don't want a parity of mediocrity either," he added.
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Surely a flash of genius is better than mediocrity, even if it is part of a combustible mixture?
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Small companies need innovation in order to compete and give consumers the choice to not settle for mediocrity.
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Bloated bureaucracies and potent teachers unions remain intractable obstacles to reform, leaving thousands of schoolchildren mired in mediocrity.
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What was striking, though, was that in some categories, fees were responsible for the actively managed funds' mediocrity.
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Below, I chose the absolute bottom of the barrel -- the worst candidate in a year filled with mediocrity.
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Yet despite Kennedy's success managing the disease, his job was threatened by Texas A&M's on-court mediocrity.
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Could the voters do a better job sifting through the reboot-remake mediocrity to find high-grossing jewels?
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"We don't want to be trapped in perpetual mediocrity," Dipoto said this month at the general managers' meetings.
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His task was not a simple one: to make Maryland competitive after decades of mediocrity and structural disadvantages.
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She could intimidate students, nearly all of them professional chefs, with her short temper and intolerance for mediocrity.
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Four years ago, the Philadelphia 76ers grew tired of mediocrity and decided to become as awful as possible.
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The Disney vault is open and, as it turns out, there's a whole lot of mediocrity in there.
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And since most people have marked the path to mediocrity pretty well, that's the one most people follow.
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Horribleness can be correlated with vision and perfectionism, just as niceness can be correlated with mediocrity and failure.
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Or will Matthew Dellavedova, that magic pixie of basketball injuries, make his mark as this Finals' upstart mediocrity?
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It'l lessen his trade value and cement them on the dreaded treadmill of mediocrity they're probably comfortable jogging on.
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Saturday Night Live parodied the lack of diversity in Academy Award nominations by handing out awards for extreme mediocrity.
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The 2014 movie was in many ways an exercise in fan service, which is what mired it in mediocrity.
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The strategic shift it has made, however, will only push the insurer toward mediocrity, Antony Currie writes in Breakingviews.
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Everyone in this race to reach mediocrity, listening to boring music that's force fed to these bourgeoisie, purebred assholes.
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The mediocrity of the GOW 3 campaign prior also did nothing to boost my enthusiasm Again, though, good song.
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Honestly, I was expecting it had fallen behind the class and was consigned to mediocrity until its next update.
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Monopolies of mediocrity can survive in the public sector but they don't last in the private sector, especially online.
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"If the average mutual fund is still underperforming the index, mediocrity is still better than below average," Rosenbluth counters.
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The solution is more freedom, something those oppressed by the institutionalized mediocrity of the system don't have enough of.
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The Academy, which she dismissed as committed to "congealed mediocrity," suspended Krasner for entering studios banned to female students.
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Will the voters of Virginia send a clear signal that they reject the mediocrity and corporate opportunism of Gillespie?
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But it's still tricky to find those truly terrible turds in the giant punchbowl of mediocrity that is Netflix.
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But, I think the second Razorlight album definitely opened the way for a flood of mediocrity in UK music.
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Weighed down by max contracts and missing out on the opportunities provided by the lottery, teams calcify into mediocrity.
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The rest of the line—Greg Robinson at left tackle and known mediocrity Tim Barnes at center—looks rough.
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What ensued was about eight minutes of blissful mediocrity—the most that anyone could ever ask of Greek pizza.
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They knew that "affirmative action," whatever its benefits as a form of social engineering, was a synonym for mediocrity.
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He takes his mediocrity quite seriously — in three years of competitive play, he has compiled a 66-64 record.
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" He went on to assail much of the poetry world, finding mediocrity there, or what he calls the "McPoem.
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" I particularly loved this fortune cookie line: "In this league, the long view picks at the lock of mediocrity.
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The Disney vault is open and, as it turns out, there's a whole lot of mediocrity in there too.
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And what can really be said about this game, besides the fact that it's one giant ego stroke for mediocrity?
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The best things in life don't come easily, and failing to observe yourself carefully is a sure path to mediocrity.
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But the album transcends mediocrity because her observations are so specific and strange, they still feel fresh 22 years later.
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Halfway through her piece my mind wandered to the old countercultural rant that American society succeeds best in promoting mediocrity.
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If the mediocrity of the NFL isn't enough to sway you to the Jaguars camp, how about the team's defense?
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Call us masochistic, but we find the prospect of watching general mediocrity smash itself to bits quite the nose-crinkler.
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The Boss and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice are in a neck-and-neck race for mediocrity this week.
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"Usually the handmade is representative of luxury and individuality, and the machine-made is presented as mediocrity," Mr. Bolton said.
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Yair Rodriguez versus Alex Caceres either saved the event or plunged it further into mediocrity depending on who you ask.
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He was shot out of a cannon to rescue the Clippers from terminal mediocrity, and his arrival transformed the franchise.
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It's not that "All American" is so bad, but its mediocrity reflects an inability to capitalize on so much potential.
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The mediocrity of the unremarkable plants and the forged orgies contained in the drawings create a comical circle of life.
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But Hahn had a ticket out of persistent mediocrity: modestly paid, high-impact players with multiple years of club control.
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To be clear, acknowledging the power of arrival fallacy does not mean we should settle for a life of mediocrity.
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Pistons 115, Knicks 108 DETROIT — There's plenty of mediocrity in the Eastern Conference, and the Detroit Pistons are taking advantage.
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"Larry Sanders" was an extremely funny TV show about a mediocre TV show produced by characters grappling with its mediocrity.
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In their first 10 games after that declaration, the Nationals went 5-5, typical of a season defined by mediocrity.
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The Colts have as good a chance as anyone to win the A.F.C. South, a four-team ode to mediocrity.
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The quota has, in effect, simply served to inflate the salaries of homegrown players, entrenching a sort of lucrative mediocrity.
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"Cinderella needs a drink," Gellhorn replies over her shoulder to the skulking Papa Hemingway, and the film's mediocrity is sealed.
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Prior to the 1980s, the VA essentially was left alone to wallow in its more comfortably accepted, though appalling, mediocrity.
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The resilience has not been replicated by the Cardinals (743-8), who have endured a second consecutive season of mediocrity.
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But there they are: a McMahon-scented miasma of mediocrity, draped over the thrill and hope of WWE's New Era.
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For organizations hovering somewhere between mediocrity and brilliance, each year rotates around two inflection points: The offseason, and the trade deadline.
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The concept revolving around George—in some ways, the very embodiment of lovable mediocrity—would be lost in anything too spectacular.
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President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein rescued the franchise from mediocrity five years ago and turned the Cubs into perennial contenders.
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The insufferable Hollywood and automotive retreads of the last decade have mired their respective industries in a morass of wistful mediocrity.
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That's got Wall Street excited that after a long period of mediocrity, the economy finally may have reached an inflection point.
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Millions of people think that Theresa May is a discredited mediocrity and that Jeremy Corbyn, Labour's leader, is a dangerous fantasist.
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It is my sacred gift in the war against mediocrity that I be honest and tell you the comic book truth.
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Sometimes I'll get a shot that makes me marvel at its precision, but on other occasions I'm greeted by disappointing mediocrity.
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Donald Trump and his ascent to power is a direct result of white fragility, white male mediocrity flourishing (privilege), and desperation.
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There is a long list of bad superhero games, and fans have come to accept a never ending pool of mediocrity.
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The bottom of the Eastern Conference is trash, the middle is devoted to mediocrity, and the top is riveting yet flawed.
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Supporters see Trump as an accomplished businessman who won't accept mediocrity but will stand up to special interests and political correctness.
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While there are many well-intentioned, hardworking employees at the VA, there are also many who accept mediocrity as the standard.
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Their mediocrity reflects a deeply held organizational philosophy, and that philosophy has not changed in the face of all this losing.
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There have been A-List comic books that feature marquee characters such as Tony Stark/Iron Man that bumble into mediocrity.
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In Saban's decade leading the Crimson Tide, though, they followed years of mediocrity by going 120-19, with four national titles.
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Would I rather live in sober mediocrity for four more decades or be a kickass rock star for four more months?
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"When people are used to a certain level of mediocrity, they don't know how much better it can be," says Olmsted.
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The mediocrity (or worse) in the N.F.C. — hello, Panthers, Eagles, Packers and Falcons — has by default elevated the Vikings to contender.
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" She added: "For me to accept mediocrity in any way, in anything that we do, would be so far below them.
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It's ludicrous to wait until college application time to suddenly hope to fix 17-plus years of educational malpractice and mediocrity.
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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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Not all of it is quality; the mediocrity of Netflix films and TV shows has become a notable opinion among critics.
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I am a fleshy mass of mediocrity best suited to less spectacular pursuits like online shopping and ironing my own clothes.
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The philistinism, the mediocrity, the worshipping of money for its own sake — this is exactly the opposite of what Nietzsche advocated.
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Unless Gaudreau or Monahan leak into training camp, this could be the summer that gets Calgary over the hump of mediocrity.
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They've also benefited from the privilege of being "mediocrity hires," and the lazy assumption that there is an inherent superiority to whiteness.
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In a year when the originality of movies was first questioned then buoyed to new heights, there had to be some mediocrity.
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The sheer mediocrity of the sub-$550 range of laptops is why the new $550 Microsoft Surface Go is so damn special.
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Who frets over rooting for a team that dumps picks and stands pat in mediocrity for the chance at a golden ticket?
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DETROIT -- The best teams in the American League Central Division in recent years wallowed in mediocrity prior to the All-Star break.
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So that's the mistake—allowing the Clintons to keep control of the party and then allowing this mediocrity to be his successor.
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This year, government leaders can choose policies that will help America achieve its greatest economic potential, or instead settle for economic mediocrity.
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Microsoft discontinued the Kinect today, ending the motion-sensing Xbox peripheral's lifespan after seven long years of gaming mediocrity and wasted potential.
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It's the very definition of mediocrity, falling far behind the recent OnePlus 3 in terms of sharpness, detail retention, and color accuracy.
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It wasn't foreigners they resented, but the stultifying socialist mediocrity of Brussels and the dreaded inevitability of bailing out Greece and others.
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But the best things in life don't come easily, and turning away from life's toughest questions is a sure path to mediocrity.
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Life since then has been a steady stream of mediocrity, interrupted by brief dalliances with greatness and one prolonged period of mourning.
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And, as luck would have it, the fair's most shameless peddlers of mediocrity are some of the biggest galleries in the world.
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The Rays will adjust their roles this season based on matchups, to maximize their chance of success and avoid that dreaded mediocrity.
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It is an unprecedented security measure for a city whose two soccer teams, Hellas and Chievo, tend to labor in quiet mediocrity.
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It is no coincidence that the stretch of mediocrity has aligned with a slump by Severino, the Yankees' 26-year-old ace.
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Instead of jockeying for a high draft pick, mediocrity in the rugged N.F.C. had become a more realistic possibility for the season.
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Mr. Gurney turned to politics with "The Fourth Wall" (2002), an indictment of the mediocrity that he felt was engulfing American society.
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Yet clarity is exactly what you need if you want to end up settling for the mediocrity most people slowly slip into.
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They are two-thirds of the way through another trying season, with little cause for optimism aside from the Eastern Conference's mediocrity.
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Not having to rely on middle-inning mediocrity before getting to the late-inning studs would also quicken the pace of games.
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He apologized for having damned her to a "life of mediocrity" should she choose Bryan Abasolo and his pathologically eager-to-marry promises.
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On Baseball It was spring training 1998, a time when the Yankees were ascendant and the Mets were a dull portrait of mediocrity.
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Consider teams like Detroit, Milwaukee, New Orleans — well ahead of the Knicks on the trail of developing talent yet still straining for mediocrity.
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Fear biases us toward mediocrity, but leaders are in a position of having to make bold, forward-thinking and potentially risky choices regularly.
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Bigger picture, Washington has some promise, but will remain stuck in mediocrity unless it can add some front court athleticism and bench production.
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Living your life the way you want reminds them of the ways they have compromised, sacrificing themselves on altars of Christianity and mediocrity.
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The team's post-Michael Jordan existence, save for five years of respectable contender status under Thibodeau, has been basically a pit of mediocrity.
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This is plain both in his live reaction, which is muted for a top babyface, and in ratings, which are stuck in mediocrity.
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I'd say that Towering Literary Artists (realists or not) contribute to a formidable doubles team against the amalgamated forces of mediocrity and idiocy.Mmmm.
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But to some, the big board's inherent mediocrity was part of what they found so endearing: It is a monolith with human imperfections.
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She's awful at this, but that makes her an excellent fit for an administration in which mediocrity, inadequate experience and nepotism run rampant.
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More clearly than any other film of its period, "Risky Business," hinges the privileging of male mediocrity on the exploitation of female disadvantage.
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Not sorry that Beal will be leaving Washington, but sorry to him for having to be stuck in mediocrity-land for so long.
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A week ago in Charlottesville, Va., white men assembled to rage for a world long lost — one where their mediocrity was good enough.
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" Meyer's rather Trump-like response hit below the belt: "Another 85 pounds of generic white male mediocrity that shops at the lesbian warehouse.
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The financial crisis accelerated the shift, with banking plummeting from "mid-table mediocrity to relegation-threatened remorse" in the trust league, Haldane added.
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Canning two books that feature black characters seems egregious, especially when there are plenty of marquee superhero titles that bumble along in mediocrity.
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But in investing, mediocrity (or the average return produced by a broad market index) has consistently beaten the active stock pickers' search for excellence.
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The world is very kind to white mediocrity (see: The White House), but that doesn't mean the pop culture we consume has to be.
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"I do not aspire to be president in order to administer mediocrity," he said at a rally in the Pacific coast city of Acapulco.
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But when we keep underperformers, we create pockets of mediocrity in our companies that stymie productivity, burden our teams and slow the company down.
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But week by week, the team slipped into a kind of upper-level mediocrity, losing three SEC games in a row in early February.
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"The Hollywood of mavericks, rascals, cowboys and larger-than-life personalities, not the conglomerates that now rule through mediocrity and make movies by consensus."
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Whether it's health, wealth, or parenthood, once you start being "average" in one arena, that mediocrity spills over to other parts of your life.
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In the face of mediocrity, Exo gave us a magical washing machine, a mid-song ballad in the forest, and lots of patterned shirts.
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The Pacers won't be good, but in a tattered conference that's set up to enable mediocrity, a playoff spot isn't out of the question.
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" Mediocrity is the opposite of what the band are seeking—it's obvious that they'd rather take total debasement than become anything akin to "reliable.
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Whether it's health, wealth, or parenthood, once you start being 'average' in one arena, that mediocrity spills over to other parts of your life.
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The gender ratio is that of a rooster and his hens, and in this setup, Mr. Siddi's recessive mediocrity is all the more glaring.
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Set pride aside, and maybe the momentum surrounding both programs can turn before their shared downward slide toward perpetual mediocrity becomes the new normal.
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When they lost Kelvin Benjamin, their top wideout, in the preseason, he thought, like most pundits, that it consigned Carolina to mediocrity or worse.
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But everything went downhill from there — the team was 0-12 in 2008 — before a recovery to mere mediocrity in five years under Sarkisian.
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"They have taken his name and have conveniently used it as a springboard for such mediocrity, such tastelessness, such ugly ideas," Mr. Rucci wrote.
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" The graduating students at Liberty University should have been told, as Heschel wrote, that "the age of moral mediocrity and complacency has run out.
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They noted the words they did not know — embedded, mediocrity, glorify, intractable — and gathered in small groups to hash over their use and meaning.
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After a run of mediocrity, the Dolphins have sprung to life this year at 8-5, although the playoffs are by no means secured.
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When the first clock was installed in 2001, the team was mired in a spell of mediocrity that has extended to the present day.
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The transition of the American university toward mediocracy — that is, a system that rewards mediocrity — is linked to these misguided decisions and administrative actions.
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But as an incisive and insightful tale of ambition and envy, inspiration and mediocrity, the show should resonate with a wide swath of theatergoers.
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Some have viewed Sixtus Beckmesser, a pedantic mediocrity who is the closest thing that "Meistersinger" has to a villain, as a veiled Jewish caricature.
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"I started imdatfeminist because I'm sick and tired of beautiful, incredible, smart, capable, brilliant women accepting mediocrity of their love lives," she told me.
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The journey from hopelessness to champions of the world without having to pass through mediocrity might have been the miracle, and the devil's bargain.
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Following years of mediocrity and missing the playoffs in two of the last three seasons, the Yankees are now embarked begin an unfamiliar chapter: Rebuilding.
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I'm a big booster for Theon's journey into mediocrity, and Yara's "spoiled little cunt" dialogue is a merciful end to Gamergate in the Iron Islands.
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"The masses almost guarantee themselves a life of financial mediocrity by staying in a job with a modest salary and yearly pay raises," Siebold writes.
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Mediocrity is the rule; this was the last division to produce a 40-game winner, which it finally did when the Indians won Tuesday night.
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"The masses almost guarantee themselves a life of financial mediocrity by staying in a job with a modest salary and yearly pay raises," Siebold says.
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Given the mediocrity of those to whom Jesus' message was entrusted, it seems surpassing strange that the message should have taken hold with such force.
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Much like Shankly, Clough was vocal about his politics, and used his belief in the collective to drive a team from mediocrity to nationwide acclaim.
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In all its energetic mediocrity, "War Pain" is the second song released by Meek Mill, over two separate EPs, that addresses his issues with Drake.
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Mr. Wax was a lifelong fan of the Pirates, a baseball team that for much of the past 25 years has been mired in mediocrity.
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According to your mood, it might be termed the Jackass Theory of History, the Howling Mediocrity Account, the Colossal Bungler Hypothesis or the Blockhead Conjecture.
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A modest proposal: The A.F.C., saturated by mediocrity (or worse), sends its two wild-card berths to the N.F.C., loaded with contenders, for future considerations.
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A B-movie director with artistic pretensions, he drowns his fears of mediocrity in drugs, alcohol and whichever woman happens to be closest to him.
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Last week's ranking: Round 48 | We'll look back on this as the moment the implosion began After all the shouting is done, Americans love mediocrity.
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The initial spectacle of mediocrity condescending to genius is painful, but the subsequent triumph of self-taught brilliance over credentialed ignorance is thrilling to witness.
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Harbaugh was hired in 2015 to rescue Michigan from a wave of mediocrity that had swallowed the two previous coaches, Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke.
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Whatever else happens you can take comfort in the realization that we're not going to spend the next four years stuck with some boring mediocrity.
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And introduce a C student with a sense of humor who could announce he's proud to be following in the presidential footsteps of intellectual mediocrity.
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After her ex-boyfriend offered up his mea culpa, the Bachelorette swore she's actually living "her best life" with Bryan, free and clear of any mediocrity.
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Hot Bruins defeat Red Wings BOSTON — It wasn't all that long ago the Boston Bruins, floundering in mediocrity, appeared to be on the road to nowhere.
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To gorge oneself on mediocrity is another path to fulfillment, and in the moment, the feeling of fullness outweighs the journey it took to get there.
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It did not stop him being an acclaimed swimming coach, but he was under no illusions about his own prowess: "terminal mediocrity", he called it later.
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But my mediocrity might be the most important part of this whole message — while these prodigies are inspiring and impressive, the everyday teen wants change too.
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After a few years of counterproductive mediocrity, the Browns got the losing thing right, going 1-15 in 2016 and a perfect 0-16 last season.
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It doesn't help Penn's viewpoint that his first movie role was as a heavily accented student named "Taj Mahal Badalandabad" in the 2002 mediocrity Van Wilder.
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But most of all, I'm irate that Motorola's once-great Moto G budget handset has been turned into a compromised and nondescript piece of technological mediocrity.
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Complete the sentence: Woke up like this: Disheveled, running late, doing too many things at once and underperforming all of them; but pretty thrilled about mediocrity!
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"It's an open secret among Apple employees that the [computer] still sells surprisingly well—to a nearly tragic degree, given its age and mediocrity," he wrote.
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Gelman: We wanted to show real-life consequences to a plateau of privilege and mediocrity while not making it feel more exciting than it's usually presented.
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Nerds know they aren't the best, which is why they come in two flavors per pack, a brilliant strategy to distract you from their open mediocrity.
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Hitler's mediocrity is all the more noticeable in this book because Ullrich strives not to mythologize his subject, knowing how many myths are already in circulation.
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On Tuesday, though, after 2257 games of numbing mediocrity this season, the Nationals conceded that they had fallen off the camels' backs with a resounding thud.
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If you seek to do many things, you'll taste a wider variety of human goods, but you may end up a well-rounded mediocrity — a dilettante.
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Or everyone out West will remain kind of bad for a little while, and Portland can continue riding mediocrity or incremental improvement to more playoff experiences.
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But if the mediocrity continues, I have to wonder if Danny Ainge will end up regretting not moving more aggressively to trade Brown for Kawhi Leonard.
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But despite our growing online record of cultural mediocrity, artists have been destroying their work for at least as long as people have been buying it.
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It's hardly surprising that an industry that often functions as a protection racket for white male mediocrity should specialize in spectacles of white male self-pity.
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If all we do in response to China's ambition is to try to double-lock all our doors, I believe we will lock ourselves into mediocrity.
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" Yaron Lifschitz, artistic director of Brisbane-based circus company Circa, said that the government is entrenching a culture in the Australian performing arts of "overfunding mediocrity.
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But, saying that not being in a life with me would be settling for a life of mediocrity and I don't believe that ... And I'm so sorry.
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Panthers general manager Dale Tallon deserves credit for cashing in on the team's recent glutton of high draft picks, which has lifted the club out of mediocrity.
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Through all the mediocrity, a jogging Croat who didn't track back or head a ball all season gave the Fratton End a taste of things to come.
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If they disappoint and George walks, the Thunder will likely spend the next few years floating through mediocrity, a re-run of their carnivalesque 2016-17 campaign.
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Swift became a tableau for the rejection of white mediocrity eclipsing black art, a message most of West's black fans were happy to see brought to light.
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Where too many crime writers at the 20-plus book level in their careers feel content to produce mediocrity, Lippman never does — and, I suspect, never will.
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When it comes to traditional data exchange mechanisms, healthcare doesn't have to resort to technical mediocrity by creating one-offs, point to point solutions to sharing data.
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Ergonomics, battery life, and sound quality all fight for representation in a vanishingly small form factor, at best striking an acceptable balance of mediocrity between all three.
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The interplay between the two—Deith, the grey-suited face of middle-management mediocrity, Marks, all showbiz pomp and crowd-pleasing charm—is nothing short of stunning.
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The actress (and wife of the hip-thrusting Justin Timberlake) claims to be thrilled with "mediocrity," but it seems like she's got her life pretty under control.
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Mr. Trump's appeal to someone like Mr. Thiel is that they both believe that government should be brash and bold, while politics as usual produces tame mediocrity.
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With the biggest names on the lineup consisting of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews Band, Live, Kid Rock, and Moby, mediocrity was the best case scenario.
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But her path is filled with unexpected setbacks and safe choices, leading her to accept mediocrity in many forms, simply because that's what she thinks she deserves.
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While the larger comic-cons have become gluttonous celebrations of advertising, dress up, and stupidity, the smaller ones have become feel good drum circles of unmonitored mediocrity.
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"We somehow managed to compliment and bolster each other in our mission to transcend mediocrity," Mr. Watts-Russell wrote in a personal remembrance on the label's site.
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This run of success was all the more extraordinary for what had come before: decades of mediocrity in major sports, with the lows far outnumbering the highs.
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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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"Teams used to pay big money for mediocrity, for the average player," said Steve Phillips, the former Mets general manager and a host on MLB Network Radio.
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Beating the highly favored Orioles was almost anticlimactic: It was truly about the journey from hopelessness to champions of the world without having to pass through mediocrity.
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But if the Clippers do nothing, they risk becoming the first team in NBA history to ride the treadmill of mediocrity with three All-NBA-caliber talents onboard.
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Not too long ago, the Redskins were still Robert Griffin III's team, and Cousins, 27, was just a career backup quarterback, tabbed for a lifetime of N.F.L. mediocrity.
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Since I was a child I remember respectable authorities asserting that our time as a nation has passed, that we should be content with mediocrity and managed decline.
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Ancient wisdom says you get what you expect, yet many people decide to limit their lives to middle-class mediocrity in an effort to protect themselves from failure.
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On the other hand, the first female player in OWL is getting her start with an organization that has yet to prove it can deliver more than mediocrity.
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" So, when my marks started slipping in high school — my new, hellish era of mediocrity — I was constantly barraged by a chorus of, "But you can do better.
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Despite the mediocrity of the series, both WWE and Take Two Interactive make big bucks each year on the small tweaks made to the basic grapple game formula.
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The Wizards presently look less like conference-final aspirants than the unofficial line of demarcation between those teams occupying the lower end of mediocrity and the truly crummy.
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After four decades of profligate spending and onerous regulations, the great achievement of the U.S. Department of Education has been in sustaining the mediocrity of the status quo.
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And throughout, Mr. Daniels is vibrantly ambiguous — a beleaguered and terrified mediocrity, made larger somehow by a monstrous act, whose deepest motives remain obscure, probably even to himself.
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The movie delivers on Wood's famous mediocrity, but astounds you with its sincerity, even when its clumsy, which, for most of its hour-plus running time, it is.
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If I were to get real crazy, I might say something like: The OC used the grotesque mediocrity of the suburban Californian bourgeois to make counterculture cool again.
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" Famed boxing writer Paul Gallico described Heeney's boxing much differently in The Daily News: "a triumph of mediocrity, hooked to deep earnestness, rare courage and iron-shod durability.
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And though I'd give anything for those handmade pieces now (I could easily see them on sale at Anthropologie), I found myself craving one thing: Limited Too mediocrity.
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The Hornets aren't the only franchise that recently decided to step on the NBA treadmill of mediocrity, but they might be the only one that can't get off.
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Yet these operators had little to say in determining the resources made available to them, or in creating a culture of mediocrity within which they had to function.
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The 1983 publication "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform" described a "rising tide of mediocrity" in the nation's schools and called for wide-scale reforms.
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I think it was because of my real blandness, my mediocrity that I thought, bloody hell, I have to I have to sort of buckle down and study.
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He shows the same pattern in domain after domain: People who specialize in one thing succeed early, but then they slide back to mediocrity as their minds rigidify.
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They have clinched a third straight berth in the Southeastern Conference title game, where they will be heavily favored against whatever relative mediocrity the other division offers up.
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Does anyone still subscribe to Alfred Barr's definition of what he and his colleagues at MoMA were doing as "the conscientious, continuous, resolute distinction of quality from mediocrity"?
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It's a gamble that could land the Heat on the treadmill of mediocrity, just barely scraping by for years on end without any hope of moving beyond that.
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Cited factors include "franchise fatigue" -- that is, simply too many sequels for the audience to absorb -- the popularity of streaming services and the mediocrity of some of the films.
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Thorgy'd Stevie Nicks was neither over-the-top or spot on, hovering in some sort of tired purgatory of mediocrity we usually reserve for high school productions of Hairspray.
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In that sense, the TV show's version of the Negan saga ends the same way that it began: resigning itself to mediocrity by focusing on telling someone else's story.
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Because even if I never found out, even if he'd stayed his thumb, kept following me, and stoically tolerated my mediocrity, I think on some level, I'd still know.
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" Silicon Valley, Foer writes, was supposed to be a liberating force—"the disruptive agent that shatters the grip of the sclerotic, self-perpetuating mediocrity that constitutes the American elite.
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In his place it'd be a delight to see what Erik Spoelstra could do with a roster that's mid-renovation and prioritizing long-term opulence over present-day mediocrity.
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These days, however, just a hint of innovation seems to act as a sufficient tonic to the pervasive sense of melancholy brought on by buildings of soul-crushing mediocrity.
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This is only sensible, because Eovaldi, who has to date been a hard-throwing mediocrity over the course of a six-year career, is not really all that nasty.
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Imagine the mediocrity: rich, mostly white, most likely christian students with all of the privileges they need to be successful needing to cheat to get into a good college.
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Where it once delivered equality, liberalism now offers plutocracy; instead of liberty, appetitiveness regulated by a surveillance state; instead of true intellectual and religious freedom, growing conformity and mediocrity.
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"Like with everything else in politics, these days we'll end up with mediocrity," said Grant Woods, Mr. McCain's first congressional chief of staff and a former Arizona attorney general.
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Ren: I can summarize the painful lesson in one sentence: We must not slack off or allow mediocrity, and we must remain dedicated and inspire passion throughout the organization.
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Their squads are too stocked with talent, their accounts too swelled with cash, their brands too appealing to fans and players alike for them ever to drift into mediocrity.
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The Pats have dismantled every team they've played since Brady has returned, winning by 10+ points in each game and returning the Bills to the wasteland of AFC East mediocrity.
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Still, when given a choice between the temperamental former greatness of Dickerson and the temperamental current mediocrity of Fisher, it's hard to believe the fans would side with the coach.
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Thanks, in no small part, to Hamilton, a pitcher with a career record of 74-73 and an ERA of 4.44, and who more or less defines major league mediocrity.
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If Ratner takes issue with films being critically maligned, he should consider that maybe certain movies are actually bad, and that the current Hollywood model allows for mediocrity to succeed.
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Barnes still has room to improve, Wes Matthews' contract is no longer an albatross, and they've maintained long-term cap flexibility—a necessity for teams riding the treadmill of mediocrity.
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The sense of entitlement that accompanies this worldview depends on retrograde notions of masculinity and whiteness that affirm their delusions of grandeur, while medicating the ache of their own mediocrity.
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The Beatles, beyond their abilities as performers of catchy music, constantly found ideas that were wholly lacking in the music of their day, the mediocrity by which we measure heroes.
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In her remarks, Ocasio-Cortez torched political moderation, which she equated with worshiping mediocrity, defended democratic socialism and took a question from Bill Nye, better known as The Science Guy.
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The nation that denies its people information about what it is doing in their name is a nation slogging down a dark alley of public suspicion toward decline and mediocrity.
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For the late master filmmaker and actor Orson Welles, frozen peas were but an emblem of the pathetic mediocrity he had to endure as a genius existing in the world.
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I'm trying not to think about how we are now praying for at least mediocrity from Matt Harvey or that Thor and Matz are in pain every time they throw.
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Thankfully, between decent gunplay, enjoyable long-range combat, and a drone that has more personality than anyone else on your squad, it manages to claw its way back to mediocrity.
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And after a disappointing first half when the defending World Series champions were mired in mediocrity, things have turned dramatically ever since as the Cubs' starters have picked up steam.
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I would have spanked the Russian for hacking the DNC and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's email trove if, for no other reason, than the mediocrity of what was revealed.
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The sculptor-father's rant about the talentless mediocrity of his more lauded friend in The Meyerowitz Stories could have been strutted and fretted by the writer-father character in Squid.
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But grown in the dry granite soils of southern Corsica, sciaccarellu becomes another thing entirely, with bright, vivid flavors of flowers, red fruit and stony earth that transcend Tuscan mediocrity.
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So what should be a straightforward account of how things got so fucked up turns into a flimsy excuse—or worse, an exploitation of trauma—to get away with mediocrity.
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Since that dream season, the Mavs have settled into a groove of mediocrity, but Nowitzki has dutifully and mechanically kept scoring, and scoring, and scoring—without missing all that often.
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In this decaying age of mediocrity, this is proof that all you need for enjoyment is yourself, a varying blend of narcotics, some hella picturesque views, and really friendly Europeans.
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This revolutionary modern dance choreographer, who once said that the only sin a person could have was mediocrity, created a repertory that celebrates women in all their grief and triumph.
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And it's the worst of the bunch, a continuation of the franchise's swan dive into joyless mediocrity, while managing to destroy any affection one might have for Marvel's merry mutants.
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The familiar argument, that Korean producers replicate American pop conventions with sly distance and scientific expertise, won't fly — given the present mediocrity of the American Top 40, what's to like?
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But the spirit of the picture—of a truly special player, one of the blessed ones, passing through a Duken wall of mediocrity as if pushed by God Herself—still lingers.
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Washington is 5-6 since the break and part of the reason for its mediocrity is superstar Bryce Harper, who is 0-for-17 over his last five games and batting .
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Clearly, it was a bad year for music, a year of escapism and mediocrity; it was all too personal or too vague or too business-as-usual — just insult Trump already!
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PHIL, REAL QUICK, BEFORE YOU GO. I GATHER YOU MADE A COMMENT, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS YESTERDAY, ABOUT WHAT YOU DESCRIBED AS THE MEDIOCRITY WITHIN THE INDUSTRY THESE DAYS.
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They're the lucky rich we actually see in the world, whether the Trumps, the Murdochs, the Elon Musks, or the countless other super-wealthy symbols of mediocrity who run the world.
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But I disagree on one point: "Mediocrity and idiocy" aren't the real enemies—there is virtue, too, in being a mediocre idiot, as some truths can be found following that way.
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There was the inane unoriginality of Life's Too Short, the muddled mawkishness of Derek and, most dispiritingly of all, the self-defacing mediocrity that was David Brent: Life on the Road.
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But despite its flaws, Miles Ahead is an energetic work boasting a fine central performance, and it's a refreshing departure from the linear, moribund template that often dooms biopics to mediocrity.
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In 2000, teams could protect between 12 and 15 players each, leaving Columbus and Minnesota a thin pool of impact players, and a whole lot of mediocrity, to share between them.
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Since the dawn of the new millennium they've been running secretsundaze, one of the UK's most cherished and inclusive parties—a permanently shimmering beacon in a sea of gunmetal grey mediocrity.
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One of the unusual pleasures of Rooney's novels is watching young women engage in a casual intellectual hooliganism, demolishing every mediocrity that crosses their paths, just for the fun of it.
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But at the very top, I think the message to our fans needs to be that mediocrity like this — the lowest point in our soccer's history — will not be taken lightly.
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She is also Kit's old high school friend and rival, the person whose competitive edge lit in Kit a burning determination to succeed and helped to propel her from academic mediocrity.
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The Dolphins and the Redskins are at a stage familiar to the Jets and the Bills, whose inability to unearth a franchise quarterback consigned them to years of mediocrity, and worse.
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"If impersonating Trump and doing it by the seat of our pants here on 'SNL' these last several months is the definition of mediocrity, then I'll take it," Alec Baldwin said.
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Yeah, I mean, I think it has changed since it's gotten bigger, but I would say Google's done a pretty good job of fighting off the gravitational pull of organizational mediocrity.
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Swisher vented that Nike used to have the best-in-class solution with Nike+ Running, but that an unpopular redesign earlier this year dragged it back into a pack of mediocrity.
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But instead of rolling with the punches and embracing the mediocrity that was always their destiny, Rex Ryan decided to fire Greg Roman, the highest paid offensive coordinator in the NFL.
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It's in this context that something as derivative as "I Feel It Coming" becomes so strangely hypnotic—a flaccid callback to an already bygone age of complete and total, glorious mediocrity.
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The United States still personifies mediocrity when it comes to broadband speed, availability, and price, and the biggest ISPs routinely see the lowest customer satisfaction ratings of any industry in the country.
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But just because Dave Chappelle is Dave Chappelle, and just because I have been obsessed with him since I was 12 years old, you just can't forgive this bigotry and, honestly, mediocrity.
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But if Renault and Fiat want to choose between what Marchionne called "mediocrity or fundamentally changing the paradigm for the industry", this is how it begins – if belatedly for the Fiat boss.
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Arvidsson's breakaway lifts Predators by Kings LOS ANGELES — The Nashville Predators left Southern California with hard-earned back-to-back victories that hope to lift them out of their early season mediocrity.
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That said, some possibilities are richer than others, and at the very least represent a purposeful step in a respectable direction, away from the treadmill of mediocrity the Bulls are currently on.
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"I felt like I made it," he writes of his job with a downtown office, consistent pay, and benefits — but he got a bit too comfortable and found himself settling for mediocrity.
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Follow the lead of Julia Ziegler-Haynes—patron saint of easy, delicious entertaining on our series —and you won't just rise to mediocrity, you'll shoot into the stratosphere like a psychedelic comet.
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When Romar took over the program in 241-503 season, it was mired in mediocrity; since 250, only the Todd MacCullough-led squads of 29 and 221 had reached the NCAA Tournament.
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About the kindest thing that can be said about Jackson's tenure with the team is that, outside the broad comedy and grim mediocrity, there is nearly an element of tragedy to it.
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Does anyone in the world need to be reminded of the ultimate mediocrity of Oasis, or the fact that Blur's best work was actually in the 2000s, or the existence of Suede?
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After months of mediocrity following his 15th major title at the Masters in April, Woods emerged from metaphorical hibernation to match Sam Snead's record 82 wins on the PGA Tour on Monday.
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" That's your "Boys Will Be Boys" and "Sex is on Fire" and the second Razorlight album, which even Johnny Borrell thinks "opened the way for a flood of mediocrity in UK music.
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That is the real crux of Zimmer's case for free speech: Not that it's necessary for democracy (strictly speaking, it isn't), but because it's our salvation from intellectual mediocrity and social ossification.
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There was never a better marriage between a sport and a sponsor than the NFL and Papa John's, two products that are far more popular than their overwhelmingly intense mediocrity would suggest.
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There are just enough of those — physical, verbal and conceptual — to lift "Tag" above the slough of mediocrity in which big-screen, big-studio comedy seems, at the moment, to be mired.
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He arrived at Syracuse before the 21993 season, replacing Frank Maloney and taking over a program that had slumped through a decade of mediocrity, in which it produced only three winning seasons.
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" Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 2): 94% What critics said: "In what's an otherwise predictable rehash of the first season's success, Stranger Things is saved from sophomore mediocrity by the old guys.
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After the shock of white mediocrity wears off, you will adapt and adjust and continue to lie to yourselves about how far we've come on the issues of racism, misogyny, and homophobia.
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The Raptors—after toiling in mediocrity for the better half of a decade—have established themselves as a top-tier NBA franchise, and renewed interest in the sport with four consecutive playoff appearances.
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San Diego, which resides in the basement of the AFC West, had its surge toward mediocrity halted last time out as it suffered a 212-21 home loss to Miami on Nov. 22.
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The second is the middle of the road pop song, which usually only exists to fill the vacant space in the great vessel of mediocrity that is existence until something better comes along.
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But the French who have joined the protest might retort that for them, language is serious indeed: a typical criticism on Twitter read "simplification, glorification of mediocrity, sinking to the lowest common denominator".
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The Pac-12 is in a bit of a reshuffling right now, with Stanford and Oregon returning to mediocrity and many of the good teams in the conference winning despite a talent deficiency.
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Well, the 2016 season is halfway spent, and New England is imperiously looking down, from a 7-1 perch, at the bog of mediocrity that has swallowed most of its would-be peers.
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Sunday's revolt against Mr. Trump was not quite a victory for Mr. Kaepernick; no team has even offered him a backup position despite a striking level of mediocrity among even many starting quarterbacks.
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The problem with innovative buildings is that they eventually become static monuments to their own architectural ingenuity, which, admittedly, is still preferable to the vast majority of buildings that memorialize their own mediocrity.
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I've done that a couple times with varying degrees of mediocrity and it does a couple ... I think it makes you a better employee if you ever go back and do it. Totally.
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Fortified by his belief that his extraordinary route to power is proof of the collective mediocrity of Congress, the bureaucracy and the media, he attacks any person and any idea standing in his way.
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The defending World Series champion Cubs found themselves mired in mediocrity while the rebuilding Brewers went into the All-Star break with a commanding 25 21/22-game lead in the National League Central.
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It's easier to be lenient of everything from mediocrity to intense eccentricity in a city where you and all your neighbors are held captive by a cruel deep freeze for half of each year.
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World-beaters do not grow in a petri dish of low ambitions; with the wrong messages and incentives, you risk accidentally pushing your best people and companies towards excellence elsewhere, leaving stagnant mediocrity behind.
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For the same reason people hatewatch movies to talk shit about them later, it's hard to avoid the temptation of these foods because of how brazen they are in their appeal to gluttonous mediocrity.
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She viewed the prospect of her son's joining the tiny firm of Willkie & Willkie as "a recipe for mediocrity," impelling him toward work as an attorney for Harvey Firestone's giant tire company, in Akron.
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But here's the plot twist, instead of casting him aside, or just dealing with the frustration of sexual mediocrity, she takes MJ's advice: She tells him he's awful and teaches him a few tricks.
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To be as good as he has and have his team not even win the games in which he's pitched, never mind the mediocrity of his own win-loss record, has to be demoralizing.
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Depending on how one views it, the Pac-12 is either a circle of good teams blocking the rise of a great one, or a morass of mediocrity finding its appropriate level and results.
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One of the most puzzling injustices in American history is our time-honored tradition of eating turkey, a bird that excels in its mediocrity, on the best holiday this great nation has to offer.
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This is the landscape from which the academy has to pick its nominees, and it basically offers them a choice between mass-market mediocrity and the more rarefied fare that now dominates the Oscars.
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The N.F.C. championship in Philadelphia next weekend will feature two reserves elevated by injury, a matchup of Nick Foles and Keenum, teammates on that paragon of mediocrity known as the 2015 St. Louis Rams.
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We honor your sacrifice for us, but you have to encourage your children to speak up as well, to claim their voices, to risk mediocrity and failure, to tell their stories and your stories.
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The court's predicament was compounded by the mediocrity of some of its investigations, inefficiency — only five individuals have been tried in 14 years — a cumbersome bureaucracy and the haughtiness of some of its representatives.
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This midterm election has all the earmarks, again, of one of those moments in this nation's history where it can choose to live in to its greatness or descend into mediocrity and ongoing strife.
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But after reading individual takes, I found that while many critics writing about Hughes' adaptation did point out that its target audience was young girls, it was usually as a way to emphasize mediocrity.
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Essentially, the Flames toiled in mediocrity for 59 games and did so in a very bad Western Conference while inside a very bad Pacific Division before hitting the throttle over the past two weeks.
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We must resist the temptation to hold ourselves to a false standard as this only breeds the very mediocrity president Akufo-Addo promised to exorcise from government and encourages us to eschew as a nation.
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His story takes on a wistful contemporary glamour, as half the latter-day citizenry—no, more than half—experiences a new, burning desire for rule by mental health and, if need be, by mediocrity. ♦
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"My only virtue is that I'm full of defects," he claims, enumerating his own sinful thoughts on the way to boasting about them and lashing out at hypocrisy and mediocrity — accelerating all the way through.
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That may sound like faint praise given the startling mediocrity of "Monsters University" and "Cars 2," but what "Dory" lacks in dazzling originality it more than makes up for in warmth, charm and good humor.
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White Mississippi voters punched their ballots in overwhelming numbers for appointed U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a casually racist mediocrity, and rejected one of the most thoroughly centrist Democratic candidates on the ballot in 603.
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Even diminished, however, the NFL remains a ratings bonanza, and it figures to remain that way so long as its problems are discussed as yearly aberrations rather than a longstanding, often deliberate confluence of mediocrity.
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For years, the division was a place for Peyton Manning to fatten up his record, and its ongoing mediocrity may be the only reason that Jeff Fisher isn't already the losingest coach in NFL history.
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With Kevin Pritchard—the same general manager who coined "treadmill of mediocrity" as a dreaded label that should be avoided at all costs—behind their steering wheel, the Pacers need be weary about hopping on.
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In fact, this study found that a team that achieves high mediocrity — say, 45 wins — is better off bringing in the best possible minds and carefully adding talent, rather than engaging in a tear-down.
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That is not their fault, but the mediocrity of their opposition — such as the Jets, who through three quarters Saturday had four completions and four turnovers — suggests that the Patriots have not been sufficiently tested.
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BOSTON — Mired in mediocrity only less than 11 months after setting a team record in victories and winning a World Series, the Red Sox on Sunday night fired Dave Dombrowski, their president of baseball operations.
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The pitfalls of romanticizing a decade known for culinary mediocrity aside, you can manage to have a good time if you order your drinks from the upstairs bar, where they are made with greater care.
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Here's the rub: Associated's goal certainly wasn't to foster mediocrity, but Mr. Lewenthal would only buy works he believed would appeal to the general public — the average housewife looking for something to hang on a wall.
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His lessons, his impulse never to accept the status quo, never to be satisfied with good enough have become a core part of our culture within FCA: continually setting high standards and never settling for mediocrity.
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When you do actually meet up, you will all go to the same three pubs until you eventually drift out of contact, and into social mediocrity, and eventually towards the sweet and lonely smooch of death.
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Léger's late stylistic mediocrity is a pity, because through his choice of working class subject matter he could have elevated the worker into the realm of élan, better supporting the proletarian uprisings of the following decades.
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Mr Tajani has signally failed to shed his air of mediocrity in that job, but possesses the cardinal virtue of having remained loyal to Mr Berlusconi, whom he once served as spokesman, since Forza's founding in 1993.
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He sees politics less on a Labour-Tory spectrum and more as part of a Herculean struggle between brilliance and mediocrity (how he and the pooterish Mr Duncan Smith ever thought they would get on is unclear).
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After years of mediocrity, the Sixers committed to starting from scratch; they traded every player they could, stockpiled draft picks, and took an approach to the present that was, depending on your perspective, either objective or ruthless.
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But when you are in the restaurant game, being true to yourself is often the difference between success and a slow and steady decline into mediocrity — the kind that nobody remembers, especially after you shutter the business.
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More egregiously, Fox's Sleepy Hollow teased a romance between its leads Ichabod Crane and Abbie Mills for three seasons before killing her off (and dooming the show to explore even further depths of mediocrity before its cancelation).
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Later, this would be what he remembered most about the job, long after the inconvenience of his morning commute, the banality of his days spent making spreadsheets, and the mediocrity of the cafeteria had faded from memory.
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With Felton behind the wheel, Charlotte spent four years struggling in the creamy, shitty middle of the league, struggling to make the playoffs and falling short time after time without ever finding a way out of mediocrity.
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" In 22003, " Washington Confidential ," a best-seller by two journalists working for the conservative press mogul William Randolph Hearst, presented the civil service as a domain of "mediocrity and virtual anonymity," in a city of "economic parasites.
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He has been busy coaching, recruiting and, every chance he gets, preaching the power of possibility to a team and a fan base hungry for victories after years of mediocrity on the field and turmoil off it.
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To me, Kaine's selection validates my suspicions about Hillary – that she is a smart, capable, and responsible leader, yes – but that if elected, we as a nation face four to eight years of calculated, poll-tested mediocrity.
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Mr. Kaepernick has essentially gotten that message already from the Trump-loving owners of N.F.L. teams, none of whom have even offered him a backup position despite a striking level of mediocrity among even many starting quarterbacks.
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The ace James Paxton has pitched parts of five seasons but never made 6.183 starts, and there's only mediocrity behind him, including Felix Hernandez, who has a 26.18 earned run average since turning 2115 in early 22007.
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Chris Christie of New Jersey used a nationally broadcast debate to savage Mr. Rubio as a mediocrity who simply mouthed the rehearsed lines his staff fed him — to which Mr. Rubio responded by repeating the same lines.
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Firmly danced by Kevin Jackson and Jill Ogai, it isn't a particularly egregious specimen of the manhandling pas de deux — the woman shows a little spine — but its mediocrity almost makes its tone-deaf inclusion more baffling.
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I realize that makes this movie sound indistinguishable from nearly every other piece of family-targeted animated big-screen entertainment out there, and I'm sorry to report that the Lego movie enterprise has lapsed into intentional mediocrity.
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As great as the Jets looked in their 31-point thumping of the Lions on Monday, there was an equally dissatisfying fallback to mediocrity in a loss to the division-rival Miami Dolphins, 214-21, on Sunday.
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Instead, they will now have to watch their team gingerly creep towards mediocrity under David Moyes, after Big Sam elected to become England manager, and so pass the buck on the utterly joyless task of coaching Sunderland.
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I didn't want her to be the nominee and I'm a broken record on how she's just an incredible mediocrity all round, but she's not corrupt in the way that most people understand her to be corrupt.
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The mediocrity principle, devised by the 16th century mathematician Copernicus, suggests there's nothing unusual or special about Earth, humanity, and our place in the cosmos, and that if anything we're actually quite banal in large scheme of things.
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A.'s Finest' quickly sinks into mediocrity, unable to offer the same kind of big-screen thrills in a weekly format, or find much of anything new to say about odd couples and pasts that won't stay hidden.
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But few, if any, prognosticators saw these 10 things coming: After nine years without a single win in the playoffs, the Pistons looked to be permanently mired in mediocrity without any special reason for hope for the future.
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In "In Praise of Mediocrity," Tim Wu writes about how, at least for adults, the pursuit of excellence has "corrupted" the world of leisure: I'm a little surprised by how many people tell me they have no hobbies.
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" In "The Lucky Country," the 1964 book of essays by Donald Horne that is often described as a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, Australians are deemed tolerant of mediocrity, but "adaptable when a way is shown.
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No point committing to a generic-brand life if that means an existence of sub-mediocrity, where nothing works and you're throwing pennies straight into the garbage, the toilet, and wherever else the products of your earnings end up.
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Once rabid public support, which some say rivaled the Montreal Canadiens at one point, was in terminal decline by the turn of the century, thanks to years of mediocrity, labor disputes, drama, dashed hopes, and a crappy, crumbling stadium.
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Only Julio Jones and Antonio Brown had more targets, and they had the added bonus of having those passes thrown by Matt Ryan and Ben Roethlisberger, respectively, instead of the hydra-headed mediocrity monster that was Houston's quarterback situation.
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Critics were not kind to Ball Four's opening episode—Sports Illustrated's review, which cited the show's "mediocrity," was one of the nicer ones—and Wednesday night TV viewers mostly chose to tune in to ABC's The Bionic Woman, instead.
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" In a 2013 column for Sports Illustrated's MMQB website, Arizona prep coach Jeff Scurran wrote that football "produces tough hombres" and is the "last bastion of discipline" in a nation that accepts mediocrity in "almost every part of society.
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The best they can finish is 8-8, and when the Jets' quest for mediocrity resumes next Monday night against Indianapolis, Fitzpatrick, who completed 22 of 33 passes for 269 yards and two touchdowns, might still be their quarterback.
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BRAD'S STATUS Ben Stiller's Brad, who works for a nonprofit, is forced to confront his self-perceived mediocrity after a college visit to Boston with his son (Austin Abrams) makes him jealous of his own former college pals' success.
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LONDON — Britain's departure from the European Union on Friday drew a mournful reaction from many people who have long viewed Brexit as consigning their country, once the vanguard of Europe, to a future of economic mediocrity and geopolitical irrelevance.
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This controversy, however, presents him with an early opportunity to show us all that beyond Ghana being, in his words, "open for business," he too means business when he says there will be no place for mediocrity in his government.
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Fans are already mourning the loss of Bachman, who in the hands of actor T. J. Miller had become a flaming spear of satire, piercing the illusions and pomposity of the tech world armed only with a bong and unassailable mediocrity.
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It's important to note that Dirty Dancing was supposed to go straight to video, those three words being code for the kind of movie that wasn't even worth putting in theaters due to its mediocrity, cheapness, or lack of stars.
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"We're going to [unclear] the New York Times and find out just what deep rich means to this old gray hag, this untrustworthy dishonest rag that has subsisted on the welfare of mediocrity for one two three more decades," Loesch said.
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This time, she's making a thinly veiled threat against the New York Times, taking a "shot against [the] proverbial bow" of this "old gray hag" that has "subsisted on the welfare of mediocrity" for "decades," whatever the hell that means.
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"Inefficiency, mediocrity, and infighting within the government contributed to last week's attack," said Iqbal Athas, a defence analyst, adding that vital intelligence-gathering resources had been diverted in recent years to spy on political rivals rather than to monitor extremists.
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In the throes of a heated and public fight over teacher pay and other education funding issues, teachers' coordinated efforts to break into politics could provide a strong rebuke of the state's near decade-long slide into mediocrity in education.
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Anticipation of better times ahead, however, can mask mediocrity only temporarily, and with a more modest reality setting in, momentum is already poised to the downside, dragging down some indications of sentiment to the lowest level since before the election.
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"Inefficiency, mediocrity, and infighting within the government contributed to last week's attack," said Iqbal Athas, a defense analyst, adding that vital intelligence-gathering resources had been diverted in recent years to spy on political rivals rather than to monitor extremists.
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Maybe it seems flippant to point out that this time around we are stuck with a collective mediocrity, that threats and deadlines are relayed in street slang by barely articulate ministers or with all the pomp and circumstance of Twitter.
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Wednesday's ninth-inning win against the Texas Rangers notwithstanding, this year's Yankees are not good, and they're criminally boring, but they have not yet experienced the kind of avant-garde futility that defined the last great epoch of Yankees mediocrity.
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Skier 7, also an avalanche survivor, had lost his father, a Libertarian, to bone cancer in January, and his father's final admonition was, "never cave to the mediocrity of groupthink," which Skier 13 took to mean that caution equals cowardice.
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You would think that fans and media would have learned that a step up in weight isn't always an admission of mediocrity, as Kelvin Gastelum and Robert Whittaker are about to meet for the middleweight title and both of them are "failed" welterweights.
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Instead of expanding mediocrity, she should encourage true innovation among charters that addresses the chronic problems that were hurting families before the proliferation of the sector: suspension and expulsion, inadequate services for special needs students and limited course offerings in urban schools.
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You know, the Medicis in the 15th-century Italy would hire these people to paint them and write about them—the diction was all flowery—and I wanted to do that in the current age and apply it to suburbia and total mediocrity.
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And now that multiple sources have reported it's slated to be revealed in March, it would certainly seem like we can soon stop speculating whether the product will be a legitimate Netflix and Amazon Prime competitor or a sexless experiment in mediocrity.
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Each of those quarterbacks (outside of Manziel) has shown flashes of greatness, however, and those flashes are a damn sight better than the mediocrity the Texans got in its long-running attempt to pull an effective passer from New England's quarterback junkyard.
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Long viewed as the poster child of mediocrity—plenty comfortable inside a low-ceiling, high-floor home—Atlanta is poised to do something different behind stable ownership and Travis Schlenk, a new general manager who previously worked with the champion Golden State Warriors.
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Returning to competition four weeks after claiming his long overdue first major title, a rusty Garcia trudged disconsolately to the tee at the island-green hole, three over par after a day of mediocrity at the TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra, Florida.
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But in the ranks, a widespread belief holds that the corps, which prides itself on making some of the toughest war fighters in the world, needs harsh training and must push back to preserve traditions against the creep of politically correct mediocrity.
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I can understand why the Giants get the benefit of the doubt, what with the two Super Bowl trophies and all, but when a team spends the past seven seasons hovering between six and 10 wins...well, that's quite a commitment to mediocrity.
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Her dissertation disproved the notion that women became mentally incapacitated during their periods, and she was a vocal opponent of the "variability hypothesis," which suggested that men exhibit greater variation in psychological and physical traits than women, making the latter destined for mediocrity.
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In the past several weeks alone, as the Cowboys dropped games to the Patriots, the Bills and the Bears, Jones has stoked speculation that he will replace Garrett, saying he will not stand for mediocrity and that he likes several college coaches.
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In a new study that will be presented at an American Astronomical Society meeting later this month, astronomers Even Solomonides and Yervant Terzian combine the Fermi Paradox with the Mediocrity Principle to show that we shouldn't expect to hear from aliens for another 2600,5803 years.
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More accurately, she had hurled it to the floor in a fit of disillusionment, her small protest against the slow creep of mediocrity and missed cues during a four-hour dinner at Per Se that would cost the four of us close to $3,000.
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I'm well aware that she has become a pop culture enigma, but for reasons that are both personal (I don't like her music and lack of rhythm) and political (for me Swift represents all the possibilities of white mediocrity and privilege), I've chosen to disengage.
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McRaven agrees to run, he would send a powerfully uplifting message to his students, who would learn that sometimes great service requires sailing into the storm for values and ideals that soar above the convenience of the moment and the mediocrity of our times.
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But a contingent of Sixers fans, and some other admirers of the strategy, contend that Philadelphia had been stuck in mediocrity for a decade: a "treadmill" team too good to get a top pick but not good enough to make meaningful noise in the playoffs.
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Ask any devoted monarchist why they're so fond of this crinkled mediocrity, and you'll probably get a variant on the same answer: She represents "tradition," she "provides stability," she's "always been there," she's been "patient," she doesn't go anywhere, she is beyond life and death.
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And as we stood there, in a field somewhere, crinkling under the midday sun, hot sauce seeping out of every orifice, quietly ignoring the overdraft-exceeded texts from Barclays, we let Route 94 and Jess Glynne soundtrack our rapid descent into absolute fucking mediocrity.
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Designed by Jan Versweyveld, Mr. van Hove's longtime partner in carefully calibrated excess, this four-hour glorification of an American architectural genius at odds with a culture of mediocrity has been given a sweep, heft and hysteria usually associated with productions of Wagner's "Ring" cycle.
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Of course, referential cameos aren't enough to sustain an entire picture; there still needs to be something else underneath, and whereas Ready Player One had Steven Spielberg and Wreck-It Ralph had Disney, Pixels was burdened by Sandler's loathsome mediocrity as the driving creative force.
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Long one of the key voices in the discussion of Southern cuisine, Edge challenges the accepted narrative that traces immigrant traditions into a low trough of mediocrity lasting through World War II and lingering until James Beard, Julia Child and Craig Claiborne lit it up.
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And there are, everywhere, terrible and obvious sexual innuendos and flirtations: the inessential boyfriends who add seemingly nothing to the Angels' lives; the consistent pillorying of male mediocrity; the quiet affirmation that the women in your life are the only ones you can count on.
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For seven seasons, George has been the heart and soul of the Indiana Pacers, but after being LeBron's biggest challengers from 2012 to 2014, the Pacers have settled into a rut of mediocrity, with George being the only thing keeping them out of the lottery.
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From Tom Peters of Tom Goes To The Mayor to his performance in 2012's The Comedy, Heidecker's charted the path of the collapsing American manhood,as well as the trappings of toxic masculinity, white identity politics, and the lame aesthetics and chronic mediocrity at its core.
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It's an LGBTQ+ space just a 20-minute wankered stroll from the crowd-pleasing mediocrity of the Pyramid stage but it couldn't feel further from listening to Ed Sheeran croon on while some sixth formers try to sell you a balloon of NOS for a fiver.
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No piece of pop culture can fully sum up a historical moment, but HBO's epic family drama Succession does a very solid job of diagnosing 2018 as a year of unfettered privilege and corruption built on a rickety foundation of mediocrity, bolstered by inherited power and influence.
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On April 19, 1995, former soldier Timothy McVeigh—a lifelong mediocrity who had grown up in the lily-white suburbs of Buffalo, New York—parked a Ryder truck containing a five ton fertilizer bomb in front of the Edward P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
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This was actually the first time ever that Penn State did not wind up competing in one of the Wednesday play-in games at the Big Ten tournament, which is the kind of desperately optimistic flourish you cling to when you've witnessed 30 years of perpetual mediocrity.
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Rather than trying to compete for views and likes with the genetically gifted, kids are pivoting to self-deprecation in a way that's less depressing than it might seem to concerned parents: it's a reclamation of mediocrity in an online space where everyone else is an overachiever.
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The city of graceful spaciousness that we know today took shape during France's glittering Second Empire (1852-70), an era of mind-boggling wealth and terrible destitution presided over by the man Karl Marx memorably called a "grotesque mediocrity": the Emperor Louis Napoléon, Napoléon Bonaparte's nephew.
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It was a fledgling organization that Damon Stoudamire bolted quickly, that only milked one playoff series victory from the early career peak of their greatest talent, Vince Carter, that spent two decades mired in mediocrity, and couldn't even bottom out properly when the time came for it.
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Matta's first decade of success at the school had petered out noticeably towards mediocrity in recent years; his five-man 2015 recruiting class was regarded as one of the best, if not the best, in the nation, but none of those players remain with the program.
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Beyond enduring injuries to running back Derrius Guice (knee) and tight end Jordan Reed (concussion), it has failed to cope without its star left tackle, Trent Williams, who is holding out, and amid the mediocrity and malaise that have plagued the franchise during Daniel Snyder's ownership.
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The resultant uptick in Aldridge's game, as well as in that of DeMar DeRozan, suddenly has the Spurs looking capable of rising out of the deepest plague of mediocrity to infect the Western Conference in more than 20 years and seizing the No. 663 seed. 16.
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Against the backdrop of an ascendant Japanese economy and consistent with President Reagan's disdain for public education (and teachers' unions), "A Nation at Risk" blamed America's ineffectual schools for a "rising tide of mediocrity" that was diminishing America's global role in a new high-tech world.
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A combination of the ascendancy of the Kansas City Royals, roster mainstays like Paul Konerko and Adam Dunn aging into mediocrity, and a farm system that couldn't replace them with anything better put Hahn in a pretty bad position when he took the reins after the 2012 season.
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Another key lesson from this year's World Cup was that football is rarely a game decided by individual stars — the hype around epic showdowns between Argentina's Lionel Messi, Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo and Brazil's Neymar was mocked by the failure of all three to lift their teams beyond mediocrity.
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The Scottish Labour Party has all but died from complacency and mediocrity and the national party has been captured by a clique of London MPs: Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornberry both have seats next door to each other in Islington and Diane Abbott and John McDonnell both represent London seats.
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Okay, I made up C.K. Louis, but even so that's a whole lot of mediocrity for a club that is ostensibly the best in the AL. The Rangers are starting out in a good position (way ahead of everyone) but it's tough to see them getting far with guys like that.
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The central figure in one tale struggles to face his own mediocrity, even as the neighborhood animals show him his musical gifts; another features a merciless oppressor who exploits a band of tree frogs; elsewhere, a boy undertakes a seemingly useless project that ends up serving his community for generations.
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My preferred canvas — reams of Tops data pads, with 13 rows and 38 columns on each page — sat dormant, mostly, until three years ago, when I started researching parity in the N.F.L. For a story about leaguewide mediocrity, I created a multicolored monstrosity — red and green ink, with orange highlighter!
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The problems at the VA haven't just been the usual red tape and regulatory creep that hampers so many government agencies, but a culture of mediocrity that has spawned billions of dollars in improper payments, half a million delinquent disability claims and no clear way to terminate employees who don't perform.
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Instead, the movie offers a sort of speculative shadow biography of an obscure also-ran who somehow rose from sodden mediocrity (Cheney flunked out of Yale, where he mostly seemed to major in alcohol) to the highest halls of executive power — and did it all, a title card intones, "like a ghost."
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Dodgers LH Alex Wood (1-28, 220) Leake, who signed a five-year, $22 million contract to leave Cincinnati in the offseason, ended a season-long string of mediocrity Tuesday, yielding a run on six hits across a season-high eight innings to notch his first win in seven tries as a Cardinal.
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After applying the Mediocrity Principle to the Drake Equation (an open-ended calculation that seeks to predict the number of radio transmitting alien civilizations in the Galaxy) and other factors, they calculate that alien radio signals would need to propagate out for about 1,580 years before half of the galaxy is reached.
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Though he only made 12 league appearances for the Foxes and was of mixed effectiveness at best, Dyer did score a crucial last-minute winner against Aston Villa in September, which in a season that so often teetered on a knife edge could well have been the difference between mediocrity and historic success.
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Even major leaguers like myself who are lamented for our relative mediocrity or shittiness, who are only picked in fantasy as a show of loyalty by their friends who are not so serious about fantasy baseball, were extraordinarily compelling in the minor leagues—it is somewhat of a prerequisite for making it.
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Because Grammy performances more often than not carry at least a veneer of just-above-the-bar mediocrity—if you aren't getting Beyoncé, you're probably getting Kendrick Lamar headbanging to Imagine Dragons's "Radioactive," or Jessie J serviceably limping next to Tom Jones, or Demi Lovato trying to pay tribute to Lionel Richie.
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The shoddy viticulture and the rampant mediocrity of mass-market Champagnes could be ignored by talking up the skill of the master blender, who could mix a little of this and a little of that to create a house style that was repeated year after year, regardless of vintage conditions or vineyards.
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Vice looked back at Taylor's 2009 VMA win as "black excellence thwarted by white mediocrity again" (though it's worth noting again here that Beyoncé ended up winning the more prestigious award at the end of the night, so Taylor didn't so much thwart Beyoncé's undisputed excellence as take home a consolation prize).
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It is a sport, after all, that is awash with money, a sport so rich — at its highest levels, at least — that it can fritter away hundreds of millions of dollars on fees to agents, write off seven-figure salaries as bad investments, and reward (relative) mediocrity with wealth to last several lifetimes.
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In praise of mediocrity I feel like ever since social media has grown people are expected and pressured to be the best, I see comments on peoples art or music or other stuff that they do for fun and everyone always says its "horrible" and "trash" and telling them to give up already.
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"Next Generation" put out mostly 26-episode seasons from 1987 to 1994, back in the day when ambient mediocrity went along with bulk production and modest budgets, and a show could succeed handsomely on the basis of Stewart's Shakespearean assurance, Spiner's winsome mugging and the enduring appeal of Gene Roddenberry's 1960s utopianism.
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Spectators have long jeered the Champions League anthem when it is played before matches in the competition, amid a festering sense that the team — which was lifted out of decades of mediocrity by the riches of its Gulf ownership group — is treated unfairly because it is not a part of soccer's established elite.
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Now, it's conceivable that the conditions for life are far more complex than we're able to appreciate, and that we're an anomaly in the galaxy as far as these things go, but this new study, along with a sufficient appreciation for the Copernican Principle of Mediocrity, suggests life is probably abundant in the galaxy.
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Indiana's future was complicated before Bird stepped down, but Pritchard—who once coined the phrase "treadmill of mediocrity" as a way to describe franchises that aren't quite good enough to contend and yet aren't bad enough to look forward to turning things around with a lottery pick—is taking over at a crucial time.
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He won an Academy Award for his film adaptation of "Amadeus," about the rivalry between Antonio Salieri, the court composer for the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the precocious composer whose magnificent gifts thrill the older man and fill him with malicious jealousy as he realizes his own consignment to mediocrity.
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While yes, obviously people can like whatever they want and that's fine (really it is!), you do have to admit that is is also terribly, terribly boring: mediocrity of this manner is a problem which has leaked into the veins of the collective music taste of Britain—lest we forget, the country that invented punk rock—the year round.
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Dragging on for an excruciating eternity, this election season has demeaned democracy, elevated mediocrity and insulted and embarrassed us all on just about every level imaginable: Intellectually, with regard to the lack of focus on policy and substance; ethically, with a complete disregard for integrity and character; and morally, driven by a disgraceful descent into racist and xenophobic vitriol.
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Perhaps there is an argument to be made that making jokes at the expensive of really fucking boring producers and even more boring DJs will eventually do us all a massive favor as said DJs and producers confront the mediocrity of their life's work and retreat into ether to take up crofting or retraining as a dental hygienist.
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The way I see it, the race to have the biggest selling album in the UK this week is the next chapter in the story that began on Sunday night at the Oscars, when the independent, black-helmed, queer film Moonlight emerged victorious over La La Land, which, throughout awards season became a synonym for whiteness and mediocrity.
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As such, Mitchell is a classic mid-century white antihero, the kind that can be found, in works ranging from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" to "Portnoy's Complaint," exuding professional mediocrity, evading responsibility, humiliating himself sexually, and cowering in the face of his supposed inferiors: women, children, household help, members of all kinds of the putative lower classes.
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Ever since the New Orleans Pelicans were smiled upon by the Lottery Gods and jumped three spots to select all-world talent Anthony Davis in the 2012 NBA draft, the franchise has been mired in mediocrity—beset by injuries, a coaching change, and win-now roster reshuffling that has combined to produce a single first-round playoff exit.
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I was there to yell, both because I had backed into the idea that supporting this team—a wasteland of checked-out mediocrity stretching back a decade and more, the property of a bunch of exceptionally litigious but otherwise profoundly mediocre local swells—was a stand on principle and because I needed so badly to yell.
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With Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah, his expensive acquisitions from Chicago, making fans fear that their best days are behind them — and with the Knicks (6-7 after Sunday's home win over Atlanta) already treading a fault line between mediocrity and monotony — Jackson picked a fine time to quibble with the professional integrity of LeBron James.
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The Mets are an organization that spent the better part of a decade lost not so much in mediocrity as a sort of toxic and untrustworthy ambiguity; the teams were stagnant and mostly lousy, but bigger questions regarding not just the executive competence but the basic financial solvency of the owners tended to overwhelm all that.
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Even given Letterism's relentless criticism of the mediocrity of the other radical French intellectuals, in 1947, with the support of Jean Cocteau and Jean Paulhan, Isou published in La Nouvelle Revue française his grand theoretical proposition, Introduction to a New Poetry and a New Music, in which he laid the groundwork for Letterism and metagraphy (métagraphie).
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You should want to date her and be her friend — except there's one big plot hole: Beck is basic AF. She's so basic she probably still says "basic AF." You is full of implausible storylines, like how Joe keeps getting away with murder without wearing gloves or planning ahead at ALL, but the most incredulous thing about You is Beck's outstanding mediocrity.
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In the cosmology of The Process, the worst years are not the ones with the fewest wins—the last three, when the team has won 37 of 246 games, or 247 including their opening night loss on Wednesday—but the ones that came before, when the team was stuck in aimless and unshakeable mediocrity, first with and then without Allen Iverson.
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Maybe Gordon Hayward will play you out of the rotation, and you'll be traded to the Pistons, where you will see your career slide down into the swamp of mediocrity until, one day, you find yourself plying a trade on a contender, but far away from the glory you dreamt of when you foolishly dunked on LeBron for no particularly good reason.
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Without the stout defense known as the Legion of Boom and with most of that era's roster departed (with a notable exception in running back Marshawn Lynch, who made an unexpected return from retirement last week), Wilson is now the undisputed leader of the Seahawks (213-228), the one player whose absence would doom this new version of the team to mediocrity.
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This rewarding of what only barely works extends even to the floor: Wittman is notorious for yanking around the minutes available to young players, preferring to give playing time to the likes of Gary Neal and J.J. Hickson, the kind of player with which Grunfeld has ensured that the roster is reliably stocked: fringe NBA guys who manifestly cannot help a team achieve anything better than mediocrity.
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From his opening sections in Vienna, Wray moves outward into the family tree, following successive generations: Ottokar's two sons, Kaspar and Waldemar, as they pursue diverging paths — the former resigned to his own mediocrity as a scientist, allowing the currents of larger forces to carry him along, while the latter (Waldy's great-uncle and namesake) uses his intellect to carry out bizarre and horrifying experiments in Äschenwald.
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Despite its highly unfavorable reception from critics (its approval rating is a paltry 16 percent on Rotten Tomatoes), the movie was still a financial success, grossing $95 million at the box office, and, in the curious manner of seemingly all Matthew McConaughey rom-coms, has remained firmly planted in our cultural memory to this day despite its utter mediocrity (though it's admittedly a fun watch).
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As for Ubi's new Tom Clancy-branded shooter, its mixing of MMO features with third-person cover play and RPG elements could be a too-many-cooks recipe for mediocrity, though its premise is appealing—a bank note-spread pandemic beginning on Black Friday as good as obliterates the United States in five days, leaving the titular department of tactical agents to bring order back to the shattered country.
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It's that feeling of desperate hope that maybe we can win this and redeem all the bad years and bad memories, weighed-down by the knowledge that somehow, in some way, we / they are going to fuck this up and lapse back into the complacent mediocrity that's defined all the years in the absence of Payton or Urlacher, of Jordan and Pippen, of Toews and Keith, of Wood or Arrieta.
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" As for colleges — those supposed hotbeds of tenured radicals — Genet presciently observes that inside American universities, the "only recognized values are quantitative" and thus our schools "turn [students] into a digit within a larger number" and cultivate in them "the need for security, for tranquility and quite naturally [professors] educate you to serve your bosses and beyond them, your politicians, although you are well aware of their intellectual mediocrity.
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The Nets, originally a member of the upstart American Basketball Association — the team won two titles in the league with the red-white-and-blue ball, before having to sell off star player Julius Erving to afford the admission fee for joining the NBA and sinking into decades of mediocrity — had been through as many owners as it had arenas, drifting from New Jersey to Long Island and back to New Jersey again.
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That would be absurd and especially cold-hearted given the circumstances—Seattle's appearance in the MLS Cup final will be the first in their history, and I will be thinking of Branom on Saturday, hoping that a man who has watched his side through years of relative mediocrity is entirely excited, hopeful, and proud of his team, that he is exhilarated by the rare prospect of his love for Seattle Sounders being requited by success.
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In his view, ideal employees fit into one of three categories: Lest you think St. John's "ideals" sound less like a path to a healthy, positive workplace and more like an objectivist manifesto, don't worry — there's (limited) room for women in his capitalistic regime, too: The rest of St. John's presentation provides a general overview of what he views as a predominantly male tech culture where the aforementioned "spoiled kids" battle it out in a "sea of mediocrity" to advance alongside the truly deserving.
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If I, a certified mediocrity, look at the people around me and wonder, deep down, what makes them more confident than I am, what is it like, I wonder, for Paul George to join a team with a dude who is so supernaturally self-regarding that he laps even the confidence that has made George a fabulously wealthy and successful NBA player, the top pick of his free agent class, and a dude who has gone toe-to-toe with LeBron James on more than one occasion?
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Run it back to 2009, and the moment that started it all—when the VMAs didn't award Beyonce with Best Pop Video for the best choreography this side of "Smooth Criminal," and instead gave it to Taylor Swift for the straight-to-video teen movie piece of humdrum that was "You Belong With Me." Black excellence thwarted by white mediocrity again, as Kanye would state later on: if "you see Beyonce dancing in heels and shit" and still don't give her that award, people just aren't gonna bother.
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