mediocrity

The latter, afflicted by “the incurable disease of mediocrity,” has led a disappointing life yet still possesses a lust for it.

Sly, wry, adorable and deplorable, Guillaume Marbeck is priceless as the endlessly irritating and yet frustratingly charismatic Godard in one of the year’s brightest pictures, a rare standout in a sea of multiplex mediocrity.

And when he introduced the cameras, I was like, “No, no, no — you have to only do this side. Do you want greatness or mediocrity?”

It’s almost as if prime-time network television has attained maximum mediocrity and is willing to maintain a sluggish cruising level.

“People are obsessed with the most mundane things. Like, we praise mediocrity nowadays.”