mediocrity

Sample some new snacks: Summer barbecues are rife with potato-chip mediocrity.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

But above all, he told his students, train yourselves “never to mistake mediocrity, however brilliant, for true greatness.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

What a shame, considering a three-dimensional approach might be all “Obsession” needs to skate past mediocrity.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026

Compare them to the Kings, who are old, slow and quickly fading into mediocrity.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026

The strength of this immutable desire saved her from the mediocrity and sadness of her fate.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

The partition that once sealed out the cranks and mediocrities has been permanently sundered.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

But they were also politicians, self-serving and ambitious, often well-born mediocrities flying high above their general level of talent.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022

Marcel will come to a similar conclusion at the end of the novel, seeing the aristocratic elites who dazzled him in his youth as mediocrities, elevated to the status of demigods by his imagination.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2022

“Choose or Die” almost sounds like a marketing slogan for Netflix’s scroll of mediocrities — but no, it’s just another horror movie on the streaming service.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

It’s why picking the right candidate for a job is so difficult and why, on more occasions than we may care to admit, utter mediocrities sometimes end up in positions of enormous responsibility.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell