mediocrities

• “- Turning the 20th century into a artistic desert in which only crap and mediocrities is floating?”

  Ex-RIAA boss Rosen: when fans took control

• “Directing 8 movies (only 5 of which are good) and writing a spate of mediocrities is hardly "unparalleled.”

  John Hughes To Get Special Oscar Tribute | /Film

• “Monarchies have privy councils composed of titled mediocrities who advise their temporal lords.”

  Archive 2006-10-01

• “Even if there were a few bright spots, it was largely led by "mediocrities" like Katy Perry who provided a "soundtrack from hell.”

  The Huffington Post: Danny Groner: Reviewing 2010's Pop Cultural Lessons

• “Often, the most important jobs get "mediocrities" like Greenspan and the current White House occupant.”

  "Immoral Hazard"

• “I can take a hint: who'd want to pan Nabokov and end up among the "mediocrities" on his enemies list, to which he might still be adding over on the other side?”

  NYT > Home Page

• “Derivative teachers are mediocrities, and probably also boring if not interesting in all the wrong ways.”

  Ad Fontes, a Mystical and Protestant View of Teaching « Unknowing

• “Einstein captured this phenomenon succinctly with these prophetic words, as valid today as when he wrote them, some seventy years ago: Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.”

  Simon & Schuster: Manifesting Michelangelo

• “I mean, there is a something quite heroic about the way McCain went down, his being a good man and a good soldier and all that, but he was on lousy campaigner, and the mediocrities he surrounded himself with just made it worse.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Organizing Your People

• “This is much better than hoping the present collection of bureaucratic mediocrities will somehow get it right, by dumb luck.”

  Forbes: What Is The Euro's Purpose?

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