Big mediocrity in every way.

But what they assure in its place is mediocrity.

Little wonder that in those countries, mediocrity is knowingly entrenched.

Or do we want to focus on equity and accept mediocrity?

Following the dot com collapse of the early 2000 s, speculation in real estate and financial assets enabled by cheap money kept Western economies going. The post 2008 slump merely exposed the unsoundness of the preceding boom the mediocrity of the recovery reflects the mediocrity of previous prospects, coolly considered.

It's not that strove for mediocrity, it's just that the S used to be written differently, kind of like an F.

We are not self made. We are dependent on one another, and admitting this to ourselves isn't an embrace of mediocrity and derivativeness.

Although Wen has won popular support through his tireless efforts for earthquake victims, he remains isolated in official circles. And, although Hu can barely hide his mediocrity, the bureaucrats are unconcerned.

Monarchs today are reared to be ordinary, as suits their diminished role in national life. But democratic countries need symbols of the extraordinary if they are not to sink into permanent mediocrity.

The newly globalized India can no longer content itself with mediocrity in this global competition. For a land with world class computer scientists, mathematicians, biotech researchers, filmmakers, and novelists, sporting excellence is the last unconquered frontier.

France must now insist on addressing the question of the use of force as a pre condition to any negotiations on Europe s political integration. By showing Europe that it is following its actions from above, the US will once again force Europeans to awaken from their political torpor and strategic mediocrity.

For Marx, the class struggle in France created the circumstances in which a grotesque mediocrity that is, Napoleon was morphed into a hero. As far as Tolstoy was concerned, Napoleon was not a particularly good general, and was carried to victory by the courage and commitment of all of the individual French soldiers who won the Battle of Borodino.

It is the sort of pretense of knowledge that the economist Friedrich von Hayek denounced as a recipe for constraining freedom and ensuring economic mediocrity. Indeed, the European project should start from the premise that appropriate institutions, property rights, and competition, together with a growth friendly tax system and solid fiscal policies, are the basis of economic success.

In the opinion of Royal s many opponents among Socialist leaders and militants, the dominance of the media in the political process is leading to mediocrity the qualities required to be elected are becoming nearly incompatible with those needed to govern. According to Royal s Socialist critics, the Hollywoodization of politics from which she benefits entails a new approach in which leaders follow and followers lead.