All 6 Uses of
mediocrity
in
Main Street
- The tiniest change in their distrust of beauty would be the beginning of the end; a seed to sprout and some day with thickening roots to crack their wall of mediocrity.†
Chpt 10
- Had she actually believed that she could plant a seed of liberalism in the blank wall of mediocrity?†
Chpt 11 *
- Democracy is all right theoretically, and I'll admit there are industrial injustices, but I'd rather have them than see the world reduced to a dead level of mediocrity.†
Chpt 16
- And along with these foreigners, she felt herself being ironed into glossy mediocrity, and she rebelled, in fear.†
Chpt 22
- But a village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance.†
Chpt 22
- Oh, there's nothing that attacks the Tribal God Mediocrity that doesn't help a little …. and probably there's nothing that helps very much.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(mediocrity) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding