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mediocrity
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  • The crowd, by definition, gravitates toward average, which could tend toward middle of the road or toward mediocrity.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • The strength of this immutable desire saved her from the mediocrity and sadness of her fate.†  (source)
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  • He knew that Ida was puzzled and irritated by the mediocrity of his response.†  (source)
  • This man would have been notable anywhere: among the thin-hammed, flat-chested mediocrities of Chandrapore he stood out as divine, yet he was of the city, its garbage had nourished him, he would end on its rubbish heaps.†  (source)
  • Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.†  (source)
  • With the departure of Randolph the brilliant cabinet that Washington had started with was entirely gone, replaced by men who were by and large mediocrities.†  (source)
  • They wouldn't know mediocrity if it punched them right in their fat faces.†  (source)
  • Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx.†  (source)
  • "What has preserved this race of Adamses in all their ramifications in such numbers, health, peace, comfort, and mediocrity?" this firstborn son of Deacon John would one day write to Benjamin Rush.†  (source)
  • I assure you we can't bear mediocrities.†  (source)
  • He vanished without a trace-into the great unknown of mediocrity.†  (source)
  • Two of the people he had never seen before, and the others consisted of Ernest Harrowden, one of those middle-aged mediocrities so common in London clubs who have no enemies, but are thoroughly disliked by their friends;†  (source)
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