mediocrity

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• Whereas discomfort often fuels motivation and innovation, comfort can fuel complacency and mediocrity.

• It’s a ritual that has become habit for this Boston team, one of those celebratory routines that seem to signal some level of camaraderie — or at least that signal a team is far from resigned to six months of angsty mediocrity.

• “Californians are tired of having a governor whose operating themes are hypocrisy, self-interest, half truths and mediocrity,” Ose said in a statement announcing his run.

• Earlier this century, ridiculing Chris Martin seemed well on its way to becoming an Olympic sport, but eventually all of the self-appointed deputies holding Coldplay responsible for its milky mediocrity seemed to forget that the band ever existed.

• That report claimed that the nation's public schools were mired in “a rising tide of mediocrity” because they were too easy.

• A “komitetchik par excellence,” a man of “outstanding mediocrity,” and “the grave digger of the revolution.”

• If the point was to create a paean to mediocrity, then Linklater has made maybe the definitive work on the subject.

• Does the mediocrity of the job market mean that America no longer needs people who deal with abstractions?

• Both the Giants and the Jets descended into mediocrity, a situation epitomized by the “Miracle In The Meadowlands” in 1978.

• While the Giants receded into two decades of mediocrity, the Jets took over New York.