...The doctrine of the divine right of majorities leads to almost humorousinsistence on a dead level of mediocrity...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
... Asbury was about forty years of age, a man of dark hue, size and height about mediocrity, and mental ability quite above the average...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
... Why, then, this excessive mediocrity of M...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...Patient, persistent mediocrity is expressed bythe Red-eye's song, and only his nasal, petulant call-note,whang, suggests that he is not altogether satisfied with lifeas he finds it...
Frank M. Chapman 「What Bird is That?」
...We have our own instincts, some of which take the name of genius when they attain a degree of might that towers over the plain of mediocrity...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...In the façade there is aGothic portal which notwithstanding its entire mediocrity is the chiefadornment of the outer walls...
Elise Whitlock Rose 「Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1」
...He was an excellentcopyist of the old masters, and a painter of invention above mediocrity...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 1 (of 6)」
...It is natural for men advanced in years to contentthemselves with mediocrity in the works which they order, from theapprehension of not living to see them, if they wait for the riperefforts of talent...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6)」
...He was the scholar of Niccolò dellePomarance, for whom he worked much with little reward; and from hisexample he learnt to avail himself of the labour of others, and tocontent himself with mediocrity...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6)」
...Excepting him, we have noartists here whose works rise beyond mere mediocrity...
R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny 「Town Life in Australia」
...If any judgment could be hazarded of the quality of the country, at the distance the sloop was at, it might be supposed, from the beauty of the lower head-land, to be somewhat above mediocrity...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2」
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