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" Before this, he had published several works on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and its consequences, but his literary capacity was mediocre, his style stiff and cold, and it was his personal character rather than his reputation as a writer that earned him the confidence of the elector.

He described Hill as touchy and apt to overreact, and her work at the EEOC as mediocre.

In 1961, Davis opened in the Broadway production The Night of the Iguana to mostly mediocre reviews, and left the production after four months due to " chronic illness ".

We are often told that the Comedie has, unfortunately, life-contracts with old actors who are both mediocre and lazy, drawing their pay without much acting but probably doing real service to the Comedie by staying off the stage.

Broadcasted to mediocre ratings, the series ended only 8 months after its premiere, but garnered her a Young Artist Award nomination for Outstanding Youth Ensemble alongside her co-stars.

After a string of mediocre seasons, a rejuvenated Johnson rebounded in 1924 to win 23 games with the help of his catcher, Muddy Ruel, as the Senators won the American League pennant for the first time in the history of the franchise.

Meanwhile, the synchronization gear ( called the Stangensteuerung in German, for " pushrod control system ") devised by the engineers of Anthony Fokker's firm was the first system to see production contracts, and would make the Fokker Eindecker monoplane a feared name over the Western Front, despite its being an adaptation of an obsolete pre-war French Morane-Saulnier racing airplane, with a mediocre performance and poor flight characteristics.

The Giants started off the regular season slow, had spurts of promise but more often stretches of mediocre to worse play.

In the 1990s concurrent with the resurgence of the Cowboys under Jimmy Johnson the Packers after two decades of mediocre results began to become a playoff power again with the ascension of quarterback Brett Favre.

The production had been a disaster and Swanson felt it would perform mediocre at best.

Despite having a mediocre season until August, Lowe was exceptional in September 2010, with a 5 – 0 record, a 1. 77 ERA, 29 strikeouts while walking only three batters, which helped the Braves secure a playoff berth as the NL Wild Card, being one game ahead of the second place Padres at the end of the regular season.

Critics raved about Silvers, who was hailed as the bright spot in the mediocre play.

It is usually found on FM radio music stations in morning drive, as the actual hot talk formatted stations have only achieved mediocre success as a whole compared to AM or conservative talk radio, or even FM music radio.

There has been a noticeable increase in the quality of the operatic programme in recent years, after decades when, according to critic Rupert Christiansen, the festival featured " work of such mediocre quality that I just longed for someone to put it out of its misery.

The Giants, considered a mediocre team at the time, were regarded as underdogs and were under much scrutiny by the media and their fans.

After a somewhat mediocre start the club by mid February had climbed to a record of 30-21-1-2.

In his earliest parts he acted in a string of " mediocre " films, including swashbucklers, westerns, light comedies, sports films, and a musical.

As a child he was a mediocre student but was very much interested in technology and engineering ; so much, in fact, that his friends nicknamed him “ Science ”.

The franchise had been poor to mediocre in the six years before moving to New Jersey.

Sobers had progressed quickly and made his Test debut in March 1954, aged 17, against England at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica for the Fifth and final Test, after Alf Valentine had fallen ill. Sobers was selected as a bowler, despite only mediocre performances against England for Barbados.

After a mediocre year where the Twins played. 500 baseball for most of the season, the team won 17 of their last 21 games to tie the Detroit Tigers for the lead in the Central Division.

After two mediocre years, Spurrier resigned after the 2003 season with three years left on his contract.

Reviews were again mixed, sales were mediocre ( It peaked at 137 in March 1970 ) and the MC5's tours were not as well-received as before.

The album received very mixed reviews and mediocre sales, despite the top-40 Hot Rap Tracks singles " Word is Bond " and " Hold On.

The game's graphics received a mediocre response, with GameSpot commenting that the presentation is " starting to seem a bit antiquated " when noting that the character models did not seem to have been updated from Mario Party 4.