Nadia is a middlingly successful novelist in her 50s, difficult and introverted, who was given the desk in 1972 by Daniel Varsky, a Chilean friend of a friend. ❋ Unknown (2011)
“I've read your work when you are middlingly troubled, and it's far inferior to anything you produce when you're emotionally well.” ❋ Matt Potter (2010)
They received bogus results: They either did well in English and middlingly at math, or the converse. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We didn't get in there, unfortunately, as something top secret, or at least middlingly secret, occurred to keep us out. ❋ Lou Anders (2008)
The answer's simple... female celebrities - provided they are still middlingly sexually attractive - can be exploited for just as long as they: ❋ Unknown (2010)
In all likelihood it really was an empty entertainment, middlingly acted, childishly written, and the reason Lindelof/Cuse's final statement seems like a shitty ending is that it has less to do with the events of the show than the experience of writing it. ❋ Adam Roberts (2010)
This last sharp bow-out could be the most intriguing of the lot, stuffed as it is with middlingly sane people. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A person's form of speaking, for example, should be "moderately, middlingly," taking care "not to speak hurriedly, not to pant, nor to squeak, lest it be said of thee that thou art a groaner, a growler, a squeaker." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Those numbers raise a question: What if a president were wildly popular with one group, and only middlingly popular with another group and yet was often portrayed as being hugely popular with the whole group? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Instead of trying to bear a child on Jan. 1, 2000, in the middlingly favorable Year of the Rabbit, many Chinese couples are now expected to try for a "Dragon Baby." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Question: I am the grandchild of a middlingly-famous deceased writer. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)
'Because I sha'n't be contented to be just middlingly well off after this, and I never wanted to be rich before; but your father can do everything he likes,' she cried enthusiastically. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)
But when I proposed this idea at the opera-house, nobody would so much as hearken to me, and I was obliged to tack together music and dances in the usual manner: on this account the divertissement, although full of charming ideas which do not diminish the beauty of scenes, succeeded but very middlingly. ❋ Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1896)
If people understood what standardized tests really are, that they're not made up of, like, an easy question, a middlingly difficult question and a question that tests complex knowledge. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Still, it looked a lot like the other lists and did middlingly well. statistics kottke. org, quickly ... ❋ Unknown (2010)
