second-rate造句
1 Olivier's performance redeemed an otherwise second-rate play.
2 His novels are very second-rate.
3 This is a second-rate novel, because the readers' interest lags when the plot develops.
4 Not as a second-rate effort or a last-ditch effort.
5 A second-rate actor,[www.] she thought.
6 A second-rate Egyptologist unearths the diary of Eye, the grand vizier of the boy-king Tut.
7 Do old radio broadcasts, minor record labels and second-rate artists merit box sets?
8 We continue to be second-rate citizens-no, third-rate, since our sons come be-fore us.
9 What makes a second-rate actress like Jean so self-satisfied, so over-confident?
10 He seems so second-rate, so superficial, so shallow-and thus so dangerous.
11 Why are we content to settle for second-rate flavors, fake chocolates, no-fat cheeses, and chemical-tasting artificial sweeteners?
12 In the first skit, a second-rate star is organizing a Wild West charity benefit.
13 Contemptibly low in worth or account; second-rate.
14 He had been graduated from a second-rate medical school in Oklahoma and had practised in a small town ever since.
15 Most of the time re-enactments are performed by second-rate actors.
16 Many people begrudge paying so much money for a second-rate service.
17 She found it hard to live down her reputation as a second-rate actress.
18 Viewers will have to make do with tired re-runs and second-rate movies.
19 This time they are peddling water-filters, but the product is a second-rate consideration.
20 Rather it was the whole ethos of the monarchy which was felt to be dowdy and second-rate.
21 Less accomplished lecturers repeated the message at meetings of the second-rate institutions that infect academic life.
22 Taken at face value the words found sinister and can convey a false impression like some sort of second-rate horror movie.
23 After a spell in the army, he developed this into a business taking second-rate acts to provincial Soviet cities.
24 The danger is that while you put off the legwork, your money might be languishing in a second-rate account.
25 Scorned by the more expensive and mechanical toys, the shy young rabbit feels very second-rate and insignificant.
26 But the cartoonist is making a pun here, as bush league is also "Bush league", second-rate because it comes from people with minds like that of President George W. Bush.
27 Tom King was getting old; and old men, fighting before second-rate clubs, couldn't expect to run bills of any size with the tradesmen.
28 The third-rate article is the makeup of words, the second-rate article is the makeup of spirit, and the first-rate article is the makeup of life.
29 Continuing along this path, says writer Earl Shorris, "We will become a second-rate country.
30 It was confused with an exclusive focus on first-level care. For some proponents of development, it appeared cheap: poor care for poor people, a second-rate solution for developing countries.
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