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1. I would like to qualify what I mean by second-rate
2. It sounded more like a foghorn from some second-rate horror movie
3. Herod had done what we have seen so often in Jewish history: as ruler of a second-rate power, he used personal ties with the highest level of the dominant power in order to do something for his people
4. There then followed rule by a series of second-rate administrators, some of whom, like Florus, were not well-disposed to Jews, favoring the Greek inhabitants of Eretz Israel
5. “Then he’s all mine, the Carnival of Souls’ main attraction! Woeful and second-rate, to be sure, but to me, my dear, you’re still a prize
6. began speaking to what she assumed was a second-rate functionary
7. would speaking to was a second-rate grunt
8. Rome made a great blunder, a far-reaching error in earthly affairs, when she sent the second-rate Pilate to govern Palestine
9. paradise, and that god helped them to conquer the second-rate land of Canaan
10. In the matter of evidence in psychological question, the sense-perceptions with which science naturally deals are only second-rate criteria and therefore to be received with caution
11. If we abandon the path of heart we abandon our inner strength for an unfulfilling course and a second-rate path
12. Not that they stint on all the more traditional, time-tested pleasures they’ve enjoyed since they took over from those supposed second-rate citizens who now “need” them to run things—us female-types
13. No excitements, no clothes, acquaintances so shabby that they seem almost moth-eaten, the days filled with the same dull round, a home in a little town where we all get into one groove and having got into it stay in it, to which only faint echoes come of what is going on in the world outside, a place where one is amused and entertained by second-rate things, second-rate concerts, second-rate plays, and feels oneself grow cultured by attendance at second-rate debating-society meetings
14. And I hope you don't expect me to agree with your criticism of music as a stirrer-up of, on the whole, second-rate emotions
15. What are second-rate emotions? Are they the ones that you have? And was it to have them stirred that you used to journey so often to Munich and Mottl? Stirred up I certainly am
16. It is so horrid to think that even my emotions may be second-rate
17. I long ago became aware that my manners were so, but I did like to believe there was nothing second-rate about my soul
18. Interest, of course, was an altogether second-rate feeling compared to love, and because it was second-rate it was noisier, expressing itself with a copiousness unnecessary when one got to the higher stages of feeling
19. herself to be classified amongst the rest of the second-rate citizens, or
20. And that"s why I laughed when you told me you were a second-rate novelist
21. I am a second-rate novelist myself
22. Athens, that sprawling, congested, chaotic capital that houses half the population of a second-rate European nation is perhaps, if not the first, one of the main cultural centers of Europe
23. She did not feel she could part with the good ones and felt uncomfortable with the thought of exhibiting what she considered somewhat second-rate
24. “There is nothing that is second-rate in your work,” Stratos told her
25. In Cairo, we settled on the fringes of a second-rate district called Shoubra
26. establishments and the arrogance of the members, the aura of the second-rate was
27. But now, when Jews were lumped in with other second-rate foreigners trying to sneak into this country, when Jews were accused of committing terrorist acts within the United States itself, when Jews were arrested and detained by her own government, and, most of all, when her son was beaten at school for being a Jew, now the price was too steep for her
28. The tavern was dirty and wretched, not even second-rate
29. "Certainly," continued Monte Cristo, "I make three assortments in fortune—first-rate, second-rate, and third-rate fortunes
30. I call those first-rate which are composed of treasures one possesses under one's hand, such as mines, lands, and funded property, in such states as France, Austria, and England, provided these treasures and property form a total of about a hundred millions; I call those second-rate fortunes, that are gained by manufacturing
31. was deceived, and that you belong to the class of second-rate fortunes
32. the second-rate fortunes we were mentioning just now
33. “The second-rate assignments once he got back home
34. Harry Hands, whose parents were never seen, withdrew to a bang of thunder that only we ninth-grade second-rate criminals heard while waiting for sleep, which never came, to arrive
35. But how do you cast that incredible play? So, meanwhile I have a Jules Verne novel in the public domain, free and clear, with a dumb-cluck fly-by-night producer who says nothing and steals much, so I need a second-rate science-fiction writer—you—to work for scale on this half-ass masterwork
36. In the year 1934 I found an interesting article concerning an act which played on a second-rate circuit, known as Fabian and Sweet William
37. In fact, many older American corporations have mediocre management that continually produces second-rate earnings results
38. Selecting second-rate stocks because of dividends or low price/earnings ratios
39. It’s also interesting to note that these practical, no-nonsense ratings have helped to wake up corporate board members and put pressure on management teams producing second-rate results
40. At six o'clock our hero issued from his house once more, and trudged off to dine at a restaurant on the Nefsky, near the police-bridge—a second-rate sort of place, but French
41. Nothing made Tich so furious as the suggestion that he should have lost his limbs by any, to his mind, second-rate way
42. Your tourist in Europe now and then wears its twin, on discovering that the United States is renting a second-rate building for an embassy, when other governments own pretentious ones