Despite Smith's middling performance, his Heisman campaign will probably be bolstered by the scramble and heave that turned a tight game into a rout.

So the listener, perhaps justly disappointed in a middling performance, perhaps even justifiably bored, becomes ungrounded, drifting in a sea of sound.

How about a medium-fee fund that gives middling performance?

However, due to the middling commercial performance and poor reception of the film, no sequel was made.

There is nothing gilt-edged about Lincoln High, a crowded school of middling academic performance, but the basketball team is rarely left wanting.

A middling performance, however, and the question of failure or success becomes a tougher call.

One of the reasons for the middling performance yesterday was that investors, traders and speculators often have unreasonable expectations.

Despite the Bionic's middling performance in a couple of areas, the whole feels better than the sum of its parts.

But "Cool Runnings," limited by middling performances and some poor technical choices, is for committed fans only.

They repeated the cycle of middling performances followed by demotion over the next seven seasons.