• My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say.

    WHITEHOUSE: Abraham Lincoln

  • Previously, global warming was just part of an undistinguished green lineup with pollution and endangered species.

    NPR: Environmentalists Point Beyond Global Warming

  • An undistinguished animal can become, in death, the rancher's favorite, a cow of noble lineage.

    FORBES: A Desert Where?

  • An undistinguished record as a senator did little to build hopes of a bold presidency.

    ECONOMIST: Banyan

  • England's first-half performance was undistinguished, failing to build on Gerrard's fourth minute goal.

    BBC: England 1-1 USA

  • To achieve that undistinguished level, however, nominal GDP would have to grow an average of 5.52% annually over the next five years.

    FORBES: U.S. Debt Bomb's Detonation Sped Up By Five Years

  • His beginnings were clear enough: born in Cork, brought up in Soho, undistinguished schooldays, a wartime in the navy.

    ECONOMIST: Danny La Rue

  • His last job was as a member of the European Parliament, a distinguished and passionate member of an often undistinguished institution.

    ECONOMIST: Bronislaw Geremek

  • These folk are undistinguished yet distinctive, and the film, for all the familiar grind of its plotting, pays them their honest due.

    NEWYORKER: Cedar Rapids

  • Leading the midget charge among the Democrats is Joe Kennedy, an undistinguished congressman whom Mr Weld would have thrashed in a race.

    ECONOMIST: Massachusetts

  • Citigroup's have been mostly undistinguished, as often happens with brokers' in-house products.

    ECONOMIST: The rise of an American broking firm

  • Your avatar, an undistinguished and highly fungible clone running through a seemingly endless series of testing chambers, does not seem at all bastardly.

    FORBES: Capsule Review: Stealth B_stard Deluxe

  • The Old Street roundabout, the busy and undistinguished traffic intersection which is the focus for Tech City, is to be given a complete makeover.

    BBC: Sprucing up Silicon Roundabout

  • Support for Welfare is based less on its brief record in office an undistinguished one, by any reckoning than on the unexpected durability of its broad appeal.

    ECONOMIST: Turkey: Fall out, that man | The

  • The worst that had previously been said of Mr Paroubek, a former deputy mayor of Prague, was that he seemed an undistinguished candidate for the job.

    ECONOMIST: Czech leaders wrangle about history, politics��and sanity

  • It's just hard to score in the luxury market when you refuse to do an eight-cylinder engine, wear undistinguished styling and don't offer a rear-wheel-drive car.

    FORBES: Acura: The Honda That Didn't

  • Schwitters was an undistinguished figurative painter until 1917 when, under the experimental influence of the Cubists and Expressionists, he developed what he called his Merz-paintings and poems.

    ECONOMIST: Kurt Schwitters

  • The parking lot at the auto auction a few miles west of Indianapolis looks like a car dealer's nightmare: 150 acres of blacktop packed with undistinguished used vehicles.

    FORBES: On the Block

  • When Barack Obama exploded onto the national political stage literally during the 2004 Democratic convention, he used his oratorical skills to elevate his thin resume and undistinguished career into national prominence.

    FORBES: BREAKING NEWS��A Series of Excerpts from A Powerful New Book

  • United boss Sir Alex Ferguson kept faith with Berbatov, despite a lacklustre start to his Old Trafford career, but he made an undistinguished start with a dreadful miss after five minutes.

    BBC: AaB Aalborg 0-3 Man Utd

  • Chelsea ended an undistinguished first half, which gave little hint of the riches to come, in the ascendancy as Lampard restored their lead from the spot a minute before the interval.

    BBC: Chelsea 7-1 Aston Villa

  • No play was possible before lunch, but once they made it out to the middle, Hussey and Hayden wasted no time in feasting on some undistinguished bowling by the West Indies seamers.

    BBC: I think my emotions have definitely settled down a bit

  • It simply sits there in undistinguished anonymity on a low rise beneath a few scraggly trees, several miles from the nearest highway, almost invisible from the sun-baked ruts of a nearby secondary road.

    NPR: One Boy's Heroism in the Face of AIDS

  • Undistinguished styling: Well, just look at the cars.

    FORBES: Acura: The Honda That Didn't

  • He moved to Livingston as general manager after undistinguished spells at Inverness Thistle and Montrose but then returned to management to lead the West Lothian club to the Scottish Premier League and Uefa Cup qualification.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | Scottish Premier | Goodbye to the dugout

  • He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

    FORBES: Taxation Without Representation: Setting the Stage for Independence

  • The picture borders on obviousness and self-love (the gallantry of the theatre people gets a little thick), but Dench and Hoskins go at each other like pros, and the pleasantly undistinguished quality of the musical numbers feels right.

    NEWYORKER: Mrs. Henderson Presents

  • On that day, September 19th, 2001, given this whole context, an undistinguished - very undistinguished state senator from Illinois wrote a piece and he published it in a nondescript Chicago area publication called The Hyde Park Herald - no, it's Hot, right?

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Monica Crowley, Mightier Pen 2012

  • Aside from a 1949 FA Cup run to the fifth round, where Newport lost narrowly 3-2 at league champions Portsmouth, the side's form remained undistinguished for the next four decades, until the 1980 double of promotion to division three and the Welsh Cup.

    BBC: Newport County look to rewrite the script

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