The effort, though, was still not matched by his usual quality."

The men answered such questions as: "How would you describe the usual quality of your erection during the last four weeks?"

"We are gentrified in terms of price, minus the usual quality of life."

The pictures are not the usual quality.

Westin had none of the usual qualities that we associated with humans: conscience, sociability, deep emotion, sympathy, and empathy.

The afternoon story says the chief remaining worry is not that Colombian coffee will be unavailable but that it won't be up to its usual quality.

Dross has the usual qualities of a hard rock in that it resists erosion and deterioration unless subject to mechanical and/or chemical breakdown.

Meredith Blake of The Los Angeles Times said the episode was below the show's usual quality writing that "it didn't quite have the usual zing".

Taking the image-pack, Thilling said, "I was just explaining that I don't expect any images I fix here to be of the usual quality.

It's as if everything is a copy of what you knew before, similar, yet somehow lacking in its usual qualities, a bit like the wey things are in a dream.

"I'm surprised to be in first place with the program that I skated, I know it wasn't up to my usual quality technically," Goebel said at the interview podium.

Arabesque also produces a more sensuous piano sound than did the other labels, although for sound as well as interpretation, both surveys well surpass the usual quality of "complete" recordings.

With Robert Redford as executive producer, it exhibits the usual qualities of television that appears to aspire to theatrical release: ponderous dialogue, pensive close-ups and big landscapes, social issues and atmospheric music.

The footage is not an official recording, but is actually taken from the feed that supplied the screen inside the venue and so is not of the usual quality expected of a live DVD.

In the King's presence the Parlement lost its usual quality of judge, to take the role of counsellor following the principle adveniente principe, cessat magistratus ("with the arrival of the king, magistratures cease").

Although the drawing was of the usual kind, it was of less than the usual quality; it suggested undue haste, which was strange -there was no urgency for Mrs Dogar to leave the brothel.

Anne Lamott'S wonderful little novel is gripping not because it possesses any of the usual qualities of suspense or dramatic tension, but because its strong, clear, self-deprecating and witty voice takes immediate hold and refuses to let go.

A couple of appetizers that weren't up to Mr. Dunham's usual quality were the grilled octopus, which arrived charred on the outside and rubbery on the inside, and a she-crab soup that was more vegetable soup than the true version with crab, roe, sherry and Worcestershire sauce.

During his brief hiatus, Nick Starr and "Hollywood" Adam put out three episodes that were shorter than most, and were regarded by most fans as not up to the show's usual quality level, before Patrick returned to the program on Christmas Day, and retracted the statements as having gone too far.