Given the mixed success of previous outsiders brought in to run big hotel companies, his appointment was greeted with scepticism.

Measured by those aims, the profiles must be judged a mixed success.

Truth to tell, those lessons were a mixed success.

I did in the past, with mixed success.

He has blow-dried, bleached, bouffant, crimped, permed, plaited, wedged and moussed his over-worked follicles - with mixed success.