Sentence examples for best serviceable from inspiring English sources
Their English is, at best, serviceable, and they struggle to carry on a basic conversation with a reporter.
The Super Bowl champion Patriots have not won 20 straight games by passing on every down, but they won the first 15 games in the streak dating to last season with running backs who were, at best, serviceable.
Lattin's prose is, at best, serviceable.His narrative is jittery; it jumps back and forth among decades and characters until you'll need a GPS to find your way home.Worse, Mr. Lattin admits he invented some of the book's dialogue, basing it on interviews, written accounts and "other research into the various character' state of mind".
Although the cast, especially the pumped-up Harington and the lovely Browning, is at best serviceable and the dialogue frequently too basic, "Pompeii" succeeds as escapist entertainment.
"Pompeii" stars "Game of Thrones'" Kit Harington as a Celtic gladiator in the doomed Roman city and Emily Browning as his noblewoman love interest, and Goldstein says they're "at best serviceable," while the dialogue is "frequently too basic".
Leavitt very well may have found the book's prose "at its best... serviceable.
The acting, especially by Ms. Hamilton, is better than serviceable.
At its best, his prose is serviceable.
Its pirates-and-slave-girls plot is hokum; its patchwork score is serviceable at best, and Petipa's choreography rarely reaches the heights of his Swan Lake or Bayadère.
Hotels The best things about my serviceable but otherwise unremarkable room with bath at the Ipanema Inn, Rua Maria Quitéria 27, 55-211) 2523-6092, fax 55-211) 2511-5094, were the location (a block and a half from the beach) and the price, $52 a night.
