The other British entries, all competent and interesting, smacked more of Reformation than Renaissance.
Her reporting here is competent and interesting, and she attempts, especially in the case of Corbyn's association with Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, to put his side.
The other consisted of former Conservative voters, fed up with John Major, who saw Mr Blair as a more competent and interesting species of compassionate conservative.
Cockiness comes from a confidence (many would say "arrogance") that you're the most competent, most interesting, best-looking person in the room (even if you're not!) You also need to believe the reverse - that most of the people you meet are all dull, boring, and/or incompetent.
There were competent writers on interesting subjects who were just careless enough in their spelling and punctuation to keep a girl occupied.
The shooting is competent, if not interesting.
Those who belong to the group of national symbolic analysts may be highly competent, and do interesting work, but their impact and reach is limited to their immediate environment.
What you want admissions officers to get from your application is that you are responsible, energetic, interesting, attentive, competent and mature.
All of them so busy breaking their backs to shoehorn in the right pop culture references that along the way they forgot to be interesting or even competent.
Inexperience, impatience and fatigue may all undermine a basically competent surgeon; Dr. Ruggieri makes the interesting point that even though training programs now curtail residents' work hours, a fully trained surgeon may nevertheless have been up all night with an emergency before a full day of elective surgery, including yours.
Serdar Yegulalp from About.com said it has "[a]n interesting concept", is "competent enough", and "has a few fun twists", but that apart from the supernatural elements it does not bring anything that has not already been done in Case Closed.
