Webb's voice, once merely serviceable, especially compared to his formidable compositional skills, has become a more confident instrument with some of the color and expressiveness of country-rock pioneer Chris Hillman.
Service was serviceable, if inconsistent.
The adaptation by David Fishelson, the company's artistic director, from a translation by Joseph C. Landis (Leivick's original was written in Yiddish), is serviceable but not especially graceful, and ultimately its idiom feels faux-poetic and somewhat tortured: This clay that I've shaped with my own hands, I can discern the breath of life in it.
The acting, especially by Ms. Hamilton, is better than serviceable.
First of all, sick children should not be exploited as living vaccines for older people when there is a perfectly serviceable jab on the market – especially as the evidence that they really do stimulate a protective response against older people's shingles is not very robust.
Most of our knowledge of early Chinatown comes from newspapers, especially the major New York dailies, which provide a serviceable chronology.
You should be able to find a serviceable travel trailer for under $5,000, especially if you search during the off-season.
Though serviceable and convenient, nothing about the place struck us as especially memorable.
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.
The score is by Cyndi Lauper, and it's perfectly serviceable — you can hear echoes of her sweet pop tunes buried somewhere in all the belting — without being especially distinguished, or original.
