Since arriving here via trade as a first-round bust from Seattle in 2010, Lawrence Jackson has blossomed into a more adept pass rusher, and even a serviceable run defender, coming off the bench.
In The Box, the camera is even more serviceable, for it reveals not only the history of a place or person or house or country but also its future, including, it seems, a catastrophic flooding of the north German flatlands.
Although Oscar history offers plenty of examples of inferior movies getting the top prize, this field of 10 really illustrates how movies that would once have been judged solid or even just serviceable, are now, in a sort of perverse creative inflation, praised to the skies.
It boasts an industrious, mobile workforce, ingenious entrepreneurs eager to absorb new tricks and serviceable, even occasionally lavish, infrastructure.
The overwhelming tedium of the film settles on you like a great big duvet made of granite, even crushing a serviceable plot twist involving Harrison Ford.
"At this point in his career, you have a young man who has a tremendous arm, a tremendous upside, and if you take what that gives you in small bits, it's very serviceable, even at the big league level," Manuel said.
We do wish the gearbox were a tad creamier, like the Getrag units in BMWs, but this Tremec unit is serviceable, even enjoyable, once you get accustomed to it.
[Laughs] There are even clean and serviceable loos for you to use.
Many such phones are perfectly serviceable even if "obsolete".
