Alas, Mr Skeffington (1946), with Bette Davis and Claude Rains, is more serviceable than inspired, as was their pleasant Doris Day vehicle, Romance On The High Seas (1948).
Thus, establishing the POD-based reduced-order FD extrapolating model with fully second-order accuracy for NSIBEs has far more difficulties, but, more important, it is more serviceable, and more challenging than those for the non-stationary Burgers equation and the non-stationary Navier-Stokes equations.
The Lagerfeld-designed outerwear was more serviceable and streamlined, with mesh as a front panel of a puffa jacket.
But with the exception of a couple of those roof raisers, the songs in "Sister Act" are more serviceable than memorable.
The New Yorker, June 15 , 1935P. 18 Father buys a dog cart, though Mother argued that a buggy would be more serviceable.
By Clarence Day The New Yorker, June 15 , 1935P. 18 Father buys a dog cart, though Mother argued that a buggy would be more serviceable.
Granted, Brad Oscar and Steven Weber, who are now playing the rascally Max Bialystock and the impressionable Leopold Bloom, are more serviceable than inspired, although the energetic Mr. Oscar is doing his level best to channel Mr. Lane.
Morning pastries and breads are more serviceable than remarkable, and we found this often the case throughout our entire trip where the humidity is a challenge to baking.
As always, Richards' ragged voice is an instrument that's more serviceable than distinguished -- it's the equivalent of a crude raft that can take the user from one bank of a river to the other, not traverse long distances with tremendous style or panache.
Where Joan is more genuinely serviceable in standing in for the rest of us is in asking the questions that so few of us have had answered: what is the experience that we haven't had?
FRINGE (Fox) The performances have never been more than serviceable, but "Fringe," the show in which universes are at war and almost every actor plays two characters, has kept its plates spinning entertainingly well into its third season.
