The dazzling cast is almost a distraction, but it's competently pulled off.
But no cut can be supported unless it is competently made, based on clear principles, and – most importantly – necessary.
All of it is competently prepared, perfectly delicious and — in the dining room, at least — delivered by a staff that seems woefully underprepared to talk about it.
Like other CW shows — "Arrow" (which stars Mr. Amell's cousin Stephen Amell), "Beauty & the Beast" — it's competently assembled and has a bland stylishness.
It's competently done, and zips right along — the sniper case, which played out over 22 days in Maryland and Virginia, is a lot to cover in an hour.
It is competently put together, but as with the other second world war film out this week, the nagging question is: what's the point?
But it lets you down exactly because it is competently written, well-researched, in rare instances well-argued, occasionally illuminating... and laced with poison.
It's competently written in cliffhanger episodes, full of heart, and sends out the right message – you can't live in someone else's shadow, and have to make the most of your own talents.
Such industry gives a general flavour of the book – it's competently done, though there's a sense that material which might have been sufficient for a magazine story has been eked out to 90,000 words.
First, because it's not hidden from them, and second because it is competently disseminated to them, and patients should have the choice to engage with that, but there's nothing compulsory about it.
It's competently structured, controls easily and it doesn't bug out once, but offers not nearly enough to whet my appetite for more.
