Sentence examples for more serviceable than from inspiring English sources

But with the exception of a couple of those roof raisers, the songs in "Sister Act" are more serviceable than memorable.

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).

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.

Scolding Octavius, dismissing Lepidus as no more serviceable a soldier than his horse, acknowledging an order from Caesar, greeting the conspirators with the grave affection that masks a poisonous vitriol, he conveys a casual potency.

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.

As a collection, nervous buyers are likely to gravitate to the more serviceable knee lengths.

Something more practical, more serviceable — something more down to earth — seemed the way to go.

They are also more serviceable, since they can be used on wall or floor — and quite a bit more affordable.

The Lagerfeld-designed outerwear was more serviceable and streamlined, with mesh as a front panel of a puffa jacket.