Sentence examples for more than serviceable from inspiring English sources

In the past, this Hawthorne restaurant has produced little more than serviceable pasta.

Not to say that they're bad - it's just that the Pixies should be something more than serviceable.

The verveless direction by Arlene Sanford is never more than serviceable (that is to say, the camera is in thrall to its photogenic young subject).

It's not quite the buxom wonder found at Alan Yau's Duck and Rice, but it's much more than serviceable at half the price.

Of the desserts ($5 to $6), tartuffo, tiramisù and the like, I'll just say that they are no more than serviceable.

Alison Klayman offers us a portrait of the Chinese conceptual artist, dissident and indefatigable Tweeter, resulting in a more than serviceable primer on why Ai is an exemplary case of the artist as committed activist.

He took some group guitar lessons, but was never more than a serviceable player, with a strong but sloppy touch.

Gandolfini portrayed all his roles admirably, but there was no inkling that he would ever be anything more than a serviceable heavy in mainly commercial thrillers for the rest of his career.

Graphic novels, by the nature of their form, often use as little text as possible; the dialogue is sometimes hardly more than a serviceable vehicle to drive the action.

Not even the most die-hard Broadway nostalgist could describe Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison's Charleston-flavored score for "The Drowsy Chaperone" as more than a serviceable pastiche of Jazz Age froth.

He was slightly more positive regarding the "Thong Song" performance, feeling that Morrison had "a slightly less overwrought vocal than Sisqó", and observed that Salling did "more than a serviceable job" on "Sweet Caroline".