Sentence examples for on serviceable from inspiring English sources

As with all genre fiction, horror writers work too much and too fast, too often rely on serviceable but weary conventions to get themselves through a rough patch of plot and are generally rather too quick to sacrifice aesthetic unity to speed and raw shock.

Phase of photothermal emission analysis (PopTea) is a relatively new non-destructive technique that is suitable for measuring the thermal properties of coatings on serviceable engine parts.

It was sumptuous on one occasion, serviceable on two.

The long and the short of it is this: Had Romney not had a July in which his campaign strategy had become an epic misadventure, nobody would have batted an eye if he'd kept to his plan to just bring on a serviceable, bland partner like Rob Portman.

I'm aware this is an uncharacteristically upbeat column by my standards, for which I apologise, as smiles sit wonkily on the collection of serviceable flesh apps I collectively call my face.

They would need to believe that not saving now would lead to such a large and sustained increase in future income that their past debts as well as the new debts the authorities are encouraging them to take on, will be serviceable.

Only one Fulmar was serviceable on 19 January, when the carrier was attacked several times and it was shot down.

Then Daisy Ridley appears in faintly Arabic dress — looking a little bit like TE Lawrence on his motorbike, zooming off feistily on a serviceable hovercraft, and thus establishing the important female presence: not decorative but boldly active.

The story here centers on the making of usually one-of-a-kind, fairly ornamental headgear, not on the serviceable designs intended for wide distribution.

When Woolf sat here, on the "serviceable leather", she witnessed the Secretary for Foreign Affairs reading "pronouncements" on Germany and ponders on the "matters of great moment" pursued in this "moderate-sized public hall".

During the rush hour the only alternative would be to take a car, travelling at under 8km/ph on barely serviceable roads, particularly during the monsoon.