Sentence examples similar to passable hearing from inspiring English sources

At the second hearing, the stern judge who had been doing a passable impression of Anne Robinson for much of the hearing appeared visibly troubled by Harris's emotional plea to be set free.She told the translator to tell Harris to "be calm", and asked if she would like a break in proceedings to compose herself.

Bautz felt that Carey's primary limitation was "wan, homogeneous songs" and that "hearing them months apart on the radio makes them passable, but strung together on #1s they're like a mile-long elevator ride".

I could hear the compression on recordings, but the quality is certainly passable.

But poor Ben Affleck is lost in the minor, passable "Daredevil," in which he portrays the blind, red-costumed and horn-headed crime fighter whose other senses -- hearing, touch, taste -- were exaggerated in the chemical accident that cost him his sight.

— Padraig Harrington was eating breakfast at his hotel Wednesday morning when he was interrupted by someone wanting to know if he had heard about the Ladies Professional Golf Association's language policy calling for the suspensions of players unable to speak passable English by the end of 2009.

Certainly passable.

Both were passable.

Greek salads are passable.

All passable slogans.

--into passable grades.

OK, just about passable.