A panel of four writers from the Dining section will debate and rate wines -- on a scale of one star (passable) to four stars (extraordinary) -- every other Wednesday, under the principle that four palates are better than one.
Somehow the game had gone from being passable to being absolutely mesmerizing.
The masked forgers' talent, according to the curators, ranges from passable to exceptional.
Taken together, this year's debuts range from barely passable to unwatchable.
What's clear, though, is that the word "traditional" is derogatory, signifying derivative, clichéd thinking (Parks makes reference to "passable imitations" of nineteenth-century novels), while its alternative promises freshness, liberation, "a way forward in words".
NASSCOM's Mr Karnik blames the varying standards of tertiary education concealed by these figures: one-fifth world-class, one-fifth passable and three-fifths lamentable.
We drove over 2,000 km on, at times, barely passable roads to try to find patients at home in their villages.
The single time I met the late director Robert Altman, he said to me: "People forget that it's better to see a great movie again than to watch a passable one the first time.
The open road into the valley, which was passable when Zuercher first came to the region six years ago, has become too dangerous in the last 12 months.
By the time the show's episodes ended in December, it was averaging about seven million viewers and just over a barely passable 2 rating in the advertiser-preferred category of viewers 18 to 49.
It's a passable first play with an engaging theme - intense female friendship - at its centre.
