Sentence examples for passable working from inspiring English sources

By now we had a passable working knowledge of brat and bun.

But what we can say with certainty is that the way we say something certainly creates certainty-effects, and thus forms an important tool in our continued grappling with that obstinate, unruly reality, trying to attain a passable working knowledge of it so as to make it work for us, to get some task or other done.

McGruder is not yet thirty, and already he is jaded, content to settle for the kind of perfectly passable work he so often eviscerates others for.

What they get back is shiny and often passable work, but it's either off the rack (emotionally generic and value neutral) or second hand (their content retrofitted to someone else's brand sensibilities).

It took nearly an hour of shoulder-searing work to get the calcifying grout into passable shape.

Earlier in March, Verizon, the nation's leading wireless company, endorsed comprehensive immigration reform in a letter to the Senate's "gang of 8" working to identify passable immigration legislation.

Most information is in Japanese, but Google Translate does a passable job of deciphering much of the information for English readers, and researchers and volunteer translators/editors are working to provide as much information in English as possible.

The energy starts to fade in the 18th century, but even here there are fascinating things, including the only known preparatory study by the Jesuit missionary Giuseppe Castiglione, a Qing court fixture who worked in a passable Chinese style.

This is a passable attempt at ricotta that would work well in pastas or desserts.

But for those who want to create a rough draft of a presentation, or who worry about their laptop crashing on the eve of a big business meeting, Documents To Go offers the ability to cobble together a passable piece of work on the phone.

Yet paradoxically, as long as the orchestra is excellent, the conductor masterly and the production involving, the "Ring" will work its magic with only passable singing.