Sentence examples for serviceable book from inspiring English sources
Mr. Parnell's serviceable book has the whiff of anachronism here and there, but a bigger problem is the heavy use of narration.
Mr. Fagin, an experienced environmental reporter who now teaches journalism at New York University, could have braided together three or four standard narrative strands into a perfectly serviceable book, starting with factory air so polluted it dissolved the nylon stockings off women's legs and ending with dying children, anguished parents, industrial cover-ups.
I had a good root around in the rubbish to recover any serviceable books, stationery, and so on.
Thurston Clarke, the author of two previous and quite serviceable books on the Kennedys, also dwells on fanciful "what might have beens" in "JFK's Last Hundred Days," suggesting that the death of the presidential couple's last child, Patrick, brought the grieving parents closer together and may have signaled the end of Kennedy's compulsive womanizing.
And what was wrong with the perfectly serviceable word "sympathy"?
Service was serviceable, if inconsistent.
There are some startling lyrics by Bill Russell, who also wrote the book, set to Henry Krieger's serviceable score.
(I don't think he's being disingenuous in this modest assertion, but I do think he's wrong; his talent as a songwriter is transcendent, whereas that of his book writers is usually only serviceable).
(Published to accompany the Getty exhibit, the book's biographical sections are merely serviceable, but its images are beautifully printed).
This book provides the reader with a serviceable account of the structural development of the Catholic Church in Nigeria north, south, east, and west.
