In The Box, the camera is even more serviceable, for it reveals not only the history of a place or person or house or country but also its future, including, it seems, a catastrophic flooding of the north German flatlands.
Granted, Brad Oscar and Steven Weber, who are now playing the rascally Max Bialystock and the impressionable Leopold Bloom, are more serviceable than inspired, although the energetic Mr. Oscar is doing his level best to channel Mr. Lane.
Most French tanks survived into the postwar period; these were the Renault F.T., much more serviceable than their heavier British counterparts.
The Lagerfeld-designed outerwear was more serviceable and streamlined, with mesh as a front panel of a puffa jacket.
But with the exception of a couple of those roof raisers, the songs in "Sister Act" are more serviceable than memorable.
A more serviceable classification adapts and extends the nomenclature developed by soil scientists in Africa.
Lighter, more serviceable reds (even slightly chilled, the way Loire vintners recommend) are really only tweaks away.
He put two-thirds of the rectory's furnishings in storage, replacing them with more serviceable and decoratively cohesive pieces, like a white cotton-linen suite of Pottery Barn sofa and chairs for the back parlor, discarded by a client.
Link's Awakening also improved the combat by giving Link a much larger and more serviceable sword but what makes this game so special was how it distilled the functional essence of Zelda so perfectly with almost nothing left to waste.
As always, Richards' ragged voice is an instrument that's more serviceable than distinguished -- it's the equivalent of a crude raft that can take the user from one bank of a river to the other, not traverse long distances with tremendous style or panache.
