Sentence examples for this competent from inspiring English sources

So how could this competent professional get trapped inside a slowly moldering house?

This competent woman, who effortlessly pulled my daughter out through an incision barely bigger than a buttonhole, will reassure me.

Following in the footsteps of this competent practitioner, Wilson eventually secured the patronage of the great and the good.

The last two paintings are the most accomplished in the exhibition, and rank among the best in any medium that this competent if sadly lackluster artist ever made.

This competent series, part of the snowy march of Scandinavian crime fiction on to our shelves, may well work better when translated on to the screen.

And this competent craftsman may be too worldly and too practical to do the "imaginative" bits that sometimes help make the reputations of "artist" directors.

To them, the characters and plot devices in this perfectly competent film might well seem fresh.

Otherwise, there's little fun to be had in this marginally competent mélange of car chases and gun battles.

In the end, however, it's not so much this perfectly competent production that grips you, but more the power of a story about injustice overcome.

A good jobs number could do more for Obama's prospects than this speech, competent as it was; more, even, than Bill Clinton's peroration.

Possibly known as Mandela: Long Walk to Oscar in the house of Weinstein, where they are going hell for leather to get this perfectly competent if unspectacular biopic on the radar of every voter.