Sentence examples for was merely serviceable from inspiring English sources

A plate of chicken satay was merely serviceable.

He once said that his "will to live" slips away in the first half hour of rehearsal at the Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank and that the Barbican's auditorium was merely "serviceable".

Mr. O'Neil was merely serviceable as a singer, which at least put him ahead of the band's Amish-bearded drummer, Dennis Ryan, whose take on Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" was pure stunt work, a floppy salute to Jack Black.

In other cases, the approach is merely serviceable.

Many other groups were merely serviceable, their programs miscellaneous.

(DeWitt) Broadway 'Annie' James Lapine's revival of the singing comic strip from 1977 is merely serviceable.

(Rooney) Broadway 'Annie' James Lapine's revival of the singing comic strip from 1977 is merely serviceable.

Broadway 'Annie' James Lapine's revival of the singing comic strip from 1977 is merely serviceable.

(Grode) Broadway 'Annie' James Lapine's revival of the singing comic strip from 1977 is merely serviceable.

As Sir Simon himself has noted, the Barbican Centre, the LSO's home, is merely "serviceable".

McCloud's drawing, for example, is merely serviceable – which is all that seems to be expected of a graphic novelist.