Sentence examples for while competently from inspiring English sources

But chicken breasts Marsala, while competently prepared, seemed old-fashioned and boring.

The menu, while competently prepared and wildly expensive, is hardly adventurous.

("Get the bottle, monsieur! You must: It is so delicious! Oui, then? Oui? D'accord!") The menu, while competently prepared and wildly expensive, is hardly adventurous.

While competently constructed, "Catching Her Tears" seems to strive for the type of feigned perfection that "Winning You With Words" resists.

The robust pop arias from "The Most Happy Fella," while competently sung by Christine Andreas, Shuler Hensley (who played Tony as a buffoonish caricature) and Tom Wopat, lacked passion.

Far better to be CBS with The Mentalist, which, while competently done, is yet another psychic cop drama, than to be ABC with Pushing Daisies, a show with a fervent audience certainly but also a small one.

An American monitoring group said the polls, while run competently, were neither free nor fair.

I would far rather ring Silver Saints Handymen and then stand about admiringly while they competently do the job instead.

He delivers his speech somewhat competently, while Logue guides him.

Though the lessons were short-lived, they provided Starkey and Trafford with an introduction that allowed them to dance competently while enjoying nights out on the town.

In 1998 Martin Seligman, in an address to the American Psychological Association, included in his speech the belief that, while psychology had competently researched areas such as illness and depression, and how to help heal these issues, more emphasis needed to be placed on what Seligman called "positive psychology".