The vastly more common scenario is that serviceably innocent people with complex lives lose their shot at a pristine autobiography, by no consent or action of their own. ❋ Ph.D. Pamela Haag (2011)
Luke Griffin, taking over from Russell Barr who is ill, acquits himself serviceably as a dour yet animated Boswell. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Me, I say if you've got a known 'style' that's worked for you generally well & serviceably in the past, you really should stick by it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mr. Parker tells his story serviceably, if with the occasional old-fashioned touch. ❋ J.R. McNeill (2011)
The electric steering is likewise serviceably directional but devoid of anything you might call feel. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The electric steering is serviceably directional but devoid of anything you might call feel. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Apparently, the boys designed, built, ripped apart and rebuilt this two-bike frame five times before they got it to work on the rails serviceably, though screechily, but the friction on the rails made for too many sparks and they shortly abandoned the contraption for just regular biking (folks, I am NOT making this stuff up!). ❋ Unknown (2009)
An edgy shrunken jacket becomes, on my torso, a serviceably hip sport coat. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He hath girded himself most serviceably for the fray, as if to triumph o'er a host of barbarian foes when once we are aboard yon oared ship; instead of his rags from the wreck hath he donned the robes I gave for his attire, and I have bathed his limbs in water from the stream, a bath he long hath wanted. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Well, he looks serviceably attractive princely, if you must, but unfortunately he is saddled with a Telmarine accent, which sounds like an unnatural blend of Greek or Italian. ❋ Ron Buckmire (2008)
To the extent our foreign policy is marked by a division that has been (crudely but serviceably) defined as a division between moralists and realists -- the moralists taken with a romantic longing to carry democracy and justice to foreign fields, the realists motivated by what might be called cynicism and an acknowledgment of the limits of governmental power -- President Bush sided strongly with the moralists, which was not a surprise. ❋ Unknown (2005)
In other news, a standard military-issue field dressing does perform serviceably in place of toilet paper when necessary. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Bush, after his campaign had relentlessly downplayed expectations, was serviceably on message in his three appearances with Gore. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Scott-- how does one manage to serviceably do Daryl Hall but struggle to do John Oates? ❋ Ann Althouse (2005)
Mr Francis Oliphant Tregear was a young man who might not improbably make a figure in the world, should circumstances be kind to him, but as to whom it might be doubted whether circumstances would be sufficiently kind to enable him to use serviceably his unquestionable talents and great personal gifts. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Gualtiero (but in vaine) that Grizelda, might better be shut up in some Chamber, or else to lend her the wearing of any other garments, which formerly had been her owne, because she should not be so poorely seene among strangers: being seated at the Tables, she waited on them very serviceably. ❋ Unknown (2004)
