His reported articles seem to me merely serviceable, and bog down the collection.

Fashion lingerie - as opposed to the merely serviceable kind - has assumed a new presence in the lives of Americans.

But countless singers with merely serviceable voices have also excelled there.

But the point of majolica as a continuing phenomenon was that it could be practiced at any level, from the sublime to the merely serviceable.

Merely serviceable in most departments, where Salt did excel was in the action sequences.

There are simply too many characters flitting by and too much writing that's merely serviceable.

The writing in this memoir, however, is merely serviceable, and the recipes too often require the home cook to bring a great deal of experience to the effort.

What happens among the three of them, told here in flashback, makes for a plot that's merely serviceable.

Richard Cerullo's sets made the most of the house's tiny stage, and were attractive, not merely serviceable.

It needs a stronger finish than it gets from a merely serviceable roster of desserts - the worst being an alarmingly sour chocolate cake.