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I'm serviceable. I'm durable. I get the job done.
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Having coached in South Africa, you don't really work with wrist-spinners - you work with serviceable finger-spinners.
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.
All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. And maybe that's the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference.
As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.