He described the film as "passably entertaining" but said it failed to "break any stylistic ground".

BBC: Entertainment & Arts

Crisply put together but just passably amusing, the movie is innocuous, light, and -- obviously -- very, very slight.

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It works passably well for voice calls, too, which is why Internet telephone companies are giving traditional phone companies fits.

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If you own or run any significant organization, you'll soon get enough opportunities to become passably good at giving speeches.

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And, indeed, it offers a passably good typing experience, much easier to get up to speed on than the Touch.

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They seem to have been excited by the prospect of a passably pure, toughly modest aestheticism that jettisoned the traditions of a Europe gone mad with slaughter.

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Nearly every business person today has been using technology at work and at home for two decades, and most are more than passably familiar with a variety of computer technologies.

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If you want anything passably rigorous, it requires measurement.

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Though the unity government under him is being run, so far quite passably, by an (ex-Communist) Socialist, Bashkim Fino, and the southern rebels show little sign of submitting to central authority, Mr Berisha may have taken a new lease of life.

ECONOMIST: Albania

The games were Space Invaders, Asteroids, Missile Command, Pac-Man, Robotron, Tempest, Centipede, Defender, Joust, and Galaga, which I did become passably proficient at and which, if I see it now, in a pizzeria or an airport, still inspires me to hunt for change.

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