• This is a tablet that feels sturdy without feeling heavy, and useful without feeling workmanlike.

    FORBES: Top Marks For Microsoft's Surface Tablet, So Far

  • Shrewbury were no more than workmanlike, and home keeper Roger Freestone was redundant in the opening half.

    BBC: Swansea 2-0 Shrewsbury

  • Second, his phenomenal success in Italy was a surprise given his previous background as a workmanlike Danish club footballer.

    BBC: Thomas Helveg

  • But his shot fell short and Biarritz continued their workmanlike approach to set up a drop-goal for centre Damien Traille.

    BBC: Newport Gwent Dragons 8-26 Biarritz Olympique

  • Scott has assembled an engagingly rough and ready, workmanlike cast, but doesn't give them anything interesting to say for themselves.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Although Australia's attack looked limited and workmanlike on the bland surface, tame strokes accounted for Alastair Cook (10) and Strauss (55).

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

  • His conference speech was judged "workmanlike" (by me, among others) and he would probably settle for a similar verdict on this debate.

    BBC: Do the US presidential debates matter?

  • The result was justification for a side who entered the tournament without Ronaldinho and Kaka, and who had been criticised for being workmanlike.

    BBC: Brazil victorious in Copa America

  • Ultimately, she abandoned a workmanlike approach to the sport and decided to base her training on playing in the water like a child.

    WSJ: Menu

  • It has the requisite communication tools in email and texting, and alongside these it integrates the major social networks in a workmanlike fashion.

    FORBES: BlackBerry Has An App Problem With the Z10 and BB10

  • Vanderslice has long displayed a workmanlike devotion to his craft, as he hones his crisp production and fine-tunes his songs until fully realized.

    NPR: John Vanderslice: Abandoning The Familiar

  • The soundtrack can be syrupy, the editing workmanlike although the show does a nice job of capturing the milieu of Kansas City, including its visual-arts scene.

    NEWYORKER: Seen but Not Heard

  • Benjamin Black might be taken as evidence of authorial capitulation: high-flown style gives way to that most trustworthy and workmanlike of plots, the detective trail.

    NEWYORKER: Pseudonymously Yours

  • But at Camp Nou, Mourinho opted for his most basic, familiar lineup, with the possible exception of left-back, where the more workmanlike Fabio Coentrao displaced the more attacking Marcelo.

    WSJ: Mourinho Slays the Monster

  • Though he lacks his illustrious forerunner's intellectual flamboyance, the present speaker has so far done a workmanlike job of keeping the peace between the new revolutionaries and the party establishment.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • As Australia pushed their score past 400 in a workmanlike manner, with the game slipping away from India, even some members of the crowd struggled to stay awake as they reached 416-7 at tea.

    BBC: Hussey knock keeps Aussies on top

  • Collingwood, workmanlike as ever, was joined by Owais Shah, who played some wonderful wristy strokes, and they ensured England's innings did not lose momentum with a brisk partnership of 30 - but it was Mascarenhas who unleashed the pyrotechnics.

    BBC: England thrash Kiwis in Twenty20

  • Mr. Musial was legendary for his hitting consistency and took a workmanlike approach at the plate that meshed with the Pennsylvania mill town of Donora, where he grew up as the son of a Polish-immigrant father and Czech-descended mother.

    WSJ: Baseball's 'Stan the Man,' Folksy Batting Champ

  • We also need workmanlike government.

    BBC: Labour 'must not lose its nerve'

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