How To Use Passable In A Sentence
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Modder River, when all day long most of our men were quite unable to discover on which side of the stream the Boer entrenchments were, and in what they called clever trickery, but we called treachery, they are absolutely unsurpassable.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
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Even two songs cut with hot producer Gavin Brown and ace keyboardist Richard Bell are merely passable.
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The avenue had never been paved, and deep mud made it impassable in winter.
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The three rivers can become impassable after rain, and trampers usually traverse west to east, so that the river wades are predictable at the time of departure.
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Thus the new connotations and conceptualizations put forth by the Fathers revitalized the Church's memory of what the Apostles taught, and historical theology today would enable us to revitalize our memory of what the "unsurpassable" Fathers taught.
Archive 2007-03-01
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Back roads around Tollerton were almost impassable because of standing water and the only clear way in and out of the village was on the road to and from the A19.
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But, amazingly, it was passable from the second to fifth floors.
USATODAY.com - Miracles emerge from debris
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The timing was perfect: The suburban lifestyle was taking hold, the cocktail party was replacing the urban barroom, making passable, munchable food as essential as ice cubes.
One Big Table
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The very roads that permit us to travel may be impassable barriers to other species.
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What the notes don't tell you is that the flexible sprays of bay leaves can still be shaped into a passable laurel crown.
Christianity Today
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Snow was settling on the Pennines this morning but roads were still passable with care.
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The alternative route down the locks became virtually impassable as the locks were allowed to deteriorate.
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Fortunately for us, we had made ourselves perfectly acquainted with the country the previous day, and instantly realized that escape by our right (as we faced Lucknow) was impossible, because of a huge impassable _jhil_.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
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Then finding no longer any refuge from inevitable captivity, except in the waters of the Elster, the brave prince had thrown himself into it without considering the impassable steepness of the opposite bank, and in a few moments he with his horse was ingulfed beneath the waves.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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The streets were so choked with sellers and shoppers alike that oftentimes only one lane of the street was passable for cars.
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The mountain roads are totally impassable to cars in winter.
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They speak fluent French, passable German, and have notions of Spanish.
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The surface varies from a stony path to a rutted lane to a broad carpet of grass, all of it passable on a touring bike with the exception of 100 yards or so towards the end.
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We weren't sure what we were waiting for until a nice looking Mexican man returned and asked in passable English, "May I help you?
Mexico: a visit to Sayula, Zapotlanejo and Zapopan
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Notwithstanding the ubiquity of the autocar, it is still a fact that between the man in the car and the man on foot is set an impassable gulf.
A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country
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The result is a passable movie for western fans willing to get their thrills in any format.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a passable presentation, with dialogue, effects, and music mixed equally.
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Bridges and roads were impassable in many eastern and southern areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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On a map without contours, two communities cut off from one another by an impassable mountain may appear as close neighbours.
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In more recent years, Napoleon—impersonated by Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Herbert Lom, Woody Allen and others—has featured in a number of more or less colossal productions, none unsurpassable.
How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
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And the man doing a passable imitation of a frozen chunk of cheese just behind him?
The Sun
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Fourth, should the Senate move to proceed to the bill, we need to insure that a “gatekeeper” amendment is put in place to keep Reid from floor negotiations to make an unpassable bill passable.
Hammond: Where we are on ObamaCare - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState
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The neighborhood is mainly Caribbean, which means incredible 24-hour fruit stands, passable butcher shops (brined pig snouts! dried fish!), and a plethora of cell phone shops and stores with names like “MAXIMUM $7.99 (and up).”
I want to check on Mike Dresser | clusterflock
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Road closures and virtually impassable conditions may dictate that you make alternate plans for or perhaps just delay a couple of days that anticipated trek up to the Sierra for a weekend ecotour.
Stormy Weather: Rainy Season In Oaxaca
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Arabian taint; Gothic pure, authoritative, unsurpassable, and unaccusable; -- its proper principles of structure being once understood and admitted.
Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
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His distaste for big inert words - words like omniscient, impassable and imperturbable, which he finds other theologians using to describe God - inspires his own desire for accessibility.
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The result is a highly inoffensive, passable sound which has its interesting, if unremarkable, moments.
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For the secret of all Austrian music is that there is no impassable barrier between the music of the people and ‘culture’.
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They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood.
The King's Best Highway
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The food was excellent and the wine was passable.
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When the brambles became impassable, we would scrabble up the canyon sidewalls and work our way along slopy, discontinuous ledges.
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The lack of a clear atmosphere or tone turns what could have been passionate into just passable.
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That would have been an unsurpassable violin-piano French programme.
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No, it's located interally, as she just tries to crank out something passable from the larynx.
The revenge of the voice
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I have yet to hear any acts of contrition from the media or people like Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, who i held in passable esteem for what they said and why they said it.
Mind The Gap « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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I was wont to point out that since the sea presented an impassable barrier, the sand spit, drawn out to a fine point, was just the spot where a piccaninny might be easily rounded up, if it were detected in a preoccupied mood.
My Tropic Isle
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We see this same science fiction morality play told yet again in 2010: The Year We Made Contact, the film that could never be as great as the unsurpassable 2001: A Space Odyssey, but which remains one of the best realistic science fiction films yet made.
MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Film Villains in SF/F/H (with Various Videos of Villainy)
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They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood.
The King's Best Highway
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A few lived in adjoining counties and also were unable to travel due to flooded and impassable roads.
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The railings are broken, the steps descending into Terrace Field are now so wonky that they are impassable to some less agile walkers and many of the trees that once crowned the hilltop have died or blown over.
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Many roads were flooded and impassable following the storm.
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She has a passable knowledge of history.
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What the notes don't tell you is that the flexible sprays of bay leaves can still be shaped into a passable laurel crown.
Christianity Today
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They can only retreat by one narrow road confined between impassable woods.
WATERLOO: Napoleon's Last Gamble
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But when I go back to Aunt Jane's garden, I pass through the front yard and the back yard between rows of lilac, syringas, calycanthus, and honeysuckle; I open the rickety gate, and find myself in a genuine old-fashioned garden, the homely, inclusive spot that welcomed all growing things to its hospitable bounds, type of the days when there were no impassable barriers of gold and caste between man and his brother man.
Aunt Jane of Kentucky
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He plays a vital role travelling ahead of us to check our intended route is safely passable and helping anyone who falls overboard.
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“As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen,” he says, recounting his bouts with writer's block, depression, dry flaky skin and existential torment.
With Arthur Rimbaud at the Chamber of Commerce Lunch
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Powerful gusts uprooted trees, twisted steel towers and knocked down bridges, rendering many roadways impassable.
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Horrid streams of a-a have to be cautiously skirted, which after rushing remorselessly over the kindlier lava have heaped rugged pinnacles of brown scoriae into impassable walls.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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However, instead of building the fort on a hill, the impassable wetlands were used to create an impregnable site, the biggest marshland in England.
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There was an impassable barrier between the white race and the one which they had reduced to slavery.
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Vast tracts were unpopulated, roads were extensive, but easy for brigands or local overlords to cut or tax, and often impassable in the wet season.
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I cleaned it with the tail of my shirt, not exactly spotless, but passable.
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I know my age has thrown up an impassable block in our road together.
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The passes there have become impassable because of the weather and the orcs that are everywhere.
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The avenue had never been paved, and deep mud made it impassable in winter.
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There are few roads, and some of these are impassable quagmires in the rainy season.
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That was the line, the very sharp and impassable line she drew between her "dear, _dear_ Ellen", her "dearest Nel", and her sisters, Anne and Emily.
The Three Brontës
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A North Yorkshire Police spokesman said Whitby and Scarborough were the worst hit areas but all main roads were passable with care.
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Bridges and roads were impassable in many eastern and southern areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Apparently all the government has to do is invoke the term ‘State Secrets’ and the lawsuit hits in impassable brick wall.
Balloon Juice » 2006 » May
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What we have is a highly productive aporia, an impassable pass-a point pregnant with literary meaning at which the text undermines its own foundations and collapses into a new, unanticipated flowering of meaning and significance.
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streets unpassable because of piles of unmelted snow
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At Kew, there can be as little as three feet of water during low tide, while a high tide results in Hammersmith Bridge becoming almost impassable.
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In many cases that seems to be an impassable barrier.
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On the topic of wines for example, I find many passable, others interesting, some great and quite a few awful ones which I would describe as unlove at first sight.
Serge the Concierge
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So I got a couple of paragraphs written, a passable but over priced lunch was consumed but I didn’t want to linger for the next round of inquisition from the lonely woman.
Not writing
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Without being particularly inventive, it is still a passable excuse for the protagonists to go places, draw swords and engage in smart wordplay.
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The schools, proceeding from the illusions of sense, had carried this distinction very far; and had established the latter substances to be ingenerable, incorruptible, unalterable, impassable; and had assigned all the opposite qualities to the former.
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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Gallipoli resembled a huge sandpit full of precipices, endless ravines and impassable ridges covered in thick scrub.
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My prawns were merely passable, but the mackerel was heavenly, as were the pickled herrings with finely sliced pickled onions.
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unsurpassable skill
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There would be no ambulance, especially with the snow too deep for the road to be passable.
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In winter roads were impassable and there was no green fodder to feed horses.
The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000
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Yet it must be said that throughout the proceedings his mouth gave a passable impersonation of a garbage chute.
Times, Sunday Times
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This may be a second cause of staggering, if the thing itself engaged for be not compassable by the ability of the engager.
The Sermons of John Owen
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The remainder tracks are passable but not memorable enough to merit mention.
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Back in the 1920s keeping the clay road passable for bullock teams was a difficult matter.
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The tops of the downs in Southern England still show the scars where primitive men fought their wars or grew their scanty crops; and in the lowland plains an unusual abundance of trees will show you where once a dense forest grew, or you may infer an impassable bog from a muddy field alongside some meandering brook.
English Landscape and Personality
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The food was excellent and the wine was passable.
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Local authorities yesterday rejected criticisms that they have not done enough to make icy roads passable, calling the wintry conditions gripping
WN.com - Business News
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At the back of the library, hung with pungent wisteria in summer, it gets slushier and soggier, but still passable; the next bend brings you to New College back gate and a totally clear patch -- either scrupulously gritted or protected from the snow not terribly likely that latter.
Fickle, inconstant, and patterned snow
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He survived on mediocrity, excelling at little but being passable at most things.
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I was in year 9 and, despite being capable of growing a passable imitation of a beard, wasn't capable of passing for 18.
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When I bought the place, it was open to the sky and there were ferns and trees growing there - it was just an unusable and unpassable area.
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The replacements, led by the boosterish John W. Snow at Treasury, have gotten along better and did a passable job of selling Bush's policies on the campaign trail.
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Sir Asinus, no longer intending for Europe, but satisfied with Virginia; no _longer_ woful, but in passable good spirits; no longer melancholy, but surveying those around him with affectionate regard.
The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764
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Thousands of homes were without electricity, many roads were impassable and hundreds of drivers were stranded.
Times, Sunday Times
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That means they can use a snowplough to clear the roads and, unless they have a blizzard, it is passable.
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DURING the snow my daughter, a health visitor, did her rounds on foot as many side roads were impassable.
The Sun
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His steadfast belief in an unsurpassable standard of excellence echoes the æsthetic by which he lives.
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If the modernist box remains the default form, unsurpassable for its elegance and adaptability, it has also been the spur to some amazingly bold escapes from that orthodoxy.
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They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time, they are aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them.
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Progress was slow: each exchange involved a journey up barely passable mountain roads by a go-between carrying a memory stick.
Times, Sunday Times
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For sheer ecstasy of flunkeydom "Jenkins" was unsurpassed and unsurpassable, but at least he was capable of recognizing native talent, as may be gleaned from his notice of Semiramide in English in the winter of 1842: --
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
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Visitors can climb the tower and enjoy an unsurpassable view of the surrounding countryside.
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Up north, the Yankees are in disarray as former scions of industry go on trial and the stock market does a passable impersonation of a weapon of mass destruction.
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Eventually, however I inflated a passable bubble, which left me with a sticky chin, but restored my dignity.
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In the nineteenth century there were repeated complaints that the pavements of London were made impassable by children's shuttlecock and tipcat.
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Le foto proibite di una signora per bene, which is available on DVD from Blue Underground as THE FORBIDDEN PHOTOS OF A LADY ABOVE SUSPICION, is only a passable giallo but it is one of the genre's greatest soundtrack albums.
It's Ennio's Eightieth
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The path had been so choked with weeds it was virtually impassable.
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Mac, representing him as but little inferior in power of imagination, exaggeration, minification, and downright leasing to the unsurpassable
Current Literature
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Stan puffed out his thin cheeks in a passable imitation of his dad.
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I can speak passable Urdu, but my Anglo-Indian is certainly sufficient to confuse an American commander.
NIMITZ CLASS
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So much passes for good that is really not passable at all - air bubbles in the molded bonbons, bottoms with dipping fork marks or filling peeking out, thick layers of "enrobed" chocolate overwhelming the delicate ganache inside.
Flora Lazar: Pastry Outside of Paris: Museum and 'Mets' in Metz
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They can only retreat by one narrow road confined between impassable woods.
WATERLOO: Napoleon's Last Gamble
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The outfit was passable with her house-slippers, but satisfied her.
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Water poured from the pipe and buckled the road making it impassable.
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Enfin a force de courir et de chercher quelque chose qu'ils pussent manger, ils apercurent entre les rochers qui etoient le long du rivage, de gros limacons, et de plus petits, qui y venoient de la mer, et dont le gout, qui etoit passable, parut excellent a des gens affamez.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
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Again frustrated, he turned southwards, meaning to cross above the Rosaires Cataract, which was without doubt impassable to steamers.
The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
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We passed through channels edged by emerald mountains and snowcapped volcanoes; the starry night skies were unsurpassable.
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Once just a rough track, it is now passable and marked by little yellow arrows to show people the right direction.
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The drama's small port town is cut off by mountainous roads that are impassable in bad weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1951 Louis did make an attempt to explore the southwestern region of Lake Rudolf, but found the roads nearly impassable.
Ancestral Passions
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The German advance had flowed around the marshes of the Pripet, and although technically there was a large salient almost 100 kilometers across, with only a slender German bridgehead on the southern side of the extension, there was no way the Red Army could take advantage of this gap, even had there been the resources to mount an offensive to the north of Kiev: they would have been driving directly into an impassable swamp.
Deathride
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They can only retreat by one narrow road confined between impassable woods.
WATERLOO: Napoleon's Last Gamble
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It's got passable graphics, a mediocre soundtrack, and gameplay that depends in large part on your ability to mash the Square button.
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Dozens of roads were impassable and scores of drivers trapped.
The Sun
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Keeping the clay roads passable, especially in winter, was a difficult task.
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However, three children on the back seat, dressed in the same style, with the addition of long flaxy ringlets, made very passable
Views a-foot
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As a verbal melodist, especially a melodist of sweetness and of stately grace, and as a harmonist of prolonged and complex cadences, he is unsurpassable.
A History of English Literature
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In terms of quality, its accuracy veers from the occasionally passable to the frequently risible, while its all-important readability is even worse - and deteriorating.
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The act of self-stabbing implies an unsurpassable hopelessness coupled with ferocity; it is the quintessential self-murder.
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Dismissed in four paragraphs with no analysis of the so-called impassable barriers, while the Idaho/Montana route is extensive in the number of turnouts needing to be constructed, the number of small bridges needing crossed, and the extent of modifications needed to complete the route.
20 blackbirds
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Marginally redeemed by some passable smooth-jazz inflections in its arrangement, I dare say this might have gone down well at a Rotary Club dinner-dance in 1978.
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She who could transform herself by force of will into a passable semblance of a Genestealer.
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There was an impassable barrier between the white race and the one which they had reduced to slavery.
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She has a passable knowledge of history.
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Many other roads were only passable with care including the Cat and Fiddle road, the A54 Buxton to Congleton road.
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Railway lines were washed away and roads were impassable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Residents across county Carlow woke yesterday morning to find roads completely impassable, as drifting snow wreaked havoc on routes across the region.
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The place is crazily overgrown and the path that we cut is now only just passable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because of the heavy snow, roads were passable only with care in parts of Northern England.
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In Elvington, there was serious flooding but roads were passable with care.
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No, thank you;" the senior lieutenant, in passable English, declined the invitation to enter.
WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
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The boundary between these two was carefully guarded but was not impassable.
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Deserts, impassable mountains, unfordable rivers, wild beasts, and unfriendly Indians were part of the commonly held picture.
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Set entirely in a wooden box several feet underground in an Iraqi desert, it takes compressionism to an unsurpassable extreme.
Buried
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They speak fluent French, passable German, and have notions of Spanish.
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The place is crazily overgrown and the path that we cut is now only just passable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The result is a passable movie for western fans willing to get their thrills in any format.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, flood waters trapped commuters at City Gate, since the roads into the transit hub remained impassable for hours even after the rains had stopped.
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For the road the dictatorship is now taking, which indeed offers it the only possible hope of even a passable economic success, is the barren, heartless, unspiritual, materialistic tyranny of machine-like "industrialism" which the I.W. W. represents.
The Red Conspiracy
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the road is passable
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It's just that there is a very large mountain in the way, with nearly impassable bamboo thickets on its lower flanks and nearly unscalable granite faces on its higher reaches.
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Mr. Moore was a traveling dentist when roads were passable and a hatter in the winter months.
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Beyond the well and passionately argued opinions on both sides, though, there are two facts which are undeniable: for better or worse, this bill passing the Senate keeps the process moving forward; and, for better or worse, the Senate bill is simply unpassable in the House.
Mike Lux: Simple Facts
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(END VIDEOTAPE) MOOS: Now, since everyone is always being asked to create new passwords, we thought we would come up with a list of what we called passable tips for creating new passwords.
CNN Transcript May 8, 2002
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In fact, he was one of Satan's minions, disguised as a bumbling idiot, tempting me with the sweet nectar of life in the form of an unpassable deal.
One Cent Baby
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Beyond there the gorge walls are often vertical or steep slopes of rubble, impassable whatever the season.
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A pair of riblike bones, each fastened to portions of fin with strings cut from his former cape, made passable paddles with which to propel the once-living raft.
Conan the Indomitable
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He could play the lute, sing, compose passable poetry and dance extremely well.
ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
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The film seems in reasonably good shape, with some dirt and dusts now and again, but overall, a passable presentation.
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Celebrate your first spotting with a crumble, then progress to the obligatory and unsurpassable gooseberry fool.
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Or wander further afield, over Sospel to Breil by the old path -- note the lavender: they make a passable perfume of it -- or else to Moulinet (famous for bad food and a mastodontic breed of mosquitoes) and thence along the stream -- note the bushes of wild box -- and over a wooded ridge to the breezy heights of Peira Cava, there to dream away the daylight under the pines.
Alone
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The alternative route down the locks became virtually impassable as the locks were allowed to deteriorate.
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The pattern is no longer passable with every passing day.
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The second posta on the road to Buenos Ayres stands on its banks; a little above there is a ford for horses, where the water does not reach to the horses belly; but from that point, in its course to the sea, it is quite impassable, and hence makes a most useful barrier against the Indians.
Chapter VI
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She was now staring at a bleak and desolate landscape with nothing in the horizon but impassable mountains and valleys.
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Certainly not more beautiful than most of the southern belles that could be found in South Carolina, she was still passable, with blonde hair and dark green eyes.
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The place is crazily overgrown and the path that we cut is now only just passable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Possessing the undisputed middleweight title will be an unsurpassable moment to enter retirement, shining a light on all his previous accomplishments and leaving his name to be placed alongside Leonard's in the pantheon of boxing.
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Instantly Nozdrev burst into a laugh compassable only by a healthy man in whose head every tooth still remains as white as sugar.
Dead Souls
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The mud made the roads impassable.
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But there is a greater danger that an unstoppable chain reaction will begin: the rubbish will crash into other pieces of rubbish, causing it to shatter into smaller chunks that will then crash into each other -- and on, and on, until the earth is circled by a haze of unpassable metal debris that remains there for millennia.
Johann Hari: The Strange Problem of Space Junk - And How It Threatens Our Way of Life
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And the man doing a passable imitation of a frozen chunk of cheese just behind him?
The Sun
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In her opinion, her looks were passable enough to be called pretty.
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If, two thousand years ago, we had been permitted to watch the slow settling of the slime of those turbid rivers into the polluted sea, and the gaining upon its deep and fresh waters of the lifeless, impassable, unvoyageable plain, how little could we have understood the purpose with which those islands were shaped out of the void, and the torpid waters enclosed with their desolate walls of sand!
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
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With a clean interior that exudes a pure ambient feel, the overall theme of the 181 sqm residence is a mixture of modernism as well as an unsurpassable natural ambient.
Kouichi Kimura Architects Stun With Black-White Contrast
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Unfortunately, he could also see it was blocked off by an impassable steel grate.
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Much of the countryside is scattered with mines, and vast areas are inaccessible due to impassable roads.
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You need to get out there, assuming there are any passable roads.
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Downtown roads are passable for the most part, with scattered debris mostly from trees.
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Chopped and mixed with salad dressing and pickles, Spam made a passable deviled ham.
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Trails through the jungle growth were impassable by the muddy morass.
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My command of the language was verging on the passable but it was not polished enough for a deep exploration of modern European politics, and certainly not at that speed.
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It is gated and has a high trellis fence all around with a barrier on top to make it impassable to cats from both inside and out.
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In any passable representation of the Greek discobolus, as in any passable representation of an English cricketer, there can be no successful evasion of the natural difficulties of the thing to be done -- the difficulties of competing with nature itself, or its maker, in that marvellous combination of motion and rest, of inward mechanism with the so smoothly finished surface and outline -- finished ad unguem -- which enfold it.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
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The work is full of exciting ensembles, arias and orchestral passages with all performers especially the great Aquiles Machado churning out a performance that is well nigh unsurpassable.
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Most roads are of rutted dirt and impassable when it rains.
South Sudan Seeks Statehood, Leaders
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While human bodies were subject to hunger and pain, prey to a wide range of diseases and, eventually, decay, those of the saints remained impassable and incorruptible, in Camporesi's memorable formulation.
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The beginning of the rainy season has made some roads impassable and the presence of militias make it dangerous to travel.
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The stereo sound is merely okay, with passable channel separation and fidelity, allowing you to enjoy bad voiceover acting at its finest.
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I'm sure it had nothing to do with the vast wealth she stood to inherit, her unsurpassable beauty, her exquisitely feminine charm, or even something as shallow as her fine conversational skills and excellent education.
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Scaife bought sporting prints, a couple of Detaille's lithographs, and an easy-chair, known to dwellers upon the Hill as a "frowst;" Kinloch hung upon his side of the wall four pretty reproductions of French engravings, and with the help of three yards of velveteen and some cheap lace he made a very passable imitation of the mantel-cover in his mother's London boudoir; John scorned velveteen, lace, "frowsts," and French engravings.
The Hill A Romance of Friendship
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First off, let me say that I made the discovery that now one or two cups of caffeine are considered okay, so I am just limiting myself to one caffeinated beverage a day, and then I figure that leaves me room for little incidentals like the traces of caffeine found in decaf, in chocolate, and in the espresso powder that I've been sprinkling on my ice cream along with chocolate syrup (which, btw, makes for a passable imitation of the base of a cappucino skor blizzard, in case you are in need of one, just so you know).
Substitute My Coke For Gin
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If, however, you have the good fortune to be able to decline the suggestion in passable French, you will so warm the old gentleman's heart that he will take you into his house and he will give you a cigar from the secret box that he keeps for the Bishop and other distinguished visitors.
Quebec
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She is a rocker chick, and she has a passable voice, but Steven notes that she was "pitchy," especially when she did a few bars of "Dream On.
American Idol Episode Recap: Milwaukee Auditions
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The introduction to this book said that the Himalayas have formed an impassable barrier in the distribution of Eastern wildlife.
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Gothic pure, authoritative, unsurpassable, and unaccusable… not only the best, but the very first thing done perfectly in its manner by northern Christendom," said no less an authority than John Ruskin.
The Guardian World News
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Part of the problem has been its terrain, with huge mountains and impassable jungles making places that are quite near to each other almost inaccessible.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Where British accents are required, the actors do a passable job, though they sound more mid-Atlantic than Manchester.
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For those who don't know, he was the unsurpassable genius responsible for the first Incredible Hulk and Fantastic Four strips - in other words, one of the greatest visual artists of the twentieth century.
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Still, it is a passable effort.
Times, Sunday Times
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In itself, it is a great and travailing ocean, unsounded, unvoyageable, an eternal mystery to man; or, let us say, it is a monstrous and impassable mountain, one side of which, and a few near slopes and foothills, we can dimly study with these mortal eyes.
Lay Morals
