tolerable

The world’s Colin Robinsons are unavoidable because they are tolerable, enabling them to strike at any moment.

Lois is a walking TV trope made tolerable solely by the muscle and sinew of Nash-Betts’ performance: another gifted detective who has seen too much and self-medicates with gallons of vodka.

Wouldn’t the whole experience be a bit more tolerable, he wondered, if the airport piped serene, unobtrusive sounds throughout the terminals?

A certain soft, therapized tone weighs on this book and keeps it from becoming a good memoir instead of a merely tolerable one.

But, Pardoll said, it’s tolerable as a form of “poetic license,” because the task he’s taken on is so important.