The other mastersingers, led by a roundly pompous Kothner (John Del Carlo), varied in vocal quality but made intermittently successful efforts to establish separate, distinct identities.

Eccentric, poetic, both high-minded and tough-minded, this novella is intermittently successful.

I did refer to it as "intermittently successful".

TV Guide rated the film three out of four stars, calling it "intermittently successful" and "saved by a terrific cast" despite "Preminger's heavy-handed" direction.

At various times he has written of attempts - intermittently successful - to give up drinking and smoking.

Mr. Washington plays Detective Alonzo Harris, the Machiavellian figure in this intermittently successful police drama.

Despite the intermittently successful efforts of the director, Joseph Sargent, to keep the story moving, the public-service messages fall like duds.

He's the Machiavellian figure in the intermittently successful police drama "Training Day."

Attempts to isolate Wagner's grander symphonic sequences are intermittently successful.

It's only an intermittently successful interpretation, but it pays some unexpected dividends.