unpromising

How To Use unpromising In A Sentence

• Critics also included officials in the White House, which shared many of the antipoverty goals of the campaign, but worried about what one official called its “unpromising circumstances.” Burial for a King
• From such rigid, uncompromising and unpromising beginnings, Glass has created a sound language of great eloquence and diversity.
• But if the premise is unpromising, the result is utterly engrossing.
• That may sound like an unpromising topic for an opera, but Strauss knew what he was doing - the old composer was too much of a practical theater man to deal in abstractions or produce a talky treatise on aesthetics.
• Born in Beverley in 1949, his rise to success from distinctly unpromising beginnings is an inspiration to other young artists.
• In fact, his business career had distinctly unpromising beginnings.
• O'Sullivan's 72, starting with the remaining 10 reds unpromisingly grouped over one side of the table, was a masterclass in precise positional play and subtle thinking as he took a pink from each and added the yellow for a winning 72 only to negate this good work by missing a simple pink to let the Australian left-hander in for 59 and a 3-1 lead. Neil Robertson beats Ronnie O'Sullivan to claim World Open title
• The natives being departed, we set out to observe the country, which, on inspection, rather disappointed our hopes, being invariably sandy and unpromising for the purposes of cultivation, though the trees and grass flourish in great luxuriancy. The Expedition to Botany Bay
• It spins riveting, moving drama out of the most unpromising premise imaginable: the implementation of the 35-hour working week.
• They live in a house in the most unpromising of territory - a grim estate on the Charlton-Woolwich boundary - yet the interior of their home is fantastic.