His unpromising early years opened out into a brilliant graphic maturity - and then closed, with a gunshot, when he was 37. It was his habit to think of drawings - some of them, anyway - not as mere preliminaries to painting, but as final works of art in their own right.
She is also celebrated as a writer, speaker, teacher and curator who has inspired generations of younger artists and critics – not least by opening their eyes to the value of such apparently unpromising material as the stories above.
The neoliberal medicine of balancing the books by cutting subsidies (largely those upon which the population relies) while opening the country up to foreign investment appears superficial and entirely unpromising.
Noah's breakthrough hit, 5 Years Time, opened with desperately unpromising lyrics: "Oh well, in five years' time we could be walking round a zoo/ With the sun shining down over me and you/ And there'll be love in the bodies of the elephants, too".
His salvage attempt opens in the most unpromising circumstances imaginable, with last summer's progress a distant dream.
At this unpromising address, Claw, a lobster-roll specialist, opened in May.
When it opened its door in 1964, it was singularly unpromising.
His account of Janacek's hazily impressionistic "In the Mists," which opened his recital at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday evening, began with an unpromising squareness, which melted away as the composer's textures and rhythmic structures expanded in the opening Andante.
Pitch and ensemble problems in the Adagio that opens the Haydn symphony -- the first piece the orchestra played -- made for an unpromising start.
Even in the most unpromising weather, people can be seen creeping through these bleak open spaces in electric carts or striking with sticks at balls that, from any appreciable distance, are invisible.
The infant is unpromising.
