Mr Bush himself went back again to hug refugees, and said, unpromisingly, that he would launch an investigation.
But "Fragrant Harbour" succeeds, at least in part.It starts unpromisingly, as the clunking title warns us.
That makes it sound as if the book falls into the old reductive trap that De Beauvoir had shown a way out of, and it does begin, unpromisingly, with apes.
Silvia Evangelisti, who specialises unpromisingly in "gender history" at the University of East Anglia in England, presents a radically different and intriguing picture.Her nuns, observed mostly in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, are independent, jolly, productive and determined.
Unpromisingly, Alan Johnson, the minister for competitiveness whose brief includes the Post Office, was himself a postal worker for most of his pre-government life.
Fried slices of aubergine (badrijani) impastoed with a spiced walnut paste and sprinkled with pomegranate seeds, had a blowsy depth of flavour, while a dish of red beans (citeli lobio), with coriander, and, very possibly, walnuts, revealed a herb-scented subtlety under its unpromisingly mushy appearance.
The festival began unpromisingly, with an evening-length, multi-composer piece entitled "ARCO," full of striking scenic effects but lacking musical substance.
The comment hung unpromisingly in the air: Moscow is four hundred miles from the sea.
The themes of "Dancer" include the nature of art — an unpromisingly shopworn and solemn topic — and also the bad character of artists, an equally commonplace motif but one that seldom fails to appeal.
"Keep It Simple" (Lost Highway), his thirty-eighth solo album, opens unpromisingly, with "How Can a Poor Boy?," a plodding blues over which Morrison sings well but not interestingly.
