Sentence examples for a hint of promise from inspiring English sources

In high school I was the world's skinniest and geekiest clarinetist ever, lacking even a hint of promise.

But at least the last few drafts leave the roster with a hint of promise for coming years.

But that seems to be changing, and some German-speaking artists are providing a hint of promise for an industry battered by piracy and stagnation.

So forget about asking where all the good 3-year-olds have gone; ask instead where all the able-bodied colts with a hint of promise have been hiding.

Just when they were beginning to show a hint of promise, having won three of their last four games and 6 of 11 in March, the Knicks were demolished tonight by a team whose playoff hopes were as dead as their own.

But if they're good, they deliver a hint of newness and promise that the commercial art world, month by month, can only sporadically muster.

There is not a hint of reality in their promises - those breasts are never shown stuck behind a desk or pushing a trolley round the supermarket.

The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.

With a series of promises, and a hint of threats, the governor talked the leaders of the Working Families Party into endorsing him.

But in the Avis ads, the piece of machinery is the object of desire (there is a hint of the human-cyborg union promised at the end of the first "Star Trek" movie), and the very act of desiring it constitutes infidelity.

From time to time, I hear of even less familiar prospects for energy production that possess at least some hint of promise.