Sentence examples for dark promises from inspiring English sources

That breach of hockey etiquette brought dark promises of payback from the Rangers.

From now to 2012, when he's up for re-election, "he'll have no shortage of O'Hallorans sitting in the basements of union halls in Quincy, Mass., muttering dark promises of revenge by the Democratic Party," noted Mike Murphy, a Republican consultant who has advised Romney.

It all came out in their music, in the dark promise of their early band, Green River.

In another, local bigwigs are delighted to plan a state prison, with its dark promise of profits, on the town's ravaged outskirts.

Once Mr. Mead made moviegoers reflect on the dark promise of technology; now he has given New York a slick place to get a burger.

Despite the suspected gunman's dark promise of sectarian rage at the election result, which left Ms. Marois's separatist Parti Québécois short of an absolute majority but in position to rule Quebec, there appears to be little prospect of independence for the province in the near future.

It sees no shame in marching with torches, threatening violence and fulfilling that same dark promise.

When Jon calls her his Queen, she says, "I hope I deserve it"—and while it's certainly a moment of forced vulnerability so that we're excited to see them have sex, it feels antithetical to her character, who would more typically pledge a better future or a dark promise in reply to such a profound statement of loyalty; it is almost a quiet, one sentence dismissal of her own legitimacy.

"The Indian's night promises to be dark.

But the soil that offers cover and comfort ("I / have tried to become earth / many times, / to be lower than earth"; "This was I taught / to pray – root your knees in the earth") offers a darker promise as well.

Kathryn Bigelow's account of the same operation, Zero Dark Thirty, promises to be better.