Sentence examples for playing promises from inspiring English sources

Tempi vary wildly; he takes more than 16 minutes over the obsessive Tenth Sonata – Vladimir Horowitz's astonishing performance takes a little over 12 – and when Ugorski's playing promises to burst into real life, it usually lapses back into something shapeless and inert.

It's easier to see when you're playing, promise.

Anne Washburn's "post-electric" play promises to do just that, reimagining America and its pop culture – not least The Simpsons – in the wake of a national grid meltdown.

We go to Greece with a final to play," promised goalkeeper Petr Cech.

Those results and new swagger in the Scottish back play promise a tough challenge in Murrayfield.

At first the play promises the kind of barbed, provocative comedy that Silver ("Pterodactyls," "The Food Chain") patented, then it subsides into something much sudsier.

The publicity for this English premiere of Shoji Kokami's play promises an examination of "the cult popularity of suicide websites in contemporary Japanese culture".

Will the third time — courtesy of Eliza Clark, whose play promises the story of a very naughty little girl — continue the charm?

With or without Gray's imprimatur, whether an against-the-odds triumph or valiant failure, the play promises to be a landmark of Scottish theatre.

While Victor L. Cahn's play promises incisive commentary on gender politics and the workplace, the script merely recycles stereotypes and well-worn story lines without delivering anything new or particularly clever.

She adds, "Come here, you powerful, shy, little alpha male!" May's observations of psychosexual insecurity are acute, but, like the orgy itself, the play promises more pleasure than it delivers.