Sentence examples for promising mess from inspiring English sources

We walked out in the rain, and then scuttled through tunnels and construction detours rigged for the renovation of Lincoln Center, a promising mess just like the Bolshoi — but without Marx supervising.

Put away those paper piles, clothing heaps and other promising mess piles.

(Trump diverged from Republican orthodoxy by promising not to mess with those programs).

Mr Sharif's brother is the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who won a general election last year promising to fix the country's electricity mess.

Promising to "clean this mess up", he announced that the company would be prosecuted for fraud, and that the SEC would go after the millions of dollars that executives earned as a result of their own fraud.

As for the Republicans' prospects: never underestimate their capacity to mess up a promising situation.

A country that was doing quite well has now, in the words of the king, been "messed up".None of the paths out of the mess looks very promising.

And as those rounds leave the muzzle at over 900 feet per second, they are fatally effective, promising to make a frightful mess of your pastel pistachio-coloured, unlined linen jacket.

He calmed the President by telling him that replacement camera operators were due to arrive at Fox News soon, promising to have the White House mess bring in some extra ketchup for the cheeseburger, and assuring him that he was a genius.

Both Mr. McCain and Mr. Bush have long fashioned themselves as trailblazers above the practice of politics as usual, with Mr. McCain promising to sweep up the mess of government and Mr. Bush pledging a campaign that appeals to "our better angels, not our darker impulses".

Fletcher capitalized on these issues, promising to "clean up the mess" in Frankfort, and won the election by a vote of 596,284 to 487,159.