Sentence examples for promisingly but from inspiring English sources

Sequences build promisingly but fade, never quite getting to the point.

He is eventually draped with loops of small gourds that rattle promisingly, but he does nothing with their sound.

His season began promisingly but ended in the frustration of missing the play-offs and being doubted and injured.

Written and directed by Don Cato (whose wife, Katha, plays the Bible-obsessed assassin), "Be My Oswald" opens promisingly but degenerates rapidly.

Tense and imaginative, it certainly begins promisingly, but Bauer's failure to engage fully with the psyches of Holly and his ailing wife, Lucy, makes for an unconvincing denouement.

The social interactions start off promisingly, but soon pale when you realise that you must belch, dance or whistle your way through almost every encounter.

My third attempt looks promisingly botanical but it ain't pretty.

Streamed today, individual scenes come off as promisingly Shermanesque, but the whole gets bogged down in wooden acting and camp that feels dated.

Mr. Herchovitch started out promisingly enough, but his allusions to Comme des Garçons exceeded the acceptable limit, and no one should ever send models down the runway with cuffs at their ankles made to look like rings of AstroTurf.

It starts promisingly enough, but before you know it the Manchester Orchestra are unrelentingly chugging away on the same super-earnest chord progressions, without for a moment pausing to provide any instrumental or lyrical highlights.

The band's first set was uneven, but promisingly so.