Sentence examples for rather unpromising from inspiring English sources
Both sides are trying to conclude negotiations over reforms and austerity measures that have been set as the condition of further aid, but the situation looks rather unpromising.
The place is on a rather unpromising strip of Identikit cafés and shops, but with its ceaseless stream of commuters and tourists at the nearby terminus, there's money to be made.
Max Barry's fifth novel, Lexicon (Mulholland Books, £14.99), begins with the rather unpromising premise of a secret organisation, known as The Poets, which is in possession of a lexicon of words with the ability to kill.
Martin listened to a tape recorded at Decca, and thought that Epstein's group was "rather unpromising", but liked the sound of Lennon's and McCartney's vocals.
Quinlan and Cameron-Jones [ 15] argue that these rather unpromising results are due to oversearching the hypothesis space, resulting in an overfit of the training data.
Blind since the age of 3, he has learned to draw an astonishing variety of sounds from his rather unpromising-looking instrument.
The bare-bones outline of Ida's plot, for example, sounds sturdy rather than spectacular, if not unpromising.
His distinctive characteristics are a smile that swallows up his face in a rather unusual way, a high-pitched laugh, and an ability to extract punch lines from unpromising material.
Rather, it is to acknowledge that the genius possessed by many of those who emerge from unpromising backgrounds is often accompanied by human frailty.
The infant is unpromising.
