Sentence examples for seems unpromising from inspiring English sources

At first glance, the attenuated life of a dour, sequestered, misanthropic academic who wrote poems of unrequited love to his unresponsive heterosexual Oxford friend and flatmate Moses Jackson seems unpromising theatrical stuff.

This suggestion seems unpromising however.

My dotage seems unpromising if I respond to relatively minor pain this badly.

With respect to the above four problem cases, however, this might seem unpromising.

Thus, for example, his application to join the Society of Jesus at the age of sixteen was the only one of fifty to be rejected: his health was weak and his intellect seemed unpromising.

Hair cuts, for example, may seem unpromising soil for enlightenment.

All that may seem unpromising to Shakespeare scholars, but the operatic "Hamlet" generates its own theatrical frissons when placed in the right hands and treated sympathetically.

23 West 129th Street Harlem Through Wednesday Fred Holland, an actor and choreographer, has put together a good, spare show with materials that seem unpromising when read on a checklist but really work.

On paper the programs that the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam brought to Carnegie Hall on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon seemed unpromising: four symphonies, one each by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky, with no new or recent works, no rarities, not even a concerto.

Summarised thus, the stories may seem unpromising, even silly, but Cunningham is a superb writer and Specimen Days is full of the same lovely prose and generous spirit that distinguished his previous novels.

The teaching video, therefore, might seem unpromising for people seeking to be innovative in education.