He was slow to show serious promise.
No presidential candidate has made a serious promise to cut overall government spending since Ronald Reagan.
And Mr. Violette, an accomplished young artist of serious promise, moves beyond the youth-cult images he is associated with toward some further dimension of the nihilist sublime.
This series shows serious promise, but it's not one for the squeamish: there are a lot of Aussie guts on show.
But, over the course of the semester, the students' work gets better, and one of them shows serious promise she didn't know she had.
If the administration sticks to this trajectory, all bets are off for the political future of a president who rode into office blessed with more high hopes, good will and serious promise than any in modern memory.
Re "No Fiscal Conservatives Here" (Op-Ed, Feb. 17), by P. J. O'Rourke: There is no mystery as to why "no presidential candidate has made a serious promise to cut overall spending".
The news comes from Robert Darnton, Harvard University librarian and member of the DPLA's steering committee, who at a recent event made a serious promise that the project would launch in April of 2013.
"The whole point of a remake is to choose something that showed serious promise, but failed to live up to expectations," Shawn railed.
