Sentence examples for somewhat unpromising from inspiring English sources
From these somewhat unpromising beginnings grew a school renowned for teaching, research, and service.
The former Khmer Rouge cadre was a somewhat unpromising 30-something with one eye he lost the other in battle when the Vietnamese installed him as prime minister in 1985.
When Esa-Pekka Salonen began rehearsing for his début with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, in 1984, he introduced himself to the orchestra with these somewhat unpromising words: "I suppose that you know the Lutosławski notation".
From this odd, somewhat unpromising kernel, the director David Fincher and the screenwriter Eric Roth have cultivated a lush, romantic hothouse bloom, a film that shares only a title and a basic premise with its literary source.
When Cathleen Black, the president of the Hearst Magazines Division, the parent of Harper's Bazaar, talks about Bazaar, it is in the doting tones of a mother who has just been told that her somewhat unpromising offspring has earned his first A. "We're incredibly proud," Ms. Black said, citing a marked improvement in the magazine's performance in the first four months of this year.
The infant is unpromising.
The portents are unpromising.
The trajectory was unpromising.
Results so far appear unpromising.
But those arrests appear unpromising.
