Sentence examples for unpromising theme from inspiring English sources

But despite the unpromising theme, this one, like the rest, is really about love, loss, family – ordinary human beings struggling to do the right thing by one another.

Philosophers' deaths make an unpromising theme for a book.A handful of philosophers, it is true, have died philosophically, by which people usually mean they have figured in memorable accounts of exemplary ends.

Ries' fantasy "Le Songe," proves charming; Archduke Rudolph's "Forty Variations on a Theme by Beethoven" uses an unpromising theme with some imagination, and to virtuosic ends.

Somehow it struck that balance between knowing send-up and rousing spectacle, and half the delight was seeing an expensive studio product transcend its unpromising theme-park origins before our eyes, with a wink, a nudge and a hearty "ha-haaar!" Second time round, it was never going to be plain sailing.

These things had to get going, and to do so, they needed a pool of independent thinkers of a kind who turn today's unpromising themes into tomorrow's mainstream, 'obvious' topics of interest.

And so "life" is an exceedingly difficult and unpromising subject for art.

Despite the unpromising location, however, its prices (and this is a theme at all the chip shops in Brighton) are steep enough to give visiting northerners vertigo: £7.20 for chips and a small haddock.

Section 4.2 briefly considered this idea but found it unpromising.

The infant is unpromising.

The portents are unpromising.

The trajectory was unpromising.