You always say that girls grow up definitely unpromising.
Tintin was born in this unpromising environment, in a weekly children's supplement, Le Petit Vingtieme.
Given that these are so meagre, this might seem to be an unpromising line of inquiry.
Only a congenial outsider would remain with so unpromising a figure.
Kennedy had no time to bother with unpromising careers or famous failures, or patience with dreamers or liberal visionaries.
To his way of thinking, confronted by the available options, he had always just pursued the least unpromising.
And we do, driving off the ferry into an unpromising industrial area – a bit like the Isle of Dogs with palm trees.
There was, at times, a want of spirits about him which, if it did not denote indifference, spoke of something almost as unpromising.
If it turns out that fossil fuels are abiogenic, that probably means they are more abundant than Western geologists think, and may be found in places hitherto thought unpromising.
I'm walking. Lonely and lonely is a woman's family. I'm laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing and laughing. I'm running. I'm running away from this unpromising road. I'm confused. Yes, it's a good noun.
Even the most unpromising rooms in Mr Bryson's rectory provide food for thought, such as the miserable provision made for the servants, an all but invisible presence in the grand old days of yore.
