How To Use Unpromising In A Sentence
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It is set in an unpromising block, but once you heft aside the wooden door you find yourself in an old apothecary, with glass-fronted cabinets, wood-panelled walls and waitresses in dirndls.
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Sales improved after an unpromising start .
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Sydney Carton , idlest and most unpromising of men, was Stryver's great ally.
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Only a congenial outsider would remain with so unpromising a figure.
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Burdekin plum (PLEIOGYNIUM SOLANDRI), and all sorts of unpromisingly tough and apparently indigestible, innutritious woodeny nuts and drupes.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Sales improved after an unpromising start .
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Such brief moments of happiness snatched from unpromising circumstances are generally the most that Loach's characters can hope for.
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In this kind of unpromising context, the Industry Interface is a big step.
IndiaPRwire - Press/News Releases
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In these unpromising circumstances a living community grows up.
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Their land looked so unpromising that the colonists eventually gave most of it back.
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From this pungently unpromising substance we have made a variety of savoury stews and fritters, and saltfish is one of the Caribbean's unexpectedly characteristic flavours.
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faced an unpromising task
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Exactly the kind of unpromising non-answer that the local bureaucracy excells at.
Imagethief
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Up an unpromising staircase, the door opens into a small and perfectly-formed space, dominated by a long counter behind which skulks a spotty girl.
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A cobbler shop and a foot clinic may seem like unpromising settings in which to learn about pleasure.
Christianity Today
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If you were to have stumbled into Red Medicine this winter, maybe late after a movie, maybe with a reservation you booked two weeks early on OpenTable, you might have encountered a dish called "early season roots and legumes," unpromisingly enough, an appetizer that sounds like something more often served at a Tarzana vegan café than at an advanced fleshpot of cuisine.
JGold Reviews Red Medicine
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He seemed an unpromising ventriloquist's dummy.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this alone is not enough to explain why it has survived so well in such unpromising circumstances.
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Curaçaoans have always known that success can be distilled from the most unpromising of ingredients.
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Braying an ordinary fool in a mortar is an unpromising job; but an extraordinary official leatherhead, PLUS thin-skinned conscience, and religious scruples, requires the upper and nether mill stone.
At the Mercy of Tiberius
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She started unpromisingly, playing opposite men making screen tests, but from that graduated to bit parts in films.
Times, Sunday Times
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Don't be put off by the fact that they take a while to prepare, for comfort food is also about anticipation, about transforming some unpromising raw oxtail into a rich, delicious stew.
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The subtitle of the Guardian article reads unpromisingly: "Stanley Middleton's Holiday makes its few readers wince - and for all the right reasons.
March 2008
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Even then, change will be difficult because the team is mired in a ‘the future is now’ philosophy, even when the present is bleak and unpromising.
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When I allowed him to go on a little before, on account of the narrowness of the way, I observed that he carried his head with a lofty air that was particularly unpromising; and my mind misgave me that he had found out about my darling Dora.
David Copperfield
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They live in a house in the most unpromising of territory - a grim estate on the Charlton-Woolwich boundary - yet the interior of their home is fantastic.
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At the end of the trail, after a tedious gravelly slope, where I remember a close bed of the pretty mountain phlox, with thin remnants of a snowdrift no more than a rod or two above it, there remained a brief clamber over huge boulders, with tufts of gorgeous pink pentstemon growing in such scanty deposits of coarse soil as the desolate, unpromising situation afforded; the scantier the better, as it seemed; for this clever economist is a lover of rocks, if there ever was one.
On Foot in the Yosemite
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We were doing the final burns for orbital insertion when I finally had time to look at the unpromising object on the screen.
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Their predecessors had toiled for centuries to turn remote and unpromising lands into fertile fields and vineyards.
Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
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They also became extremely close, though after unpromising beginnings.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Equality first’ it is somewhat unpromisingly titled.
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Helped by Dorothy - who said she was following guidance from natural angels, or devas - the three started tilling the unpromising sandy and gravely soil and planting vegetables.
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We picked it up as ‘the least unpromising or obvious thing on the shelf in Somerfield’ and I think it cost around £6.50 a bottle.
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He could light a fire in a minute under the most unfavorable conditions and with the most unpromising material, made the best coffee to be tasted outside of a creole kitchen, was a "dab" at camp stews and roasts, groomed my horses (one of which he rode near me), washed my linen, and was never behind time.
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War
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Some plant species can regenerate from seemingly unpromisingly small fragments (as I know from moving an acanthus in my garden).
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India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, or NREGA, seemed unpromising from its inception.
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And you who bear authority over these benighted people, whether under the name of pasha, effendi, or mollah, let me advise you, although an unpromising subject for advice, not to act the stupid as well as barbarous part of riveting your nations in chains.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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In tonight's opener, Kevin McCloud revisits the programme's longest-running saga - the five-year and counting epic of Stefan Lepkowsky and Annia Shabowska, who have been attempting to alchemise a cutting-edge contemporary home from the unpromising base metal of a derelict mill cottage in Northamptonshire.
The Guardian World News
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Into such unpromising circumstances step up The Colonies and they give good gig.
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Our initial meeting begins unpromisingly with an apology: ‘Erm, I've just got to go and write down a few ideas I was thinking of on the way over here,’ and then he disappears round the corner of the bar to find a quiet spot.
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I have a porpentine story to raise a laugh in the most unpromising circumstances.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the circumstances, his evidence as alibi evidence is most unpromising.
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It was unpromising stuff, but Hofmann and others had discovered that by distillation one could separate from it several carbon-rich, odorous organic compounds such as benzene, toluene, xylene, and phenol.
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And people are going to keep using the flag, some to celebrate a heroic past, some to protest an unpromising future.
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The only time he ever got airsick was one morning when the flying conditions looked unpromising and, assuming that his flight would be scrapped, he “proceeded to power down on two big, huge breakfast burritos.”
The Last Ace
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To say that the post-wedding and pre - defloration diner intime à deux is unpromising is to say the least of it:
Think of England
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Their new home was known rather unpromisingly as Down House.
Heart of Darwin
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Even the most unpromising small plot can be transformed into a successful garden with hints which will show you just what can be achieved when space and time are at a premium.
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Their predecessors had toiled for centuries to turn remote and unpromising lands into fertile fields and vineyards.
Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
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To say that the post-wedding and pre - defloration diner intime à deux is unpromising is to say the least of it:
Think of England
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The new always looks so small, so puny, so unpromising next to the size and performance of maturity.
THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
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Perhaps he will surprise us all at Muirfield, but the portents are unpromising.
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The quality is unknown but when Scotland on Sunday tested bootleg DVDs last year, the results were unpromising.
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This machine would be his only escape in the unpromising future.
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There were three distinctly unpromising areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the world of dance, one of South Africa's toughest townships may seem an unpromising place to start an academy for classical ballet.
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In these moments, Mr. Himmelman's enchantment with the entomological soundscape is so complete that he can turn the most unpromising site—his Connecticut backyard, for example—into an insect lover's terra incognita, shimmering with possibility.
The Orchestra After Dark
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Critics also included officials in the White House, which shared many of the antipoverty goals of the campaign, but worried about what one official called its “unpromising circumstances.”
Burial for a King
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In these unpromising circumstance, the Collinsons, like the other families, believe only a public inquiry will find the truth.
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They live in a house in the most unpromising of territory - a grim estate on the Charlton-Woolwich boundary - yet the interior of their home is fantastic.
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It spins riveting, moving drama out of the most unpromising premise imaginable: the implementation of the 35-hour working week.
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The natives being departed, we set out to observe the country, which, on inspection, rather disappointed our hopes, being invariably sandy and unpromising for the purposes of cultivation, though the trees and grass flourish in great luxuriancy.
The Expedition to Botany Bay
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O'Sullivan's 72, starting with the remaining 10 reds unpromisingly grouped over one side of the table, was a masterclass in precise positional play and subtle thinking as he took a pink from each and added the yellow for a winning 72 only to negate this good work by missing a simple pink to let the Australian left-hander in for 59 and a 3-1 lead.
Neil Robertson beats Ronnie O'Sullivan to claim World Open title
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In fact, his business career had distinctly unpromising beginnings.
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Born in Beverley in 1949, his rise to success from distinctly unpromising beginnings is an inspiration to other young artists.
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That may sound like an unpromising topic for an opera, but Strauss knew what he was doing - the old composer was too much of a practical theater man to deal in abstractions or produce a talky treatise on aesthetics.
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But if the premise is unpromising, the result is utterly engrossing.
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From such rigid, uncompromising and unpromising beginnings, Glass has created a sound language of great eloquence and diversity.
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He trialed a half-dozen varieties on a rocky, elevated field with poor soils and an unpromising northeasterly aspect.
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Their land looked so unpromising that the colonists eventually gave most of it back.
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The town was badly damaged by Allied bombing during the Second World War, and Andrea's restaurant sits, rather unpromisingly, on top of a concrete block in the rebuilt port.
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I don't have a lot of time for any politicians outside of Tony Benn,’ he began, unpromisingly.
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In fact, his business career had distinctly unpromising beginnings.
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And if it does turn out to be the gateway to a new life, that is one that will have to be built over time and unglamorously with the unpromising materials of the old one.
What's wrong with weddings
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From its unpromising beginning, the poem has moved through some vivid description to an impasse.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It was a rather unpromising start to the holiday.
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In fact, his business career had distinctly unpromising beginnings.
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Resignation of office, in so far as it is not a mere expression of discouragement or protest (such as disinclination to accept a candidature in an unpromising constituency), is in most cases a means for the retention and fortification of leadership.
Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
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In May 1912, Lasky hired Cecil to write and stage another Bowers operetta unpromisingly called In the Barracks for a royalty of $40 a week.
Empire of Dreams
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Every rating learned to cook by cooking for his shipmates, and therefore, if he were to keep the friendly esteem of his mess, he would need to learn to make the best of his often unpromising ingredients, to cook passably well.
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Sir Joshua says above, that even "unpromising" subjects may be thus treated.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
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If you were to have stumbled into Red Medicine this winter, maybe late after a movie, maybe with a reservation you booked two weeks early on OpenTable, you might have encountered a dish called "early season roots and legumes," unpromisingly enough, an appetizer that sounds like something more often served at a Tarzana vegan café than at an advanced fleshpot of cuisine.
JGold Reviews Red Medicine
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Though we were very desirous, and our necessities required that we should take some survey of the land we were upon, yet being strongly prepossessed that the savages were retired but some little distance from us, and waited to see us divided, our parties did not make this day any great excursions from the hut; but as far as we went, we found it very morassy and unpromising.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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music for unpromising combinations of instruments
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There, ordinary people have learned to be inventive with the most unpromising of materials.
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Nowadays, Whitechapel is a melange of chain restaurants, avant garde web designers and dodgy clothing stores with the word "Fashions" unpromisingly included on their signs.
Whitechapel: David Stubbs's TV OD
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Despite the unpromising subject matter Tintin became a soaring success and the print run for the supplement soon had to be increased.
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O'Sullivan's 72, starting with the remaining 10 reds unpromisingly grouped over one side of the table, was a masterclass in precise positional play and subtle thinking as he took a pink from each and added the yellow for a winning 72 only to negate this good work by missing a simple pink to let the Australian left-hander in for 59 and a 3-1 lead.
Neil Robertson beats Ronnie O'Sullivan to claim World Open title
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Making Out sounds most unpromising - about a group of women workers in a clapped-out Manchester electronics factory.
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The book starts unpromisingly: ‘Despite all the interviews, reviews and analysis, The Fall still defies explanation.’
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Hypnosis has also shown unpromising results in the treatment of stammering.
