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unpromising

uhn praw mi sing

  • s  unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment
    faced an unpromising task
    music for unpromising combinations of instruments

  • People have seen Hale-Bopp, without a telescope or even binoculars, from such unpromising, light-polluted vantage points as midtown Manhattan and downtown Chicago.
  • His principal rider was Red Pollard (Tobey Maguire), too big and too angry to be a great jockey, but a man who saw something of his unpromising yet ever striving self in Seabiscuit.
  • After assessing 60 unpromising teenagers, the scout was eager to go home and told Morris to hurry.
News & Articles

  • Unworldly Life Source
    Nowadays Earth is perfectly lovely but once it was a barren rock. So how did life arise on such an unpromising property? In fact, new research shows that life on Earth may have come from out of this world. Lawrence Livermore scientist Nir Goldman and University of Ontario Institute of Technology colleague Isaac Tamblyn (a former LLNL postdoc) found that icy comets that crashed into Earth ...
    June 12, 2013 - Environmental News Network
Quotes

  • Todd Martinez in CNNMoney.com (press release)
    TeraChem is a powerful molecular modeling package whose calculations can guide the design of new drugs while avoiding wasted time synthesizing unpromising candidates,said Todd Martinez, professor of physical and theoretical chemistry at...
  • George Washington in Patriot Post
    But take heart, for as George Washington wrote in the darkest days of our American Revolution, "We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise,...
  • Fuad Saniora in Reuters.uk
    The opposition seems to be seeking to paralyse (the country), threaten the people and scare and terrorise them...... to give the world a troubled and unpromising image of Lebanon,Siniora told a news conference.

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