Herder adjured Goethe not to take so unpromising a subject as Faust.

But the future looked so unpromising that even the strong coffee could not sustain his spirits.

The farm life is so unpromising for you, and there are such great opportunities for success in other lines.

When the right time comes my deeds will satisfy you, I think, though my words are now so unpromising.

Humiliated, because I have regarded the field so unpromising; inspired, because such glimpses of gracious possibilities and achievements are caught.

All these are packed neatly under that one rectangular corrugated roof which looked so ugly and so unpromising from outside.

It seemed difficult to account for this supply of fresh water in so unpromising a spot, and so near the sea-shore.

Therefore, believing that his personal interests were not endangered by so unpromising a man as Hemstead, even joke with more zest than he.

You have friends, sir, who might not be willing that you should indulge in unnecessary exposure, for the satisfaction of a curiosity so unpromising.

When this horse was two, he was so unpromising that Harry Guggenheim, who bred him, put him in a weeding-out sale, and one H.A.

It is the decision of the Holy See; St. Peter has spoken, it is he who has enjoined that which seems to us so unpromising.

That so unpromising a subject as this large archaic tinamou should be able to maintain its existence in this country, even for a very few

So unpromising was the first appearance of the greatest warrior of that age.

"I think you may take it from me that no case is so unpromising but what we shall be able to find a loophole."