A promising young man.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a promising young man; a promising situation.    From Dictionary.com. 

LOS ANGELES Hollywood Reporter - What's served under a label promising first-class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

For a title promising Manhattan, there sure is a lack thereof in the finished product.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)] Reference

However, investigators do say they are following several strong and what they called promising leads.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2008] Reference

He ended the call promising to buy the employee a beer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reseller News] Reference

More promising is dad's directing debut, At Swim-Two-Birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [First sight: Domhnall Gleeson] Reference

One area that might be promising is health care technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Be Wary Of Big Pharma, Thrive In The Niches] Reference

Party vied with party in promising new stars for the heavens.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Shall We Fight it With?] Reference

Pelosi came in promising to "drain the swamp" on congressional ethics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Massa wilts in Washington's swamp] Reference

What I find most promising is the way disputed information is handled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Mormons Ever Sleep?] Reference

The movie, which is very promising from the start, became meaningless in the end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kevin's Review: The Happening - A Different, But Familiar, Shyamalan « FirstShowing.net] Reference

The one aspect that I find promising is that the MedPac appears to be getting beefed up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Health Care Bill] Reference

After all, there's no point in promising something that you really don't intend to deliver on.    From Wordnik.com.  [United - Not the Way To Fly] Reference

Whether or not a career that looked promising yesterday no longer looks promising is not the point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Steele: Cops, Firefighters, Soldiers, Postmen, Teachers All Secretly Unemployed] Reference

The Byzantium exhibit looked promising from a distance, so I may try to get back before that finishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy birthday to me!] Reference

They knew not what Christ's cup was, nor what his baptism, and therefore they were thus bold in promising for themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference

Bait up, add a split shot if you need to for distance, and start casting upstream in promising spots and letting it drift.    From Wordnik.com.  [I am leaving for Tennessee this Friday and I want to know how to fish for river trout.] Reference

But if the recent one-shot X-Men: Endangered Species is representative, the genre is evolving in promising new directions.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Superhero Comic, Hold the Superheroism] Reference

A third approach, and the one that appears to me to be the most promising, is communication with employees in the work place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Myths and Men] Reference

More promising is Tesson's writing style which is clear, concise and quite effective at setting up crisp scenes with few words.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Jim Baen's Universe #7] Reference

With a weary heart I urged the men to start on the five days 'journey toward Jyékundo, but they were slow in promising to leave.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior] Reference

Much more promising is the Virtual Exhibits section, which I think is patterned on some of the exhibits from the physical Museum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

I doubt he has any plans and hopes to win promising not raise taxes and using the f-word instead of explaining his creative idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [McDonnell drops F-bomb in live interview] Reference

He's again promising it will suffer — and this time he really means it — by not stepping up to "work" with him in the majority.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biggest Election Myths of 2010] Reference

Tease the super-fangeek with an "Exclusively for our MySpace friends ..." bulletin promising how one can "WIN TICKETS to see James.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

Certainly there is no point in promising this and that now which can only be rearranging the furniture The reform has to be in stages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-18] Reference

More promising is the side story of Hobbes clairvoyant sister, which undoubtedly lays the groundwork for future paranormal story lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: The Osiris Ritual by George Mann] Reference

Chinese moguls came out in promising numbers Wednesday night to meet Warren Buffett and Bill Gates at a dinner near Beijing, CNN reported.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buffett And Gates Ask Chinese Tycoons To Give Back] Reference

"It depends upon what you call promising, I reckon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia] Reference

In an effort to name promising newcomers so that they can later say, "We Told You So!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair's Young Hollywood Loves Guitar Hero, Obama, Shoes] Reference

Coast Guard is calling promising, and there are plans to apply even more of the chemicals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gazette.com :] Reference

Calabretta said he's had a flood of calls promising money to keep the lights display going.    From Wordnik.com.  [Auburn Journal - Top Stories] Reference

Funny, I don't recall her promising, at the time, to make those jobs only if Gore got ellected.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Pro-Hillary Group's Ad: Obama Has No Specifics On The Economy] Reference

He ended up being taken to hospital on a stretcher, but things are looking promising, which is a relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [AZ Snakepit] Reference

Morley was only known as a promising writer of the most terrible heterodoxy, he dined with Houghton, and was placed next the Archbishop of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885] Reference