The afternoon had begun so promisingly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Your career has really begun -- and so promisingly. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands] Reference
And the afternoon had started out so promisingly …. From Wordnik.com. [Music to My Sorrow]
And the afternoon had started out so promisingly. From Wordnik.com. [Music To My Sorrow]
The Accident, also a mystery of sorts, begins promisingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Accident by Ismail Kadare] Reference
And Book 2 opens promisingly, at least the first two chapters. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast in Bed] Reference
He does not begin promisingly: surely he means "chasing fleas.". From Wordnik.com. [Cranberry Sauce] Reference
He nodded, and handed her a basket that looked promisingly heavy. From Wordnik.com. [Werehunter]
The morning started out promisingly, but I lost steam after lunch. From Wordnik.com. [September 30th, 2002] Reference
Both start promisingly but degenerate into the hoariest clichés. From Wordnik.com. [Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Optimistic SF of Shine: The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades!] Reference
Been paroled and moved on promising with -- promisingly with his life. From Wordnik.com. [Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War] Reference
I got it in the mail yesterday from the publisher and it's promisingly lurid. From Wordnik.com. [One Of These Things First] Reference
It starts out promisingly enough, but soon descends into a dull, tedious mess. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
Now Bruce is back with the band again, the new album promisingly titled "Magic.". From Wordnik.com. [Springsteen Tries to Reclaim 'Magic'] Reference
He talked promisingly about trying to elevate the level of discourse of this campaign. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Campaign Puts Up First Negative Ad - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
At one time I started composing a parody of "Kubla Khan," which started promisingly enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Worlds of 2001]
The biography begins promisingly enough with a retelling of Oates's family life and education. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
Moscow and imports of beverage and canned products into the country have commenced promisingly. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"Home Game," Mr. Lewis's account of becoming a father to his three children, begins promisingly. From Wordnik.com. [From Patriarch to Patsy] Reference
The story begins promisingly with an alien creature landing late at night in a small Wyoming town. From Wordnik.com. ['The Seeker' at Digital Dragon] Reference
I think HUNTING PARTY starts off quite promisingly, but then halfway through the book falls apart. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast in Bed] Reference
"Are you trying to infer that I am to be a part of that happiness?" she asked none too promisingly. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
The business that had begun so promisingly and prosperously a decade before had dwindled to its end. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
The game started promisingly for Tampa Bay, which grabbed the lead with 1: 45 to go in the first period. From Wordnik.com. [NHL - National Hockey League - Tampa Bay vs. Nashville] Reference
Then again, the whole movie -- after a promisingly evocative beginning -- was bound to veer off the rails. From Wordnik.com. [A Blast From the Cold War] Reference
And so, if we leave out Shakespeare, all ends happily, or at least as promisingly as history can ever manage. From Wordnik.com. [It Happened at Elsinore] Reference
All of this fit with a script promisingly laid out by President Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Schwartz: Colonizing Iraq: The Obama Doctrine?] Reference
Palecek not only has a nice portfolio website, but also maintains his own blog, promisingly entitled 1 Painting A Day. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Blur] Reference
The sensational effort to bring down Peter Paget, which had begun so stunningly promisingly, had collapsed in ignominy. From Wordnik.com. [High Society]
What worried her was something more than that. the Gulbrandsens, who were large and stolid and uncom-promisingly plain. From Wordnik.com. [Twin Moons] Reference
Things started promisingly enough for Minnesota, which grabbed the lead just over eight minutes into the first period as. From Wordnik.com. [NHL - National Hockey League - Vancouver vs. Minnesota] Reference
It is far from being a ‘girly’ activity and the effort should indeed be recognized by a promisingly pinnied partner. From Wordnik.com. [houseproud] Reference
The clouds sometimes gathered promisingly overhead, but only to roll away without discharging a drop upon the scorched plains. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Things started promisingly enough for New York as Scatchard jabbed a rebound past Biron on the power play 61 seconds into the game. From Wordnik.com. [NHL - National Hockey League - N.Y. Islanders vs. Buffalo] Reference
The most promisingly fat wallet had proved, after half an hour's careful stalking, to contain little in money but a lot in pornography. From Wordnik.com. [The Elvis Latte] Reference
So largely my search was not fruitful; except, for my discovery of the, most promisingly named, “HALLOWEEN AGREEMENT scroll a bit.”. From Wordnik.com. [Hal-law-ween — Slaw] Reference
So largely my search was not fruitful; except, for my discovery of the, most promisingly named, “HALLOWEEN AGREEMENT scroll a bit 3.”. From Wordnik.com. [Slaw » Hal-law-ween » Print] Reference
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