Faced an unpromising task. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Sir Joshua says above, that even "unpromising" subjects may be thus treated. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
In this kind of unpromising context, the Industry Interface is a big step. From Wordnik.com. [IndiaPRwire - Press/News Releases] Reference
Exactly the kind of unpromising non-answer that the local bureaucracy excells at. From Wordnik.com. [China Media Blog] Reference
His eyes moved from Shann to the unpromising shore. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
As they advanced, the coast became steep, rocky, and unpromising. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Rain fell at intervals, and the situation was decidedly unpromising. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
The outlook was sufficiently unpromising to dismay the most resolute. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
"In the event of a very unpromising day," continued Mrs. Wriothesley. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
Shibahm in the distance, an unpromising looking spot among sandhills. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
What a happy day this has been, and how unpromising was its beginning!. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
This unpromising joint-commission sailed from San Lucar on November 11. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
Merriweather Girls were the owners of one very unpromising copper claim. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
Cheerful tempers manufacture solace and joy out of very unpromising material. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
The gentleman held the unpromising objects in his hand and meditated upon them. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
It was just that, when we were there, though cloudy and unpromising as to weather. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
Perhaps worst of all the nature of the child himself is too trivial and unpromising. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
He did not attempt to disguise from himself that the outlook was decidedly unpromising. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
He takes me into an apparent wilderness, but I find rich herbage on the unpromising plain. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Paul bowed an assent to this, and could but acknowledge that the unpromising exordium was natural. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Now he says to his friends, 'Hunt books in the most unpromising places, but make a thorough search. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
In the most unpromising ancestry there are latent potentialities which may be made fruitful by effort. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
It seemed quite unpromising but I was told of a sort of place 3 miles in the country that you would call. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
Things were looking unpromising, when, happily for her, Madame Godefroy died in giving birth to her firstborn. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Child 1894] Reference
But the face of the country was unpromising, and Cook altered his course for the north at a point he named Cape. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
This student, whom I will call Laura, is a remarkable woman who had been given a very unpromising start in life. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Greenfield: Are For-Profit Colleges Evil?] Reference
It seemed difficult to account for this supply of fresh water in so unpromising a spot, and so near the sea-shore. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
There can be no question of failure, no dallying with the subject, however elaborate or unpromising it may appear. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
The coast is rocky and most unpromising, but the interior is said to contain some of the best farming land east of. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Who would have supposed the most unpromising of little buds would have transformed itself so soon into what he gazed upon?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But, no; there we sat, Aunt Horsingham remarking that the "weather was dull" and the "crops looking very unpromising;" Aunt. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
Althea was now nearly sixteen; she had emerged from the somewhat unpromising age, and had developed into remarkable beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
But I found, ere long, that there was a heart beneath that dirty uniform, a soft kernel inside of the rude, unpromising husk. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Each interaction with a potential customer is an investment, and even an unpromising start usually yields dividends by night's end. From Wordnik.com. [The Friendliest Young Woman in the Room] Reference
A sorrier lot of screws I never saw, but I chose the one that looked the least unpromising, and gave the driver the word for Richmond. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
He was at an awkward age, and Raymond, who could see him with eyes not unduly clouded by affection, felt him to be an unpromising cub. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
The Democrats 'nomination of Horatio Seymour and Frank Blair was as reactionary and unpromising of a "new departure" as was the choice of. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
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