unpromisingly

The evening began unpromisingly, at least for me.

The wooden back porch looked unpromisingly clean of evidence.

The orchestra, an English period instrument group, began its Saturday concert unpromisingly.

A few oxide superconductors were known to exist, but their useful temperatures were unpromisingly low.

A delegate from Richmond, North Yorkshire, begins unpromisingly by saying his question is not really about education.

Unpromisingly, Mr. Krenz has been chiefly concerned with internal security.

A roster of nearly 50 artists that looked unpromisingly eclectic on paper turns out to be a beguilingly unobvious mix.

The part of the program devoted to Carl Philipp Emanuel began unpromisingly.

Lily's brow furrowed unpromisingly.

She began unpromisingly with Webern's Three Songs (Op.

"Hey," he said, unpromisingly.

Mr. Grante began unpromisingly: knocking off one difficulty after another but at such a velocity, and so grimly, that every bit of charm disappeared.

Things start off unpromisingly, with an insistent clanging and steady pulsations that sound like a large modern orchestra imitating a Balinese gamelan.

His last few novels have gone unpublished, and his latest, unpromisingly titled "Untitled," is now making the rounds of ever smaller and drearier publishers.

Coco Fusco's video "The Reapers" seems unpromisingly casual, but turns out to be both subtle and entertaining.

At first glance, the show looks unpromisingly like too many current sitcoms about blacks, with monotonously suggestive humor laid on with the broadest of brush strokes.

She began unpromisingly, with a rendering of "In questa reggia" that was mannered, shrill and regularly shy of pitch at the top.

The festival began unpromisingly, with an evening-length, multi-composer piece entitled "ARCO," full of striking scenic effects but lacking musical substance.

The program began unpromisingly with a performance of Haydn's Symphony No. 104 that stood resolutely apart from the current trend favoring lean, transparent textures in Classic era orchestral works.

Shanghai in History China's prime port began unpromisingly a thousand years ago as a fishing village on mud flats near the Yangzi River's outlet to the East China Sea.

That gentleman was standing with his back to the fire, and his hands under his coat-tails, looking over his white cravat, as unpromisingly as Mr Dombey himself could have looked.

The Hartke symphony wanders unpromisingly into mildly dissonant, mid-century idiom early on, but its principal lyric material is quite distinctive, and the third movement gathers a powerful mood of elegiac intensity.

If this was a torch-passing that was somewhat inadvertent in its finality, Bromfield was a far worthier recipient of Winehouse's largess than the term "15-year-old goddaughter" might unpromisingly suggest.

He began unpromisingly, making an unhappy choice of tempo in the opening movement of the Schubert, an Allegro Moderato that he took so deliberately that tension loosened and the pace became ponderous.

Among the bodies are innocent victims - nubile teenagers lured to this unpromisingly named island off the coast of Seattle for a rave party - and quite a few moldering carcasses belonging to the zombies who form the island's principal population.