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So when he finally sat down with the artist, he made him a promise to someday find a way to get the album rereleased.
And sometimes I get teenagers who promise me that they won't join a gang and just start robbing people, if I only buy some magazine subscriptions from them.
Newer concepts and early testing now show even greater promise in the best of our animal models.
That could be plastic surgery, known as "revirgination," it could be vials of blood poured on the sheets after sex or fake hymens bought online, complete with theater blood and a promise to "kiss your deep, dark secret goodbye."
And that was it, that was the whole promise: to keep the kids safe so they could play.
And I promise you, if you're sitting in front of this screen, that is a truly wonderful moment.
Now, he was a preacher, but I believe the environmental movement and, in fact, the business community, government, needs to go to the top of the mountain top, and it needs to look out, and it needs to see the Promised Land, or the land of promise, and it needs to have a vision of a world that we all want.
I promise you the hand of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is stretched out in friendship for now and years to come.
But some plants are manipulating animals, like in the case of orchids that promise sex and nectar and give in change nothing for the transportation of the pollen.
But I made a promise, so I returned to the gas station where Balbir Singh Sodhi was killed 15 years to the day.
And I promise you, if you take that walk inside Google Streetview, you come to a moment where something comes back and hits you in the face.
"Dear 48, I promise to listen to you, to fight for you, to respect you always."
And third, so as people are doing this friends and family fundraising process, it's very awkward, people don't know exactly what to ask for, how to ask, what to promise in return, even though they have the best of intentions and want to thank those people that are supporting them.
The movie has promise, but it's never realized.
A formula film is not necessarily bad if it pays off on it's promise, which this film does not.
Larry Bishop and Tarantino partying on the Weinstein's money with the promise to deliver a movie sometime down the line.
Like most thrillers The Hitchhiker had promise yet failed to deliver when it had me bright eyed and ready to turn the volume down(I was watching the movie alone.. in the dark) This so called thriller simply came apart like it was made of Lego transforming into something else.
I was initially interested in this film after reading a synopsis and seeing a few striking screenshots, and the promise was there for a gripping horror film of the Dario Argento style.
Returning to the beach to confront Mike because of his negligence(..not to mention Jack's promise to coach Ramsey, played by UFC fighter Ken Shamrock, regarding no hazing), Jack and Beth will face the same straw-stuffed assassin that is bumping off the others.
One of the swordsmen is Huang who is himself in the middle of a complicated love story, where a woman wants to have him killed for having ran away from a promise to marry her younger sister.
But such promise!
It is a good first film attempt and the director (who also stars in and wrote the feature) shows a lot of promise.
With a MySpace URL and a mighty (if puzzlingly subjective) promise of preserving so-called "old school American horror," "Hatchet" will draw a lot of curiosity seekers with its DVD release (where that claim is emblazoned on the disc itself).
Koechner has shown promise as a supporting actor, but as a lead in this film, he just sounds scripted.
I have no involvement with the flick and don't know anyone who did and I'm a long-time IMDb user (check my vote record and reviews over the past seven years), so I promise I'm giving an honest and unbiased opinion.
It's just not believable at all and that's too bad - it started out with promise.
At least they didn't end with the promise of another sequel!
The plot would have some promise if it was done by someone who cared about what they're writing/filming, but the people who made this movie obviously did not.
The trailer did promise to show us how he makes his sure-shot picks but after going through the whole film I have yet to see what skill if any he ever had.
There's a lot of action, a lot of promise, but it all comes off hokey.
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