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Promising in sentence

1273 examples of Promising in a sentence

The trailer makes this movie look very promising, which is what trailers are supposed to do.
Yeah sure, the movie its visuals already did looked horrible and not very promising but the premise and the cast looked good, so I still sort of expected to be entertained by this movie.
This show had a promising start as sort of the opposite of 'Oceans 11' but has developed into a shallow display of T & A. Actually, according to my little brother thats the only good part of the show.
I and my brother are very big Asian movie fans, so when finding this movie hidden in a shop, I bought this one on DVD, because it sounded very promising and I couldn't wait to watch it.
So I watched this movie with my brother and I must say, in the beginning it was very promising.
I watched this movie to see the direction one of the most promising young talents in movies was going.
Despite the somewhat promising premise, the movie falls flat in nearly every regard.
A friend of mine watches this and since I like sci-fi, I tried to watch along since the plot of the show sounded promising, but in truth it really is a very boring show.
This movie starts with interesting set design and a promising premise, but fails to provide the cult-movie goods.
So I caught this one afternoon as "What Lies Above" and actually watched it because the beginning was somewhat promising.
The cover case and the premise that write there is so promising.
It starts off looking promising, and even once they get inside the mines the creepy atmosphere and mood is great.
When he's in the film early on it's nothing special but it is mildly promising and occasionally amusing.
The characters developed well enough - an all-star cast made it oh-so promising, just a shame the plot was patently absurd.
I had always eyed Italian horror maestro Dario Argento's efforts as producer with a certain suspicion and these were only confirmed after my fairly recent viewing of Lamberto Bava's terrible DEMONS (1985); the fact that this was supposed to be its third installment did not sound promising at all but I decided to give the film a rental regardless now that we're in full Halloween swing.
The subject matter was certainly a promising one - the excesses of the Catholic Church during the counter-reformation.
Twin screenwriters, Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes, spend more time developing the main characters than other slasher movies--a promising start.
Based on the plot summary on the DVD case, the premise really sounded promising.
"The Bone Snatcher" starts out extremely promising, with the introduction of a new and original type of unseen evil as well as with the use of the sublimely isolated filming location of the African desert.
The build-up while searching for the killer in the theater is interesting enough with Norris crawling through the shadows to discover the hideaway, but the end fight is disappointing after beginning in such a promising way.
So, this starts with at least an interesting and promising basic idea, goes on and on with tension, Carey in a good untypical role but in a less than you expected performance, weak direction from Joel Schumacher match with some plot holes, the "detective scenes" show us the luck of creativity.
I watched this movie which I really thought had a promising beginning but then it just led me to feel disappointed in the end.
This film seemed promising in the beginning, dragging in the middle and then disappointing in the end.
Rolling Kansas sounded promising (in fact the program guide gave it 2.5 out of 4 stars which usually means it's fairly watchable) but I pretty much fast-forwarded through it.
It sounded so promising in the Rental Store, the premise sounded great and I couldnt wait to get home and watch it.
On paper this historical drama could look vaguely promising.
This all looked quite promising.
With such a promising cast and a director that I have heard great things about, I was utterly disappointed by this film.
Story is about the Travis family who is trying to recover from the suicide of Matt (Kip Pardue) who was a very promising high school swimmer.
Sloppy film noir thriller which doesn't make much of its tension promising set-up.
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