| Hearts And Bones started unpromisingly with a dinner party where everyone drank too much and talked twaddle. |
| But, on Sunday, Townend had a magical day, and one has to remember how unpromisingly it began. |
| Unpromisingly tall, at 6ft 3in, he managed to reduce his height by abandoning his high-heeled shoes. |
| Some plant species can regenerate from seemingly unpromisingly small fragments. |
| The town looked unpromisingly bleak, but our hotel proved to be modern and cosy. |
| The town was badly damaged by Allied bombing during the Second World War, and Andrea's restaurant sits, rather unpromisingly, on top of a concrete block in the rebuilt port. |
