Even in the most unpromising spots, there is always eating to be done.

I learned to sleep in the saddle and to find shelter in the most unpromising places.

A great journalist can take the most unpromising subject and turn it into page-one news.

That is the most unpromising circumstance, the strongest presumption against him.

Or perhaps it's a suburb, because she does not see a post office or even the most unpromising convenience store.

Good bad poetry, however, can get across to the most unpromising audiences if the right atmosphere has been worked up beforehand.

In the most unpromising soil, human decency took root.

Travel alone, and you mine deep seams from the most unpromising terrain.

It was the most unpromising night I had ever seen.

Against all odds, the result is an engaging tall tale, spun out of the most unpromising raw material.