And what happens to these promising young men who play basketball so well when they're nineteen?

"It's a pity you had to waste a promising young man."

In three years at the school he attracted the attention of superiors as a promising young man.

Though an odd combination of pieces, this added up to one big performance from a promising young man.

History does not tell us if he foresaw that the promising young man was destined to become one of his major partners.

This turned many teams away from this promising young man.

A very promising young man by the name of Savat.

He was serious and single-minded, a promising man of medicine.

"Did you ever see a more promising military man in all your life, Antonius?"

But to outward appearances he was an exceptionally promising young man.