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Tara smothered a grin and pulled aside a stack of paperback spy novels to find a blue book titled promisingly enough: The Stargazer’s Catalog.

Dark Oracle Alayna Williams 2010

Some of the situations they encounter on the dating and relationship circuit are promisingly wacky, but the tortured jokes lean way too heavily on pop-culture references: "I feel like I was on a UPN reality show."

Roush Review: Not Happy With New Network Comedies 2011

This romantic drama starts out promisingly but grew weaker and weaker as the film progressed.

Michael Giltz: Cannes 2011 Day Seven: Aki's Accomplishment, Closeted Afrikaners, Bonsai and More! Michael Giltz 2011

He starts off promisingly enough, reminding us that several of the key early leaders on the subject, especially Roger Revelle and the first chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Bert Bolin, were more cautious about what we know and what we should do than the politicians and activist groups who made saving mankind from global warming their rallying cry.

In Search Of Carbon Copies Steven F. Hayward 2011

This romantic drama starts out promisingly but grew weaker and weaker as the film progressed.

Michael Giltz: Cannes 2011 Day Seven: Aki's Accomplishment, Closeted Afrikaners, Bonsai and More! Michael Giltz 2011

Indeed, the article opens with a promisingly realistic vignette, featuring a theoretical “You” cracking under the strain of having to breast-feed around the clock, suffering “crying jags” and cursing at your husband.

The Case Against Breast-Feeding 2009

Alternately creating and sitting, the captain combined rather promisingly with Jack Wilshere even if, at times, he permitted Denmark the odd liberty

Denmark v England: England player ratings 2011

It began promisingly enough - a young lady making preparations to attend an evening dance at a yacht to which she belongs.

FRIDAY 2010

Even more promisingly their next three matches, against Italy, France and Scotland, are all at Twickenham.

Six Nations 2011: Wales 19-26 England | Six Nations match report 2011

Both of these books are smart, surprising and original, but so are some of Ms. Martin's other novels, especially "The Great Divorce" and "The Confessions of Edwin Day," which begins, promisingly, with this sentence: "My mother liked to say Freud should have been strangled in his crib."

Dear Book Lover: Underappreciated Authors Cynthia Crossen 2011