Her promise seemed to release something in the young man.

Neither the best technology nor the promise of a bumper crop seemed to matter.

The other nodded, and that promise did seem to warm his weathered bones.

The great promise does not seem to have worked.

To the south, so far as we have gone, there seems no promise.

Still somehow my boy's promise seemed to ease the lady's distress.

"The chairman's promises seem to have changed from the way they were before the agreement we made" Yanal said.

All the beauty and promise of the day seemed to come to fruition in this moment.

The calm promise of an hour ago seemed a universe removed.

But just now one more broken promise more or less did not seem of great importance.