Promises can be valuable to the promisee or even to the promiser.

"Your honor, must the consideration be from the ] to the promiser?"

There must be the five elements of promiser, promisee, offer, substance, and consideration."

He is also a good promiser.

Is he a promiser?

To Edwards, President Winkler seemed an empty man, a charmer, a vote grabber, a promiser.

Particularly subtle since Frost's reputation in the magical fraternity was that of a promiser, which was a polite way of saying he wasn't exactly trustworthy.

Being a born beckoner and promiser, she had tried her routine on Moore, had been caught off balance, and had had her beckoning and promising career abruptly terminated, or at least temporarily interrupted.

For a promise to increase certainty, the recipient needs to trust the promiser, but trust can also be built on the verification that previous promises have been kept, thus trust plays a symbiotic relationship with promises.

The story details the speech of the 75th president, Hugo Allen Winkler, who is described by Secret Service agent Lawrence Edwards as a "vote-grabber, a promiser" who has failed to get anything done during his first term in office.