Believe it or not, a rant from Pubrants:

Agents take a lot of drubbing for their standard query rejection letters. We have to say something and as y’all know, I prefer to be polite.

So what does it mean when I say, in my form query rejection letter, "although your work sounds intriguing..."

In means exactly that. It very well might be intriguing but it's not right for me. Queries fall into five basic categories:

Read these categories here!