Sentence examples for a decent premise from inspiring English sources

It would provide a decent premise for a comic-book film too, with ample potential for tension, whizz-popping special effects and expensive set-pieces.

A baggy, mildly funny comedy written and directed by Jonathan Lisecki, "Gayby" has what could be a decent premise: A gay man and a straight woman in their 30s, friends since college, decide to have a baby together.

Sunday's pilot has a decent premise — the shop is going to lose its insurance coverage because of repeated violations, and Sam embarks on a safety campaign — but it gets sidetracked in juvenile humor.

It's a decent premise, and the story hangs together, just about, but it's not until about 20 minutes in that we get a real gag, concerning the spelling of the word suicide, and the film suffers from the romcom disease of being very light on the com.

There are elements of a decent premise on display, but "Intruders" fails to deliver on them in any consistent way in the early going, and I was so annoyed by its intentional obliqueness that I didn't want to stick around to see if it improved past the first two episodes.

One of the most negative reviews came from Gavin Fuller in The Telegraph, who criticised it as a "bland, inconsequential episode that, once it set up what was a decent enough premise...completely failed to run with it".

Grainy shots and dodgy editing aside, it's a funny premise and a decent film with something for everyone – cock shots, tit shots and great dad jokes, if your dad is a pervert.

Grainy shots and dodgy editing aside, it's a funny premise and a decent film with something for everyone cock shots, tit shots, and great dad jokes, if your dad is a pervert.

The bad news is, the trend occasionally throws up (and I use that term advisedly) derivative, tedious, plodding fare like "Rosemary's Baby," the NBC remake that airs Sunday and provides an object lesson in how to waste a good premise and a decent cast.

Nayan Padrai's "Marry" starts with a premise sturdy enough to support a decent comedy.

The "Mad Dogs" pilot didn't fully convince me that there's a series in this premise; the pilot feels like the first half of a decent movie that might peter out if it lasted more than two hours.