The film's bravura special effects are so firmly held in check by a carefully established premise, succinct characterizations and much wry wit that the film is able to evolve into an allegory on the perils of man's violence against nature.
But this is certainly a highly controversial metaethical claim, and, as a consequence, the prospects for establishing a premise such as (1) via a deductive argument do not appear promising, at least given the present state of moral theory.
First, he established his premise: September 11th made plain that the security of Europe and North America is dependent upon the promotion of democracy in the Middle East — and, ultimately, in the world.
He established the premise of modern theatre design by showing that scenery had to be expressive and avoid being decorative or literal.
Having established the premise last week – centred on the Rwandan refugee and criminal investigator Kate Ashby (Coel) – through some hefty exposition, Monday night's episode is set to zip the audience through the atrocities of the recent past.
The law established the premise for the ban of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter said that the opening established the premise well, but that the film came undone when it began to alternate between comedy and tragedy, and introduced a backstory for Hancock that did not make sense.
The set-up is at once too trite and too complex, requiring an awful lot of screen time to establish a premise that no one is taking seriously.
The longtime TV critic Alan Sepinwall recently wrote about what he called the "It Gets Good" problem: the tendency of series in the binge-watch era to take ages to find their voice, establish a premise, get the plot rolling.
Because no one but the officers saw the shooting, Dr. Cohen is essential to establish a premise that Eric Warner, the lead prosecutor, made in his opening statement: that Mr. Diallo was falling to the ground or on the ground when some of the shots were fired.
Allow me to establish a premise.
