(Ages 8 to 12) Malone's first novel is a smoothly written fantasy with an appealing premise.
Using smell to manipulate appetite may be an appealing premise, but only a few studies have been conducted, and some experts have doubts.
The push for universal coverage is based on the appealing premise that everyone should have access to the best health care possible whenever they need it.
Arrival, starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, is hardly more star-driven than either of Villeneuve's previous efforts, which suggests cinemagoers are responding to the genre, an appealing premise and the overall buzz.
"Chanukah Lights," by Michael J. Rosen and illustrated by Robert Sabuda, is a pop-up book with elaborate paper cutouts and an appealing premise: Throughout history, Jews over the world have lighted candles on each of the eight nights of Hanukkah, celebrating the holiday of freedom.
It's an appealing premise for anyone who puts store in the power of fiction (which, if you've picked up a novel called "The Last Dickens," you probably do), and even more gratifying for the wonkish reader capable of thrilling to the mention, early in the novel, of the trade circular that would come to be known as Publishers Weekly.
In whole, it's an appealing premise, and the result is an array of truly widespread, and often extremely fetishistic, personal, and astonishingly meticulous creations.
Though quick message retrieval is appealing, on-premise solutions do require an additional server and must be configured and supported by in-house staff.
M. Stanton Evans, a colleague of Chambers and Buckley also cited in Bogus' book, weighed in on the explicitly anti-Christian message of Ayn Rand's version of these premises, appealing to Christian faith as a belief system "predicated on something more than mere survival".
He was so sweetly appealing despite a premise that otherwise would have seemed too awkward to work, that the movie's ending shot, of Carell and his romantic interest doing a psychedelic dance with the cult-like band the Polyphonic Spree, seemed like a fitting conclusion.
