Sentence examples for artistic premises from inspiring English sources

The movement toward realism is not manifest in a continuous evolution, however, but in a series of stylistic fashions, each starting from different artistic premises and achieving sometimes a greater degree of realism but sometimes merely a different sort of realism.

Yet the intellectual and artistic premises behind the eloquent and sometimes grandiose architectural worlds and design objects created by Superstudio were not exactly idealistic.

Stripped of its artistic components, the premise goes, figure skating might reclaim its athletic credibility.

"The notion that the entire CIA workforce is complicit in the use of [torture] is the underlying artistic and ideological premise of the series," Burridge wrote of the show.

Mr. Levine, the Metropolitan Opera's first artistic director, has extended the premise of performing different operas each night.

The reviewer in The Spectator wrote that "stern moralists" would consider the book's premise "as a new, ingenious, artistic, but most reprehensible application of the crude principles involved in the old-fashioned hero-worship of Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin".

BENJAMIN FILENE'S premise -- that the realities of artistic practice "call into question... rigid definitions of 'pure' folk music" -- is by now so widely accepted that even purists have to live with it.

Rufus Norris, the artistic director of the National Theatre, recently raised the premise that the reason deaf and disabled actors don't get cast is because we are not part of directors' "inner circles".

But whatever pretense Dr. von Hagens makes, whatever artistic or scientific analogies he reaches for, his basic premise is bankrupt.

This seems a premise that demands a certain amount of artistic license but will there be room to maneuver, or will Visceral's effort emerge, like DICE's Battlefront, as a game that's palpably beholden to wider franchise priorities?

"Part of the reason to have a strapping young man living on the premises was to help the elders," said Angelina Fiordellisi, the artistic director of the Cherry Lane Theater, and the owner of the building since 1996.