Sentence examples for compelling premise from inspiring English sources

With a simple, compelling premise.

It was sold to us on a simple and compelling premise.

Indeed, the lower one makes f2 (or more generally, some highly dispreferred outcome), the less compelling premise 3 seems; and the lower one makes the probability of salvation (or more generally, of some highly desired outcome), the less compelling premise 3 seems.

In Kant's conception, an argument of this kind begins with a compelling premise about our thought, experience, or knowledge, and then reasons to a conclusion that is a substantive and unobvious presupposition and necessary condition of this premise.

Rawson-Jones felt that Moran's script took "too long to actively engage the viewer and tap into the compelling premise of the time travellers arriving in the doomed city shortly before 'volcano day'".

It has a compelling premise, it weaves a distinctive tapestry of betrayal and loyalty and it offers its star, Tatiana Maslany, quite a few chances to prove her impressive versatility.

One of my duties as a storyteller is to come up with fresh and compelling premises.

Gass, who is 91, has been earning the esteem of the literati for decades with his mindbending, finely crafted fiction; in his new collection, short story lovers will find both mesmerizing prose and absurd, compelling premises, such as an interview with the piano used on set in the filming of "Casablanca".

His speech started with a compelling and promising premise.

"Best Kept Secret" is at its most compelling when that premise is allowed to emerge from Ms. Houghton's every-detail-I-remember writing style.

In other words, fictionalists don't have any compelling argument for premise (5), and so the positive argument for their view is, at best, incomplete.