Sentence examples for compelling premises from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

Speaking of cheap films that opened just OK, Richard Kelly's incomprehensible The Box rode a solid trailer and a simple and compelling premise to a $7.5 million opening weekend.

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'".

When the narrative is set up the way it is here, that's a big problem, and in this case it becomes an insurmountable one -- even with a potentially compelling premise.

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.

As a lifelong fan drawn to the Star Trek franchise for its diverse casts, I am thrilled to see as the lead a woman of color with a mysterious backstory (how is she related to Spock?), and a compelling premise (mutineer-turned-savior).