Sentence examples for dramatic premise from inspiring English sources

The strengths — intelligence, independence, gall — were the memorable part, and formed a dramatic premise in themselves.

As well as draining the film of any true suspense, the dramatic premise of Godzilla is delivered entirely po-faced.

The narrative that develops from this fiddly dramatic premise soon becomes over-complicated, and the score is unquestionably uneven.

A season in the wrestling circuit has a long story arc like a TV series: flashbacks to prior matches set up the dramatic premise of the climactic match.

Throw in the dramatic premise – a couple of teenage sweethearts reunited via Facebook 60 years on – and the threat of mawkish flat-vowelled gentility was of a severity not seen since Last of the Summer Wine was finally finished off.

In this episodic play, the writing and acting are generally so good that you almost don't notice that the dramatic premise is of the hoariest stripe: it's a reunion.

Consummate in this approach is Tóibín's insistence that he does not deploy familiar dramatic premises – such as adultery – in an attempt to raise the stakes for his characters and readers.

This is the dramatic factual premise behind this febrile but enjoyable first novel by Paul Mason, Newsnight's economics editor.

It's a long film — two and a half hours; it has an elaborate and intricate plot that's full of twists and details so sharply observed and cleverly realized that all of them seem like spoilers, looking back from the ultimate dramatic resolution to the premise with which the action starts, in the first dramatic scene.

There's a reasonable amount of comedic and dramatic potential contained in that premise (and certainly "Revenge" has mined its reverse for a lot of juicy melodrama), but "GCB" spurns almost every part of that setup and instead supplies a tedious array of shrieky moments, dumb stereotypes and unearned sentiment.

From a dramatic perspective, it's a promising premise, but it also runs into some of the problems that inevitably spring up when you try to examine political questions through the lens of superheroes.