Sentence examples for dumb premise from inspiring English sources

Bob Truluck's first novel (which won him an award from the Private Eye Writers of America) turns on the dumb premise that the thieves who stole a gay man's semen from a fertility clinic in St . Paulwould impregnate a teenage girl, spirit her away to Orlando and blackmail the rich, desperate gay guy and his lover with illiterate demands for "ahunded thosan dolars".

It was such a dumb premise for a show: animated hillbilly squids.

"It feels like there's a very good show trapped inside here, with funny performers and a distinctive comic voice, but first it, like 'Cougar Town,' has to move beyond its dumb initial premise and poorly-chosen title," Sepinwall opined.

I'm a member of Men Against Rape!" Buried beneath the show's dumb-joke premise is a sly argument that democracy is still worthwhile, not despite its reliance on pragmatism and influence trading but because of it.

HAPPY CAMPERS BY HARRY CHEADLE PHOTO BY TAJI AMEEN The Occupy Wall Street protests started in September with some vague inspiration from the Arab Spring and what, on the surface, seems like a pretty dumb and misguided premise: Let's all go hang out in a park in New York's Financial District and see if that topples capitalism.

Not just familiar characters ("boozy mother-in-law," "hyper-articulate child of dumb-dumbs," "incomprehensible foreigner") but also basic premises.

It may even question the premise that the dumb luck of having been born in the United States gives a group of people the right to decide who may enter the premises.

A format war in the internet of things could be even more stifling, given its premise to connect currently "dumb" objects to each other.

Though Lewinsky herself wrote them, the press never questioned its own false premise that she was too dumb to have done so.

More likely, it would have been a footnote, filed alongside Analyze This, the dumb comedy with a broadly similar wiseguy on the couch premise.

Jonathan Kay, senior editor of MyVideoGames.com, said that even though the premise of the game was "unusually dumb," calls for censoring it were even more worrisome.