Sentence examples for entertaining premises from inspiring English sources
But Dick's works are nothing if not "high concept," and his entertaining premises have found their way to Hollywood, although in somewhat diluted form.
The latter, according to New Wave prophet Harlan Ellison, want total freedom to entertain philosophical premises that are emotionally disturbing.
In an essay in The New York Review of Books, Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, favorably entertained the premise that "psychoactive drugs are useless".
When asked what he hopes to achieve with a book, the nonfiction writer James B. Stewart likes to say that his goal is to "inform and entertain," a premise that might raise eyebrows in fustier quarters.
Most damaging of all, Levitt does not discuss (and never even seems to entertain) the premise that Palestinians have a right to resist a 40-year Israeli occupation and partial annexation of their land.
For all its gloomy premise, hugely entertaining.
Filmed in what you might call the international hotel style, Tornatore's idiotic premise is entertaining if you don't inspect it too carefully, or look for anything beneath the portentousness.
"COMICS," began one: "BEGIN WATCHING CHUCK LORRE'S SHOWS 2 SEE IF HE STEALS YOUR MATERIAL AS HE DOES MINE– (try hard 2 watch if u can stomach 1 min of it)." Then another: ""Chuck Lorre will do anything 2 make a $ – lie, steal, cheat, rip off comics ideas, re-use already overused premises 2 entertain moronic droolers".
But readers proved themselves capable of going beyond that premise, and offered a range of ideas, from thought-provoking to entertaining.
