Sentence examples for familiar premises from inspiring English sources

Before it became one of the most familiar premises for hard-boiled fiction and film noir, the tale of the wife who coaxed her lover into getting rid of her annoying husband and cashing in on his life insurance was an actual news event.

However, this transition is less qualitatively extreme than that between reasoning with familiar premises and reasoning with premises that have no empirical basis.

It is a familiar premise.

There's also its familiar premise: a suburban family must confront a mysterious, malignant presence terrorizing its house.

Just turn on your Sitcom-o-Matic and sit back while its microchips randomly choose a familiar premise and throw familiar actors into familiar roles.

This novel, set in the winter of 1952 in a blustery English village still devastated by the war, is a ghost story with a familiar premise.

Its familiar premise is that women ought to defer sex with "honest, loving and willing" suitors, because men like a challenge.

"The Answer Man" is a movie about the softening up of a curmudgeon: a familiar premise and not necessarily a terrible one.

An ex-con resurfacing and lugging with him a cautionary tale about sins of the past, returning to haunt the present, is a familiar premise.

One of the merits of Amy Seimetz's drama "Sun Don't Shine," from 2012, is that the familiar premise of the story is defamiliarized, treated like a distinctive new source of experience, from the movie's very first shot.

Agee's book, "The Other Side of Town," deals with a familiar premise: the existence of a bizarre parallel world found on the other side of a magic portal.