Sentence examples for fanciful premise from inspiring English sources
Despite its fanciful premise, this "discovered" account of Warren's eventful journey into the Deep South should inspire book hounds to keep sniffing through those musty libraries.
The book's fanciful premise comes to seem eerily plausible: "How about if a shadow government is filing away everything about you?" Panic in a Suitcase, by Yelena Akhtiorskaya (Riverhead).
The fanciful premise behind the title of Bollen's novel is that, after New York loses the lightning conductors of the Twin Towers, more and more residents die in lightning strikes.
It is strange that, given such a fanciful premise, the novel is almost too believable: Harington works so hard at establishing his fantasy (beautiful girl growing up naked in the wild, with beasts) that he erases any sense of mystery and makes his world seem almost mundane.
However fanciful the basic premise, the books are rugged girls' adventure literature of the kind that used to be written for boys.
That may seem fanciful, but it's a premise with an overabundance of promise and not something that should be dismissed out of hand — despite flagging sales and slow consumer adoption.
"Poetry Rx" likewise puts a fanciful, impressionistic spin on a service-y premise: "Readers write in with a specific emotion," the introduction explains, "and our resident poets — Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz — take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match".
That is the premise of "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" (Seven Stories Press, $27.50), a clever, fanciful, thought-provoking but pedantically verbose new book by Ralph Nader.
