Sentence examples for flimsy premises from inspiring English sources

There is a lot of this sort of nonsense going on at the moment as the so-called "feelgood factor" surrounding sport is corralled on all sorts of flimsy premises, most desperately by the tampon company who were clearly unable to sign up Jessica Ennis, so got a lookalike.

How do "bad" shows like many of those on the Cartoon Network -- shows with low production values, sloppy dialogue, flimsy premises, yet no reflexivity, either, about their badness -- develop such devoted cult followings?

It stretches an already flimsy premise to depressing new lengths.

Perhaps surprisingly, it is a tone that sustains the flimsy premise they concocted over dinner.

"There's something enraging about seeing people who look like your brother or your cousin mowed down on such a flimsy premise.

Where Obama gets a gentle romantic comedy, Bush was seen boozing, going to war on a flimsy premise and threatening the family legacy.

Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, overruled the F.D.A. on the flimsy premise that the Plan B's manufacturers had neglected to investigate the drug's effects on eleven-year-olds.

The (flimsy) premise centres around three teenage boys searching online for the fabled Movie 43, a banned film they describe as "like The Ring but with a good ending".

Example: "The [news programme] reported that the government plans to sell poor children to circuses to pay for the latest MP bonus, based on the flimsy premise that it's true and they can prove it.

Current affairs aside – it's possibly not as much of a wheeze to have a film full of Russian baddies now as it may have seemed during the scripting stage – it's a flimsy premise to hang a film on.

His main claim to fame is as a panellist on Mock The Week, a pretty flimsy premise for a full-length autobiography and his healthy contempt for television ("a shiny bauble used to distract morons while they're having their pockets picked") makes this a refreshing antidote to the usual feelgood books by TV stars.