Sentence examples for improbable premise from inspiring English sources

This is the improbable premise of the surprise sci-fi hit of the year.

The moment he broke into a rendition of "Una furtiva lagrima," he made real the story's improbable premise that opera could melt a terrorist's heart.

All this on the heels of a recent novel, Taft 2012, based on the improbable premise that Taft is resurrected after 99 years to run again for President and an earlier historical biography of his wife, Nellie Taft, whom many consider the motivating influence behind Taft's reluctant agreement to succeed Teddy Roosevelt as President.

On paper, this concept seems improbable as the premise for a comedy series.

He also admits that his premise was improbable, though not impossible: executions are rarely botched.

I said: 'Let's call it something like TableTop, but better.'" The programme's premise seems improbable to anyone who hasn't seen it.

The premise might sound improbable except that "The Lost Child" is inspired by a true story, the autobiography "Looking for Lost Bird," written by Yvette Melanson with Claire Safran.

On January 14th, David Brat, the college professor who defeated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Tuesday, in a Republican primary in Virginia, was reading the Wall Street Journal's opinion section when the premise of his improbable campaign was revealed to him.

By Ryan Lizza June 11 , 2014On January 14th, David Brat, the college professor who defeated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Tuesday, in a Republican primary in Virginia, was reading the Wall Street Journal's opinion section when the premise of his improbable campaign was revealed to him.

We cannot consistently have their premises highly probable and their conclusion highly improbable.

Dawkins relies here on two premises: first, that a creator is bound to be more complex, and hence improbable, than his creation (you never, for instance, see a horseshoe making a blacksmith); and second, that to explain the improbable in terms of the more improbable is no explanation at all.