Sentence examples for ludicrous premise from inspiring English sources

There's the ludicrous premise: Martian moons invaded by demons.

This supernatural horror has its work cut out by its ludicrous premise: a nanny is charged with minding a life-sized doll, which inevitably has Chucky-like malevolent tendencies.

You don't need to have seen a frame of the movie to be familiar with its ingenious, if ludicrous, premise: a woman is unable to achieve orgasm until a sympathetic doctor discovers that her clitoris resides in her throat.

As with his evil clowns down drains, or possessed automobiles, a ludicrous premise is turned into an insinuatingly believable story thanks to King's true superpower: suspending our disbelief by dint of a 360-degree field of brilliant HD detail.

Therefore, it is reprehensible for the foreign secretary and others in Parliament to state that now is not the time to ask questions of how and why the decision to invade and occupy Iraq was taken on the ludicrous premise that it would compromise the safety of British troops.

It's an insane twist on a ludicrous premise, but fans don’t seem to care.

The SyFy channel has a history of producing original movies with totally ludicrous premises, but they may have outdone themselves this time with "Mega Piranha".

Although the program (thankfully) lacks ludicrous premises and straight-up fist fights, Williams brings the drama and entertainment with her dissections of celebrities and the machinations of Hollywood.

Also, as any AA or Al-Anon counsellor can tell you, if drugs or alcohol are in the mix, entrapment is a ridiculous premise, too: an addict will say anything, and make any ludicrous promise, to get a giant check.

"Does that mean what I think it means?" Although the arc of the episode is (satisfyingly) ludicrous, the premise is not.

I'd tried to sell a novel before, one with a similarly ludicrous-sounding premise, and had got dumped by my high-powered agent.