Sentence examples for narrative premises from inspiring English sources

Tanith Lee's MORTAL SUNS (Overlook, $26.95) also traffics in over-the-top emotions, but Lee remains true to her narrative premises.

Hale takes Brophy's themes and narrative premises, including the sexual, and expands them out into the farthest orbits of his imagination, releasing his Creature from captivity into the planet of men, giving him fluency, freedom, friendship, a nose job, and an amanuensis.

Conceptually, "American Desert" is a distant relation to Kafka's "Metamorphosis," deriving its narrative premise from a radical -- impossible -- transformation.

The narrative premise of men fighting out their insecurities was the ultimate reductio ad absurdum of the therapy mindset.

A campaign narrative premised on more places this administration on a collision course not just with the Republican Party, but with budgetary arithmetic itself.

The narrative premise is simple: you're an inveterate gambler in debt to mafia hardnut, Frankie, to the tune of one million dollars.

Our common foe is the army of Decepticons, who choose this time to invade Chicago, and, in so doing, to turn a tasty narrative premise into two and a half hours of disconnected drivel.

What's wanted from Rihanna isn't 100 percent aerobic energy, like Britney Spears used to have to give, or outsize eccentricity and emotional bloodletting, like Lady Gaga, or even a narrative premised on transgression and assimilation like early Madonna.

"Waist Deep," directed by Vondie Curtis Hall, is unapologetically a B movie, its narrative premise whittled down to a mean little nub and placed carefully on the borderline between the wildly implausible and the completely absurd.

And even Hollywood movies like the kiddie cartoon "Ice Age: The Meltdown" and the much sillier disaster epic "The Day After Tomorrow" take climate change as a narrative premise.

This is the narrative premise of Jalopy, as described by its UK-based solo creator Greg Pryjmachuk.