Sentence examples for narrow premise from inspiring English sources

The anthology's 24 short "excerpts" from seven decades of the fictional Pollack's journalism serve to parody the genre of literary journalism, and the joke proves surprisingly durable given its narrow premise.

It started with a straightforward and rather narrow premise: A mild-mannered chemistry teacher named Walter White finds out he has cancer, and so he decides, in order to build up a fortune to leave to his family, to start cooking meth.

Its purview is too narrow and its premises are undemocratic.

In 1976, Reagan used uncertainty about Gerald Ford's narrow majority as the premise for a floor fight; with all his charisma, and despite the controversy over Ford's pardon of Nixon, he lost.

Protagoras does not accept the narrow hedonism of Socrates' premise, so it appears that the hedonism is Socrates' own.

Strategic premises tightly narrow the scope of action for the selection of strategic alternatives to the extent that paths seem to be reproduced as long as the underlying strategic premises remain unchanged (Rothmann and Koch 2014; Tripsas and Gavetti 2000).

The selectivity filter, under these premises, is narrow and topologically optimized to facilitate the dehydration of K+ ions.

Even critics who may take issue (albeit, in my opinion, narrow-mindedly) with its satirical premise (it's based on Aristophanes' "Lysistrata") are exercising a willful obliviousness in overlooking the virtuosity of its lead actors, Teyonah Parris and Nick Cannon.

The second premise, that phenomenology is narrow, is rejected by phenomenal externalists (Lycan 2008, §14), while the controversial character of the first premise, that there is intentional content that is entirely determined by phenomenology, can be seen in the fact that its proponents have advanced it as a departure from orthodoxy.

The array of incidents and ideas that McCarthy and Singer round up and pull together is far narrower than the ones that the premise implies.

A central and intuitively powerful claim of bureaucratic politics explanations, this premise has been criticized for its narrow view of preference formation.