Sentence examples for on a clever premise from inspiring English sources

But she sang charmingly regardless, occasionally hitting on a clever premise.

Sadly, Arthur Christmas gets there by way of a clever premise -- that Santa's feat of delivering hundreds of millions of presents on Christmas Eve is actually a highly complex, pseudo-military black ops-style mission launched from a hidden North Pole command center utilizing a sleigh-shaped stealth airship.

The game has a clever premise: instead of controlling one character, you control two — little dots that are linked together, occupying opposite spots on a single circle.

People like me – media people who spend most days in front of a computer – get their jollies from a clever premise or an audacious narrative structure.

It's a clever premise, and enables Waller-Bridge to throw together a group of complicated, messy, amusing and heartfelt characters whose paths might not otherwise cross.

Magazine science fiction of the 1950's placed a premium on clever premises.

What Sicha has written is exultant in a way no mere clever premise can be.

While his story is touching and he mines the clever premise for humor, it drags a bit in the middle, then picks up at the end.

That's the clean, clever premise of "The Call," which, along with being a movie about a woman in trouble helping other women (and a few men) in trouble, is something of a salute to your tax dollars at work.

A new TV show operates on a totally different premise.

"Up" was based on a clever concept.