Sentence examples for outrageous premise from inspiring English sources

The film became a cult hit despite its outrageous premise.

It's an outrageous premise, but one inspired in part by a true incident, according to the program.

As his last books have shown, Mr. Palahniuk is capable of coming up with an idea like that and not going much further, expecting an outrageous premise and a few overworked gags to carry a whole novel.

Worth1000 hosts online contests in which Photoshop wizards are given an outrageous premise — make a celebrity look like a "Star Wars" character, for instance, or place the White House on Mars — and compete to see who can create the most believable photographic images.

What may seem like an outrageous premise turns into a sad and moving tale that you won't soon forget.

Under the frank and outspoken Donny Deutsch, the agency grew from a small shop specializing in print advertisements for blue-chip marketers like Oneida silver into a powerhouse known for hip, aggressive ads that draw attention with cheeky, occasionally outlandish humor and sometimes outrageous premises.

Beatty establishes this outrageous comic premise with an audacity worthy of Mark Twain, and takes The Sellout on a wild journey through the sacred places of black American liberation – trashing and burning en route.

I think because I wanted it to be more outrageous, given its premise: to challenge the laughter comfort zone.

This outrageous clenched-cheeked premise is executed with poker-face seriousness and acute attention to how basic situations can be changed, tweaked and prologued.

Even more outrageous in its premise is "The Wisdom of the Doulas," in which Mitch, a postpartum doula — or doulo, as he insists on being called — inflicts his craft on the unsuspecting Gottwald family.

I find the whole premise to be insulting, outrageous, ridiculous and profoundly tragic.