Sentence examples for premise rather than from inspiring English sources

The first "Stepford Wives" exploited the horror-movie implications of this premise, rather than its comic possibilities.

Moreover, it rests on a faulty premise: Rather than being overly permissive, many American parents—especially the well-educated, affluent Americans reading excerpts in the WSJ or on Slate.com are overly focused on achievement already.

MISTRESSES (ABC, June 3) In this prime-time soap, based on a British series that ran from 2008 to 2010, extramarital sex is the premise rather than a bonus.

I try to let a story's facts lead me to a premise rather than the other way around — which may be virtuous, but it also means a lot of floundering and credulousness before things start to make sense.

But these, as the psychoanalyst Bonnie Kaufman points out, use therapy as a dramatic premise, rather than attempting to offer a real representation of what happens behind closed doors.

Ty's circumstances resonate because they are the picture's premise rather than its point, just as the abandoned factory where much of the action takes place is a mute emblem of industrial decline and economic blight.

Frankly he is safer on the premises rather than off them.

Think of a jumble sale in abandoned industrial premises rather than examining antiques in a thickly carpeted Sotheby's saleroom.

The majority of these were inside premises, rather than facing the street, and only a relatively small number of Cheshire's cameras – 504 – were run by public authorities.

Significantly, they chose to follow the French example and convert two indoor tennis courts as temporary premises rather than take over one of the surviving Elizabethan playhouses.

This company allows customers to brew their own beer on its premises, rather than having to find space for the equipment at home.