Sentence examples similar to preposterous premises from inspiring English sources

An entirely preposterous premise, which is fair enough.

The day that Marber's preposterous premise rings true, gallstones will be jewelry.

Upon this implausible — indeed, preposterous — premise, Muriel Spark builds a strangely gripping and gnomically illuminating short novel, "Aiding and Abetting" (Doubleday; $21).

But he also praises Mr. Zemeckis's directing style, saying he has "a remarkable ability to take a preposterous premise and turn it into a finely-tuned farcical machine".

Actually it isn't, but an elaborate, potentially preposterous premise is almost always both a stumbling block and an opportunity for a fantasy epic.

We have not apologized for our reaction to this preposterous premise or to the biggest development ever proposed on the South Fork.

Whereas some TV concepts reek of a drunken idea, this one pretty much lifts a pub debate for its entire preposterous premise.

This is television-level moviemaking top to bottom, from its preposterous premise, scenery-chomping performances, idiotic sound cues and force-fed jump-scares.

If a comic novel is to have a vaguely preposterous premise, it helps if it's one that seems immediately enticing to a high proportion of the readership.

Remade from Anne Fontaine's 2003 sex-fantasy thriller Nathalie, this film from Atom Egoyan is a steamy erotic noir with the same preposterous premise.

It is also a wonderful example of one of the things that children's books can do best: take a totally preposterous premise for a story and make it work.