Sentence examples for realistic premises from inspiring English sources

In 1993, Jordan remarked that his films "start with realistic premises and lead to seemingly unrealistic conclusions.

Many of his works start from a "What if... ?" reflex, leading from an apparently realistic premise to spectacular flights of imagination.

By using a matched drug placebo design and limiting our attention to a closed set of knowingly varied primary factors (genetics, parent of origin, and sex), we can work on the (in our view) realistic premise that the effects of these factors (e.g., the effect of switching genetic descent between parents) may be small but are unlikely to be exactly zero.

The premises are, indeed, realistic, sometimes even banal, but what Jordan does with them is extraordinary.

One explanation for its secondary status is that its tawdry premise is unacceptably realistic: Baxter climbs to the fabled 27th floor of his corporation by lending his apartment to influential married colleagues who need somewhere to bed their mistresses.

Barth's attack on the Nazis was based on the premise that the German church had involved itself with politics far too much, and Niebuhr, while writing broadly within the Social Gospel tradition, adhered to a form of liberalism more premised on a realistic assessment of human nature than Rauschenbusch's naïve progressivism was.

While the future envisioned there doesn't seem so bad (and the filmmakers went out of their way to make the futuristic world as feasible and realistic as possible), the underlying premise is still pretty dystopian.

We aimed to develop a realistic control strategy under the premise of the lowest possible culling effort.

An argument as elaborate as this one obviously depends upon a number of controversial premises about the best, most realistic way to help the world's poor and the likely future conduct of wealthy liberal democracies.

Neither the premise nor the deadline is realistic," he wrote.

That's the premise of the new game "Realistic Facebook Security Simulator," created by UK-based website Us v. Th3m.