Sentence examples for slight premise from inspiring English sources

Bassani's controlled style and lightness of touch transform a seemingly slight premise into a metaphor for the slide of Italy into fascism.

This would be a slight premise for a novel, except in a culture that becomes more media-saturated with each passing decade, where every new generation lives less through unmediated experience and more through images created with the hand of a stylist, surfaces do mean everything.

Too slight for its heady premise, the work was nonetheless warmly received.

The ABC drama revolves around the premise that the slightest change in the past has unforeseen consequences to the future that the hero must correct.

The arcade is in the town centre and contains several shops, including a fishmonger, pet shop and butcher that have been there for years, but there are also vacant premises and the slight flatness that comes with the feeling that the party was over long ago.

I looked up from Forcemeat's little inspiration and, divining where his premise was heading, began to experience a slight stiffening in my spine not unlike the sensation one gets from a dart tipped with curare.

Respecting the rules of a good set-up, the premise was repeated — with a slight difference.

The film is based on American writer Mitch Cullin's 2005 book A Slight Trick of the Mind, and has the premise that Holmes is struggling with the early stages of dementia and trying to recall his last case.

Anyone who has spent time interacting with Siri on their iPhone will require only a slight stretch of the imagination to accept the premise here – reconstructing online personalities from social media records after the death of their owners.

Pronouncing her theory as rubbish, Jonathan Bate, a professor of Renaissance literature at the University of Warwick, said "not the slightest shred of evidence" supported the book's premise.

Mr. Johnson almost seems to be rejecting the fascist politics of the premise, and his discomfort is palpable, like Danny Glover's slight hesitations in the "Lethal Weapon" movies (Mitchell).