Sentence examples for startling premise from inspiring English sources

In a written response submitted late last month, city lawyers scoffed at the notion, calling it a "startling premise" and a "radical proposal" that would essentially undermine the power of legislatures to amend or revoke laws passed by referendum.

Anderson and co-director Keegan Kuhn's film is based on a startling premise: they claim that environmentalist groups are deliberately ignoring the number one culprit of global climate change our consumption of meat.

"This startling revelation," he said, "undercuts the entire premise of John McCain's campaign -- that is, straight talk and that he will never tell a lie".

The premise of "A Better Man," a startling new documentary by the Canadian first-time filmmaker Attiya Khan, is the reunion of Khan and her ex-boyfriend, Steve.

With startling candor, the director of the C.I.A., John Brennan, last week questioned a longstanding premise of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

In that ordinary realm, the movie's premise — a person gaining the ability to shrink at will — becomes all the more startling and gleeful.

The maps show towns and cities in startling detail with buildings classified as military coloured green, industrial rendered black, administrative purple, and other premises brown.

The basic premise is this: feed a machine-learning algorithm with particular data-set and its predictive powers can become startling.

The premise?

The result was startling.

THE reversal was startling.