Sentence examples for subtle premise from inspiring English sources

Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode one star out of five, finding its "contrived" plot to be "barely a subtle premise", and noting that "the script unfortunately elevates the lead villain to high camp".

An unsuspecting visitor to the site will be introduced to the video's not-too-subtle premise automatically, because the site begins showing video clips without prompting once the home page is loaded.

Through such subtle imprinting, the premises of imperialism come to be treated as natural.

Executive producer John Wells ("Southland," "The West Wing") directed the opening episodes; and the series is expertly made, and subtler than the premise suggests.

The movie's premise — a subtle but crucial tweak from the series — is that its protagonists, the officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum), were high-school rivals — the despised nerd and the popular jock, respectively, from the class of 2005.

The thin slices of the dried pork sausage soppressata, made on the premises, have a subtle animal presence you rarely find in the store-bought kind.

The premise is that a subtle shift in stereochemistry provides information for the insects (friends and foes alike) interacting with wounded/induced plants.

And they've done the premise justice, creating a pacy, subtle and very funny political satire.

With every film repeating the same basic premise, the filmmakers came up with subtle adjustments so the audience would return.

The concept is based on the premise that humans are infused with subtle forms of energy or biofields [ 20, 21]; a concept which is putative as such energy fields have yet to be quantified [ 22].

He concedes that Suisen's sake may have undergone subtle changes in taste due to its new premises.