Sentence examples for surprising premise from inspiring English sources

That, at least, is the surprising premise put forward by Francis Fukuyama, writing with Nadav Samin, in the September issue of Commentary.

It's all a bit too Saturday Night Live – too-obvious joke banners flashing up and inviting one to muse on the surprising premise that no American, even though some of them are quite old, might ever have been exposed to the word "fuck".

That said, the film's strength comes not only from its surprising premise but superb performances.

But this is hardly surprising, because the premise of the book is completely wrong.

Perhaps most surprising as a premise, the movie provides a vision of what sensitive young people fear about the culture's disregard of environmental and humane concerns.

The scant attention devoted to mechanisms that stabilize strategic premises is surprising, given that previous literature emphasizes the retention of strategic premises as an important reason for path reproduction in times of crisis (Rothmann and Koch 2014; Tripsas 2009; Tripsas and Gavetti 2000).

Which is not surprising, since a basic premise of the information age is that information itself has economic value.

This is perhaps not terribly surprising, given both the premise and the pedigree of the playwright, Mike Reiss, a longtime "Simpsons" writer and producer.

When you're stoned, you want pretty visuals, a good vibe, and a surprising or mind-bending premise.

The starting premise may be surprising: The only way you will become more productive is to decide you really want to be more productive.

If Mr. Huff has not managed to reweave this premise with any surprising threads, he has packed it with enough lurid incident to fill a season of "Law & Order".