Such estrangement — the gap between the things we do and the reasons we supply for doing them, between who we think we are and who we appear, to others, to be — is, for Mr. Desplechin, both a theme and a premise.
To support the book's historical themes and documentary premise, there is a feigned editorial apparatus: an index listing real people and their relation to Mountstuart alongside fictional characters, an editor's introduction (by Boyd), an authorial preface (by Mountstuart) and a list of works attributed to Mountstuart.
The double meaning of the theme expresses a central premise of the campaign: Loews offers "room," in the sense of a place to rest your head at night, and room, in the sense of a respite from the kind of attention from the staff that some travelers perceive as overdone and old-fashioned.
But there's no time to ponder whether Westworld will copy its 1973 movie source and introduce more theme parks with different premises, because Hector and Armistice need to keep painting the town bloody red.
Hale takes Brophy's themes and narrative premises, including the sexual, and expands them out into the farthest orbits of his imagination, releasing his Creature from captivity into the planet of men, giving him fluency, freedom, friendship, a nose job, and an amanuensis.
La Rivière underlines a connection between the child protagonist and the theme of espionage, writing, "The premise that drives Joe 90 taps into the fantasy indulged by most boys that they, even at nine years old, can be James Bond".
The opinion repeats several times the theme "that Proposition 8 was premised on the belief that same-sex couples simply are not as good as opposite-sex couples".
It's a classic Matter Of Life And Death premise, without the themes of love, loss, war and the tragic, evanescent futility of life, uniqueness and everything.
By then auction house staff had crammed the whole trove into its premises, arranged by theme: natural history, design, flora and fauna… In the spirit of the jazz age, invitees were greeted by a three-man steel band, while waitresses in gold lamé jackets offered strawberry daiquiris.
Obsession is the overarching theme, probably, but with a dubious premise and four unpleasant characters, the play is not involving enough to be as shocking as it aspires to be.
