Doesn't that seem like a thin premise for a series?
Still, thin premise or not, the issue of digital fabrication can't be entirely ignored.
People have gone from being branch-dependent to being merely psychologically attached to them, he argues.That is a thin premise to justify billions of dollars of cost.
Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer, who wrote the film (Mr. Kaplan directed), seem to think that the thin premise will be inherently interesting, so they never grapple with why we should want to spend 87 minutes with two incredibly irritating men.
In the game's thin premise, it is the 1930's and BloodRayne is a Dhampir -- the offspring of a vampire and a human -- who belongs to a secret order that battles supernatural threats.
If I need justification for attending, it is on the perhaps thin premise that staying away would set a precedent requiring a boycott of just about every sport event in the world.
The result is a narrative that dangles from a thin premise: Greenlaw is meeting her best friend, Alden, an old salt with a bad heart, to try to persuade him to retire.
Among her gifts is an ability to take what in other hands could have been a thin premise — a piglet who hates being messy, in the case of "Little Oink"; a young spoon who wishes he was a fork or a knife or chopsticks, in "Spoon" — and wring all kinds of sly, nifty variations out of it, the way Buster Keaton could choreograph a comic ballet around a simple prop or set-up.
For a long time, the 46 year-old actor had been Mr. Moneybags, the most bankable star who could sell a movie even if it had a thin premise.
However the massive public subsidy provided by the destruction of the commons through projects like Keystone XL on the thin premise that it is a job creating dynamo, is considered just dandy by the same ideologues.
