Sentence examples for unlikely premise from inspiring English sources

Anthropophagy in a present-day Welsh village may seem an impossibly unlikely premise.

Mr. Gaffigan's engaging demeanor, Ms. Baran ski's better-known comic edge and the series' sharp writing allow "Welcome to New York" to rise above its unlikely premise.

"The unwavering positivity of chick flicks was hammered home by the unlikely premise that all the hopeless but nice characters ended up happily loved-up, whereas the sexy or mean characters implausibly ended up alone".

The programme rested on the unlikely premise that an ineffectual South Vietnamese government could somehow struggle on in the absence of half a million American soldiers when it had barely survived with their help.

The rules and the roles of what is presented as a genteel business keep her on her toes, and for a storyteller, the unlikely premise is also convenient for charting her growing confidence and signaling forbidden freedom.

(First and foremost: What is a poodle doing hosting a cooking show?) But it is delightful precisely because it refuses to answer, pursuing its unlikely premise for years with a resolutely straight face.

Pianist Gwilym Simcock's partnership with the Delta Saxophone Quartet, the all-sax group who have been balancing jazz and contemporary-classical thinking for 30 years, was launched at the unlikely premises of Stoke City FC's Britannia Stadium.

As unlikely as this premise is, it works well enough to string together some clever writing and unexpected physicality.

In a what-if story, the author poses an unlikely, often absurd premise and traces its ramifications to their logical conclusion.

All X17 codes were manually reviewed by two researchers and premises unlikely to serve fast food as a major part of their business based on their registration details were removed.

Some who read it commented that the premise seemed unlikely, that nothing resembling the dystopia it depicted would ever happen in the United States.