Example collocations logo

Premise in sentence

1390 examples of Premise in a sentence

Obviously the premise is that there is a bed that eats people, well...eats is a subjective term I guess, it really secretes acid bubbles to suck the victims into itself and dissolves them in it's acidy goodness.
Even in the introductory number, the line "...they went to their Maker impeccably shaved..." gives a great indication of the premise, the drama, AND the comedy to come.
Better than I expected from a film selling itself on the premise of nymphomania and inter-racial bondage.
The show's premise was simple with Carole and Janis as the hostesses of this children's television show.
The basic premise of Flatliners is fairly simple.
Clyde Bruckman borrows the premise of this short from Buster Keaton's "Seven Chances," recently tepidly remade as "The Bachelor."
I am rating this an 8 because of the premise of the film.
To be honest, I saw the preview for this movie, and the premise looked intrigued me.
The film follows the play with great faithfulness, working, no doubt, on the simple premise that it couldn't be bettered.
It's certainly a fun, original premise.
The film's moderately silly premise is that the conservative, religious Franklin family (mother, father, teen boy and girl) are involved in an accident wherein the parents and brother have a near-death experience during which they meet Jesus, a pleasant but somewhat exasperated soul who removes from them the burden of 'original sin.'
The series had a good premise and great actors.
While it may not be his most laugh-packed film, MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE stands as one of Charley Chase's most satisfying farce comedies, twenty minutes of clever sight gags, nicely choreographed physical comedy, and amusing quips (rendered via title card, of course) all based on a wacky and wildly implausible premise.
Criticized for the implausibility of a) the premise and b) the pairing of an IA cop and a Congresswoman, as well as for its slowness, the film felt just fine to me , and even ended up being surprisingly absorbing.
Everyone in this film is wonderful (especially Suzy Amis and Crispin Glover as the directionless genius siblings Maureen and Howdy), inhabiting their roles so comfortably after a while you just buy the strange premise, that somehow, having survived the tornado and being apparently incapable of happiness, these people are lucky, and yet don't know quite what to do with their luck.
An absurd premise, indeed and not at all believable, but that doesn't get in the way of enjoyment.
Yes "Coneheads" was funny but kind of had a one joke premise and "Black Sheep" I agreed with the critics is one of the worst movies ever made.
The scenes between Farley and Spade as nemesis are side-splitting hilarious and the premise is also laugh out loud hilarious.
It's entertaining in spite of the 'sad' premise.
This is a very modest, very lovely movie with a great score by Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser with a standout number, We're The Couple In The Castle, that is totally evocative of the period and harks back to Penthouse Serenade just as the opening premise (Hoppity's coming) may well have inspired Fred Saidy and Yip Harburg's opening (Woody's Coming) in Finian's Rainbow six years later.
Although the premise of the movie involves a major "coincidence," the actors all do a creditable job and look great bringing the story to life.
The premise is good, the plot line interesting and the screenplay was OK.
The actors did OK considering the premise of the film being set in a type of Jules Vern atmosphere where imagination and possibilities of future exploration were at most improbabilities.
The 'monsters' left something to be desired but the story had a good premise although I feel as though some other sort of 'thing' could have been more believable under those circumstances.
The SF premise isn't unique (although it pretty much was back then), but the focus is a completely different one than in other artificial reality films.
Especially during the first part it is an elaborate crime picture, that uses the SF premise to tell an unusual crime story in which the forced detective tries to solve a mystery with the obstacle of vanishing characters and unhelpful witnesses who don't have to lie to be unhelpful.
Interesting premise (aside from the usual meteor stuff) with solid perfs by a cast of familiar faces. 2 thumbs up.
Throw in my interest in what London was like back in the late 70s and you have the basic premise for my version of TV heaven!
Much scarier in premise than the first, and very entertaining.
It is apparently based on an old ghost story, and perhaps relies a little too much on a simple premise.
BackNext