This latter distinction was made on the curious premise that Africans did not naturally like bread, which was a more sophisticated or “Western” taste. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doubt and hesitation are completely unnecessary, as Easy French is rooted in the premise that, if properly packed, the rest of the world could fit within the confines of Reno, Nevada. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Like the proof of the irrationality of V2, like the discussion of simultaneity in special relativity, this is an argument in which the premise is challenged because the conclusion seems absurd. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lacked this procedure for the fundamental reason that they thought it unnecessary: what could go wrong if one argued from uncontested premises to conclusions that necessarily followed? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You know, wearing shoes is an unnatural act. That’s my basic premise.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

If one accepts the premises and definitions, one must accept what follows from them, but one can frequently reject premises or refine definitions or choose a different mathematical approach. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no money, he said, and asked if he could sleep temporarily on the club’s premises. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thornfield! that, doubtless, was the name of her house: a neat orderly spot, I was sure; though I failed in my efforts to conceive a correct plan of the premises. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Our records show that Mr. Nesbitt applied for a license to have a gun on the premises in August of 1989. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

The syllogism is a way of combining two premises and drawing a fresh conclusion that follows logically from them. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Aristotelian philosophers thought that all true knowledge could be expressed in syllogistic form, arguing from indisputable premises to undeniable conclusions, all based on Evidence-Perspicuity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We can state one of its core premises quite simply: a revolution in ideas requires a revolution in language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The premise is challenging and conceptual, but fascinating. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A point that Aristotle makes that is particularly germane here is that arguments are made from accepted premises—“and many accepted premises are mutually contradictory.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Every year, the opossums and owls and such vacate the premises on Wishing Day. Strangest thing. It’s like they know what’s coming.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A very short time later, I received notice to remove our possessions from the premises. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The upshot is that physics had two theories, based on conflicting premises, that produced the same results. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Next to it was another sign which declared that it was a violation of the Texas Penal Code to bring guns, explosives, weapons, drugs, or alcohol onto the premises. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

You just accept the premise that yo’ mama is dumb and we move on from there. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

An examination was quietly begun by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency off the bank premises to preclude local panic. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hidden premise of the lawyer’s argument is that if the audience watches the door, they believe it possible that the woman is alive. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She dearly hoped there were ponies on the premises. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Thus, if one is not permitted to grow such a crop on private premises by law, such pharmaceutical farming initiatives are forbidden. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

One of the tasks he had to oversee, in 1710, was the move away from the cramped quarters at Gresham College to larger premises at Crane Court. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He did not, at that point, question Paley’s premises about God’s role in creation. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man belonging to Colonel Lloyd, while thus engaged, happened to get beyond the limits of Colonel Lloyd’s, and on the premises of Mr. Beal Bondly. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

The act granted public housing agencies the authority to use leases to evict any tenant, household member, or guest engaged in any criminal activity on or near public housing premises. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was all, da da da he removed from the premises, da da da, express instructions, da da. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re on the premises of what was formerly a plantation, so the house is surrounded by lovely groves of orange trees and coconut palms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he is so occupied, I will tell you, reader, what they are: and first, I must premise that they are nothing wonderful. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Thinking it was his premise that the alchemist found unbelievable, he hurried along. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Joust was a classic ’80s arcade game with a strange premise. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Remember, the main premise of this course is that a better understanding of where the basics come from will lead to better and faster comprehension of more complex ideas. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Within a year, Oliver and I discovered that under the Urban Areas Act we were not permitted to occupy business premises in the city without ministerial consent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t believe in brainy Martians, though he recognized the premise of a winning story. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

So many have the same premise: once upon a time, there were three. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The premise of their misadventure was enough to get them hanged, but the murder ensured grim abuse before they swung. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I had no other choice, but I figured it was unlikely that premise would hold up. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

This, Mr. Byerley, is a court order authorizing me to search these premises for the presence of illegal...uh...mechanical men or robots of any description.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It is, if you like, a half-assed syllogism; typically one that, rather than having its premises right out in the open, has a hidden assumption somewhere.* Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The hurry-scurry, the angry hum of recent weeks had departed; a quivering stillness now permeated the premises. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The very concept of injustice rests upon a premise of equal claims, and this boy here today makes no claim upon you. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I did so the door in the large drawing room that led to the stone passage and the back premises opened, and I heard voices. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you now do me the favor of leaving the premises?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“But then what is left? The Machines themselves are correct and the premises they work on are correct. That we have agreed upon. Now you say that it cannot be disobeyed. Then what is wrong?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

There was no mention of two suspicious peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on the premises, or a flashlight, or a silver cross on a chain. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Aristotle, the ideal science consisted of a chain of logical deductions from incontestable premises. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Dr. Atchley used a basic premise: He theorized that if technology was like an addictive substance, say, alcohol, then users would find the information delivered on a device as irresistible as alcoholics do booze. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It’s our job to search the premises for these. We ask for your cooperation.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Shooting was immediately halted, and the reckless lad, perhaps seeking an unusual pet for himself, was allowed to leave the premises with the bird. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Kaz waited all night until he saw a boy about his age leave the premises. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Tanks had broken into the premises, and a fierce battle was under way there. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Everything that she, Baby Kochamma, had done, had been premised on one assumption. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The purpose of our search would be to locate and remove any of the Divergent from the premises. And as for the names, that is none of your concern.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The owner of the premises was away on business, Royal told them as he untied the rags from their eyes, a ruse to hide his part in their enterprise. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I locked Charley in Rocinante’s house after giving the attendant a tour of the premises, a drink of whisky, and a dollar. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petra struggled with this language and had to look up the words “credulity’’ and “premises.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Any form of reasoning has to start from a set of premises, and in rhetoric those premises are very often commonplaces. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

We won’t allow the color of a man’s heart to be the color of his skin, the premise of his beliefs, and his self-worth. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But if Jenny and the others stuck with the silly Dog Squad premise, Cha-Cha would be reduced to making one guest appearance. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They are both based on the premise that an epidemic can be reversed, can be tipped, by tinkering with the smallest details of the immediate environment. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds, and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had the impression of being seen off the premises. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"Ma'am, we have a warrant to search the premises for evidence of drugs or other illegal activity on the part of Tariq Johnson." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Under its regulations, each racial group could own land, occupy premises, and trade only in its own separate area. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They indulge as well in reductio ad absurdum, the logical practice of taking any premise to an extreme, and in various sorts of combinatorial word play. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colorblindness ideal is premised on the notion that we, as a society, can never be trusted to see race and treat each other fairly or with genuine compassion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could,” she says, “but the Erudite have prohibited Abnegation visitors from entering their compound. If I tried, I would be removed from the premises.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And the premise that allows for these killing fields—the reduction of the black body—is no different than the premise that allowed for the murder of Prince Jones. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“But your premise is flawed, Honorable Scythe Curie. I know my poisons so well, I could never make a mistake. Ever.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

That prevented the laborers from coming to work, and left vast quantities of mangoes, bananas, pineapple, garlic and ginger rotting slowly on the premises of Paradise Pickles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He claimed to have witnessed the incident with his own eyes, and I remember how upset he became one morning when Mitchell Sanders challenged him on its basic premise. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We interpreted this as an effort by the authorities to put us out of business, and occupied our premises illegally, with threats of eviction constantly hanging over our heads. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The master whistled and two patrollers ushered the prostrate slave from the premises. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Why should I? We talk between every meal, remember? That’s what we do. The premise of the movie about us is that we spontaneously combust if we don’t talk every six hours.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thought I might be escorted off the premises for anything less exciting,” Henry says, and his voice is somehow different than Alex remembers. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The problem, at root, is with the premise of the show — the essential joke that Big Bird doesn’t want to be known as a big bird. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the Aristotelian philosophy of nature could not be adapted to incorporate this peculiar anomaly; if there could be such a thing as a new star, then the whole system was founded on false premises. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“All human beings have brains, that’s my major premise. Do you not agree?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Uh-huh. Yes. Well, I need him off the premises as soon as possible. Just for the rest of the day." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m well protected here. There are eight bodyguards on my premises alone.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then Mami had to meet Tío Vic in the middle of the night with the gun hidden under her raincoat so it wouldn't be on the premises in case the police came. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He began by throwing out the rubble his father’s men had left and cleaning up his premises, breathing rhythmically to empty his insides of any trace of anger and to purify his spirit. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Langley offered on its premises a series of lectures on aerodynamics, open to all comers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At first glance, it looked like an idyllic pastoral setting—except there were guards in Nazi uniforms on the premises and a stone wall with a barbed-wire fence surrounding it. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

As far as she could tell, her host didn’t speak of her—even when Fiona was off the premises—beyond infrequent mentions of that creature. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I remember the plot clearly, or at least the premise, because the main character was a corpse. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the people who work there are not on the premises after hours, any sound we make might travel through the walls. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He did not begin to speak until he was certain that Varney had cleared the premises. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole premise of Joe’s struggle to stay in school was the prospect of a more promising future afterward. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“And all teenage boys are human beings. That is my minor premise, controversial though it may be. And if my major and minor premises are so, sir, what is your conclusion?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a warrant from the U.S. district attorney. We’re going to search the premises—it’s an order, see, an order.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Enquiries based on this premise are bound to conclude that the claims made on behalf of well-founded beliefs are excessive because that conclusion is built into the methodology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Without equality, eugenics would inevitably falter on the false premise that social ills, such as vagrancy, pauperism, deviance, alcoholism, and feeblemindedness were genetic ills—while, in fact, they merely reflected inequality. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Milkman went into the bathroom, lifted the !id from the toilet tank, and took out the half-pint bottle he kept hidden from Macon, who wouldn’t have alcohol on the premises. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

This story revolved around the premise of creating a utopia where everyone is treated fairly and is completely equal. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everything on the premises, she explained, was of the highest quality. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

So despite the early rumblings of discontent on the premises of Paradise Pickles, Chacko, in rehearsal for the Revolution, continued to play Comrade! The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not the sort of thing one expects from a horde commander, what! Personally I’d have you blackballed from the church premises.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

An experiment it seemed now, whose premise did not hold. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before, slave patrollers searched the premises of colored individuals at will, be they free or enslaved. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It violated the central premise of the revolutionary legacy—namely, that the people at large were the sovereign source of all political authority. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You can't leave school premises without permission just because the fancy takes you!” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Another implies that the food is not cooked on the premises and instead is imported from the best restaurants in London, paid extra to stay open for the late hour. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

This city is a foreigner’s premise of efficiency planted on this soil, and it’s a very bad idea. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad'd got to his office in Oxford at 8:55 A.M., and by 9:15 A.M. a security guard was escorting him off the premises. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A huge security guard grabs me by the arm and says, “I suggest you exit the premises quietly and without incident.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought that he ought to be grateful that he was allowed on the factory premises at all, and allowed to touch things that Touchables touched. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same year, a restaurant in the South banned Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi’s personal doctor from its premises because of his dark skin. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The premise of the message was that Shawn had been reborn, spiritually cleansed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Now that the foreman had returned—dressed up in a coat and tie, of all things! —the policeman was leaving the premises. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The premise was that every candidate gave a speech—with no notes and no teleprompter—and also tried to bring along as many supporters as possible. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One of the best things about stealing a program premise from another country is that you get to insist, explicitly, that the spin-off version is adamantly American. The Great American Obstacle Course 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

The Tuskegee Airmen rightly get attention; one of their World War II biplanes is prominently displayed elsewhere on the premises. Review: The Smithsonian African American Museum Is Here at Last. And It Uplifts and Upsets. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Even though we can all agree that rents are too high, and that the only equalizer is death, Mr. Dendy’s premise grows increasingly tedious. Review: ‘NewYorknewyork @Astor Place,’ a Multilayered Production 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

A parallel dimension where he's still the critically acclaimed director of blockbuster movies that haven't been scuppered by gimmicky premises, leaden performances and his own nebulous ego. Devil's work 2010-07-22T11:59:00Z

Blame the Google search, which pretty much sapped all plausible life out of a comedy premise in which a guy can get away with pretending to be somebody else. ‘The Jim Gaffigan Show’: A sunnier ‘Louie’ in the form of a stale Hot Pocket 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Take photos of the vehicle before you leave the premises and keep an eye on your rental at all times. 10 common travel scams — and how to avoid them 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

The premise of his “China Film” is similar, but the locations have a different quality. In the galleries: D.C. artist summons the supernatural in the everyday 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Haddon's premise is fascinating: the difficulty of coping, on a domestic level, with mental illness. Polar Bears 2010-04-06T23:48:00Z

A 22-year-old aspiring pop singer with a sizable TikTok following, she posted a song that she wrote with a simple but, she thought, promising premise: “What if ‘Bridgerton’ was a musical?” TikTok to the Grammys: How a ‘Bridgerton’ Musical Beat Broadway 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

That dovetails with another of Mr. Johnson’s premises: that advances result from cumulative effort and insight. PBS’s ‘How We Got to Now,’ With Steven Johnson 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

And the whole movie is premised on an encounter between the two queens that never actually took place. How casting across racial lines exposes Hollywood’s power imbalance 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

“Please continue to observe rules regarding appropriate distancing while on Costco premises.” 'Costco Karen' throws fit over face mask policy, Twitter video shows 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

It might just be fun to basically kick off from the same premise and see where that takes us. Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ Gets Another Life 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

"The writing is excellent, the difficult premise is handled with great skill, and Pitcher absolutely captures the voice of 10-year-old Jamie," she said. Brandford Boase award goes to My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece 2012-07-05T17:17:00Z

The premise is certainly intriguing, given the time and place. ‘Le Club Noel’ musical, visiting 1933 Paris at Christmas, falls short 2013-12-10T03:34:58Z

But comparing these jokes makes you realize that the premises make less of an impact than what is done with them. Dane Cook, a Changeable Comedian 2013-01-18T19:15:28Z

Walker, who has a 13-year-old daughter, said the premise of a father fighting to keep his child alive is what drew him in. Paul Walker filming Katrina drama in New Orleans 2012-04-25T23:00:11Z

The song was “Englishman in New York,” a delectable trifle with a coy premise — dandyism in the rough, more or less — inspired by the Oscar Wildeish author Quentin Crisp. Music Review: Sting?s Songbook at the Met, With Strings Attached 2010-07-14T20:35:00Z

It had a fantastic premise: that Darwin's theory of natural selection works when applied to culture. Rewind Radio: Amanda Vickery On… Men; Wheel and Come Again: 50 Years of Jamaican Music; Darwin's Tunes – review 2012-08-11T23:05:43Z

But its premise also turns upon the very factor that is actively degrading the environment. From fat bears to "Nature": TV displays our complicated feelings about the natural world 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

It’s better than any concept-record premise could describe; it’s got grace and mystery and obsession, and encapsulates the record’s entire argument in seven minutes. New Music: New Music From Miguel Zen?n and Red Hot Chili Peppers 2011-08-29T22:37:58Z

He was not on the premises when the curry was sold. Restaurant owner guilty of manslaughter of peanut allergy customer 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

This odd premise allows Mr. Kline to explore the idea that pop culture is in a state of arrested development, and that our rock stars can neither burn out nor fade away. Art in Review: Josh Kline: ‘Quality of Life’ 2013-09-05T21:59:58Z

Ferguson's division of world societies into "Westerners" and "Resterners" may be too cute by half, but if his premise is correct, then the West is in for a spectacular fall. Niall Ferguson's 'Civilization': They're gaining on us 2011-11-23T19:21:45Z

Young audiences not only judge the contest, but also provide premises for the skits and sometimes even join the action. 718-595-0547, ext. 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

It’s no secret that we’re fans of the premise and the author. Washington Post Food section’s best cookbooks of 2014 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

The premise seems to have made viewers resistant to its charms, but it's about motorbikes in the same way that cowboy movies are about horses: not very. Watch this 2010-07-06T23:05:00Z

There is enough suspense just in the premise alone that the show doesn’t need to ramp it up. 60 Days In: a captivating look at corruption and American justice 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

If this is a promising premise, what can you do with it in just 22 minutes? ‘Breathe’ Review: A Pandemic Musical That Strains to Surprise 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

His appointment will follow the Bush's imminent move to new premises close to its present home above a pub. Bush names new artistic director 2011-07-07T13:33:44Z

It’s nice to see George Eads of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” back on TV as Jack Dalton, one of MacGyver’s partners in disaster prevention, but the show is bogged down by its premise. Review: ‘Lethal Weapon’ and ‘MacGyver,’ 2 ’80s Reboots, 1 With Chemistry 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

A better movie would have taken its familiar premise, of a nearly-incompetent spy who’s shown how to get the job done by his prepubescent pal, and leaned into it. ‘My Spy’ Review: A Secret Agent Gets Outsmarted 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla., reportedly shut down the affected areas after someone claimed to see an armed man on the premises. Security scare shuts down Universal Studios parking garage: 'It's madness everywhere' 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

The stories and essays both have a tendency to obscure their premises in pursuit of specific outcomes, and the more they speculate about social impacts, the less they stand up to scrutiny. Memory, That Unreliable Narrator: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

My premise about co-operation is that we frequently don't understand what's passing in the hearts and minds of people with whom we have to work. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z

Because, and I can’t overemphasize this, Awake is not nearly the downer that its premise might suggest: it manages to be optimistic and even uplifting. TV Tonight: Awake 2012-03-01T12:43:14Z

It's missing a premise, but you can figure out what the missing premise must be in order for this to be a valid argument. A talk with Benjamin Apple, 'Cubed' star, 'comedy person' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

In his review for The Times, Glenn Kenny said that Shyamalan, a master of the shocking twist, might not quite have given this movie’s interesting premise a satisfying ending. What’s on TV This Week: ‘This Is Us’ and a Memorial Day Concert 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

As we entered the chilly white-granite building, I expected that the sweet granny volunteering at the front desk would detect my imposture and call security to perp-walk me off the premises. Sins of a good Mormon boy 2012-09-14T23:30:00Z

Dan Stayne, a paramedic strolling the premises, said he had treated some people for allergic reactions: “There was a lot of food getting thrown out that they didn’t know had peanuts in them.” Meet the Goopies 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

To Mr. Canin, the pile of fruit perfectly illustrated the Kepler conjecture, a 17th-century mathematical premise about the most efficient way to stack spherical objects. ‘A Doubter’s Almanac,’ Ethan Canin’s Latest Novel, Has Real-Life Parallels 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

The premise: A film crew intent on digging into the lives of young, small-town Americans lands in Flatch, where eccentricity is the norm. New this week: ‘Deep Water,’ Charli XCX and ‘WeCrashed’ 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

Its narrative premise, from the first teaser trailers, has been that the camera captures horrors we might not otherwise see. `Super 8' message: Technology not our friend 2011-07-02T13:16:05Z

In their Burbank writers room, the artists threw out ideas based on the simplest of premises, which were documented on Post-it notes and dry erase boards. Bugs Bunny Is Back, and So Is the ‘Looney Tunes’ Mayhem 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Danny Boyle’s new film has just such a premise – and if the idea sounds familiar, it is not surprising. A world where the Beatles never existed inspires new Danny Boyle film 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

“Ascension,” a mini-series running Monday through Wednesday, has an intriguing premise, lots of plot twists and high production values. ‘Ascension,’ a Space Travel Mini-Series on Syfy 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

The difference is that “Westworld” has been, from the very first image of the show, studiously anti-erotic, despite a premise whose human subjects indulge a lust for consequence-free sex and violence. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Tipping Point 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

The low budget, furnished by financiers outside the studios’ executive suites, provides filmmakers with freedom—they don’t have to bend themselves into pretzels to assure producers of the commercial premise of their project. The Misplaced Nostalgia for Movies Like “The Graduate” 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Its premise and Asimov’s blueprint suggest a story that needs to unfold over centuries, shuffling cast members in and out, focusing more on larger systems of society than on individuals. Review: The Math of ‘Foundation’ Doesn’t Add Up 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

It ended up being mostly original premises and plot lines, but the basic conceit is the same. Simon Rich on “SNL,” “Black Mirror,” and dressing Bill Hader as Hitler 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

What makes "Crappie Lake" so enjoyable goes way beyond the "fish out of water" premise. "Luann & Sonja: Welcome to Crappie Lake": An indicator of just how little class money can buy 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z

The 1986 horror-comedy "Critters" borrowed some of its premise from the Kelly Encounter and became a cult classic, spawning four sequels and a TV series reboot. "E.T." at 40: A personal reflection on the importance of a "closed story" 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z

The details of the concerts, lectures, workshops and other events on the organization’s premises within the Time Warner Center and elsewhere are to be released Tuesday, with a piece of added news. ArtsBeat: Jazz at Lincoln Center Season to Include Tributes to Billie Holiday and Wayne Shorter 2014-02-25T00:00:55Z

For the rest of Mr. Cobb’s fascinating but uneven play, which opened on Sunday at the Cherry Lane Theater, the thick racial tension of that premise predominates. Review: In ‘American Moor,’ an Insider’s Guide to ‘Othello’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

It's a horror/joke/fantasy, but the premise is too absurd to stir shock, amusement or wonder. Film-makers have lost the art of making a long story short 2013-04-08T10:48:51Z

The whole premise of the army is amusing to me - taking high school kids and dressing them up and giving them titles and responsibilities and regulations to adhere to. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Shani Boianjiu on Women Soldiers in Israel 2012-09-26T16:00:17Z

They are sold in retail outlets across the U.S. and Australia and now in his Bangkok premises. Fairy Tale of Bangkok 2011-11-17T06:15:00Z

The fantastical premise of “The Shape of Water” is set against the backdrop of Kennedy-era America with an emphasis on the attitudes of the period. ‘The Shape of Water’ Takes Top Venice Film Festival Prize 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

Yes, it's a gentle with a cast of charming eccentrics and a premise that's hokey as hell: highly-strung New York Jewish doctor gets stuck in small town Alaska – with hilarious consequences! Your next box set: Northern Exposure 2010-10-22T07:00:00Z

The premise of HBO’s “Run” is a turbocharged one for a TV series and a questionable one as a life choice. ‘Run’ Review: A Rail Romance Turns Train Wreck 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Even within this grim premise, Bong finds moments of absurd comedy in the police investigators’ incompetence. Parasite director Bong Joon-ho: 'Korea seems glamorous, but the young are in despair' 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The whole premise of the civil rights movement was to give our children a better future than we had. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z

Another HBO Max series, “I May Destroy You,” takes that as its central premise. On ‘I Hate Suzie,’ Sexual Freedom Is a Fantasy 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

The conversation began with some softballs about the book’s premise and how much Mr. Maher agreed with it: What Was Bill Maher’s Big Mistake? 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

While “The Yard” has a more original comic premise than “Rev.,” its antecedents will also be more familiar to an American audience. ‘Rev.’ and ‘The Yard,’ Two Short Series on Hulu 2012-06-13T16:30:55Z

The Sesame Street vibe of this film is doubly irritating given that there's an interesting premise lurking: we're learning that many animals are smarter than previously imagined. TV highlights 26/02/2013 2013-02-26T07:00:03Z

Its premise — that greener, more compact factory designs could lead to the creation of a new kind of industrial city today — may seem a bit farfetched. Exhibition Review: The Height of City Manufacturing 2011-04-01T22:56:22Z

Unlike The Bachelor, 90-Day Fiancé and other shows that offer as their premise “extreme romancing,” First Dates’ focus is simple, and the result often sweet: two people meeting with the hope for something more. Unseen on the small screen: the best TV of 2017 … that you didn't watch 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Here was the premise: Laurie and Louie, in their matching leather jackets, were set up on a date against both of their wills. Was Louie date-raped? 2012-07-06T13:56:00Z

Few people would need an excuse to live in a building whose pedigree is so impressive that the premises are triple landmarked — by the city, state and federal governments. | West Village: A Town House in History and Now, in Fiction 2010-08-08T20:52:00Z

Parking will be free and food and wine will be sold on the premises, organizers say. Snoqualmie Valley Festival of Music set for August in North Bend 2010-04-06T20:11:00Z

Clearly, Silver found the ostensibly commercial premise of his film a springboard for his inspiration. This Week in Cultural Clicks: Sushi Cats, Post-Internet Poetry, and More 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

If this premise sounds overly literal, just wait: On their ballad-heavy journey to their final destination, the five must first sort through their “baggage.” ArtsBeat: New York Musical Theater Festival Report: ‘Standby’ 2013-07-24T16:21:19Z

In the former premises of the Union Square Caff! TsuruTonTan, a Japanese Chain That Knows Its Noodles 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

But the fundamental premise and commitment is that these awards will bring new groups of people of all ages into contact with the performing arts. Culture enriches lives, yes, but it should enrich all lives 2013-05-30T10:30:42Z

So, the premise of this bit, Jimmy Fallon explains, is that Melissa McCarthy believes she is Matt Damon after having been hit on the head by a sandbag. The Carpetbagger: ‘12 Years a Slave,’ ‘American Hustle’ Take Top Honors at the 2014 Golden Globes 2014-01-13T05:14:45Z

Of course, those protagonists don’t have the benefit of reading the title or the premise of the story in which they’re dwelling. The politics of Important TV: Why "The Terror" and "Our Boys" won't get the "Chernobyl" treatment 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

If nothing about the premise of “When Harry Met Sally” had rung true, it wouldn’t have permeated the culture quite so thoroughly. Nora’s brand new world for women 2012-06-27T19:36:00Z

The Murphys’ second premises in Highgate, the Duke’s Head, had been leased to a pair of young entrepreneurs who had found success there selling microbrews to a twenty- and thirtysomething crowd. The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

The series assembles so many captivating clips and strings together so much recent history that it’s hard to deny the results, whether you buy the premise or not. Was 1971 the Year ‘Music Changed Everything’? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

It's hardly the premise for an uplifting, family musical; and Allan Knee's book romanticises events to say the least. Finding Neverland – review 2012-10-04T12:25:16Z

It’s possible to do this; see “Search Party,” which justified its five-season run by evolving far from its initial mystery premise. Returning to the Scene 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

The premise places enormous pressure on the actress in the title role. ‘Gigi’ skips uncertainly onto Broadway 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

A lot of this was great fun, but it led to the realization that perhaps all the speculation over what would be the premise of the series were overblown. American Horror Story's Season 6 Premiere Proved the Value of Surprise 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Most wineries charge a little extra to uncork on their premises. Weekend Itinerary: Missouri Wine Country 2010-09-20T20:51:00Z

The premise that motors “No Hard Feelings,” a new comedy directed by Gene Stupnitsky, is, if not outright indecent, at least a little crass. ‘No Hard Feelings’ Review: How Lucky Can a Nerdy Kid Get? 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z

At the same time, there was a real danger that all this glitziness could backfire given the new show’s premise, which, after all, is about women trying to escape sexual exploitation. Can the Makers of ‘Money Heist’ Mint Another Hit With ‘Sky Rojo’? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

They offer instead an intriguing premise, an impeccable paragraph, or just a sketch of all that the book contains, inviting readers to take part in a fresh experience of their own. Review | ‘B-Side Books’ adds to your must-read stack with the best books you’ve never heard of 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

The premise is that the Banana Splits’ program is being canceled. ‘The Banana Splits Movie’ Review: Tra La La Ahhhhhh! 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

“The Second,” his new album, takes this hybridism as gospel, extending the premise in a shroud of self-possession. The Playlist: Thundercat Unplugs, Young M.A. Gets Remixed 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Privately, center officials have spoken of “Shear Madness” vacating the premises entirely, and at one point there was talk of the show leaving the Theater Lab as soon as the end of this year. Coming soon to the Kennedy Center: More reasons to laugh? 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

The simple premise is that when Mr. Harris dreams, his dreams are populated by puppets. ArtsBeat: Falling (or Flying) With Neil Patrick Harris 2012-11-27T20:44:53Z

It's an unsettling premise that Johnson is exploring: is a possible link between the transatlantic slave trade and genetic selection a factor in the successes of African-American and Caribbean sprinters? TV highlights 05/07/2012 2012-07-04T19:00:02Z

Some overly defensive members of the press refused to concede even the premise. “Master of None” tackles the empathy gap: How nuanced minority stories can shrink the emotional gulf between white Americans and “others” 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

That generated a letter from a woman who was upset about its premise, and from a man who wasn’t. Brilliantly Wrong: The Political Cartoons of the Onion’s Stan Kelly 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

For The Good Place it was the first season finale, when the already lofty premise was ripped up and, with it, the blueprint for modern sitcoms. How BoJack Horseman and The Good Place changed comedy forever 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

“Colony” is intentionally stubborn on details — a creative choice in today’s television, where pilot episodes tend to overstate the premise. USA’s ‘Colony,’ another dystopian sci-fi drama, gets one thing right: Sadness 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

The premise: It turns out that there really were witches in Salem, Mass., back in the 1600s, and that they were pulling the strings in the troubled town. Television Review : ‘Salem,’ About You-Know-What, on WGN America 2014-04-17T23:24:42Z

By the time “Amnesia” has moved toward the present, the author seems to have lost track of his people as well as his premise. ‘Amnesia,’ Peter Carey’s New Novel 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

I think the premise would have been better summed up in two hours, but there is a case-of-the-week format where Duval and Jimmy have to clear cases together as they work on mending their relationship. Second Chance – Frankenstein-inspired cop procedural needs a jolt of life 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

But as recently as September, the Howard was before the board once again after a stabbing outside its premises. Money problems and no-name acts: The Howard Theatre is struggling. Again. 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

“Sing,” 2016, 73 percent fresh It’s easy to imagine how the corporate executives behind “Sing” thought up the movie’s premise. 26 films Rotten Tomatoes got 100% wrong 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

The premise of “Balls Deep” is that Morton will earnestly participate in whatever fringy, unusual lifestyle or belief he’s reporting on. The new Viceland channel perfects the modern journalistic art of playing dumb 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

In reality, when the president’s campaign is suspected of collusion with the Kremlin, that no longer seems quite so shocking a premise. The Trump era is posing some major challenges for thriller novelists 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Where POI gets interesting–if teasingly, frustratingly so–is in the way it treats the surveillance system that the premised is based on. You Are Watching Big Brother: The Disturbing Spy Games of Person of Interest 2011-10-27T15:32:58Z

And in the case of , which is clearly riding high on the hype around its racy premise, the rating could create just a little more buzz. NC-17 Rating Wouldn’t Necessarily Spell Financial Doom For Nymphomaniac 2013-11-27T19:00:01Z

"The Design Museum is world-renowned for contemporary design and architecture, so it is fantastic news that they are moving to these brilliant new expanded premises in heart of London," said Mr Osborne. Design Museum to offer free entry 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Police agreed to secure the busy areas for “Age of Ultron” on the premise that the movie would enhance South Korea’s standing abroad. Some South Koreans say 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' shows Seoul's ugly side 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Roughly that same premise worked famously well as a film; making it the foundation of a TV series is a different challenge entirely. Review: ‘The Exorcist’ Reboots a Battle Against a Demonic Presence 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

How would we talk about abortion if we started with the radical premise that women’s personhood is at least as important as the pregnancy she is carrying? Perspective | Why does ‘pro-life’ mean disregarding the actual lives of pregnant people? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

No medical work is done on the premises. (Final) exit through the gift shop: L.A. County Coroner’s Office has souvenirs to die for 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

If you get a chance to watch the film let me allow this premise. Sneaker culture king DJ Bobbito Garcia breaks down his documentary “Rock Rubber 45s” 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

There is no restaurant, tastings are by appointment only, and a sign on the premises warns visitors about poisonous snakes on the lush lawn and 21-acre grounds. India’s Wine Country: A Charming Work in Progress 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Indeed, the premise is so goofy that it almost reads like a parody of a brainless patriotic blockbuster rather than a real movie. Nic Cage's 4th of July classic 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z

How interesting that play will be is hard to tell from the two episodes sent to critics, which are mostly spent setting up what feels like an unusually elaborate premise. Television Review: ‘Banshee’ on Cinemax 2013-01-10T23:03:47Z

“Perry Mason” could have fallen into the HBO tradition of taking a genre staple — the mob story, the Western — and updating it or rethinking its premises. Review: ‘Perry Mason’ Returns, Hard-Boiled and Warmed Over 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Like his 2017 hit, “Get Out,” this daring fun-until-it’s-not shocker starts from the genre’s central premise that everyday life is a wellspring of terrors. ‘Us’ Review: Jordan Peele’s Creepy Latest Turns a Funhouse Mirror on Us 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Snag a spot at the picnic table just outside the premises or walk a block to the canal to indulge in your breakfast bounty. T Magazine: Brunch on a Budget in Paris's 10th Arrondissement 2012-06-28T17:20:53Z

Big murder and mayhem premises will never stop being the stuff of many, many dramas. Is TV Drama Finally Getting Out of Its Murder Rut? 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

A similar premise drives Amazon’s “Jack Ryan,” returning at the beginning of November – only that series has a heavier skew toward the classic “American might equals right” action movie ethos. USA’s Bourne spinoff “Treadstone” feels retro and exactly what’s needed today 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

The Pantora Mini collection, includes dresses appropriate for flower girls; they are made on the premises. Brooklyn Bridal. It’s a Thing. And a Place to Find Your Dress. 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

“Rodham” is a related project but with a dramatic twist of fate built into its premise. Review | In Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Rodham,’ Hillary doesn’t become a Clinton. And Donald Trump isn’t president. 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

Her decision to turn Harrow away—to have him escorted from the premises at gunpoint—will be her downfall. Boardwalk Empire Watch: The War Begins 2012-11-26T13:30:01Z

Photograph: Silo At Silo in Brighton, the UK’s first zero-waste restaurant, waste is not just a part but rather the premise of its existence. Waste not want not: the art of trash cooking 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

But at least the absurdity of the premise has a historical precedent: Terra Firma is based on a real place called Sealand, established in the late 1960s off the east coast of England. Review: In ‘Terra Firma,’ a Wee Wet Country on the Brink 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

And on that slender but oddly believable premise hangs our story of deception, despair and some surprising aspects of persistent hope. Theater Review: ‘Last Man Club,’ at Axis Theater 2012-10-19T22:47:58Z

It’s not all that funny a premise, or, as written, a funny line. Review: Zach Galifianakis's 'Baskets' Wrings Painful Laughs 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

The premise of so much of “Hidden Brain” is that we live by the stories we tell ourselves. St. Vincent Is Trying to Understand People 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

The premise of “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s biopic, is straightforward: tell the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist known as the “father of the atomic bomb.” Who’s Who in ‘Oppenheimer’: A Guide to the Real People and Events 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

Overall, "The Ghost Bride" is a highly bingeable series that keeps viewers going with is bewitching premise, empowering storyline, and glimpse into a realm that might be closer than we think. In Netflix's "Ghost Bride," a woman marries a dead man, and then things get wonderfully weird 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

His driving premise: The drug war destroys everything it touches in Mexico and the United States. When American Filmmakers Try to Cross the Border 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

It is also true that brands are built on the premise of distinguishing themselves and their points of view from one another. Fashion’s Latest Trend: Eco Bragging Rights 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

There are a few departures from the love-gone-wrong premise, including “Money,” which casts wealth as a cruel suitor, and “Without a Heart,” which proposes to do away with this whole business of feeling altogether. Critics' Choice: New CDs by Sharon Jones, E-40 and Bill Callahan 2010-04-04T21:55:00Z

While the film has something of a horror movie premise, “it’s more disquieting than terrifying,” A.O. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Wu-Tang: An American Saga’ and ‘Our House’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

This is a totally unbelievable premise, of course. Vote your cast: who is the greatest fictional US president? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

One of the exhibit’s most intriguing premises is that art has very little to do with its place and time. | Bernard-Henri Lévy on Art and Philosophy 2013-05-31T21:49:07Z

“Being black in America is a science-fiction experience,” the culture critic and musician Greg Tate once asserted in an interview, articulating the premise for what has come to be called Afrofuturism. ‘Space Is the Place’ Offers Otherworldly Takes on Identity 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

As fans prepared to bury the CW premises in Mars bars and marshmallows, borrowing the tactics of the successful Jericho nuts campaign, they were quickly instructed not to bother. Veronica Mars fans flock to fund movie on Kickstarter 2013-03-14T10:29:00Z

This season, however, “OITNB” goes beyond that central premise, by showing viewers that what has been most compelling about the antihero is not necessarily their propensity for evil, but their propensity for change. Pennsatucky’s redemption: How “Orange Is the New Black” pulled a reverse “Breaking Bad” 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Corona beer became the butt of dark-comedy memes premised on the notion of plummeting sales; its owner, Constellation Brands, issued a defensive news release saying that in fact sales were up. ‘Covid’ is a word most of us dread. But some think it could make a good branding opportunity. 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

As painting over another graffiti artist's work is considered an insult, shopkeepers hope the initiative will stop premises being daubed with less appealing drawings. In pictures 2011-02-09T11:51:16Z

The premise for this timely debut novel is anything but simple: the perils of babysitting while black. 10 Books to Watch For in January 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

And their premise is not unlike that of Stranger Things: the plot involves a Secret Service agent in middle America after a car accident raises questions about the mysterious small town. 6 Books You Must Read If You Love 'Stranger Things' 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

Yet it’s only in the seventh chapter that someone questions the very premise of the search for Laura, asking Ezequiel, “What makes you think she wants to be found?” ‘Trenque Lauquen’ Review: Lose Yourself 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

He can’t handle the fact they had a great date and then she went on a date with someone else, which is, you know, the entire premise of the show. The Bachelorette Watch: Getting Really Real In Ireland 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

He used to be a quirkier performer, using a laid-back drawl that moseyed its way through a premise and into the punch line, maintaining a steady rhythmic pace. Hannibal Buress Evolves From Cult Star to Showman 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

The fashion tents were hoisted high on the premises where the Big Apple Circus usually puts up its big top, in Damrosch Park. Critic?s Notebook: Does Fashion Make Good Theater? 2010-09-16T03:48:00Z

The faith in reason held by Mill and Kant was premised on the printing press; free speech should be re-examined in the context of the internet and social media. Why "free speech" needs a new definition in the age of the internet and Trumpist tweets 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

Sinatra's gambling license was stripped in 1963 by Nevada gambling regulators after Chicago mobster Sam Giancana was spotted on the premises. Sinatra's old Tahoe resort to get major makeover 2013-09-09T04:31:08Z

At the time of its release, many knowledgeable scientists derided the film’s premise, insisting that the confluence of events it portrayed was unlikely or simply impossible. Climate apocalypse is here, now: Science fiction has become our new reality 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

The premise: A trio of true-crime addicts and neighbors in a posh Manhattan apartment building team up to solve the gory death of a fellow tenant. New this week: ‘Cinderella,’ Imagine Dragons, Selena Gomez 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, that would mean that the whole premise of the film disintegrates before our very eyes. So the director simply chose to act as if his audience consisted of nitwits. The movie plots that technology killed 2011-07-28T22:00:05Z

The company operates from an absurdly simple premise: It constructs sets, props and even characters from cardboard boxes, brown parcel paper and, yes, paper bags. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

It was a sketchy premise to begin with: even assuming an audience interested in the beige-box computing era, the quest to create a slightly better, cheaper knockoff did not exactly make a thrilling underdog story. Review: Halt and Catch Fire Works the Bugs Out in Version 2.0 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Despite a premise that seems off-putting, Mr. Greenland’s fourth novel proves affecting and funny. Kelly Link’s ‘Get in Trouble’ and Five Other Works 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Even in a city premised on cross-pollination and contradiction, where good forces and bad forces are often allowed to co-mingle, outsiders could never accept the Calliope on its own terms. A Vanished New Orleans Captured on “Straight from the Projects” 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

Well, when Jordan Peele called me up and gave me the pitch “Black man infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan,” I was intrigued, because with the absurdity of that premise comes humor. Spike Lee Reacts to His First Best-Director Nomination 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

Doherty, 30, appeared in court before Christmas to be fined for careless driving, but as he was being escorted from the premises security guards saw heroin fall from his pocket. 2010-01-27T13:41:00Z

In a premise that owes something to Olivier Assayas’s acclaimed “Summer Hours,” the semi-globalized siblings must find a way to reconcile their goals and geographies to divide the estate. Review: ‘Back to Burgundy,’ a Lightheaded Ode to Winemaking 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Our basic premise is that there was an additional, unknown Donner camp, lost to history. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Co-Authors and Comedians 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

No, because the premise of “book as guilty pleasure” is that one should not enjoy some books that one does, and it is an idea rooted in the cult of literary snobbery. What the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads While She Works 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

If you accept the premise that women are more social, women are more about connecting with other people, then social media is the most extreme version of that. John Cho: Why Skeptics Should Watch 'Selfie' 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Director Gavin Hood’s new film Eye in the Sky explores the ethical quandaries of modern warfare by delving into the complex circumstances surrounding a simple premise. Exclusive: Helen Mirren Is an Unshakable Colonel in Clip From 'Eye in the Sky' 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

There’s a peculiarly spellbinding quality to “4 Days in France” that is partly attributable to its premise. Review: ‘4 Days in France,’ With a Little Help From Grindr 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Lady in the Lake has a powerful scene, when Marlowe, having found himself in a suspect's house and bluffed his way past a woman who querulously announces herself as the landlady, searches the premises. How Enter the Void sees itself in Lady in the Lake 2010-09-22T11:15:00Z

Unless, that is, it resets the premise and raises the stakes, turning a playful, barbed riff on identity politics and political economy into a nightmarish vision of impending human extinction. Review: ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ but Can I Interest You in a Wild Dystopian Satire? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

For one thing, this is the kind of premise that by its very nature encourages audiences to focus on a political message. "Captive State" is boring 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

The coterie of Mr. Bernard’s closest disciples grew older, to the point at which there were more widows than nubile young women on the premises. Books of The Times: ?The Great Oom,? by Robert Love, on Yoga?s Pierre Bernard 2010-04-14T22:33:00Z

Blythe Brown also claimed credit for inspiring much of his work and coming up with the premise for “The Da Vinci Code.” ‘Da Vinci Code’ author settles suit alleging a secret life 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

It sounds like the opening line of a bar joke, but it’s actually the premise of Richard Rhodes’s slim new book, “Hedy’s Folly.” Books of The Times: ?Hedy?s Folly,? by Richard Rhodes - Review 2011-12-13T22:23:15Z

Dropping "Miracle Workers" into the "Dark Ages" merges a familiar comedy premise with an undercurrent of frustrated gallows humor circulating in the culture right now. Sweet but unchallenging, "Miracle Workers: Dark Ages" dresses our modern ignorance in medieval garb 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

The fact that “One Day at a Time” was canceled at all still seems surprising given its devoted audience and versatile premise. How ‘One Day at a Time’ Came Back From the Brink 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

“Squid Game” has nothing to say about inequality and free will beyond pat truisms, and its characters are shallow assemblages of family and battlefield clichés, set loose upon a patently ridiculous premise. Haven’t Watched ‘Squid Game’? Here’s What You’re Not Missing. 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

The premise of “Preacher” is hard to explain — and arguably, the less you know going in the better. Review: ‘Preacher’ Goes to Heaven, Hell and Texas 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

The game is built on a simple premise: Who will end up with a better hand, the player or the banker? Vegas casinos relying more on baccarat 2012-01-26T11:31:04Z

At other times, the speaker starts with an unusual premise — Shakespeare on a plane, Keith Richards holding up the world — that leads to curious conclusions. Best poetry of the month: New collections by Billy Collins and Robert Pinsky 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

It’s an absurd premise–stranger than fiction–but Streep refuses to caricature Jenkins, imbuing her with great heart. Off-Key, but on Point 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

And the series’ premise was based partly on the case of the Russian sleeper agent Anna Chapman, who was arrested and deported from the United States in 2010. Review: ‘The Americans’ History Suddenly Feels Less Retro 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

While it may have a central premise that is a little tasteless, the going is made smooth and even enjoyable by Laura Linney as the teacher and Oliver Platt as her husband. Tonight's TV highlights: The Chinese Are Coming 2011-02-08T00:05:01Z

In fact there is nothing the least bit plausible about the premise of mistaken identity served up in this novel. Books of The Times: ‘Skios’ by Michael Frayn 2012-06-27T21:35:39Z

Don Peppe novices need to know that certain items are not welcome on the premises, as listed on a sign on the front door: No Tank Tops, Hats, Strollers, Baby Carriages, Credit Cards. At Don Peppe, Expect a Lot of Everything 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

Alessandra Stanley, writing in The New York Times, suggested that this premise seemed about as appetizing as a haggis buffet. ‘In Treatment’ Is Back. How Does That Make You Feel? 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

But there remains at least one holdout on the premises: Mr. Ringelheim himself. 1999: When Smokers in New York Made Their Last Stand 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

So from the get-go, POI takes as its premise that the government set up a secret system to invade our privacy, and that we will be outraged… that the government is not using it enough. You Are Watching Big Brother: The Disturbing Spy Games of Person of Interest 2011-10-27T15:32:58Z

“I suppose it’s an interesting premise,” wrote the essayist Roxane Gay in an op-ed for the New York Times, “but as is often the case with interesting premises, at what cost?” Confederate: will a grassroots movement sink the controversial HBO series? 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Early in the pandemic, images of wildlife wandering cities flew across social media, shared on the wistful premise that a few weeks of shutdowns might unravel our devastating environmental effect. The best travel books of 2021 — so far 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Director Bong Joon-ho took a premise with Gallic existentialist precision – a 1,001-car train organised hierarchically from poor to rich that endlessly circumnavigates a frozen Earth – and amped it up with South Korean humour. Sacré bleu! Why Franco-Belgian comic-book movies are more fun than Marvel and DC 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Some accommodations on vineyards produce wine on the premises rather than sourcing it elsewhere. Hotels Ramp Up Their Wine-Tourism Experiences 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

The show's official series synopsis was also revealed, detailing the show's premise: 'Heroes Reborn': New trailer reveals new powers, some familiar faces 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

A premise full of dramatic possibilities becomes even more intense when the women are ambushed by “Red Fred,” a scraggly ex-con. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

The premise of it really didn't capture our attention and I only started watching it when Rachel Brosnahan won the golden globe. Emmy Nominations 2018: ‘Game of Thrones’ and Netflix Lead the Way 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

This is Schulten’s premise, which she supports by offering 100 cartographic snapshots of America from the European arrival to the digital age. New & Noteworthy 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Nay, worse than that: “Personally I thought the whole premise rather nauseating.” Broadway Revival of ?Godspell? 2011-11-04T14:59:10Z

Its central premise is that these Depression-era movies helped persuade Americans to stop despising Irish immigrants. Irish America and the siege of Hollywood 2010-07-11T21:29:00Z

When Star reported, for example, that a New York City restaurant prevented the actor Emma Stone from consuming a homemade birthday cake on its premises, Gossip Cop located an unnamed “pal” to dispute the account. Johnny Depp Is NOT Best Friends With This Lizard, Despite Report 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

New York Fringe Festival Report: ‘The Nightmare Dream’ Sometimes a play is 90 percent premise and 10 percent execution. ArtsBeat: New York Fringe Festival Report: ‘The Nightmare Dream’ 2013-08-16T17:34:19Z

The film's premise is more striking than its execution, however. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z

The nature of the premise means that storytelling and characterization are necessarily economical. “Masters of Sex”: Still struggling to make sexy material into a compelling story 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

This is the provocative, though not entirely credible, premise of Frank Winters’s “Student Body,” an involving if schematic play at the Flea, starring members of its resident acting company. Review: In ‘Student Body,’ Sex, a Video and a Moral Quandary 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

She knew the risks: that a show premised on nostalgia would be seen as a farewell, a sign that, at 62, her era was over. Donatella Versace Celebrates Her Past and Confronts Her Future 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

The dating app Hinge has a podcast, “Ghost Stories,” with a similar premise. Perspective | Ghosting is normal now. That’s completely bonkers. 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

If the fate of the world, and the heavens too, weren’t at stake, their humbled status might be the premise for a sitcom: not The Golden Girls but The Golden Gods. Wrath of the Titans: The God-Fathers, Part II 2012-03-29T15:11:23Z

A place of business, other than a “prepared food shop,” where food is prepared on the premises and sold to customers for consumption and at least one of the following conditions apply: Restaurateurs enraged as D.C. bars some fast-casual eateries 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

The novel’s basic premise is clever and efficient. Review: ‘The Last American Vampire,’ by Seth Grahame-Smith 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Considering the show’s premise, it seems impossible to ignore the political context of the last few years. Kumail Nanjiani on ‘Little America’ and Hopeful Immigrant Stories 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Now, doesn’t that remind you a little bit of the central premise of the original series episode Arena? Star Trek Beyond: 10 things we learned from the trailer 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

Laurents, as he recounted in "Original Story," went back to his "original premise: The number takes place in an empty theatre, the applause is only in Rose's head." Angela Lansbury's spirit and star power burn as bright as ever 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

Once you absorb their fundamental premises, you’ll be able to whip them up without a thought. 5 Easy Meals for the Distracted Cook 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

That faith, if you will, becomes the abiding premise of Klara’s life — and the haunting complication of this novel. Review | In Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun,’ a robot tries to make sense of humanity 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian The premise of Gillian Cross's dystopian novel for young adults, After Tomorrow, is a little too close for comfort. After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross – review 2013-05-10T15:59:01Z

“The Truman Show,” 1998, 94 percent fresh The premise of this film is ingenious, but that’s all it really is — a great premise. 26 films Rotten Tomatoes got 100% wrong 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

The premises were a hive of activity: getting leaflets together, planning which streets were to be canvassed next, organising election envelopes, sorting out the Communist party leaflets written in Urdu from the ones that weren't. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

These supposed saboteurs could be me, my neighbor, or any other person who questions the premise and purpose of this war. Israel’s Other War 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

This expands the show’s stranger-in-a-strange-land premise to explore what it means to be American immigrants, as the newcomers try to maintain roots in the old world and coexist with indigenous neighbors. ‘Outlander’ Takes Manhattan 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The horror-in-space premise has also been executed with more creativity and bigger budgets. How ‘Alien’ Spawned So Many Others 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

I can imagine a viewer for whom the pandemic premise hits too close to home. Review: In ‘Station Eleven,’ the World Ends, Beautifully 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

It’s funny, but the premise isn’t quite right. Fact-Check of a ‘Lifespan’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

The show’s very premise seems to be a promise that it can’t last too long, and that it will break viewers’ hearts. The Age of Laura Linney 2010-07-28T20:52:00Z

The premise of their work was intriguing: A response to a lost dance-play written, directed and choreographed by Cunningham with a score for piano and voice by John Cage. Review: Rebel Yells and Chants of ‘Adieu!’ From Ballet de Lorraine 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

But however generic this movie is in premise, there is wit to be found in its details, and warmth in its message. ‘Back to the Outback’ Review: Pest in Show 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

If the premise sounds hackneyed, well, that's because it is: Lucky Louie is an unashamedly traditional, some might say old-fashioned, sitcom. Lucky Louie: box set review 2013-07-04T14:00:01Z

It’s time to retire “Sofia Vergara is not a native English speaker” as a comic premise. The Best and Worst of the Golden Globes 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

But Barro is wrong about the fundamental premise of his “be less annoying” thesis: that liberals are now the morally judgmental ones and conservatives aren’t — at least not anymore, now that Donald Trump is president. First gourmet sandwiches, now burger-shaming! Can more sensitive lunches heal America? 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

You may recall the very unfunny, real-life antecedent of this novel’s premise. ‘Happiest People in the World’: Just a madcap comic satire about Islamofascism 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

The premise of these works is that any definition of sin that discourages people from asserting their own value and needs does vast harm to people whose value and needs are already being actively denied. How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

Though its premise about the need for human connection is hardly unexplored, Hoult and Stewart deliver passionate performances, and the stark, monochromatic visuals offer an aesthetically pleasing, if frightfully cold, picture of the future. The Best Movies at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Once the premise has been established, though, the movie will proceed according to the same, tried-and-true comedy template that has existed for decades. Joe Queenan's guide to comedy cliches 2010-10-18T11:00:00Z

It is this kind of investigation that makes TV's reigning best drama and, despite its premise, its most intensely moral one. AMC's Breaking Bad: Elements of Style 2011-07-14T09:15:00Z

But when it’s built on the premise that blacks and whites can’t mix … I mean, I don’t want to mix with you guys. “The first day of shooting was the day we went to the cross burning”: W. Kamau Bell on hanging out with the KKK and claiming his space with humor 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

The premise of the five films that comprise the Dirty Harry series was that stupid or corrupt bureaucrats were making it impossible for honest, hard-working policemen to do their jobs. The meaning of Clint: what watching 40 Eastwood films has taught me 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

The premise is this: an obnoxious child does something faintly threatening at a family barbecue, and the father of the threatened child smacks him. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas 2010-05-07T23:17:00Z

There’s a lot more filler in “Oh, God,” which, despite its cute premise, is slow to evolve. Review | Politics and religion are juicy topics in two 90-minute comedies on D.C. stages 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

The problems with “Notorious” start with its premise. Review: ‘Notorious’ Offers Nice Cheekbones, but Not Much Else 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Alala deepens this simple, fable-like premise into a lyrical confrontation with the certitudes of faith and the life-giving powers of doubt. ‘You Will Die at Twenty’ Review: Death, and Life, on the Nile 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Michael Yarish/Comedy Central Yet beyond the weirdness of the premise, Review is unbelievably dark. Meet the creator of Review – Comedy Central's best-kept secret 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

The premise of “The Tomorrow War” is that a lot of regular people get conscripted to fight, so if you get too fit, it’s undermining that idea. How to Go From ‘Veep’ Scene-Stealer to Action-Movie Apprentice 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

But don't be misled by its simple premise. 'Land Ho!' embarks on two men's adventures in Iceland 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

The basic premise is that Monty and his telegenic black labrador Rubes will spend six months in the Hebrides working as a volunteer nature warden. Monty Halls' Great Hebridean Escape and Three in a Bed 2010-04-21T23:05:00Z

Likewise, viewers are asked to contemplate the premise, which seems designed to test the morale of the couple. The intriguing, well-acted "Immaculate Room" isolates a couple for 50 days as a test of resolve 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

The premise of “Islander” is a little mystical, a little misty, a little silly. ‘Islander’ Review: Two Young Women Lost and Found at Sea 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Its simple premise — take the thin-skinned venom and brazen duplicity the Trump administration has exhibited and render it as naked, schoolyard-bully aggression — was still effective, coupled with Ms. McCarthy’s absolute commitment. Review: ‘S.N.L.’ Targets Trump Again, With a Hint of Exhaustion 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

The premise, an average teenager named Miley Stewart who moonlights as a rock star in a blonde wig named Hannah Montana, became an instant sensation. "Hannah Montana" starts final season as Miley moves on 2010-07-05T17:15:00Z

And by late in the season, the series starts to loosen up and have dark-humored fun with its premise. Review: Peacock’s ‘Brave New World’ Is Neither Brave Nor New 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Two years later, the Photographers’ Gallery moved out of its original premises, near Leicester Square. 50 Years of Taking Photography Seriously 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

Opera officials explained that if we removed their property from the premises, it might be lost.” Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z

It is the merest twist on a premise as common as houseflies in which a childish adult is transformed by the joys and responsibilities of parenthood, or surrogate parenthood. Canada's 'Backpackers' and 'Seed' come home to roost at CW 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Festive dress, on the other hand, incites its own brand of fashion panic, its innocent-sounding premise being simply that you wear something special you wouldn’t ordinarily wear. Dress Codes: Appropriately Inappropriate for ‘Festive Dress’ 2013-12-04T23:20:13Z

Something about the gentle premise, the stories and their rambling telling meant I never once stopped to wonder how it was made or if it was working. Can an app guarantee a good night’s sleep? I tested them to find out 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

From that farcical premise springs a jackpot of great songs and silly shenanigans. Review: Gamblers and dames ? in fine voice ? hit town in 'Guys and Dolls' 2011-05-23T22:25:04Z

But that’s tough to do if your image is premised on you being amazing at everything you do. We don’t know when Donald Trump is joking 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

In one, critic Jane Hu asked, “How does one write an immigrant story when the story’s very premise was designed to be distorted?” Review | Anthony Veasna So’s ‘Afterparties’ is a bittersweet testament to the late author’s talents 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

The simple premise: In 1945, the Nazis escaped to the dark side of the moon. Nazis on the Moon: Iron Sky and the Crowdsourced Film 2011-10-26T09:00:59Z

But this time, more of the jokes are one-liners, in which the premise and the payoff are one and the same. ‘About Endlessness’ Review: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

A major exhibition of Pawson's work opens this week at the Design Museum, which institution has also hired Pawson to design its planned premises in the old Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington. John Pawson: Plain Space 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

“It’s a preposterous hook, of course, but Ms. Barthes introduces her absurd premise with deadpan restraint,” Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in August. DVDs: Another Trippy Rabbit Hole 2010-02-27T03:01:00Z

More fundamentally, though, the premise is just flawed. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-02-07T21:05:09Z

It is a simple book with a simple premise, which means that it is actually a very deep book. Deep book, flat subject 2012-06-15T00:00:00Z

Sandglass Theater’s “When I Put On Your Glove,” which continues through Sunday, has an affecting premise. First Up in La MaMa’s Return: Strange, Enchanting Puppetry 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Add in the fact that Ruffalo is contracted for at least six films and it seems likely that one of the comic's central premises would need to be dispensed with. The Hulk in space – is this the next move for The Avengers' jade giant? 2013-02-07T16:46:46Z

She said Mr. Edelstein had been barred from the theater’s premises as of Monday. Long Wharf Theater’s Artistic Director Fired Over Sexual Misconduct Accusations 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

The Wrap's Alonso Duralde agrees that "the premise is simple but full of unfulfilled potential." 'Let's Be Cops' should hand over its badge and gun, reviews say 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Presented with that question in a recent phone interview, Ms. Acogny, speaking from Senegal, laughed but calmly rejected the premise. Germaine Acogny on Choosing to Be the Chosen One 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Maybe he should look for the chemistry that he and his pals had last year when this premise was first introduced in an episode of “Bones.” Television Review: ?The Finder,? From Hart Hanson, on Fox - Review 2012-01-11T22:44:27Z

At a year old, the gentlemen lambs will be escorted off the premises to find new employment as high-end organic sausage. This shepherd has found her niche in the farm-to-fashion movement 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

In response, more than 70 progressive groups and activists signed an open letter to CBS and Global Citizen critiqueing the premise. "The Activist" implosion: How a reality show working for greater good became a capitalist nightmare 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

In the past six years its down-to-earth premise – artists sell their own work from the backs of their motors – has seen a roster of art stars pitching up. This week's new events 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

The Mob Doctor, whose premise is what it sounds like, is the sole fall drama addition. Upfronts Watch: Fox Tinkers, NBC Laughs Through Its Tears 2012-05-15T13:42:20Z

But of course, the obstacle to any solution is built into the film’s premise. Review: ‘After Truth,’ the Deluge 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

That’s the premise of Erdrich’s fascinating new novel, which describes a world where evolution is running backward and the future of civilization is in doubt. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

After returning home to Chicago and hearing stories about children murdering children, he created the project, operating from the reasonable premise that violence is, fundamentally, a public health issue. | 'The Interrupters': Confronting a Plague of Violence 2011-07-28T22:26:47Z

A source close to “SNL,” meanwhile, has dismissed the highly specific similarities as simply a common idea over a common premise. 5 sketches that “SNL” allegedly plagiarized 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

The premise is a grind house fever dream. The Killer Who Terrorized Cleveland — and Spurred It to Change 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

“Nothing,” said the friend, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of a story with an entirely hypothetical premise. Is Bill Clinton running for first gentleman? No? Well, it doesn’t hurt to speculate.

But the premise is a lot more familiar, an exploration of the lives of three guys whose protracted adolescence, on this occasion, plays out around calls to one another made at stoplights in their cars. Television Review: Navigating Bromances and Romances 2011-02-07T23:25:55Z

In Season 3, uploaded consciousness was the premise of one of the series’ best and most hopeful episodes, “San Junipero,” in which two lovers reunite on the digital plane after their physical bodies die. Free Your Mind? ‘Black Mirror’ Isn’t Too Hopeful 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

It’s such a wild premise, walking back into your family home 7 years after you’ve been kidnapped. Lenny Abrahamson Narrates a Scene From ‘Room’ 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

The live action remake laughs in the face of this message by turning the dystopian game show premise into reality. From "Parasite" to "Squid Game," America of course exploited South Korea's anti-capitalist content 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z

"Prior to the party, defendants knew that it was critical to screen guests, employees and others entering the party premises for weapons," Knight's lawsuit says. It's Suge Knight vs. Kanye in Fla. courtroom 2010-04-07T14:45:00Z

Scott called this a “generous and charming” film that “breathes new life into its secondhand premise.” The Best Thanksgiving Movies to Stream 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Plaza was attracted to the idea of taking such a potentially easy premise for and bringing depth to it: "It's such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the internet." Aubrey Plaza: 'I'm a poster child for irony' 2012-12-14T23:00:16Z

Buvette is French, and its premise seems to be that everything about France and the French is deeply adorable. Restaurant Review: Via Carota in the West Village 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

Stand-up is an art form full of control freaks, and most reliably funny stand-ups are poised performers who orchestrate laughs from the surprise and insight of their premises and punchlines. Jokes + Exasperation + Subtext = a New York Club Comic on the Rise 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

But her novel breaks the promise of its premise, revealing weaknesses in both craft and conviction. When You Hate Your Neighbor, and Then Your Kids Start Dating 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

Though the premise of “Embedded” is promising, the opera hovers uncertainly between satire, unabashed melodrama and hyped-up terror. Review: Fort Worth Opera’s ‘Buried Alive and ‘Embedded’ Conjure Poe’s Dark Terrain 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

The first two episodes, "Something's Coming" and "Thank You for Your Service" set us up with the basic premise for a bunch of different premises. "AHS: NYC" has too many villains 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Various premises were too big, too small, too expensive or had unmanageable stairs. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z

Mr. Winters tried to ground the narrative in research to make the wild premise plausible. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

The proposed Zumthor design for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art seems a continuation of this premise by demolishing existing buildings at public expense. Has Russell Crowe finally grown up? 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

Holding this film back is something more significant, a flaccid script written around a half-decent premise that some of the best actors currently working can sell in moments, but not as a whole. Great acting can only take HBO Max's throwback noir "The Little Things" so far 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

“They’re Watching,” a horror film by Micah Wright and Jay Lender, does a commendable amount with very little, using an amusing premise to separate itself from much of the genre’s low-budget fare. Review: ‘They’re Watching,’ and Reality TV Is Capturing Every Eerie Second 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

It’s allowed the show to treat the characters, however outlandish the premise, with deep emotional realism. The Americans Watch: The Evil Empire Strikes Home 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

The premise and narrative are simple and straightforward. One More Episode! BSG’s Blood and Chrome Sequel Debuts, But Where’s the Great New Sci-Fi? 2012-11-09T16:06:16Z

Her premise is simple, powerful and runs counter to prevailing views. 'Ghettoside' focuses on one L.A. murder to make case for more policing 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

And, at least in my case, some initial resistance to the premise was replaced by real admiration for the complexity of the human narrative that unravels at the Biograph Theatre. 'Tree' at Victory Gardens ★★★ 2011-04-13T21:19:58Z

“The premise — one woman’s attempt to go on summer vacation — is almost laughably banal,” J. Hoberman wrote in The New York Times on that occasion, adding that the film “may be Rohmer’s most mysterious.” 5 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Curator Oliver Basciano has paired their work under the title Modal, for this exhibition staged in a shipping container with a deceptively simple premise: there's two of everything. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z

The premise is similar: Fielder helps ordinary people with their ordinary problems by going to absurd lengths. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to HBO, Hulu, Apple TV+ and More in July 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

The first few episodes set up the premise of the show—which is a show-within-a-show, sort of. Hate your job, or your life — or both? Find catharsis in the cruel humor of “Review” 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

The Hollywood Reporter's Frank Scheck calls "Cops" a "witless high-concept comedy" and says it "fails to mine the potentially humorous premise for the necessary laughs, with nearly all of the gags falling thuddingly flat." 'Let's Be Cops' should hand over its badge and gun, reviews say 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

And though the premise might seem way too sad — or even a bit too obvious — MacLachlan turns it into something remarkable. Great New Children’s Books About Animals 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

This is the premise of The Bone Season, a book which earned its 21-year-old author Samantha Shannon "a six figure sum" advance from publishers Bloomsbury. Fantasy author on Oxford's influence 2013-08-20T10:24:51Z

One of the most distinctive, unexpected crime novels of recent years begins with the premise that JFK’s assassination was ordered by a New Orleans mobster. 50 notable works of fiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Just as good are Pauline Knowles and Billy Mack in a production that hits harder than its modest premise portends. Some Other Mother – review 2013-06-11T18:26:49Z

And note the unchained solos that test the song’s premise, cracking the right sort of smile. New Music: Young Jeezy, Nero, and Bryan and the Haggards - Review 2011-12-19T22:55:56Z

Bird’s new film, “Incredibles 2,” raises the ante on that premise, by making the quest for law-influencing publicity the center of the plot. Review: The Authoritarian Populism of “Incredibles 2” 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

The premise of pregnant people as "hosts" sounds like a line from a particularly sexist alien movie, but it's a premise that's become deeply embedded in our politics. Netflix's serial killer thriller "You" poses a pregnant question about personhood 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z

Although the internet and cellphones exist in the movie, there’s a dated quality to the premise. Review: ‘Alina’ Is the Work of an Indie Film Veteran, New at Directing 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

They all, mind you, start out from a similar 19th-century narrative premise. Critic’s Notebook: Inspired by Tchaikovsky in New York and London 2013-12-18T22:50:55Z

But setting aside aliens and enchantresses and malevolent metahumans, its underlying premise is no stranger than history itself. How 'Suicide Squad' Recalls a Chapter in American History 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

The questioner doesn’t know enough to make such an assertion, but let’s accept for argument’s sake the premise – that does not disqualify me from making stories about people of all shapes and sizes. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

The latter is, of course, reminiscent of Morrison’s novel “Beloved,” a story built on the premise that a mother would rather kill her children, and does, than have them live as slaves. Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book speaks resolutely to black America (but should be read by all) 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Certain People,” in particular, met with hostile reviews as critics questioned Mr. Birmingham’s conclusions and the premise of a white man writing about the inner workings of black society. Stephen Birmingham, author of ‘Our Crowd,’ other bestsellers, dies at 86 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

And the ageism premise “is extremely timely to me right now,” she added, “ ’cause I just got served L.F.D. papers the last time I flew into LAX.” The Sneaky Power of Amy Schumer, in ‘Trainwreck’ and Elsewhere 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

A lot remains to be seen about “Runaways,” and it feels as if it may take a whole season just to set out the convoluted premise. Review: ‘Marvel’s Runaways,’ Where the Supervillains are Mom and Dad 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Like “United 93,” “Hotel Mumbai” begins from the uncomfortable premise of turning an actual terrorist incident into material for a dramatized suspense feature. ‘Hotel Mumbai’ Review: Terrorism as Popcorn Movie? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Revisiting Highsmith’s novel reveals the true astringency of the premise, that a seemingly cavalier proposition has the power to cause serious and permanent ruin. The Essential Patricia Highsmith 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

It’s a real-life version of Home Alone: a problematic premise once examined in any detail. Is this cooking for idiots? My week eating nothing but ‘recipe box’ food 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

However quirky a premise may first appear, the opacity of the author’s motivation is of no importance so long as we get swept up in the tale and finally find it satisfying. An Old Man’s Youthful Fascinations Animate Cynthia Ozick’s New Novel 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Which raises the question: Will people buy, literally, the premise? Okapi Helps Africa Reap the Benefits of Fashion 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

The premise is "Jurassic Park" plus "The Time Machine," with a post-apocalyptic kick-start. Civilization gets a prehistoric reboot in "Terra Nova" 2011-09-27T01:45:00Z

Chris Morris's Four Lions has an audacious premise and brilliant moments, but still feels like a series of disconnected skits. TV Britcom's skittish foray into film 2011-03-17T22:01:01Z

In his statement to the Times, Mr. Talese emphasized that he tried to impart his skepticism about Mr. Foos’s credibility to the reader, but that the central premise of his story holds true. Gay Talese Defends ‘The Voyeur’s Motel’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

And while the technology is current, the premise isn’t — the avant-garde composer Cage was reassembling bits of operas into sound collages decades ago. ‘A Piece of Work’: ‘Hamlet’ for the computer age 2013-02-23T23:13:22Z

He could have behaved graciously toward the woman whose novel provided the characters, story, and premise that audiences and critics alike couldn’t resist. The Secrets of Vera Caspary, the Woman Who Wrote "Laura" 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Though the French-Do-It-Better premise of this book is nothing new, its structure — 50 French secrets to joyful eating, accompanied by fresh, simple recipes with lots of chatty sidebars — is refreshing and ridiculously readable. Lemon White Pizza, Smothered Pork Chops, Pea Guacamole: 10 Takes on What to Cook This Summer 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

Buy that premise, and you're in for one scurrilously funny and seriously odd trip. Crime fiction: Lupton's 'Afterwards' and Bazell's 'Wild Thing' 2012-04-04T20:35:04Z

That, when you think about it, is the premise of a great many ghost stories, and also of “A Ghost Story,” David Lowery’s ingenious and affecting new film. Review: ‘A Ghost Story’ Has a Sensitive Specter With Time on His Hands 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

The premise does not register clearly in the production itself. Two classic Shakespeares, each with ups and downs 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

The writer, Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, uses the premise as a metaphor for black Americans’ being stuck in history and unstuck in time, living in both the present and the inescapable past. Review: A ‘Twilight Zone’ Trying to Find Its Dimension 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

He downplays the story of terrorized Seoul, but, even as he keeps the gore off-camera, he fulfills the fundamental premise of cinematic deaths—they’re not viscerally repugnant but morally repugnant. “Colossal”: A Monster Movie Hiding Ugly Romantic Passions 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

It’s a simple premise that offers little in the way of plot. Three clashing sisters, one dying mother: A family's search for common ground in 'Marion Bridge' 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

This tender Korean drama enlivens a familiar premise — a woman navigating a midlife crisis after a traumatic loss — with strange and idiosyncratic whimsy. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Take "Love Is Blind," which is based on the premise that you can build an "intense, emotional connection" with someone solely by having conversations with them. From "Love Is Blind" to "The Circle," the new breed of reality TV reformulates how we connect 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Despite this horrifying premise, The Washington Post called "Room" "one of the most affecting and subtly profound novels of the year." The 10 hottest books at Seattle Public Library 2011-11-28T00:52:04Z

For me, one of the premises of the show is, “What is it really like to work in an office.” Matt Weiner on 'Mad Men' and Don Draper's Failed Pitch 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

You know, that was sort of premised on, A, partially realizing the importance her death would have to Oliver’s season-long arc; and also the reluctance on our part to give Moira another secret. Arrow Co-Creator Marc Guggenheim on Tonight's Season 2 Finale 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Because for some reason, a TV episode premised on the idea that it is a problem for a child to cuss encourages children to cuss. Modern Family Watch: What the Bleep Was the Big Deal? 2012-01-19T16:01:00Z

And in a revival, memento mori is always the premise. Are We Having Fun Yet? ‘Party Down’ and the Sadness of the Sitcom Revival 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

These recurring premises took shape as a series of aggressively odd books, each sui generis in its formal and compositional mechanics. The Absolute Originality of Georges Perec 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

That’s the — OK, obvious — premise of “Girlfriend on Mars,” a novel by the Canadian writer Deborah Willis, who knows what we’ve wished for from books all along, which is that they were TV instead. What Does It Even Mean to Be Real? 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

We are in Shonibare's studio in London Fields, Hackney, the smaller of two premises in which he works, and all I can see is the maquette he made when he submitted his original proposal. God save the Queen 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z

The playwright took that as his premise — a horrible crime committed by a seemingly gentle, lonely lad who, in Shaffer’s conceit, loves horses to the point of worship. Constellation Theatre revives ‘Equus’ to great effect 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

“Minimón” never communicates this premise directly, but it doesn’t have to. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Then that premise is quickly rejected, leading to another theory and counterattack. | 'Urge for Going': Political Conflicts, Family-Style 2011-04-12T22:33:25Z

This of course is to accept the premise that there is such a thing as a prose style common to Irish writers, which there is not. Colin Farrell Joins the League of High-Profile Narrators of ‘A Portrait of the Artist’ 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

What started as a labyrinthine setup involving the pair escaping from “a cult, and then we hide in a foster family and pretend to be kids”, was soon streamlined into the premise for Pen15. The stars of Pen15 on playing their teenage selves: ‘It seems like torture’ 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z

His basic premise is that loss pervades the animal kingdom and none of us moves through life untouched by it, yet we are programmed genetically to be resilient. Losing a Child and Learning to Grieve 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Unlike competitive sports, pro wrestling is premised on telling the best story. Trump’s 30-year WWE love affair: Will the president continue to pull from a pro-wrestling playbook? 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

The modern laboratory, set up in adjoining premises with help from Italy, is just ticking over. Mauritania's hidden manuscripts 2010-07-27T13:00:00Z

Already, its premise has provided ready-made memes for rubbernecks assuming the author isn’t in on the bit. Striver, Burnout, Lover, Scrub: A Debut Novelist Lays It Bare 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

That is certainly the premise of “The Protector.” Television Review: It?s a Crime That Men Are So Lazy 2011-06-10T23:00:10Z

Without fanfare, it establishes its principals and premise: Pru Steiner, a pretty, young English lit student, easily decides to marry Spence Robin, her handsome, confident, robustly ambitious Shakespeare professor at Columbia. Review | In Joshua Henkin’s ‘Morningside Heights,’ a married couple copes with an unexpected illness 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z

Before long, the night began to feel like the premise for “The Hangover Part IV.” Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Bate begins with a simple premise: “Storytelling was Shakespeare’s method of making sense of the world, and no stories gripped him more fully than those of classical antiquity.” Review | Who art thou, Shakespeare? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

These jokes share a premise, structure and point of view. ‘Daily Show’ Successor Trevor Noah Finds Himself Catching Criticism, Not Dealing It Out 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Waters’s new book, “Carsick,” arrives with a capital-P premise, one that could double as an elevator pitch for an A&E reality show. ‘Carsick,’ a Hitchhiking Memoir by John Waters 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Complete with a ludicrous premise, Boston-centric sports gags, random washed-up celebrity cameos, spoofs of several different kinds of more serious movies, an irrelevant third-act action sequence and a sentimental resolution? Pick of the week: Mark Wahlberg and his foulmouthed teddy bear 2012-06-29T00:00:00Z

Neither premise made the show bad, per se, but both felt like a self-conscious attempt to merge old-school sitcom premises with post-Simpsons crassness and irony. After Two and a Half Men, Chuck Lorre Still Runs CBS 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

The opening installment is sharp over all but has squishy spots; that makes you wonder if the premise and the execution are up to the challenge of a series run. ‘Ascension,’ a Space Travel Mini-Series on Syfy 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

Like Tresor, other Berlin clubs are named after what used to occupy the premises. In Berlin, Still Partying in the Ruins 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Although I wasn’t a traditional believer, and didn’t take religious stories literally, somehow their premises had shaped my subconscious. Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

Streaming dramas nowadays take so long to establish their premises that I don’t know if the two episodes I’ve seen are representative or just setup. Review: Netflix’s ‘Mindhunter’ Is More Chatter Than Splatter 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Gale took those questions back to Zemeckis, and they had their premise. 'Back to the Future' turns 30: Time sure does McFly 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Zelfira Tregulova, director of the Tretyakov, said she wanted to stop the sale of alcohol on the gallery’s premises and would be holding talks with the lessees of an on-site cafe and restaurant. Russian art gallery to review alcohol sales after attack on... 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

But there’s a way in which the book also refutes its own premise. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

“Management reserves the right to eject anyone from the premises due to overly loud, abusive conversations/singing,” the Las Vegas reader proposes. Review | Why I will start including accessibility information in my restaurant reviews 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

The conclusion of Gal Beckerman’s article, arguing that Judaism must be meaningful in order for Jews to survive, is built on the mistaken premise that Jewish survival is an end in itself. Letters to the Editor 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

The premise might be laughable, but silly narrative ideas didn’t get in the way of a good time in the first film. ‘The Wandering Earth II’ Review: It Wanders Too Far 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

Designer Anya Hindmarch, a trustee of the museum, said the possibilities offered by the new premises would "cement London as the design capital of the world". Design Museum to offer free entry 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Rich with such revelatory details, “The Unknown Saint” turns its slight, sketch-like premise into a deceptively profound parable. Stream These Five International Films Now 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

The premise of the show is that you enter the theatre as strangers and leave as a team who are fired up and ready to win. New Edinburgh act of the day: Non Zero One 2011-08-17T14:11:51Z

The ridiculousness of the premise underlines the joke of putting a tap number in a Jimmy Buffett musical, a joke that depends on common assumptions about Broadway and tap. Ridiculous! Fabulous! On Broadway, Tapping in Quotation Marks 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

Suffice to say, it turns the series into something more fascinating than a “Groundhog Day” premise of endless resets and raises the viewer’s interest in Nadia’s eventual outcome. Review | There’s a twist in ‘Russian Doll’ that keeps it from becoming ‘Groundhog Day’ for hipsters 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

Being present is central to meditation and mindfulness, and the power of Candace compels me to get back to the central premise. If "A Christmas …Present" shows what Candace Cameron Bure means by tradition, she can keep it 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

If you don’t know Vinterberg’s work, this might sound like the premise of a dumb men-being-boys comedy à la “The Hangover.” ‘Another Round’ Review: They’ll Drink to That 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

But it’s tempting to think that its premise — the absence of traditional dialogue and loud, multilayered sound effects — has something to do with its success. Perspective | ‘A Quiet Place’ reminds us of the power possible in silence on screen 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

As premises for makeover reality shows go, this was so improbable that one could imagine Gok Wan storming from a production meeting in tears, defeated as never before by the raw material. Two Amigos: A Gaucho Adventure review – the sordid reality of mid-life crises happening abroad 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

The premise of "Ragnarok" could have easily been dark, even depressing. Why we want four (more?) Thors 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

In fairness, the film is saddled with an unappealing title and questionable premise. The Croods conquer UK box office 2013-03-26T16:12:08Z

Despite the intriguing premise of the film, its cursory and lopsided narrative approach dilutes its salient themes and messages. ‘Revolution Rent’ Review: Taking the Show South 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

The premise: A fictional version of Fox talk-show host Glenn Beck rules the nation, and probably the world. Review: 'Her Mother Was Imagination' is a drab showing of dystopia at Annex 2010-08-12T20:27:00Z

In London Shunt Lounge re-opens next Thursday in its London Bridge premises, where it will stay for another year. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-05-07T15:09:00Z

Mr. Lloyd’s “Betrayal” makes us feel this premise all the more acutely, by offering no distractions from the wounded and wounding souls at it center. Review: Tom Hiddleston in a Love Triangle Undone by ‘Betrayal’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

All meals are vegetarian, including curries and fresh fruit, and there is no caffeine or alcohol allowed on the premises. Next Stop: Pokhara, Nepal, Becomes Nepal?s Top Yoga Destination 2010-05-28T14:25:00Z

Also on the premises is Kitchen Table, run by the owners. Bites: Restaurant Report: Bubbledogs in London 2013-05-21T21:04:56Z

That high-concept premise has been both a challenge and an inspiration, Mr. Bays said. CBS?s ?How I Met Your Mother,? Late-Blooming Hit 2012-04-08T19:08:15Z

“Johnson came to the interview to change the subject, attack the media, undermine the basic premise and the reality itself surrounding the president’s call to Ukraine to investigate his political foe,” he said. Perspective | As interviews get tougher, Team Trump doubles down on avoidance 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

"This movie's very different, more physicality, darker premise, more story line, clearer thought," LaBeouf says of "Dark of the Moon." Shia LaBeouf: 'I have these yearnings to do different things' 2011-06-27T23:31:38Z

Q: Have you ever gone into a project with one premise and have it change once you get into it? Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock hosts TV's '50 Greatest Documentaries' 2011-08-04T17:48:04Z

Here, the premise alone is dazzling: A young bride and groom repair to the bridal chamber after their wedding. The Impossible Case of a Japanese Locked-Room Mystery 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Young questioned whether the once far-fetched premise of such TV shows is still compelling. Trump's White House: a gift or a curse for TV comics? 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

It’s a bit of a torturous premise for Teddy — one long I-told-you-so — and even though Lawson shows mercy by the end, I began to wish the bliss of total day-to-day oblivion for the guy. ‘Long Story Short’ Review: Fast Forward to the End 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

How do we take the premise of black people with superpowers and make it into something productive as opposed to something hacky and obvious? "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

So the premise didn't come first, it was more about figuring out what kind of story would make sense given your shared experiences? Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan on their 'brutally honest' rom-com 'Catastrophe' 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

A purpose derived from a false premise – that a deity has ordained submission to his will – cannot merit respect. 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z

In setting up comedy premises about American families, the people who make television can’t go on forever pretending that half the country doesn’t exist as potential lead characters for fictional shows. Perspective | ABC wanted a contrarian on mainstream TV. Roseanne was never right for the job. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

Taking the premise to its vertiginous reductio, the introduction to “A Perfect Vacuum” is a review of “A Perfect Vacuum” by a certain “S. Lem.” The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

I think the premise is hilarious, that these brilliant vampires would be high school students. Q&A: Humorist Dave Barry 2010-05-14T08:00:00Z

Produce and pantry items are available at the farmers’ market on the premises, from the Campaign Against Hunger’s Far Rock Farm; there is also a kitchen for cooking classes and job training in food. Beach Dunes Eats & Arts Café in Queens Provides Affordable Food 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

Chris Tomko/FOX The premise for an awful reality show and the premise for an excellent reality show are one and the same. TV Tonight: Does Someone Have to Go? 2013-05-23T18:37:52Z

The premise is worthy of a Pixar movie: The characters and scenarios of your strangest reveries dwell in your pillow, awaiting a chance to slip into your half-aware brain. In the galleries: To sleep, perchance to dream 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

He preyed largely on children at hospitals and BBC premises, relying on his celebrity status to deter or block any complaints. British TV star Savile may have abused 500 children, youngest 2-charity 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Balmes smartly ends it at 80 minutes, right when the premise starts to wear thin for even the biggest baby fans. Babies Review: The Awwww Heard 'Round the World 2010-05-06T23:30:00Z

I basically really enjoyed this movie, even while lamenting that I was enjoying it under mendacious premises and that there was something fundamentally cynical about its elegiac, retrospective tone. “X-Men: Days of Future Past”: Superheroes face the sunset 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

“Naked onstage” is a classic premise for an anxiety dream, and the moment felt surreal. So it’s true that she doesn’t wear a bra. Tig Notaro’s Topless Set 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

That’s because “The Americans,” which just returned to FX this week, has a similar Cold War connection, if not an identical premise. TV Picks: 'Foyle's War,' 'Allegiance,' 'The Fall' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Fundamental to the show is the premise that half of the Solars like the planet and half do not. The ‘Solar Opposites’ Creators Apologize for Their Clairvoyance 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Also on the premises: 11 suitcases total, more than half of them partly torn; and four laptop computers, three of them as useful as pet rocks, all of them with hard drives clogged with clutter. My secret hoarding shame: I lived with my trash. It was time to throw it all away 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Like us, Shrek yearns for the good old days here, and – somewhat tellingly – the premise finds the green ogre trying to regain his former fearsome edge. This week's new film releases 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z

If you recall the winking premise of the original, Jack defused the landlord’s disapproval of this unorthodox arrangement by pretending to be gay, which occasioned several seasons of naughty double entendres and farcical goings-on. Theater Review: ‘3C,’ by David Adjmi, at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater 2012-06-25T02:00:00Z

Here’s the premise: The C.I.A. orchestrated the writing of “Wind of Change,” an anthemic power ballad by the German heavy metal band Scorpions. 7 Podcasts to Binge in a Day 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

Acceptance of these narrowed premises is, at the end of the day, optional. Abusing the Buddha: How the U.S. Army and Google co-opt mindfulness 2014-03-17T06:59:00Z

“The whole premise of the album was to motivate people to think about their mortality,” she said. Jessie Reyez Is Yelling and Loving at the Same Time 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

The premise is pretty straightforward Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner setup – rich white girlfriend brings her smart, learned black boyfriend upstate for a weekend to meet the parents – what could go wrong? Black History Month viewing guide: the best new releases to see in February 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

It is a premise that involves still more computers and high-tech gadgetry. Geekery leverages duo into TV 2010-12-21T22:44:00Z

The extreme premise of “Wolf in White Van” — boy, gun, eyes without a face — makes it sound like a lesser Chuck Palahniuk novel. ‘Wolf in White Van,’ by John Darnielle 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

But about halfway through, it loses the film noir premise and reverts to a succession of effects. Dance Review: Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2010-03-29T21:23:00Z

Those old provocative stand-up premises only hinted at this new man, especially when they dug into family matters. Jerrod Carmichael Comes Out in a Riveting Special That’s About So Much More 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

Both of these videos are premised on the anxiety that’s born of systemic misunderstanding, confrontation and racism. For Innovation at the Grammys, Look at the Best Music Video Category 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

I think Idol's founded on the premise that every individual is capable of deciding for onesself who they best like on the show, majority rules. The World?s Smartest ?American Idol? Fans: A Roundtable 2010-03-17T14:11:00Z

The pulpy premise of the new series is that a criminal steals a time machine with the intent of destroying the United States by changing its past. What’s on TV Monday: New York’s ‘Class Divide’ on HBO 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

This is an interesting premise; an opinion stated as fact. 2010-01-22T17:52:00Z

It had hired a fully committed supporter of the fat hypothesis to replace him, and it was no longer deemed politic to have a prominent opponent of it on the premises. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

“The Catcher Was a Spy” is a character drama and an espionage thriller with a premise so peculiar that a fiction writer would be hard pressed to contrive it. Review: ‘The Catcher Was a Spy’ Shares a Peculiar History Lesson 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Released in full last week on Apple TV+, the eight-part docu-series offers plenty of evidence that its human subjects are convinced of the premise, as they typically are. Was 1971 the Year ‘Music Changed Everything’? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

It’s a show whose premise accepts that we essentially like its characters, which means none of them is going to be Vic Mackey. No, Brooklyn Nine-Nine Isn’t Conservative Propaganda 2013-11-20T12:22:19Z

It's a premise that could very easily have been tasteless or offensive, but the execution of "The Sacrifice" is so heartfelt that the story moved me tears. 5 excellent political horror films to watch this Halloween 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Now, that's an utterly silly and indeed offensive premise for a movie, but we've all seen way stupider ideas carried off successfully. "The Town": Ben Affleck's Boston fantasy 2010-09-17T14:01:00Z

It’s premised on the presumed differences between the two hosts, but the real humor derives from how well everyone gets along, how likely and familiar the interactions are. Division and Unity in Pop, and Beyond 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Live Vortex will mix shows recorded on the premises with interviews and archive footage, and users will be able to switch freely between them. Take Five: John Fordham's month in jazz – July 2012-07-25T10:18:00Z

On the phone from Cambridge, Mass., Mr. Rodat recalled that he was given a simple premise to flesh into a pilot: “Aliens invade, capture kids, kill adults.” Television: Kindly Keep Your Mitts Off My Planet 2011-06-03T20:59:53Z

I left his premises with a wonderful feeling of freedom. I thought about a wig and tried a comb-over. But now I’m bald and proud 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

The premise: A man is murdered by his ex-girlfriend, who turns out to be pregnant with his son. 15 of the Most Fascinating True Crime Stories Ever Told 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

This scene is critical to establishing a premise that the cops were justified in searching for “snipers.” Detroit is not a movie 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

And while the premise works to dispel widely held notions of what it means to be a stoner, the script defies expectations in other ways. Budding Success 'High Maintenance' Is About More Than Drugs 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Later, Weir came up with the novel’s premise: a character who wakes up alone in a spaceship and has to solve the mystery of how he got there. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

As PBS celebrates its 50th anniversary this month, it’s not ranked No. 1, but the rest of the premise doesn’t seem so crazy. PBS Showed TV the Future. But What Does Its Own Look Like? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

His reasons are at the heart of this film’s provocative theological premise, which is that God, at long last fed up with humanity, has decided to wipe us all out. 2010-02-06T02:29:00Z

It is a premise that sounds like a dismissive joke by Chelsea Handler. The TV Watch: ?Are You There, Chelsea?? Enters Female Sitcom Fray 2012-01-10T21:08:56Z

That premise guides the practice of botanical miniatures: tiny plants sculpted in 3-D. A Lifelike Version of Nature, but Not to Scale 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

The show already sets up the premise that Lee and Angel, as underappreciated men, can walk in to the company and easily show up their female coworkers. Work It: Say No to the Dress 2012-01-03T14:31:57Z

What’s interesting about this song as well, is that this song starts with that premise, but it weaves into all this other stuff. Why “London Calling” matters: “It’s incredibly in touch and ahead of its time for British punk” 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

“Based on a True Story” is the opposite, a seemingly daring, dark premise that disguises a mild domestic comedy. ‘Based on a True Story’ Review: Only Murders on the TV 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

Unlike the 2008 version, which spilled over into the Park Avenue Armory, this one would be confined to the museum’s premises. Art Review | Whitney Biennial: At a Biennial on a Budget, Tweaking and Provoking 2010-02-25T22:21:00Z

He described his own role as “trying to help out with whatever,” which included expanding Wilson’s premise into longer episodes and working with him in the editing room. John Wilson Reveals the Absurd Poetry of New York 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

This is the premise: for the sake of protecting those vulnerable, the elderly and the immunocompromised, everyone must sacrifice. Social distancing is a must – but many are ready to contribute even more 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a smart premise that speaks to how the times have a-changed, so it’s a pity that “He’s All That” makes such little use of it. ‘He’s All That’ Review: Much Ado About Nothing 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Your premise is counter-intuitive: that the year Hitler spent in prison ended up as a great boon to him. Hitler’s turning point: Without his year in prison, “he could have disappeared into the sands of irrelevance” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

I grant that it follows from their central premises that purchasing and consuming factory-farmed meat is immoral. We must eat more roadkill. Yes, even you vegetarians 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

A mysterious figure was said to be looming in their corner of the industry, harrying publicans, striking down premises. The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

The premise was simple: a mylar balloon that’s been stuck on the ceiling of the warehouse forever is finally floating down to earth, and the office gathers around to celebrate it. Office Watch: Kill! The! Balloon! 2012-03-16T14:08:09Z

And while I was intrigued by the premise, it was the sheer weirdness of the book, its insistence on subverting expectations at every turn, that made it so good. A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

“Doctors” is beholden to its premise, the story of Einhorn’s famous grandfather, even as it playfully cartwheels beyond to reveal its real intent. Review: Blood Runs Too Thick in ‘Doctors Jane and Alexander’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

The genius of this show is how it uses its high-concept–so to speak–premise to get at something universal. REVIEW: High Maintenance Deserves Its Buzz 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

The nonsense premise, the overcooked acting, the concussed story beats, the way that – like Search Party before it – it relentlessly drives forward from episode to episode. Santa Clarita Diet: the verdict on Drew Barrymore's cannibalistic comeback 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

Yet there is another option: we must start from the premise that – in all likelihood – we are already wrong. Moby Dick and gravity: how our understanding of truth evolves 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

Archer, which Reed originally pitched to the FX channel as "James Bond meets Arrested Development" takes this premise – the comedy of displacement activity – and runs with it. Life of spy: the return of Archer 2013-07-12T13:00:00Z

"The basic premises of The Matrix Trilogy and The Immortals are so different that it would be unreasonable to find their plots substantially similar," his ruling continued. Matrix did not plagiarise judge says 2014-04-29T08:39:35Z

You just need to operate on the premise that the author knows what she's doing. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

Expanding the parameters of the low-budget original by taking the action literally out into the streets, “The Purge: Anarchy” efficiently exploits its high-concept premise while delivering far more visceral thrills than its predecessor. Review: ‘Purge’ sequel provides requisite thrills 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Together with Lafosse’s intimate direction and the film’s lack of a score, this helps “The Restless” avoid any mawkishness that might have come from its premise. ‘The Restless’ Review: The Painful Cycles of Mental Illness 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

That’s the delicious premise of Killjoys, a sci-fi show about good-looking, trigger-happy bounty hunters who acknowledge that spaceships are cool but otherwise don’t get too hung up on the science part. Forget blockbuster movies – Killjoys is a summer thrill ride right here on TV 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

Masters said the show's premise is that dreams are not a Greek chorus to the characters' lives and instead are the other half. Dreams, diversity hallmarks of USA's new 'Falling Water' 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Prasad, vice chairman and CEO of Dr. Reddy's, says, "The entire premise of Indian companies being a globally competitive generic player is not going away in a hurry." Dr. Reddy's Rejuvenation 2011-02-03T23:00:00Z

The problem was that the snooker club and the model-railway club shared the same premises; the rail hobbyists had to pass cue-wielding roughnecks to get to their room. Bedwyr Williams: why I'm taking a space observatory to Venice 2013-04-14T17:00:01Z

The key for these films to work, Moller said, is for the creator to fully commit to the formal parameters of the premise from beginning to end. With Films Like ‘Inside,’ One Actor Does the Heavy Lifting 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

Rainbow Rowell’s “Landline” is another novel geared to testing that premise. In Rainbow Rowell’s ‘Landline,’ Magic May Fix Things 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

At its most audacious, the hand dryer is an expression of faith in the mechanical – in the premise that no cubic inch of our day is too trivial to remain unimproved by technology. Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Because a lot of family relationships are built on the premise that we don’t talk about certain things. What Jedediah Jenkins learned by bicycling across the world 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Here one could justifiably launch a harangue in HBO’s direction about its unimaginative choices: Served between “Girls” and “Looking,” “Togetherness” is just one more checked box on a sorely limited list of premises. ‘Togetherness’: What? An unhappy married couple? In Los Angeles? Again? 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

The premise is at once somewhat dubious and, in a general way, familiar — a comedy of disguise. TV Land's 'Younger' turns back clock for Sutton Foster 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

There is some wild overacting from the male leads, and the elegance of the film's premise is obliterated by its self-admiring macho violence. Trance – review 2013-03-28T15:30:02Z

It’s a clever premise for a clever game: The player assumes total control to help a person escape total control. Video Games: Video Games — The Room Two, Nidhogg, République and Cut the Rope 2 2014-01-21T22:37:15Z

Many are banking on the premise that Ms. Middleton will be influencing bridal trends for years, even decades, as did Princess Diana, whose dress is still inspiring knockoffs in the $2 billion bridal gown market. The Royal Wedding: Waiting for the Dress 2011-04-22T23:06:37Z

A post-apocalyptic horror film with an achingly simple premise – humans must remain silent in order to survive being devoured by marauding monsters. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

But it was precisely this premise, and the moral quandary it presented, that intrigued me. A Former Soldier Tells His Grandson: ‘I Wasn’t a Nazi.’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Each sequel to “The Butcher’s Boy” thus begins with an identical premise: A figure out of Michael’s violent past appears, disrupting his quiet existence and forcing him to resurrect his dormant — but still lethal — skills. Review | ‘Eddie’s Boy,’ by Thomas Perry, continues the saga of a retired hit man who can’t escape his past 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z

There are a number of things that this movie does right with this premise. “Halloween” is the perfect horror movie for 2018 — PTSD and all 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

I understand the points being made here, but the premise is unfair and reductive. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

The café has a simple premise: to gather, eat cake and talk about death. Cake and death: Why we need to get together and talk about dying 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

What happens when one stand-up attempts his or her own punchlines after lifting the premise from another stand-up? 6 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

This engagement will feature him alone with a core premise: jazz standards and stride piano, offered with flair. Jazz Listings for Dec. 19-25 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

She said the film’s premise — that the Madrigals received magical gifts as a result of overcoming tragedy — could open up a conversation about the history and reality of Colombia in an artistic manner. ‘Encanto’ May Be Accurate, but Can It Carry a Whole Country? 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

But in “Nox,” Ms. Carson takes the premise of translating a single classical poem as the basis for highly personal and multifaceted reflections. Dance Review: Poetry in Motion by Anne Carson and Rashaun Mitchell 2010-07-21T22:15:00Z

"Henry's premise was: The more you control production, the more you can control what you sell the car for, too," said Ford Motor's historian, Robert Kreipke. Hyundai Rolls Its Own 2011-02-23T23:00:00Z

"Town's" premise remains an enigma at the end of its first episode; there are a lot of introductions to be made and not so much time for plot. ABC's "Happy Town" gets off to confusing start 2010-04-26T07:49:00Z

I need a premise that gives Bob's pompous behaviour and endless need for self-promotion some sort of platform, yet I didn't want him to leave Broughty Ferry – and the spam emails wouldn't work on TV. Bob Servant Independent: the don of Dundee 2013-01-15T06:30:01Z

Several years ago, the Cleveland Clinic, one of the nation’s most respected centers, made the decision to remove McDonald’s from its premises. Should doctors withhold bad news? 2012-06-07T15:20:00Z

“Reputations” is driven by a similar quest as that in “The Sound of Things Falling,” though with a murkier and more agitating premise. In Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s Novel, a Political Cartoonist Answers to the Past 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Everybody was operating on this premise that he’s not going to be around much longer, and then here he is and he’s not going away. "Empire" Showrunner: We Always Planned That Would Happen to Lucious 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Lindelof and Perrotta’s drama has taken viewers to surreal places, but never violated the story’s simple, central premise, that we all do crazy things to mitigate the difficulty of living. The end of “The Leftovers” leaves us to contemplate what remains, and what we have 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

To be fair, the checklist of 2017’s social media delusions in Renton’s new speech is premised on them beguiling us as much as the old snares of starter homes and furniture on HP. ‘Choose Facebook, revenge porn, zero hours': what does the Trainspotting speech mean today? 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

The art teacher, for one, admitted that she was “totally upset” about the college’s move to new premises, now just two months away. Style: Feting an Ending, and a New Start 2011-06-06T12:35:07Z

“Case Closed,” a new true-crime podcast from Macmillan Books, has what is, for its genre, a provocative premise—it promises answers. “Case Closed,” Reviewed: Do We Really Want a True-Crime Podcast With Answers? 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Whether or not you accept that dystopian premise, its sideways development is astonishingly artful. When Disability Isn’t a Special Need but a Special Skill 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

The premise of a new play about Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev may sound like biting political satire, but the intent is just the opposite. Kazakh leader is made hero of allegorical play 2011-11-24T14:02:17Z

The premise that the setup suggests, a Walter Mitty fantasy story about a sympathetic loser, is also a fake-out. Free Your Mind? ‘Black Mirror’ Isn’t Too Hopeful 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

The premise of nearly all the novels, however, is that something has gone wrong that Parker must fix, and will fix, no matter how many people have to be disposed of in the process. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

The premise of his book, he said in introductory remarks, is that news occupies religion’s former place in society, an idea he borrows from Hegel. ArtsBeat: Why Must the News Be So Newsy? 2014-03-04T21:24:46Z

When the class ended, Mr. Davoli went to the cafe on the premises, and Ms. Coleman retreated to the locker room with a towel around her neck and a bit of sleuthing on her mind. Falling Head Over Heels in Yoga Class 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z

The premise is a little too adorable, and the characters are painted in cloyingly bright musical-theater colors. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z

From that bizarre premise hangs a story that will shock and disturb you. The most unsettling, must-read novel this year: ‘Welcome to Braggsville’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

These suggestions are clearly geared toward the younger set, but the premise is the same for children in elementary and middle school and even older kids who are ready to assume responsibility for their lunches. Yes, your kids can and should pack their own lunches 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

These painful personal details are built into the premise of “The Last O.G.,” a gritty, funny comedy that makes its debut on April 3. Tracy Morgan Is a Survivor. And ‘a Better Man Now.’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

The show doubled down on its premise that the existence of the Iron Throne and the fights, intrigues and wars over it, is the true villain of the show. 'Jon will murder Dany then reign': you predict who will win Game of Thrones 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

And yet the underlying premise of your study is that focusing on success is a problem. Kids Value Success Over Caring Because Parents Do 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

As the premise hints the story eventually travels from Britain to Egypt, of which Diab makes a visual feast in its depictions of bustling urban areas and silken desert landscapes surrounding the pyramids. With the sleepy "Moon Knight," come for the MCU, but stay for Oscar Isaac's dodgy cockney accent 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

In the course of a move to new premises, with a smaller library, the college's management has ordered the destruction of large sections of the college's archive, dating back to the early 20th century. Letters: Ruskin College's cultural legacy at risk 2012-10-08T20:00:03Z

The memory of his sister is in many ways the engine of Bleachers, a band that is entirely premised on human connection. You May Not Know Jack Antonoff. But You Probably Love His Music. 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

The basic premise behind my Wine School column is that the more bottles you try of more different sorts of wine, the better you will understand your own taste. How to Pair Food and Wine 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

It is a fairly cornball premise: an injured hockey player has to switch to pairs skating and ends up in a love/hate relationship with his snooty partner. On Silver Screen, a Bit of Gold 2014-02-04T23:04:55Z

The premise of Red Flag, which is a strong contender in the festival's narrative feature competition, was born out of a real life film tour he was booked to do around the southern states. LA film festival: sweet surprise follows Searching for Sugar Man screening 2012-06-20T17:20:04Z

And as the premise inclines toward a resolution, and the story involves a journey, which also implies an end, perhaps four weeks of comedy extravaganza will be just enough. 'Galavant' musical comedy on ABC is worth the short journey 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z

As often happens on “The Twilight Zone,” the plot is less brilliant than the premise. In Jordan Peele’s “Twilight Zone” Reboot, the Plot Is Often Less Brilliant Than the Premise 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

"I supported their cause because I also thought the Vietnam war, just like the Iraq war, was built and sold on a faulty premise," Redford has said. Robert Redford, the Sundance Kid, grows old with style as he reinvents himself for film festival 2013-04-20T12:36:22Z

“But it certainly is a provocation to ‘victim feminists,’ whose premise is that the world would be pretty much perfect if it were scrubbed clean of all vestiges of patriarchy.” A look back at ‘Disclosure’: Does Hollywood prefer films about women sexually harassing men? 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

They are allowed to sneak in a few kisses, because the pottery barn is off the monastery premises. RECAP: The Bachelorette Watch: Who Is Getting a Hometown Date? 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

The premise of the book is that violence is adaptive, i.e., that it promotes survival. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Its premise, after all, is full of juicy potential. Theater Review: ‘Bunty Berman Presents ’ at Acorn Theater 2013-05-10T02:00:01Z

He doth protest too much, methinks, but the whole premise of the novel rests on his thoroughly isolated, well-developed consciousness trapped as a reluctant witness. Ian McEwan’s ‘Nutshell’: A tale of betrayal and murder as told by a fetus 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

The core elements of the premise — rogue tentacles, prickly villains, a found family and swoon-worthy romances — are familiar to aficionados of genre entertainment. A Cult Show’s Recipe for Success: Whiskey, Twitter and Complex Women 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

But his underlying premise, that every homeowner should think about design and that everyone with a garden should be involved in transforming it, is totally valid. Author John Brookes was a rarity: A gardener who focused on design 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

While the show’s premise nods to celebrated acting teachers like Stella Adler and to extreme, emotion-based techniques like the Method, specifics are left aside in favor of merciless riffs on codified approaches to art. Many Methods to Collaborative Madness 2011-02-23T00:23:36Z

The premise could easily be saccharine or preachy but it veers away from that and isn’t afraid to show its characters as flawed as everyone else. Speechless: Minnie Driver's fast-paced sitcom has a lot to say 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Despite its outlandish premise, it’s a classic example of a feature-length foregone conclusion, in which a sulky skeptic is shown the light. Movie Review: ‘Hamesima X,’ an Israeli Story With an Alien Visitor 2013-04-26T23:46:07Z

Back in 1984, the main premise seemed — even to me — fairly outrageous. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Arthur busied himself taking photos of the premises, while the rest of us tried to look away and give Johnny his privacy. Cuckolded Johnny Carson Broke Into Wife’s Apartment To Sniff Out Lover 2013-10-08T11:42:00Z

The man-out-of-time premise recalls Fox’s New Amsterdam from several years ago; the apocalyptic plot recalls ABC’s unfortunate Zero Hour from this year. TV Tonight: Sleepy Hollow 2013-09-16T09:30:13Z

He never tests his premise against the really hard questions: the Palestinians, the West Bank settlements and Israel’s recent embrace of so-called illiberal democracies like Hungary and Poland, as well as dictators. Why Are American Jews Falling Out of Love With Israel? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

But “Butt Boy” is, unapologetically, what it is, and you can’t help but admire the filmmakers’ stubborn determination to go all the way with their insane premise. ‘Charm City Kings,’ ‘Babyteeth’ and Other Hidden Streaming Gems 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

“I deactivated my I.D. card. Changed the locks on my own office. I escorted myself off the premises. And then I threw myself into the bushes.” ‘S.N.L.’ Takes On Omarosa Resignation (or Firing?) 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

It is not a coincidence that many of the fringe venues are licensed premises. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: the interpretation of drams 2010-08-12T11:41:00Z

The premise of this retrospective is that no political context is too dangerous or self-parodic for satire; as proof, it offers several films that found different ways of taking a torch to reality. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

“The whole premise of Clare is to simplify, so by the time you’re at the end of this process, it’s joy, not hassle,” Ms. Gibbons said. ‘Avocado Toast’ Is Now a Paint Color 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

The first time I heard about “Black-ish,” ABC’s new sitcom about an affluent black family in Los Angeles, I was skeptical about its premise. Heady Stakes for ‘Black-ish’ on ABC 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

“All marriages are based on a sitcom premise,” he said recently: “What if you and I tried to stay together for the rest of our lives?” Television: A Show About Something: Marriage 2010-02-27T06:47:00Z

A lesser filmmaker might twist the premise into a broad, dopey comedy. Stream These 15 Great Titles Before They Leave Netflix in July 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

He wasn’t the only one challenging the premise. ‘Bridgerton’ Has Nothing on the Couture 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

But it put the “post” in its “Post Covid” premise by using time travel and alternate reality to depict a future in which humanity had — well, almost — beaten the virus. Wondering When the Pandemic Will End? On TV, It Already Has. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

But Homeland’s premise itself would seem to have a sell-by date. American Horror Story, Homeland Get a 2nd Season. Do They Have One in Them? 2011-11-01T20:48:08Z

The whole premise of that was trying to find a way to get the audience in the battle. A Comprehensive History of Game of Thrones’ Battle of the Bastards Episode 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Few premises in modern cinema are more exhausting than the reimagining of classic characters in contemporary settings. ‘The Future,’ ‘Cheap Thrills’ and More Offbeat Streaming Gems 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Right and that goes into what I want to talk about, the premise of the book. D. Watkins speaks for himself: "I think we can have tough conversations, make each other upset" 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a contrived and heavily stage-managed premise — but contrived in a Dickensian sort of way with coincidences that reverberate with philosophical significance. The Handmaid’s Thriller: In ‘The Testaments,’ There’s a Spy in Gilead 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

And then there was the premise: the navel-gazing self-regard of a TV show talking about itself felt as though it was conceived, not unsmugly, in a TV boardroom. Episodes: why sticking with a comedy clunker can pay off 2012-06-07T09:57:22Z

But the premise of a biennial is distinctly cosmopolitan and civic. Art Biennials Were Testing Grounds. Now They Are Being Tested. 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

But the documentary maintains an uncritical and even hagiographic view of the program’s stated premise, barely interrogating its ethics or on-the-ground efficacy. ‘A Towering Task’ Review: Peace and Its Discontents 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

But the director, Christopher Landon, does manage to generate some laughs from the premise and leave fans of gross-out humor a few particularly memorable images. Movie Listings for Nov. 13-19 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Glamorous with a streak of sincerity—and so satisfyingly absurdist that I refuse to describe the premise, you’ll just have to trust me. I Love Top Ten Lists 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

The very premise, of course, of the American President being offed by his own killer robots is a political argument. '24': Drones On 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

His premises are well worn and often based on stereotypes. Big Jay Oakerson, a Master of the Dirty Joke 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

“The whole premise of baseball-umpire camp is to perpetuate naïve realism,” Rosin said. “Invisibilia” Returns—with Timely Concepts 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

That is the premise of Jeffrey Selingo’s compelling new book, a survey course on the social, economic, technological and demographic forces reshaping higher ed. ‘College Unbound’: shaking the foundations of higher ed 2013-06-19T23:13:08Z

Well, “Saturday Night Live” took that already sexist premise — the wife sticks to the kitchen while the guys watch the game — and upped it multiple notches. “SNL” perfectly spoofs sexist Super Bowl commercials 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Though Finn’s and Jake’s adventures continue to be the main premise, the appeal of the show extends beyond that of a boy and his best friend. The Weird World of Adventure Time Comes Full Circle 2013-03-29T11:00:44Z

The premise is sinister and simple: One night, the mostly working-class and immigrant residents of a Paris high-rise discover that it’s not just dark outside. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z

Any premise or plot development could be contorted into an unnerving parallel with the viral elephant we desperately wanted to keep out of the room. Exposure therapy: why we're obsessed with watching virus movies 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

Its basic premise relies on an unshakable faith in human nature, and the primary goodness of the human race. ‘Power Must Be Taken’: Excerpts From ‘The Anarchist Cookbook’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Black-ish,” debuted last fall with a unique premise: a successful African American advertising executive, played by Anthony Anderson, worries that his children are losing touch with their heritage, thanks to their suburban California upbringing. Ask a Show Runner: Submit Questions for Kenya Barris of ‘Black-ish’ 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Ben Arnold Despite the occasional glib line about it being an "Orwellian nightmare", the super-surveillance computer that forms the central premise of this new procedural is oddly treated as a good thing. Series: Watch this TV highlights 14/08/2012 2012-08-14T13:57:25Z

Although sharing the limelight can sometimes dilute the glee of the original premise, it makes sense for Richman to split the burden of all that food. Man V Food: Adam Richman spills the beans 2012-06-15T23:05:00Z

Like the presence of a decapitated corpse somewhere on the premises, or an old troll with a satisfied leer waiting under stained sheets. Review: ‘The Way We Get By’ After a One-Night Stand 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Ron's jealousy expresses itself in a preadolescent bolting from the premises; he's missing but not missed. The New Harry Potter: A Hollow Hallows 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

It wasn’t until the earlier this year when Captain America: The Winter Soldier directly affected the ongoing storyline of the show, and challenged both its premise and title in a fundamental way. 'Gotham' and 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.': Similar Ratings, Similar Goals 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

State police officials quoted survivors as saying armed men burst into the casino, apparently to rob it, and began dousing the premises with fuel from tanks they brought with them. At least 53 killed in Mexico casino attack 2011-08-26T09:39:00Z

The first episode of “The Twilight Zone,” from October 1959, called “Where is Everybody?” was a bit similar in premise. “Who is Number One?” asks “The Prisoner” 50 years later 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

This is an original, far out premise, plus “Felicity’s” Scott Speedman is in it, and I really missed his mumbling. Don Draper?s reckoning nears 2012-05-21T12:45:00Z

The new film sees that premise reversed, with the lead characters journeying into the game's fantastical world. Jack Black leads star-studded cast for 'Jumanji' reboot 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

The premise: three years ago, 140 million people disappeared around the world, for which neither science nor major religion can offer any explanation. HBO's The Leftovers: intense, unpredictable, occasionally brilliant 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

This is a game focused on the antiseptic premise that the physical mechanics of Olympic athletes are the whole show. Video Game Review: London 2012, a Video Game From Sega 2012-07-10T22:55:43Z

“The premise of this book is that Dahmer was a tragic figure,” Backderf writes, “but that only applies up until the moment he kills.” My Friend Dahmer: The Unspeakable Horror of Life in the 1970s 2012-03-28T10:45:09Z

Seen in its flat format, the film looks ordinary, especially in its first half-hour or so, as Cameron none too adroitly sets up his premise. Avatar on DVD Review: Pandora's Skimpy Box 2010-04-24T04:50:00Z

The stolen-authorship premise is popular, used by Woody Allen in both “Bullets Over Broadway” and “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.” ‘Lila, Lila’ Stars Daniel Brühl as an Impostor 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

This conversation was always awkward, less because of the premise and more the tone: It was consistently less congratulatory and more gotcha. After-School Special 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

There will be five beer gardens offering several brands of Budweiser with no hard alcohol sold on the premises. Downtown residents express frustrations with Made in America 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

The nation’s system of governance rests firmly on the premise of compromise. Hi Democrat, I’m a Republican, let’s not hate each other: The quixotic movement to get opposing voters to talk 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Its premise is that youth pop culture doesn’t originate in the 1950s with James Dean, but that there are hidden histories and forgotten biographies before, which the book unearths. | Filmmaker Matt Wolf on the Origins of Teenage Culture 2014-03-11T21:24:59Z

Alex English crafted a little 3D slug trap with a crafty premise. Print your own gardening accessories 2013-05-18T15:00:00Z

We have our premise – now we need our star. Bob Servant Independent: the don of Dundee 2013-01-15T06:30:01Z

That’s one of the premises of her new memoir, “Hello Molly!” How Molly Shannon achieved ‘superstar’ status 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

In 2006 Spring Awakening took the seemingly unpromising premise of a little known German play written in 1891 that dealt with teenage sex and turned it into a massive rock opera hit. Green Day spice up Broadway with sex, drugs and punk 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z

But it's right in line with the film's premise that language is inadequate to convey the ambiguity and pathos of this family's situation. "The Time That Remains": One Arab family in Israel 2011-01-07T02:01:00Z

Nor will summoning paramedics to escort you by stretcher from the premises. A Designer Is Dressed to Cull 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Now they have begun clearing cupboards and packing possessions ahead of moving to smaller premises once they find a buyer for their rambling, 20-bedroom building. Nuns who inspired Call the Midwife forced to sell their home 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

This novel’s tender, often elegiac tone deepens what is arguably a sensational premise and informs a perspective intriguingly different from teen fiction’s usual forward focus. Finalists for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

There is some embarrassing, eyeball-swivelling acting from the male leads, and the elegance of the film's premise is quite obliterated by its crude and misjudged violence. 'A cauldron of iffy acting' 2013-03-20T15:56:11Z

Stent broadly views this restoration as a bad thing, but does not challenge the premise that it is happening. Unraveling the Putin Enigma 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Spring for Music operated on the enlightened premise that audiences and artists alike should pay a little less attention to how orchestras play and more on what they play, and why they play it. Critic’s Notebook: The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-11T21:00:39Z

In contrast, Niderer's fight against Dassey's conviction is based on a single unwavering premise: that her client, the underdog, continues to be taken advantage of by a legal system that's weighted against him. “Making a Murderer” returns with a new Steven Avery lawyer to obsess over: Kathleen Zellner 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

No details were immediately available on her role or the premise of the latest installment of the limited series, which is set to premiere its next season in October. Lady Gaga to star in 'American Horror Story' 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Although the present premises are an ugly 1970s concrete construction, there is a buzz about it the moment you walk amid the crowded stalls. 10 of the best things to see and do in Batignolles, Paris 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

The case for letting Manion off will instead rest on a string of written legal premises. Looking for a Great Courtroom Drama? Start Here 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

The new animated family movie Hotel Transylvania is like that, minus the fresh premise and the charm. Travel Advisory for Hotel Transylvania: Avoid this Establishment 2012-09-27T15:00:07Z

"Ultimately, though, the problem with 'The Identical' isn't so much that it mixes up messages but that it doesn't seem to understand what makes its premise interesting." 'The Identical' is a pale imitation of Elvis' story, reviews say 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

But nothing about Adams’s novel is simple, as it unfurls its catchy premise with surprising wisdom and specificity. Four Winter Romance Novels Find Love in Hopeless Places 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

"He's diabolical," Spacey told Reuters, quickly adding that "he's a very effective politician" who knows how to work Washington and operates under the premise of "bad for the greater good." "Diabolical" Spacey plots revenge in Netflix show "House of Cards" 2013-01-30T15:07:28Z

Making the 12-year-old and his family Black profoundly complicates that premise, but the show’s creator, Saladin K. Patterson, doesn’t appear to be planning to tear anything down. The Fall TV Season Is Back, Smaller Than Ever 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Remember, our country was founded on a radical premise: that all men are created equal. I hate the Fourth of July 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Home-cooked dishes, often prepared on the premises, are offered in many of these markets. Ethnic Market Scout: Go for the cured meats and fish at Eastern European stores

Great premise, but the poem seems paid by the word, the poet tracking every gesture for an anecdote never as necessary as his dedication to nuance suggests. From New York to Barcelona, a Poet With His Eye on Politics 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Will it be like Lost or Buffy, a series that explores the premise from every angle and builds on it with characters we'll look forward to welcoming into our homes every week? Falling Skies: will you be watching? 2011-07-05T13:31:00Z

The movie, Peru’s surprisingly experimental submission for this year’s foreign language Oscar, adheres to that premise without compromise. Review: ‘Videofilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)’ Is a Digital Hall of Mirrors 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

They built the bar on that premise instead of the gritty Pioneer Square of 2014. Intermezzo Carmine: Pioneer Square’s new cocktail spot 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

And for a broadcast series, that’s a clever and quite daring premise. ‘Gang Related’ on Fox Twists the Usual Undercover Plot 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

That premise may sound a bit dreary for the cabana, but the story begins with a kind of midsummer night’s dream, with visions and prophecies on the first night the fireflies appear. ‘Summerlong’: A story for adults about adults gone wild 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

“There’s a climactic moment in the movie that is premised on the belief that people will be shocked by what’s right in front of them. After this last campaign, I’m not sure that’s true.” Jessica Chastain’s ‘Miss Sloane’ Echoes Campaign Rhetoric 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

And despite the eye-popping color palette and psychedelic rendering of its subterranean plateaus and horizons, one drawback of the "Strange World" premise is that none of the "beasties" are huggable. "Strange World" is a box office flop, but not for the reasons the right is claiming? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

The movie, whose brain trust includes some members of the Broken Lizard comedy troupe, which was behind films like “Beerfest” and “Super Troopers,” has a premise built for gags and takes full advantage of it. Movie Review: ‘The Babymakers,’ With Olivia Munn and Paul Schneider 2012-08-02T18:40:16Z

That premise might sound like a familiar rom-com, but in Chase’s hands, it is charming and surprising. Best romance novels of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

The combination of a star name and an action-heavy premise would surely have made Extraction a hit regardless but the scale of its numbers reflect an audience craving flashy escapism during a difficult time. What can we learn from Netflix's all-time top 10 movies? 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

Their story portrayed to audiences that love conquers all and that it truly is blind — the sole premise or maybe even the fantasy the show is built on. "Love Is Blind" hasn't really worked since the first season, so why are we still watching? 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z

She’s hooked on “Too Hot to Handle,” and despite its “ridiculous premise,” as Feldman put it, the show is produced well and has a sense of humor about itself. Here’s What 11 TV Writers Are Bingeing 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

I'm a big fan of Groskop's journalism and the premise of this memoir – an amateur does 100 standup gigs in 100 days – is too intriguing to resist. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z

One thing I thought was great was getting to play a couple who are both equally committed to the premise. Will Ferrell on Donald Trump, Michelle Obama and His New Movie 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

If the movie, adapted from Judy Pascoe’s novel, “Our Father Who Art in the Tree,” has a wonderful premise, it doesn’t quite know how to develop it. | 'The Tree': A Tree That Shelters Animal Life and Maybe Even a Dead Parent 2011-07-14T23:23:22Z

This, at least, is the premise behind “The Bar Is Low,” the lead single from the band’s fifth album, “Why Love Now.” The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Flips Mannequins Into Barbies 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Then there are other times when we’ve started with a premise and once we fleshed it out, it directed us to who would be perfect for it. SXSW 2015: Will Ferrell Answers Readers' Questions 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Lopez is rushed from the premises, her severed index finger reattached in a series of surgeries that leave her without feeling in the appendage. American meat’s disgusting secret: Why factory farms are even worse than you thought 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

In the simplicity of its premise it embodies the notion of high-concept entertainment. Movie Review: ?A Thousand Words,? Directed by Brian Robbins 2012-03-09T00:36:25Z

One of the premises of Stoicism is that it will help you assimilate horrible events with equanimity. Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

Ernst, 36, who was a director and producer on the Amazon series “Transparent,” said in an interview that he was skeptical of the novel’s premise initially. A Teen Pretends to Be Trans, and Some Viewers Object to the Deception 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

A customer would have to have a Borgata player’s club card, which would screen them to ensure they are of legal gambling age and are not banned from any casino premises. Now you can lose money without ever leaving your bed 2013-02-11T22:51:00Z

Once it exits the premises — either because it’s been sold or because the original owner has moved it — taxes are owed in the country where it winds up. Swiss Freeports Are Home for a Growing Treasury of Art 2012-07-21T18:52:48Z

Occasionally, a serial like HBO’s “The Wire” or FX’s “The Shield” will question the tactics and premises of an objective like the war on drugs. ‘Training Day’ and ‘A.P.B.,’ Where the Rogue Cop Rules 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

I’m also not sure I buy his premise that telling the medical staff he is suffering from being the main force being the Discovery spore drive would get him shipped off somewhere else for tests. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 8: A Little Harmony 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Then JJ’s camera and the documentary premise pay off again, this time with interviews. Review: From Lil Buck, History and a Chance to Flash Some Brilliance 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

Yet once their opening number ends and the plot begins, the poetry of the premise starts leaking out. Review: In ‘Fairycakes,’ the Woods Are Campy, Dark and Daft 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

Its subtitle, "Imagine the World Without Her," makes a provocative premise. 'America' documentary rebuts history of exploitation argument 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

It did not have any allergen advice on its wrapper because, as it was made on the premises, it was not required by law. Pret allergy death: Parents describe final moments with their daughter 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

There we have the premise for a seriously dark, "issue" based novel. If you like books like these: dark teen reads 2012-05-31T10:17:09Z

Though it’s an intriguing premise, it might not be needed. Theater Review | 'Brack?s Last Bachelor Party': Drunken Rages, Bad Deeds: Hedda Won?t Be Happy 2010-03-04T23:02:00Z

After all, the premise of the opera is cruel. ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ and ‘Iolanta’ Open at the Met 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

The premise is a bit shadowy, something about a museum filled with somnambulists who enact passages from Jekyll's journal. Gothic feel but murky focus for Mammals' 'Dream Journal' 2011-03-08T17:11:00Z

The film skews too vague, with a strong premise let down by a lack of plot. New on video: Nate Parker's 'Birth of a Nation,' 'Mr. Robot Season_2.0' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

This is a tantalizing premise for fans of comedies about vintage theater stars preening their overgrown egos and flamboyant neuroses. | 'The Grand Manner': Kate Burton in A. E. Gurney?s Comedy at Lincoln Center 2010-06-28T02:12:00Z

Sheng Wang, who shares a laid-back drawl, moseying delivery and gift for ingenious premise, has learned the right lessons from him while mapping out his own style. Best Comedy of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

If we get a case where there’s a bear on the premises and it won’t leave, it’s usually because it’s a mama with cubs. Help! There’s a Bear in My Airbnb 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

Part of the premise is what organizers call the “power of display,” positioning everyday objects as art. A Diverse Selection at Frieze London 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

The premise is that, and we would all be very rich if whilst we were getting stoned at uni, we thought that could be a great format for television. Jessie Ware Centers Herself With ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z

In other words, his personal morality isn’t baked in to the movie’s premise. The Thorny Ethics of the Oscars 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Still, if you send an orchestra on tour, the purpose should be to show its wares to the world on the premise that it has something special to offer. Mexican orchestra, deservedly obscure, shows too many holes 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

But I can say that if you're a science fiction buff of any kind, you'll want to check it out just for the premise. Civilization gets a prehistoric reboot in "Terra Nova" 2011-09-27T01:45:00Z

But despite its rich premise and handsome design, “Vinegar Works” felt unmotivated in spots, as if more was on the choreographer’s mind at the time of its creation than the dancing. Trey McIntyre Project bids farewell with final local dance performance

If this isn't happening, and we don't hear such reports, then the premise that unintended acceleration is being caused by an electronic glitch is questionable, he said. Toyota's Kipling Moment 2010-04-14T22:15:00Z

A cavalcade of ghosts haunts the premises as well. Review: Lies of Love and Memory Swirl Through ‘Unknown Soldier’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Blue has just cleaned up at a dogfight on the premises and will soon return. Review: In ‘Bullet Head,’ Adrien Brody, John Malkovich and an Angry Dog 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

The robot's face they left as a visor, smooth and featureless, on the premise that humans will anthropomorphise anything. Robot & Frank: vision of the future? 2013-03-08T09:21:04Z

Its premise is that, in a few years, our planet will be taken over by murderous, sightless creatures endowed with extraordinarily good hearing. How A Quiet Place became a cause célèbre for anti-popcorn crusaders 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

There will also be a restaurant on the premises, although the tenant hasn't been confirmed yet. Parade, party, free classes help christen Velocity Dance Center's new space 2010-03-25T22:04:00Z

Through this outrageous premise, he explores the icy heart of the literary sensibility. Michael Dirda selects three magical books 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

In fact, when I read the premise for the film, I feared it might be a little too inside baseball for a general audience. DC's film "Batman: Under the Red Hood" 2010-08-03T17:01:00Z

The premise of “Don’t Worry Darling” is juicy enough on its own: Pugh plays a housewife with a picture-perfect 1950s marriage who suspects that the carefully manicured world around her is a sinister illusion. Venice: ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Faces the Press, but Where Is Its Star? 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

The premise is that you are a woman trapped in the distant future in an abandoned robot factory buried miles beneath the Midwestern plains. Video Game Review: Physics, With Wormholes by You 2011-05-10T16:13:25Z

I’m a little worried that the premise of “Gemini Man,” which is the most interesting thing about it, might also count as a spoiler. ‘Gemini Man’ Review: That Assassin Looks a Lot Like Will Smith 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

There wasn’t a confetti cannon or balloon drop anywhere on the premises. Review | No bells and whistles, no biggest hits, but U2 is still one of the best big rock bands in the world 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

At the time, Foreign Secretary William Hague condemned the attacks complaining that Col Gaddafi had breached the Vienna Convention by failing to protect embassy premises. UK art destroyed in Libya attack 2011-06-02T14:31:40Z

It’s a fish-out-of-water story — gangland meets La La Land — and has a premise that probably sounded good on the drawing board. Television Review: ‘Ray Donovan,’ on Showtime, Stars Liev Schreiber as a Fixer 2013-06-27T21:32:46Z

In among the stock devices and low-cut tops, that's an unusual and intriguing premise on which to plot a TV love affair. Rewind TV: Zen; Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent; Silent Witness ? TV review 2011-01-09T00:05:37Z

For those unfamiliar with the premise, the game involves the two performers sitting on opposite sides of a partition with a small window cut out. Jennifer Lawrence and Jimmy Fallon play Box of Lies 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Even after “Passengers” ends, this creepy premise haunts your imagination. Review: Two ‘Passengers’ Trapped on a Spaceship Find Love Amid Despair 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

But the premise is the problem: the wealth is held to be interesting in its own right. Filthy rich: our tortured love affair with wealth porn 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

“The Leftovers” has an intriguing premise that is intelligently and artfully presented, but there is a question of trust, especially given the provenance of the show. ‘The Leftovers,’ on HBO, a Tale of Mysterious Disappearances 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

"The transcripts will prove conclusively that the extradition request made by the United States to the Swiss government is premised upon false and materially incomplete statements," Polanski attorney Chad Hummel wrote the court. Polanski lawyers fire new salvo in extradition 2010-04-29T21:13:00Z

The only breakfast available during the week is from a new bakery on the premises, which was a bit rough around the edges. Check In/Check Out : Hotel Review: La Maison Blanche on Shelter Island, N.Y. 2011-07-29T19:33:41Z

As is customary, I order from meat selections that were delivered that day and sliced on the premises. In the wee hours you can still find a bite in the District, and beyond 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

What observations do you have about the inequality in a country that is modeled on a utopian premise where everyone is supposed to have what they need? "Havana is . . . the fantasy of Americans": Filmmaker on capturing the "utopia" of Cuba in new doc 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

But The Slap feels like a broadcast network took an HBO-style project–provocative premise, specific cultural milieu–and then killed it with a pile of “Make the subtext more explicit!” notes. Review: The Slap Beats Its Viewers Over the Head 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Visitors are free to explore the hospital’s premises at the festival, which was first created to combat negative Communist-era stereotypes of mental illness. Prague Hospital Is Unusual Venue for Festival 2010-05-25T10:00:00Z

Having gotten Pacino, though, “Hunters” doesn’t do much with him, or with its premise or the rest of its stellar cast. Review: Al Pacino and Nazis, in Amazon’s ‘Hunters’ 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

But we’re long past the time when a novel’s provocative premise could cause a stir. Review | Even before Twitter, Dale Peck was stirring the pot. He’s at it again with a new book. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

From this bleak premise, a mesmerizing tale unfolds. William Trevor, Writer Who Evoked the Struggles of Ordinary Life, Is Dead at 88 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Besides the versatile blocks, “the basic premise of the playground is sand and water and the ability to mix the two,” Mr. Rockwell said. Science and Secrets in City Playgrounds 2011-04-14T22:10:38Z

Manuel’s attorney wrote its “Obligation of Fidelity” clause, which provided that the couple intended to be in an exclusive relationship premised on emotional and sexual fidelity and mutual trust. You cheat, you pay: How new contracts are changing love and religion forever 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

Later, CK describes how his good thoughts and bad thoughts wrestle for pre-eminence – a premise that allows him to posit and simultaneously disavow some outré opinions: slavery is good, nut-phobes must die, etc. Louis CK – review 2013-03-21T13:39:14Z

A classic sitcom premise married to some timely 1990s nostalgia, where all the teens-go-mad action was flanked by the constant shadow of the Troubles. Partridge, politics and period pomp: the must-see TV shows of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

A premise like the one we see here shouldn’t work as perfectly as it does – and yet, it more than works, it fits like a glove. This one (only) goes up to 11: the Best TV of 2019 and the many runners-up 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Such is the premise of “The Philanderer,” a drawing-room farce by George Bernard Shaw. Theater Review: ?The Philanderer,? From the Pearl Theater Company 2012-01-31T22:21:13Z

The technological premise has already been debunked, but that’s a minor issue for the movie. Review: ‘Sex Tape’ an X-rated tale with a PG plot 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

While the film mixes genres in the inimitable Bollywood style, that premise, at least, is played for laughs. ‘Filmistaan,’ a Bollywood Take on Indo-Pakistani Relations 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The company is working on a further six feature-length Wallander mysteries, including an adaptation of the forthcoming – and final – novel, and a new story based on an original premise from Mankell. The Killing, a slow-moving drama with subtitles, is a hit for BBC 2011-03-04T17:59:53Z

Hence, his work, like the show itself, feels appropriate on the premises of a college similarly devoted to exploring humanity’s attachment to violence and its harmful effects. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

But "Bar Rescue" taught me the whole premise of meaningful conflict. “Bar Rescue” boss Jon Taffer wants to show you how to argue better 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z

This was self-indulgent twaddle, inappropriate in these austere times and built on an entirely erroneous premise and poor science. Food TV: a crop of lemons 2013-01-23T10:45:00Z

It may be predictable, but the rural transplant premise still provides delight and relief, especially as rendered by Knisley, a comic artist with a creative spirit as fresh as the farm. A Comics-Obsessed Cinderella Down on the Farm 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z

The premise first took shape after the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon in October. A Documentary Grows With Each Mass Shooting 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

The premise of Stephen May’s third novel is utterly implausible, but it’s also acerbic and funny. Stephen May’s ‘Wake Up Happy Every Day,’ and More 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

There's not a person alive who doesn't need to hear this music, but it's hard to see how anyone's understanding is aided by that kind of moronic premise. TV highlights – 10/05/2013 2013-05-10T05:59:01Z

Vaclav Havel reportedly rented out an entire hotel on the premises to recover from surgery. The 46 Places to Go in 2013 2013-01-11T16:15:59Z

The very swiftness with which the enema brings relief itself refutes the premise of autointoxication. Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z

It’s such a simple premise for a suspense tale; the best ones usually are. Review | Ruth Ware’s ingenious ‘One by One’ pays homage to Agatha Christie’s ‘And Then There Were None’ 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

This silly premise, better suited to TV Land nostalgia than a contemporary Broadway comedy, sends us back in time to when mother-in-law jokes were all the rage. Larry David's play 'Fish in the Dark' thinks too small-screen 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

In “Cut the Sky,” this Australian dance-theater troupe, comprising indigenous and nonindigenous artists, takes a catastrophic weather event as its premise and turns it into an examination of climate change and indigenous rights. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

No comic moves from premise to punch line as unpredictably as Louis CK. Louis CK Performs at Madison Square Garden 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

This is the blunt, uncomfortable premise of “On the Count of Three,” which opens with the two main characters psyching themselves up to blow each other’s heads off. ‘On the Count of Three’ Review: Friends to the End 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

The phenomenon of Donald Trump, whose crassness is alien to Michael’s upbringing, has reinforced this basic premise of his morality. Becoming Michael Lewis 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Rev quietly materialised on our screens in June amid little fanfare, with many people dismissing the premise as "too much like the Vicar of Dibley". Hallelujah for Rev 2010-09-16T16:12:00Z

If this premise sounds familiar to you, then you have probably seen Hollywood screwball comedies like “The Awful Truth” and “The Philadelphia Story,” which used divorce as a plot-curling kink in antic made-for-each-other stories. | 'The New York Idea': Love in City of Intemperate Mores 2011-01-27T03:01:13Z

Less discussed was the premise, a population cull organised by the Japanese government in response to extreme recession. From The Hunger Games to Utøya and The Hate U Give: how cinema declared war on the young 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

As he explained the premise of “So You Think You Won’t Snap,” Bowen Yang addressed the camera directly: “Hello, America,” he said. ‘S.N.L.’ Taps Into Anxiety About Biden, Kanye and Super Mario 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

The fun of the film is giggling at this premise. Why the new Barbarella comic will struggle to match the original film 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Heatstroke free-jazz led to ragged funk; one formal premise kept melting into the next. Review: BRIC JazzFest in Brooklyn Wraps Up With a Mesh of Styles 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

In the show’s best moments, the premise serves as an attention-grabbing, plot-propelling armature for a story that promises, for a while at least, to be more interesting than that. ‘Swarm’ Review: The Underside of ‘Atlanta’ 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

The basic premise of this episode is very similar to the 2013 horror flick The Purge. 'Rick and Morty:' All the Easter Eggs You Missed 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

The premise, that high school is more perilous than a life of espionage, is witty and full of potential. 'Barely Lethal' kicks teen angst over the head with weak spy tale

Something else is missing here — a farcical energy or satirical audacity that might shock the premise to unsettling life, or else a deeper, darker core of feeling. ‘Moving On’ Review: Cracking Jokes and Settling Scores 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

In California, always America's rave stronghold, large-scale parties all but disappeared, while all across the country, clubs moved to smaller premises and weekly events went monthly. How rave music conquered America 2012-08-02T19:00:00Z

The whole premise is really about entitlement and the rich and the fact that he’s plowed this particular furrow. How Brian Cox Felt About That Big Episode 3 Twist in ‘Succession’ 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

There is also a tourist campsite on the premises. Once war-torn, Slovenia has become a green retreat 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

But as the years have gone by, the perfectly turned Black Mirror episode, with a fresh premise and devastating pay-off, has felt more and more elusive. Lame, lazy, lifeless: have TV anthologies lost their way? 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

But it’s an obligatory sort of updating that somehow makes the central premise seem more preposterous than ever. Television Review: ‘Coma,’ an A&E Mini-Series With Lauren Ambrose 2012-09-02T21:56:33Z

“We would never use the premise of economic recovery opportunistically,” says Bonnie Reuben, a resort spokeswoman. Perspective | As the summer travel outlook improves, added fees are making a comeback 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

The basic premise of "Big Brother" remains the same: The houseguests will be vying to linger the longest in the house. 'Big Brother' returns for a new season in aftermath of cast turmoil 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

It's a premise grounded in ego clashes, insecurities and career mortality that has both stars invigorated — and a little scared. Billy Crystal, Josh Gad cut close to funny bone in FX's 'The Comedians' 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

An exhilarating fusion of high and low, the movie takes a shopworn premise — townsfolk facing a violent threat — and bats it around until it all goes ka-boom. ‘Bacurau’ Review: Life and Death in a Small Brazilian Town 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

By beginning anew with a fresh premise and fresh cast every year, Ryan Murphy gave himself a reset button that could wipe away any and all writerly convolutions with a season finale. How True Blood's supernatural hedonism changed genre television 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

Sarah Canner, an American actress and writer with an equal interest in fashion and bicycles, was living in the city then and liked the poster but took issue with the basic premise. For the Bike-to-Work Generation, a Move to Fashionable High-Tech Clothing 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

In May, Miuccia Prada will engage in a fictive conversation with Elsa Schiaparelli, the premise of a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fashion Review: Collections from Milan Fashion Week, Prada, Fendi, MaxMara and Versace 2012-02-24T23:55:00Z

But the premise at least sets up a farce that surpasses “The Hangover” in gleeful crudeness and profanity. | 'The Change-Up': About That Wish: What if It Came True? 2011-08-04T21:39:27Z

His main emphasis is on the people who said yes to a campaign's request to host an event on its premises, and their amazement that they became part of a larger story. "Four Seasons Total Documentary" captures the Trump campaign's emperor-has-no-clothes moment 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

So, what about the reversed premise drew you to the project? Taraji P. Henson in "What Men Want": Don't call it a remake of a Mel Gibson movie 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

The premise provides a steady stream of humor and pathos. In 'Drop Dead Diva,' a hit that she never imagined 2011-07-03T02:52:04Z

One could write a whole essay unpacking the premises propping up this sentence. Perspective | Philip Roth and the sympathetic biographer: This is how misogyny gets cemented in our culture 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

Pixar’s premise was charming, original and may even have quelled some bedtime fears over the years. Travel Advisory for Hotel Transylvania: Avoid this Establishment 2012-09-27T15:00:07Z

The premise of the sitcom was based on Mac’s own life, and he incorporated it into a legendary routine in the very popular stand-up comedy film “The Original Kings of Comedy.” “I’ll bust you in the head till the white meat shows”: Stand-up comedy, black families and corporal punishment 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

Its premise has taken a thousand and one shapes over the years by way of sitcoms, Lifetime women-in-peril flicks or dystopian trifles. Dark comedy "Made for Love" is HBO Max's "Black Mirror"-lite tale of bad romance turned sociopathic 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

The premise of feminism, Ms. Adichie writes, is simply: “I matter. I matter equally.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Blueprint for Feminism 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

“Another Earth” was a heartfelt entertainment that managed to infuse a tantalizing science fiction premise with thought and feeling. ‘I Origins,’ an Emo-Science Thriller From Mike Cahill 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

The sentence reverberates like a plucked string because it speaks to the premise of the entire trilogy. Review | With ‘Kudos,’ Rachel Cusk completes a literary masterpiece 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

First, says Nunn, the heightened premise needed a world elevated to match it. 'Take care of your actors': the intimacy director keeping Netflix’s sex scenes safe 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

The premise of the novel is at once straightforward and ingenious. Back to the Hugos: Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke 2011-02-10T15:32:31Z

Netflix licensed the footage of the disaster from the stock image vendor Pond 5 and used it in “Bird Box” in an early TV news montage to set up its horrific premise. Netflix has no plans to cut ‘Bird Box’ scene despite outcry 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Yeah, it's a really famous sitcom premise of this guy who has four wives. "Doubt is healthy": "Ramy" will make you question everything about monogamy and spirituality 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

But there’s no just: The rice is grown in Japan without pesticides or chemical fertilizers, then shipped unprocessed and milled only once on the premises, to retain its flavor. Rice Balls, Subtle and Showy Alike, at Omusubi Gonbei 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

It is based on the premise that you are as real as he is and as deserving of attention, and that the world is worthy of our full and fearless interest, just as it is. Liner Notes for Jeff Tweedy’s “WARM” 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Its premise is the apotheosis of Silicon Valley hubris, perfectly captured in the character of Tobias Erkner, founder of the contest and the Amazing Future Fund. Review | In ‘Kraft,’ German author Jonas Lüscher pokes fun at Silicon Valley’s shiny elitism and rabid faith in technology 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

One of TV’s boldest series, FXX’s “You’re the Worst,” has from the beginning shown its characters grappling with a variety of issues, both diagnosed and undiagnosed, while deftly dancing around the show’s romantic-comedy premise. Salon Mix: 2016 was TV’s best year ever for mental illness 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

The premise does not seem to allow for a pregnancy or new-mom sleep deprivation. Melissa George pregnancy forces delay of NBC drama 'Heartbreaker' 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

The show’s fantastical premise, in which 2% of the world’s population vanishes in a Rapture-like event, was too much like science fiction for her. Ann Dowd on The Handmaid's Tale: it's a form of activism 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

The premise is promising — what happens when political dysfunction meets a deadly virus? — but the execution needs work. 2020 reads like a TV script. So we asked screenwriters how it should end. 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

The cards played: a larcenous contortionist on the premises. Teatro ZinZanni deals the casino-themed ‘Lucky in Love’ 2013-06-20T21:55:06Z

Invited by a traveling blues band to be its vocalist, Na Rose reluctantly feels compelled to relinquish her dreams of singing to care for the ailing Nellie, who intends to bequeath her the premises. | New Jersey: Brothel?s Guests: Love and Dreams 2011-07-24T03:50:03Z

That's the premise of the new novel from the always exuberant Ali Smith. The best books for spring 2011 2011-04-05T19:00:06Z

Still, some Catholic commentators have questioned aspects of the movie, such as the volleyball scene or even having an adequate pope as the premise of the movie. Mixed reviews from church on pope movie 2011-04-21T17:31:06Z

This is the premise behind “Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art,” opening Thursday at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Creators Inspired by Ebony and Jet 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

But the chief similarity between Skyfall and The Dark Knight Rises is that both films seem slightly embarrassed by their own central premise. Q: What do Skyfall, The Dark Knight Rises and a hamburger have in common? A: See below 2012-12-09T19:59:01Z

Yet the book’s premise — a teacher who molests half a dozen eighth-graders in rotation, with his wife in the same bed — strains credulity. Review | A new novel will reignite your #MeToo rage 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

As is customary, all the disorderly or anarchistic possibilities of its premise get channeled back toward a message of symbolic pseudo-redemption, which is what Hollywood movies have to deliver at all costs. "Dinner for Schmucks": Steve Carell's greatest nerd role? 2010-07-29T11:01:00Z

Mr. Boulud moved his own acclaimed restaurant, Daniel, into the vacated premises. Sirio Maccioni, Whose Le Cirque Drew Manhattan’s Elite, Dies at 88 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

But it is part of the show’s clever premise that hierarchies exist even within outcast worlds. | 'Huge': Lessons From a Weight-Loss Camp, on ABC Family 2010-06-27T22:51:00Z

But nominating Lego Friends for its gender stereotyping calls into question the premise of the TOADY. Motherlode Blog: 'Worst Toy Awards' Target Lego Friends 2012-11-29T23:32:38Z

Both the specific story told in "Middle Men" and the larger narrative of media and technological shift it documents are based on the same premise, one amply supported by both literary and scientific evidence. "Middle Men": Heroes of the Internet-porn revolution 2010-08-05T15:01:00Z

It was a brilliant move, as, Ms. Baumann explained, “the premise of our union is centered on art and design. It’s what glues us together.” Good Design With a Mix of Chemistry 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

More recently, the show’s second season explored a less concise but still compelling premise: Is the wellness industry a scam? 7 Podcasts About the Art of the Scam 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Historically, most broadcasting powerhouses – such as the reality genre, which includes Big Brother and I'm a Celebrity, Get me Out of Here! – have been built on new premises. Ten years of The X Factor, the show-off show with a talent for survival 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Though Deadline reported that the flap over “Confederate” prompted the “Black America” team to reveal its premise, the project has been in the works for about a year. Amazon’s ‘Black America’ Imagines a New Nation in the South 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Part of the premise of this story is that if you engage in blindness and hubris, you will pay. Lit Life: A Q&A with David Guterson 2011-10-24T01:45:04Z

More space, less clutter Foyles, which claims to be Europe's biggest bookshop, is currently preparing to move down Charing Cross Road in London to a new state-of-the-art premises. Browsing the bookshop of the future 2013-09-24T09:38:45Z

Romantic comedies have survived equally silly premises, but they had breezy dialogue, clever plot complications and appealing characters. 2010-01-29T07:11:00Z

Despite Coppola's Hollywood ancestry, Franco said financing the film was difficult due to the darker premise of the teenagers' stories. A young Coppola plumbs James Franco's teenage tales in 'Palo Alto' 2014-05-08T21:28:17Z

It just doesn’t take the approach that many shows might have given the same premise: sleuthing out whatever alien invasion, supernatural force or government conspiracy was behind the Departure. Review: The Leftovers Season Finale: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

The problem with Mr. Abbott’s new show, at least in its early going, isn’t the premise but the solemnity with which it’s approached. Television Review: ‘Hit & Miss,’ With Chloë Sevigny, on DirecTV 2012-07-10T22:31:12Z

Obamacare is premised on keeping the free market as a major driver of America’s health insurance system, as opposed to adopting some version of single payer. It’s time: Hillary Clinton must push to make the public option a reality 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

We also learn about Billy Witch, a camper who in 1982 vanished in suspicious circumstances and has haunted the premises ever since. Theater Review: ‘Billy Witch,’ Onstage in Queens 2012-11-14T00:57:55Z

This is the series' swoon-inducing premise: to be desired by the two hottest boys in town, who compete to be best at protecting you. New DVDs | 'Breaking Dawn,' 'Harold & Kumar' 2012-02-06T22:52:04Z

The director Patrik Eklund crafts a lean thriller out of this premise, serving up sharp satire about corporate greed with a generous splattering of blood and gore. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z

The premise is simple: Two friends, Jesse and Chester, wake up and can’t remember the night before, including the whereabouts of said car. What to Stream on Valentine’s Day 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

This paranoid premise is the starting point for “Chapter 3.” “John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum,” Reviewed: Empty Fight Scenes with a Paranoiac Chill 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Sitaraman argues that the Constitution is premised on the existence of a thriving middle class, and that the current explosion of inequality will destroy it. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

The premise, the designer said backstage, was looking back at his childhood — yet how could a 28-year-old remember lava lamps from the 1970s — unless they arrived very late in Glasgow? Special Report: Fashion: Burberry: A Crowd Pleaser 2011-02-21T18:29:01Z

They also wasted no time in rejecting Obama's basic premise about the conflicting interests of the middle class and America's wealthiest citizens. Obama delivers confrontational address 2012-01-25T03:23:00Z

The premise of “Resident Alien,” which was created by the “Family Guy” writer and producer Chris Sheridan, is pretty irresistible. When a Break From TV Brings More TV 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

The health risks should be obvious, but this takes its ridiculous premise admirably far. This week's new films 2013-02-02T06:00:09Z

The film’s director, Ben Wheatley, discussed the premise of the film and how he enhanced the sounds of gunshots in an interview. Ben Wheatley Narrates a Scene From ‘Free Fire’ 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

But it’s hard to ignore that the entire premise of “365 Days” is problematic. How ‘365 Days’ Became One of Netflix’s Worst-Reviewed Big Hits 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

When you travel around the country doing material, you can get a different sense with how an audience is taking in a premise. Jim Gaffigan on making darker jokes in today's divided America: "It's a decent vehicle for comedy" 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

It’s a premise drawn in part from Peet’s real life—she and her husband, Game of Thrones show runner David Benioff, do not celebrate Christmas with their children. Amanda Peet on Her Hanukkah Book and Jon Snow's Fate 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

What beauty, order and tidiness conceal under their glossy surfaces is the premise of Anders Emblem’s meditative film. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Not bad by any means, although the central premise is flawed by the teacher's assumption that the helpers would share Santa's name. The search for the funniest Christmas cracker jokes 2010-12-19T00:06:25Z

My blood sugar may be low, but I reject nearly every premise of your question. How Do I Tell My Friend to Stop Paying for His Son’s Lifestyle? 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

With hundreds of scripted shows this fall season, several of them with that familiar premise, why should audiences watch this one? Priyanka Chopra left Bollywood for ABC’s ‘Quantico’ — with conditions 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

But no serious person actually believes this premise, at least not in unqualified form. Same-sex marriage: They’ll just never get it 2013-03-10T13:01:00Z

That does not mean that the structural premise is not funny. Joe Queenan's guide to comedy cliches 2010-10-18T11:00:00Z

Recently it was the premise of "Arrested Development." Q&A: Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara on comedy, Canada, 'Creek' 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Spectacular, mind-bending premise which provides the seductive setting for a story delivered with style and precision and more shell casings than all the "Rambo" movies combined. Clark Gregg's 5 favorite sci-fi movies 2012-05-03T16:56:09Z

Did you ask my permission to take a photo of my premises? 'I was gutted that I'd been such a coward': photographers who didn't step in to help 2012-07-28T00:48:00Z

The premise of this project is that all the facets of us as creators only need the right environment to coalesce into completeness. Esperanza Spalding As a Real-Time Innovator 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The thing is so simple in its premise and primal in its effects as to approach conceptual perfection. How Snap Originals Beat Facebook and Instagram in Adapting TV to Social Media 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

But even a show like “The Bachelorette,” premised upon the quest for emotional vulnerability, rarely finds its way to true revelation. Commitment Issues and Fraught Hometown Visits as ‘Bachelorette’ Nears End 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

The distinction becomes meaningless, because even with his most reliable jokes, he is constantly disrupting his own premises. A Comic on the Verge, His Absurdism on the Fly 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Like a corgi back-flipping over a bathtub of champagne, “Red, White & Royal Blue” starts with a giddy premise and has the derring-do to succeed. ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ Review: Keep Calm and Pine On 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z

Like The Secret Millionaire, it fights to overcome its reeking, sickening premise, and always, somehow, more or less succeeds. Behind the Scenes at the Museum and How the Other Half Live 2010-05-21T05:45:00Z

Instead, we have Taylor and Spencer, who, with “Ma,” which opens in wide release this weekend, seem too fearful of their own premise to make good on the trouble that the teasers portended. Octavia Spencer’s Horror Movie, “Ma,” Is a Misfire Fit for the Moment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Still, Murphy's strong performance and the solid enough premise hold the possibility of some kind of turnaround. On AMC's ambitious "Kevin Can F**k Himself," Annie Murphy is a dutiful sitcom wife who goes rogue 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z

This is the kind of premise that can get ugly and mean-spirited, if you don’t handle it right. Work It: Say No to the Dress 2012-01-03T14:31:57Z

Iannucci is an expert personality portraitist, and that remains the case here even though the premise removes familiar political roles from the situation. "Veep" creator on trading the Oval Office for lawless space in HBO's wacky comedy "Avenue 5" 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

“What I thought was, ‘Wow, this is a great premise, and what a dynamic first episode,’ Cranston said of the first time Moffat described it. In ‘Your Honor,’ a New Orleans Judge Breaks Bad 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

In one “Modern Family” episode, weed supplies the jokey premise in which two strait-laced characters finally let loose. A Very Special Episode, but Maybe Not So Precious 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

FEW exhibitions question their own premise as openly as “Represent: 200 Years of African-American Art in the Philadelphia Museum”. Playing tag 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided his home and businesses in 2008 and indicted him on multiple counts of drug conspiracy, money laundering and operating drug-related premises within 1,000 feet of a school. Pot entrepreneur and ex-felon fights for black role in California's budding industry 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

Lumped together, the shortcomings become more obvious, particularly in terms of diversity — not only racial diversity, but diversity of location, premise and sensibility. How Netflix’s ‘Flaked’ is just one more drop in L.A.’s ocean of hipster miseries 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

The series immediately takes this premise to the extreme. Television Review: ‘The Mob Doctor,’ a Drama on Fox 2012-09-16T21:37:58Z

Although the museum ultimately vacated the premises, the Latino Theater Company worked with the city to update the lease.  With $500,000 grant, what's next for downtown L.A.'s Latino Theater Company? 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

What I found fascinating about this book, after its remarkable premise, which both invites and strongly resists allegorical interpretation, and the cold beauty of its prose, was my own reaction to it. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus – review 2013-04-30T11:41:04Z

Exploding those myths isn’t such a bad premise for a novel. Review | Joshua Ferris pokes wicked fun at the suburban patriarch in ‘A Calling for Charlie Barnes’ 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

“Stranger Things 2” also gets the chance to present a premise that is more than just a riff. Review | It’s the era of the homage and the satisfying ‘Stranger Things’ is the prototype 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

A sweet-and-sour comedy in which two thirtysomethings portray themselves back when they were still in junior high—a high-wire premise that lends the show a unique comic energy that is nerve-racking as well as funny. I Love Top Ten Lists 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Rob Masters also produces Rob’s Mountain Gin on the premises, and the plant turns into a lively bar scene on weekends. T Magazine: Blithe Spirits in Colorado 2011-11-11T19:30:16Z

The premise is disingenuous at best and, in a moment where scores of citizens are calling for widespread police reform, fearmongering at worst. ‘Spiral: From the Book of Saw’ Review: Slicing Up Bad Apples 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to beat a sitcom as a satirical target, and the bland, bathetic “House” is wide open, with its cloying “Three Men and a Three-Daughter Family” premise. Review: ‘Full House! The Musical!’ Lampoons a Ripe Sitcom Target 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

This familiar premise leads to a twist: Instead of adrenaline rush suspense scenes, this plot languishes in mundane melancholia. Review: In ‘The Night Eats the World,’ Zombie Apocalypse Now, Again 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Their arguments shared a premise – that carbohydrates are more dangerous to our health than fat – though they differed in particulars. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

More than that, however, the collection offers an intriguing premise: What if some very famous songs by very famous men were instead centered on and about women? Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girls" is a quietly triumphant covers collection that endures 20 years on 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

Although the movie was sanitised, the dialogue remained intelligent, the premise timely for the period and the acting exceptional under Minnelli's elegant guidance. John Kerr obituary 2013-02-10T16:26:52Z

But the premise of the book is whatever your values are. “Bar Rescue” boss Jon Taffer wants to show you how to argue better 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z

Yet despite the novel premise, "Hysteria" feels as though it's going through the motions as the filmmakers strain to deliver one of those blithe little costume charmers that can rouse art-house audiences to ecstasy. Review: 'Hysteria' has a few oohs, aahs, no Big O 2012-05-15T14:30:20Z

I don't know which of those two premises was most absurd. Yuck: A taste of things to come 2011-02-03T22:50:01Z

The premise of the advertisement run for Domino’s Israel’s newest addition to the menu — Sriracha Pizza — is that the spiciness of the topping will hurt so good, or something along those lines. “It was ill-advised, unfunny and not brand-appropriate”: The “Fifty Shades”-inspired ad campaign too spicy for Domino’s 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

It is a concise premise, but it is also, at first glance, a little mundane: Serial killers are hardly an underrepresented demographic in contemporary fiction and nonfiction. Are You Strapped In for ‘The Patient’? The Therapist Is. 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

What makes "Big Love" so unusual -- and has sustained it even during weak seasons -- is the richness of its premise. "Big Love's" riveting final stretch 2011-03-07T17:15:00Z

American Gods is based on the premise that the gods of ancient mythology exist in present-day America and are kept alive by people's belief in them. Neil Gaiman to adapt novel American Gods for HBO 2011-08-22T19:11:34Z

An excerpt from the company’s website explains the premise: WATCH: Thoreau’s classic work “Walden” gets the video game treatment — yes, you heard that right 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Macaulay uses this premise—which, when I was seven, seemed like science fiction—to illustrate what goes into unmaking a building: the materials, the methods, the fastenings, the layering. Saving Buildings with Social Media 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

Farscape had an epic premise fans of Buck Rogers may remember, but quickly became a very strange, complex and subversive show. Firefly to Futurama: the cancelled TV shows you are still angry about 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

In one premise, he says that doo-wop was once considered as edgy and angry as heavy metal. Comics Select Their Audiences as Carefully as Their Jokes 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

On this premise, a very unpleasant church has been built. Sports fandom doesn’t have to be miserable 2013-04-15T16:45:00Z

A teenage girl survives with her immediate family by scrounging for food until one day a dog arrives on the premises — or is it a man dressed up as a dog? L.A. Opera broadens scope with post-apocalyptic 'Dog Days' at REDCAT 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

The premise was clever, the plot juicy, the ’70s setting inviting to a classic rock fan like him. Ten Years Later, Adam Gwon Is Looking to Kill 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Eldrup, 48, who operated Muddy Paws Animal Rescue in Deer Park, was arrested Dec. 16 amid the discovery of dozens of dead animals on the squalid premises. Gruesome footage opens animal cruelty trial 2011-09-08T12:54:00Z

Yes, this movie does work on the premise that, after a certain age, your husband will probably leave you for a younger woman, which kind of sucks. The Best Movies For Getting Over Your Ex 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

He said the premise at the start of all criminal trials was that the defendant is innocent and the New York jury would be instructed as such. Judge threatens to revoke Harvey Weinstein's bail over phone use in court 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

If you were to accept the premise that ghosts are real, it stands to reason that some tension would naturally result once their flesh-and-blood roommates start spending much, much more time at home together. Quarantining With a Ghost? It’s Scary 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

They face felony charges of maintaining a drug premises and unauthorized use of another's property to facilitate a crime. Couple from `16 and Pregnant' arrested in Arkansas 2011-09-22T22:17:53Z

Also welcomed is dressing up the house or yard with Halloween decorations as long as trick-or-treaters are kept off the premises. California recommends virtual Halloween celebrations, skip trick-or-treating, state officials say 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Series creator Jonathan Tropper has said that Cinemax originally wanted a fifth season, but that he opted to end it after four rather than risk the premise going stale. 10 TV shows with big dad energy 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

If there is one thing above all that defines Mr. Munch’s work, it is a disarming sincerity, a willingness to risk awkwardness and even absurdity by taking seriously an outlandish premise. ?Letters From the Big Man,? Starring Lily Rabe 2011-11-04T22:01:54Z

This premise is disquieting, though Never Let Me Go may be too tasteful to be scary, and yet too contrived and unreal to be tragic. Never Let Me Go - review 2011-02-10T22:46:01Z

Yet there's nothing of the classic "SNL" spirit here, nothing acerbic or especially ironic except the film's cute central premise: Famous monsters of old need a place to hide away from scary people. 'Hotel Transylvania': a cute monster mash with 'SNL' vets in cast 2012-09-27T20:22:06Z

Most barely fulfil the premise of their name. The search for the funniest Christmas cracker jokes 2010-12-19T00:06:25Z

However I’m working on the premise that you are exploring the prospect on a more tentative, conversational level and if so I’m happy to discuss. Life has nothing to offer – should I bow out now? | Mariella Frostrup 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Faced with the unexplainable, the characters in “The Leftovers” waste little time proving that premise, though as the Times television critic Alessandra Stanley says in her review, “The premiere withholds as much as it reveals.” 'The Leftovers' Recap: Trying to Explain What Cannot Be Explained 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

By the third one, the premise may have exhausted the studio’s budget and the intended audience’s patience. A Dog’s Purpose? To Speak on Film, So to Speak 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

He makes the smart choice to play the absurd premise straight up. Obama, the funniest president: Laughter isn’t just the best defense—it’s a powerful image strategy, too 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

That idea sounded agreeable, but I soon learned that he and Scott Rothkopf, the chief curator of the Whitney and co-organizer of the Johns show, disagreed on its basic premise. Seeing Double With Jasper Johns 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

It adheres to the basic premise of the original, with a single mother raising two children on her own with the emotional support of the apartment’s building manager. This is it: “One Day at a Time” is the unifying family sitcom we didn’t know we needed 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Racial slurs, in allegedly threatening to ignite antagonisms, were identified as an easy premise for censorship, never mind the historical context in which they were cited. Battling censorship behind bars 2013-05-07T13:00:00Z

The problem was that the underlying premise of the “crack baby” phenomenon was poorly researched and overblown, according to this reassessment in a New York Times series, “Retro Reports,” that revisits old news stories. Top 5 investigative videos of the week: “Poverty is what makes the rich rich” 2013-06-02T13:00:00Z

Yeah, I'd like to say I didn't mean any disrespect, I just disagree with your premise. A former advice columnist on the pain problem that persists and his enduring answer, 15 years later 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z

He sets up an intriguing premise and then teases the reader for as long as humanly possible. ArtsBeat Blog: Rating the No. 1's: 'Wonder Woman,' 'Nightwing' and More 2011-09-22T18:36:43Z

Sometimes his premises just seem like elaborate excuses to say a phrase that tickles him. Norm Macdonald, Comic Nonpareil. (That’s a Word He Might Use.) 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Unlike previous years, FX hasn’t announced the premise or setting for the season, nor have they sent episodes to critics. What You Should Watch to Catch Up on This Summer’s Shows 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, pop cultural happenings and casting gimmicks can wipe the stench of familiarity away from even the most stale premises. How audiences can triumph in the battle for superhero movie supremacy 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

The idea that to criticize popular taste is anti-democratic is the premise of Andrew Ross' enormously influential "No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture," published in 1989. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

The various manifestations of magic take a while to emerge, but Ross states the basic premise early, in characteristically lilting language. Review | ‘Popisho’ imagines a magical realm teeming with memorable characters 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

Yes, apparently somewhere between fish crusades and lad-mag brunching we really do need a new premise. TV highlights 21/05/2012 2012-05-20T19:00:08Z

Hope they didn't sign a long term lease on the premises, but if they did, hope it is "assignable." A Sprinkle, a Snapshot, a Sensation: My Dinner With Salt Bae 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

So, it is a grim premise, but I think of the book as funny and moving. Alice Hoffman: ‘I’ve been writing continuously about survivorship’ 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The premise for "Tacoma" is still pretty vague but anything Fullbright Studios is going to do after "Gone Home," and with its attention to character and personal stories, is exciting. Here's every trailer from Xbox One's E3 presentation, from 'Halo' to Lara Croft 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

During a protest on Tonic’s last day, two artists refused to vacate the premises and were arrested. A Walking Tour of Manhattan’s Rock ’n’ Roll Past: the 2000s 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

After checking in, we were free to leave the premises to stroll around Staunton’s bustling downtown and enjoy an hour of virtuoso performances at a Bach festival. In the Shenandoah Valley, Blackburn Inn gives new life to a site with a dark past 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Do you remember the premise of the 2006 film “Click”? If not, consider yourself profoundly unlucky. “Daily Show” classics: Jon Stewart told Adam Sandler what everyone was thinking about his latest bad movie 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Even the zaniest comedy needs to take its premise seriously in order to work. Are We Having Fun Yet? ‘Party Down’ and the Sadness of the Sitcom Revival 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

With such a half-baked premise, is it really such a surprise that some end up saying, "I don't"? From "Love Is Blind" to "The Circle," the new breed of reality TV reformulates how we connect 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

That, more or less, is the premise of “Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience,” opening on Saturday and running through Oct. Trekkies, Set Phasers to Fun for a Trip to Starfleet Academy 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Today, Sweeney said, “You would not make fun of somebody for being that way,” adding that the fundamental premise of the sketch would fall apart in a matter of moments. Who Is Julia Sweeney Coming to Terms With? It’s Pat 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

When he entered the premises he found there was no alarm system worth speaking off and he widened his haul to include paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Georges Braque. France's 'Spiderman' jailed for 8 years for 100 million-euro art heist 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

The Israeli artist shows the first two parts of an unfinished trilogy that takes as its premise a call for Jews to return to Poland. New world disorder at Artes Mundi 2010-03-22T22:30:00Z

This world may be premised on ugliness through and through, but these images give no hint of that, and constantly divert the mind from any reckoning with the reality that is carefully masked and hidden. Review | Three large masterpieces, reunited for the first time 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

“Parasite” is scripted to the vanishing point: for all the desire to show, its images are more like realizations of a plot point or a premise than events themselves. How “Parasite” Falls Short of Greatness 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

She also refuses Kerry entry to the upstairs and has her removed from the premises, right as Kerry is gathering her personal effects and nervously babbling to Roman about Logan’s big plans for her. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 4 Recap: A Coronation Demolition Derby 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

The play starts from a simple premise: an historic Roman bath is found under the floorboards of an archetypal "little man", Ivan Antonov. The Roman Bath 2010-05-04T20:30:00Z

I've heard a little about The Voices; it sounds quite an odd premise. Gemma Arterton: 'Our house was a bit Ab Fab at times' 2013-05-11T23:05:25Z

Saffron Screen … 'Not the exclusive hangout of the hip and trendy' Within the premises of Saffron Walden County High School, which is about a 10–15 minute walk from the town centre. Cine-files: Saffron Screen, Saffron Walden 2012-11-06T16:50:00Z

“Back in 1984, the main premise seemed — even to me — fairly outrageous.” Margaret Atwood to publish sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

It goes back to my basic, original premise: this country is very confusing. "What a confusing country we live in": Michael Shannon on his gun violence movie "Eric LaRue" 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z

I also think that the whole premise of the show, even from the very beginning, was that there were protagonists who were unreliable. The Stars of ‘Homeland’ Get Their Final Debriefing 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The underlying premise is, are these bakeries and coffee shops worth a few people having to move? Gentrification’s insidious violence: The truth about American cities 2014-04-08T18:34:00Z

Avoiding spoilers, let’s say that the resulting contrast—between the committee’s depiction of the events and Eastwood’s own—turns “Sully” into a film about itself, a movie about the premises and powers of movie-making. Clint Eastwood’s “Sully”: A Heroic Pilot’s Existential Burden 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

I’m wondering how you came up with this premise for the novel. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

This is the premise introduced in the new trailer for The Witch, a historical horror thriller which won debut director Robert Eggers a prize for Best Director at Sundance in 2015. Paranoia Reigns in the Trailer for 'The Witch' 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

Or, possibly, its wacky premise: a man suffering from depression starts communicating solely through a glove puppet. SXSW 2011: The Beaver - review 2011-03-17T10:10:14Z

“It’s About Time” felt largely like a scene-setter overall, catching us up with characters and quickly establishing premises for the new season. Girls Watch: Don’t Tell Me You Love Me 2013-01-14T15:06:57Z

This imperfect, ad hoc system did not guarantee universal access, but it functioned on the realist premise that abortions were a fact of life. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z

I'm also a big fan of their bay rum bitters, which is made using leaves from the West India bay tree Anderman keeps on the premises. Three small-batch bitters for better cocktails (and desserts, too) 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

The premise drew criticism from some in the transgender community, who said the medical procedure should not be used as a sensationalistic plot device. Director, star defend controversial sex change film in Toronto 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

There might be no better description of reading Levy, who loves to yank at our wiring, our orienting premises and prejudices. In Deborah Levy’s Latest, a Student of History Learns to Confront His Own 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

In each, the gruesome skin of horror — the genre premise — wraps around a darker psychological root: the horrors of everyday life. Short Stories From Joe Hill, Spiked With Mayhem and Evil 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

The film doesn’t exactly subvert its clichéd “when two worlds meet” premise, and its bubbly but lame music cues are no help. ‘Sublet’ Review: A Less-Than-Intrepid Traveler 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

As a spinner of tall tales, he recognizes the basic value of paying off a premise. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 9: ‘You Think the World Is Something’ 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

When you get beyond the premise, “you’ll find that ‘Pitch’ is a highly conventional sports tale, a fastball down the middle rather than a darting curve,” Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Pitch’ and ‘Brangelina’ in ‘By the Sea’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Some reviews complained that the movie failed to live up to its premise. ‘Masculitis’? That’s the Plague That Rids the World of Men 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

"Book fans will recognize it because the core premise is still there," said Patterson, who worked closely with the writers and show runners but didn't object to structural differences for TV. How James Patterson's novel 'Zoo' became a series on CBS 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

The story that grows from this premise concerns their mutual drive to create. Elena Ferrante and What Liking Is Like 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

But a state law barred brewers from selling their wares on the premises — an essential source of revenue for many small brewers faced with high rents. Beer Makers Who Used Other Breweries Are Opening Their Own 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

The basic premise here has been a staple of satire since Marie Antoinette got in touch with her inner milkmaid: Spoiled, insulated royalty develops a yen for so-called real life. Review: Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Hold On to Me Darling,’ a Study of Bad Faith (and Behavior) 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

O’Donnell’s job, as a privately employed aide for an elderly patient in a nursing home, was put on hold — the nursing home permitted only its own staff on the premises. So many people are convinced that they had covid-19 already 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

“Growing Up Fisher” has a more unusual premise than that of most television comedies, and that’s because its creator, D J Nash, based it on his own childhood. Television Review: NBC Rolls Out ‘About a Boy’ and ‘Growing Up Fisher’ 2014-02-21T23:28:58Z

The premise of the show - that Molly was somehow impregnated while on a solo yearlong outer-space mission - seems on its face outrageous funny business. Halle Berry as a pregnant astronaut on ‘Extant’ 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

And although there's not an infant messiah on the premises, there is a contest between decency and savagery, charity and exploitation, and faith and despair. Reaching toward the light in 'The Night Alive' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

It seemed an intriguingly comic premise, because unlike everybody else’s job, my job was clearly far too human to ever actually be automated. Empathy machines: what will happen when robots learn to write film scripts? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

I would quietly escort the “Apple Plays” off the premises. ‘Surprised and Dismayed’: Readers Respond to Our Best 25 Plays List 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The film's premise is more striking than its execution, however. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z

This two-night run will feature him alone with a core premise: jazz standards and stride piano, offered with flair. Jazz Listings for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

They usually don’t do surgical procedures, and there is no medical professional on the premises. When a Man Needs a Safe Place 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

If this show sticks, the characters will all soon be too old to carry the premise. Review: In ‘Weird Loners,’ Four Single New Yorkers Dodge Commitment 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

“Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” is a throwback that, in its details if not in its premise, might have seemed fresh, if not funny, in 2005. “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” and the Death of the Hollywood Comedy 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

That was a 15; this is a 12A, a bit tamer, just as ridiculous, but the premise is looking pretty tired. Taken 2 – review 2012-10-04T21:01:01Z

That was the premise of a skit on Monday night's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!,"  anyway, which doubled as an advertisement for "The Best of Me," a new film based on Sparks' 2011 novel. Clippers star Blake Griffin: MVP of the Nicholas Sparks book club 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

I had received several stern warnings from the Academy that no unsanctioned photos of the press room were allowed, or you’d be escorted off the premises. Scenes from the Oscar-Night Implosion 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Songs about being innovative are not innovative, so I reject the premise of "9th Inning." Responding to the new Missy Elliott and Timbaland tracks 2012-09-18T15:20:12Z

Thursday's arrests follow an investigation opened in Marseille, close to PIP's former premises, on December 8 after the death from cancer in 2010 of a woman with PIP implants. French breast implant boss arrested 2012-01-26T17:37:03Z

The most chilling aspect of Ms Wood’s premise is its plausibility. The way of the world 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Finally, my story had a workable premise and a title: “I volunteered to sit next to a dead man on a plane, and deeply regret it.” Perspective | Inside the horror website that’s freaking out millions of people 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

The twists in the story are meant to raise the emotional stakes, but they have the opposite effect, undermining the credibility of the premise. ‘Language Lessons’ Review: Who’s Zooming Who? 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

She presented the album’s premise to the crowd as an experiment on Friday night. Pop superstar Alicia Keys unveils new album ‘Keys’ in Dubai 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

The play rests on a premise that renders its characters absurdly blinkered or schematically manipulated into seeming so. | 'Milk Like Sugar': ?Milk Like Sugar? at Peter Jay Sharp Theater - Review 2011-11-02T02:00:09Z

To understand why that is the case, here are the three aforementioned premises: A defense of Bill Maher (that still criticizes the heck out of him) 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

The premise of the novel is ridiculous – a Brazilian ghost writer completes his self-effacement by disappearing into Budapest – but Buarque sells it so well that, by the end, your own existence feels equally ridiculous. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z

On the other hand, they are slowly vanishing, their decay built into their premise. A Vanishing Masterpiece in the Georgia Marshes 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z

Developed in Russia, the game's simple - if addictive - premise requires players to move falling, irregular shaped blocks together to form complete rows. Game not over: Tetris turns 30 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

It’s the premise, just as often explicit as hidden, that powers the narrative as it keeps running. 'She is the Queen, whereas you are Joe Shmuck': Clive James on The Crown 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z

And its central premise, that physicists are murderers, simply becomes more and more baldly stated. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Seeing Patterns in a Nuclear Cloud 2012-06-19T17:57:24Z

“I worked under the ontological premise of imagining a museum without divisions, without geopolitics, totally horizontal,” he said. Art and Bacchanalia on the Met Roof 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

“Babel” worked on the same premise, but spanned the globe. Alejandro G. Inarritu on directing his own career 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Like “Seinfeld,” most episodes of “Louie” are woven around a joke in his stand-up routine, and here, too, there is a prelude that sets out the premise of the next few scenes. The TV Watch: Louis C.K. Returns With His Brand of Dark Comedy 2014-05-04T21:45:12Z

The premise of his breakthrough novel, 1969’s “The Andromeda Strain,” about an alien microorganism that evolves to threaten humanity, served as the DNA for many of the fictions that made him a household name. ‘Westworld’ Series Premiere: Life Finds a Way 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

The film's premise is borrowed from the ribald Aristophanes Greek comedy "Lysistrata" -— instead of a sex strike in ancient Greece, the story is set against the backdrop of gun violence in present-day Chicago. Break down of ‘Chi-Raq’ trailer: locations, stars and plot 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

He grew up loving “The Fresh Prince” and believed the premise of the show could still work today — but also reflect the times. New fresh prince Jabari Banks is ready to conquer ‘Bel-Air’ 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

“Harvard, Hillary, Trump, The New York Times. Names I hated to say, as if they pinned me to a life that had curdled in its premises.” The Wheels Come Off an American Journey in Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Feral Detective’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

The premise may seem like a stretch, particularly to those who haven't encountered many stoner freelance journalists. Tony D'Souza's 'Mule': Have drugs, will travel 2011-10-26T21:53:04Z

Jon Housman, Ora's chief executive, admits their idea is similar in premise to Seinfeld's show, but King's involvement itself gives an extra twist. Laugh Factory teams with Larry King's Ora TV for new material 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

But the show’s strong casting and writing now has purpose and a worthy premise: complicated people trying to create a new world. Halt and Catch Fire Became the Next Mad Men When It Stopped Trying to Be 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Sure, except for all the practical similarities: Both shows bear Louis C.K.’s input and seal of approval; and both feature semi-autobiographical premises. Pamela Adlon goes on to ‘Better Things,’ while Tig Notaro revisits the same old thing 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

They'll find that this one-note caper exposes the inadequacy of their point of view along with the falsity of its own premise. Four Lions may roar, but its laughs are hollow 2010-05-10T10:09:00Z

The filmmakers admit that the premise is outlandish but the setting was too fun to dismiss. 'Piranha 3DD' hopes to lure in moviegoers again 2012-05-30T15:38:41Z

And what about those unsavory sailors who have been spotted leaving the premises? | 'Unnatural Acts' : Behind the Closed Doors of Harvard, 91 Years Ago 2011-06-24T02:01:10Z

The modern fashion system is premised on the rapid rate at which new styles are outmoded and replaced, resulting in problematic and planet-damaging practices of fashion production, transportation and marketing. Holiday windows: The allure of showing and hiding makes us look 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

The premise, about a married woman in the grips of extramarital sexual compulsion, squarely fit within the parameters of the dark crime stories I most like to read. Review | The publisher of ‘Adèle’ asked me to endorse the book. I could not. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

He is its premise, its axiom, its great white whale. Review: ‘The End of the Tour’ Offers a Tale of Two Davids 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Joey’s premise was so lousy – Joey from Friends detaches himself from his New York support system in order to flounder miserably in LA – that you can barely believe it was even made. The one with the other TV show: ranking the Friends cast's next steps 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

It’s a wild premise, but at heart, it, too, is about the troubles of a unreconstructed man in an overcivilized time. White Guys, Grappling With a New Reality on TV 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Figuring out whether the premise worked out with each pair made the first season a delicious watch, especially during the pandemic. Why is the third season of "Love Is Blind" so disappointing? Because we seen its type before 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z

This premise is similar to the events that take place in the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage. 'Rick and Morty:' All the Easter Eggs You Missed 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

This premise is falsified by the fact that many stressful events, classified as bad, motivate some children to acquire the coping defenses that lead to a good outcome later. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z

Companies do not get rid of these useless positions, he says, because economic policy is premised on the idea that creating more jobs should be a top priority. Are More and More People Working Meaningless Jobs? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

So basically the film's entire premise – that Schindler was obliged to turn detective and interview all of Beethoven's old conquests, looking for the anonymous true love mentioned in his will – is wrong. Immortal Beloved: beating Beethoven into Meat Loaf 2010-07-01T15:01:00Z

These changes aren't enough to distort or taint the basic premise. Paranormal Activity 2 ? review 2010-10-22T10:53:00Z

People like me – media people who spend most days in front of a computer – get their jollies from a clever premise or an audacious narrative structure. This Is Us emerges as safe winner in terrible year for network pilots 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Tim and Eric’s comedy has a very specific, unpredictable pace, getting to the premise quickly, and then instead of simply building momentum, their scenes are a series of startling pivots. Tim and Eric Figure Out How to Do the Wrong Thing, Perfectly 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

“Mead was working out the methodology of visual anthropology, based on the scientific premise that you could infer more about a culture through careful photography rather than through written notes,” Mr. Scheib added. Celebrating A Gift From Bali: Delicious Confusion 2010-10-10T01:30:00Z

In a way the basic premise of these books is their own failure to capture that complexity. What Ever Happened to Hysterical Realism? 2012-07-11T14:00:31Z

This goes under the premise that any attention is good attention. Circa Now: Shopping Etiquette: For Customers and Sales Workers, Advice on How Not to Be Rude 2014-01-24T21:08:05Z

The show’s premise could easily have made this a silly enterprise, but with Mr. Skarsgard’s tight performance anchoring things, it instead is a first-rate psychological study. Review: In ‘River,’ Stellan Skarsgard Is a Cop Searching for Answers 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

Each work offers a distinctive premise or overarching concept; it’s the movement itself that starts to blend together. Review: Five Contemporary Ballets, Zero Female Choreographers 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

And two of the livelier series of the current television season, “Grimm” and “Once Upon a Time,” are based on tricky fairy-tale premises. Arts & Leisure: ?Mirror Mirror,? ?Grimm? and Hollywood Love for Fairy Tales 2012-03-21T12:00:11Z

The aggressively silly sendup “Eternity: The Movie” seems to have been constructed on the premise that all you need to make a parody are a few 1980s props and a relentless synth-pop beat. ‘Eternity: The Movie’ Spoofs the Rockumentary 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

And even for those too young to remember the original movie or series, the premise has been copied endlessly since — just look at any buddy-cop movie. 'Odd Couple' veteran Garry Marshall lends hand to CBS reboot 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Meg Howrey employs a similar premise but far more deftly in her third novel, “The Wanderers.” Review | The first step to Mars takes place in the Utah desert 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

But that’s the premise of the Twentieth Century Fox animated film from 1997, which hoped to board the money train established by Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” and “Beauty and the Beast.” Not Exactly Golden Tickets: “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Anastasia” on Broadway 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Okkervil River, from Austin, Tex., has never shied away from a sense of urgency in its music, or from the sweep of a high-minded premise. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-05-09T22:28:22Z

However, there doesn’t seem to be too much longevity in the premise. Grandfathered and The Grinder: John Stamos and Rob Lowe's mid-career triumphs 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

The unique premise marries Old World traditions and Holocaust history with present-day Hasidic Brooklyn, but the addition of technological elements is hit or miss. ‘The Vigil’ Review: What Could Go Wrong Watching Over the Dead? 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

“IMG Fashion Week shall vacate the premises and remove all tents and other Fashion Week equipment from the park,” said the settlement, which was ordered by Justice Margaret Chan of State Supreme Court in Manhattan. Fashion Week to Leave Lincoln Center 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

I'm accustomed to newsreel footage of police squads descending on the homes of suspected criminals and leaving with every electronic device on the premises. If you have lofty ambitions for your legacy, head for the attic 2011-01-09T00:05:39Z

As the premise for a comedy, this kind of body switch is just about foolproof. ‘Little’ Review: Too Much Caution and Not Enough Regina Hall 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

The premise may sound corny, but there’s an atmosphere of genuine enthusiasm and kindness here that will charm even the most cynical of listeners. 6 Podcasts to Make You Feel Good 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

Clearly exhilarated by the fresh start that “Spark” affords him, this author creates a much simpler premise that forges a breathless action plot out of many of the ideological tenets of the “Traveler” books. ‘Spark,’ the Latest Dystopian Novel From John Twelve Hawks 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

All three of those shows are so different in premise. Ed Helms’ Three Favorite Web Series 2013-09-17T15:08:51Z

That’s the premise behind Elan Mastai’s amazing debut novel, “All Our Wrong Todays,” but it explores that old conundrum in fascinating new ways. Review | ‘All Our Wrong Todays,’ by Elan Mastai 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

They dismissed Minimalism’s premise that art had to be abstract, laughed at the post-Minimalist belief that painting was dead and largely ignored the Pictures Generation assertion that the only good image was a photo-based one. ‘Chris Ofili: Night and Day,’ a Survey at the New Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Its premise is that 65-year-old Sandy, played by Corbett, is refusing to downsize the family home – slavered over by his shameless children – until his dog Henry dies. When The Dog Dies 2010-05-03T07:00:00Z

The space seems intended as an idyllic respite from the “chaos” of the previous room, but instead looks as tired as its premise. 'The 14th Factory' art exhibition, despite all the hype, is an $18 ticket to spectacle 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Rendering a miraculous premise dull, the film seems relatively uninterested in doing more than preaching to the choir. Review: ‘90 Minutes in Heaven,’ Then a Long Road Back 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

That feels like a premise you could imagine in a Coen movie and the questions become, who are these two guys? Noah Hawley on ‘Fargo,’ Comic Haircuts and Living in the Coen Universe 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

The show sets up the premise well but doesn't quite find a way to develop it. Mongrel Island ? review 2011-07-24T17:10:01Z

"That was always the premise," he said Monday. Gordon-Levitt's 'Don Jon' gets streamlined title 2013-03-12T11:37:17Z

One new drama, “Crisis,” seems, on paper anyway, more like the premise for a movie. NBC Announces 5 New Shows, With Familiar Names Attached 2013-05-09T22:32:31Z

If that isn't the actual premise of the film itself, then the studio should tweak its promotional strategy in the future to avoid giving that impression in the future. Will "Joker" further the stigma of mental illness? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

The show deals openly and smartly with his mother’s suicidal depression, among other true-to-life catastrophes that aren’t usually part of a comedy premise. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Atlanta’ and ‘Supergirl’ 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

The book’s premise appears to be loosely based on Gloria Steinem’s nightmares. Can Surrogacy Remake the World? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

There is nothing in the premise of 1st Born to suggest a science fiction theme, which might lead one to assume that its sequel’s robot lead won’t even be playing a robot. Lights, camera, automation: should robots replace human actors? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

The premise of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s new movie — a foul-mouthed, good-natured “Funny or Die” sketch stretched to feature length and garnished with special effects — is that the apocalypse is here. Movie Review: ‘This Is the End,’ With Seth Rogen and James Franco 2013-06-11T18:01:14Z

Then it leaps from jokey realism into a more unusual premise. Theater review: 'On the Nature of Dust' is moms, daughters and monkey business 2010-05-19T22:36:00Z

The premise of the show is the notion that the monarchy might be abolished. Elizabeth Hurley: I'm 'A Big Fan' of the British Monarchy 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

These events coincide with the release of three architecturally premised books about the crumbling city. | Venice 2010-11-18T20:00:00Z

They often centered on kinks or simple sexual fantasies – feet fetish videos or skimpy narrative premises such as sex between realtors and their clients. Why the re-release of iconic porn film "Deep Throat" fizzled 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

The Little Theatre Guild, founded in 1946 with nine members, today boasts 103; and that only includes theatres that own or lease their own premises. Dear Ian McKellen, I beg to differ ... 2010-09-27T21:01:00Z

Besides, partying provides the premise for the film. 'Piranha 3D': Run, don't walk, to see this fun horror flick 2010-08-19T22:27:00Z

Mr. Roth’s library, some 4,000 volumes, is now stored mostly at his house in northwest Connecticut, where it has more or less taken over the premises. A Scene Right Out of Philip Roth: His Books Come Home to Newark’s Library 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Slaght’s hope, and the premise of his engaging tale, is that uncovering the secrets of this mysterious raptor will help win it protection. Through the Russian Wilderness in Search of the World’s Largest Owl 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

Eddie, needing premises for his tatty antiques business, conned his way in to a curiously never-noticed-before lock up behind the market. Daniel Maier's World of lather 2011-08-05T23:04:00Z

At the reception that followed on the premises, the bride’s mother, Diane Joshua, walked around with a sparkling drink in her hand and a radiant smile on her face. When It’s Right, It’s Right 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Drake Doremus’s futuristic romance reworks the hoariest dystopian premise: a future society where emotions are banned. Venice film festival – plenty of punch to disturb the peace 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

With its captivating premise, the film also landed a deal from Magnolia Pictures. 'The Wolfpack's' isolated brothers relate to world through movies 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

So, The Frankenstein Theory follows a documentary crew as they ... hey, wait a minute, isn't this the same exact premise as The Blair Witch Project? The Frankenstein Theory - the Blair Witch of monster movies 2013-02-20T16:47:00Z

One of the only other original comedies that has found an audience this year, “Yesterday,” released by Universal in June, used an over-the-top premise and Beatles music to up the ante. ‘Good Boys’ Ends Hollywood’s Comedy Drought 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Traditionally, the Igbo people bury their dead among the living, and the ideal resting place for a man and his wives is on the premises of their home. My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

The bride’s father is chairman of Miami New Drama, a theater company on the premises of the Colony Theatre in Miami. Marli Scharlin, Miles Bergner 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

A restaurant in California has decided to ban any minors from its premises unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian. Restaurant bans all minors after string of bad incidents involving drugs and destruction 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

These movies explored the blended family premise a year before “The Brady Bunch” premiered. From mall cops to sex buddies: 14 times movies about the same thing came out at the same time 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

It’s like any other tutorial on her YouTube channel, Makeup Menaree, except that it’s based on a new premise: that all points south of the eyes will be eclipsed by a mask. Masks are changing the way we look at each other, and ourselves 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

The premise of the “battle” is loosely defined, and neither of these contestants is known for a barbed tongue. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Based on the Michael Crichton movie of the same name and general premise, “Westworld” explores a fantasy resort where human-seeming “hosts,” who believe they’re real, help “guests” play out their Wild West dreams. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Luke Cage’ and ‘Documentary Now!’ 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Often, the sketches push a joke too far, taking a funny premise and stretching it to some point of discomfort beyond comedy. Make America Cringe Again: Tim Robinson’s “I Think You Should Leave” 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

He delivers his punch lines at the end of patiently established premises, and then doubles down on them using a second voice, higher-pitched and quicker in cadence. Can Netflix, the King of Stand-Up Specials, Be Dethroned? 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

“Barry” commits to a bold premise, but could you sustain it for six years, seven, more? On That ‘Barry’ Finale and Why Some Shows Are So Good, They Need to End 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

The rangy, oddball sensibility of “SCTV” made way for “The Kids in the Hall” and “Mr. Show,” and the big-idea narrative premise of Upright Citizens Brigade. For the Comedy Iconoclasts of ‘SCTV,’ a Joyful Reunion Tinged With Loss 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

For exploration beyond the premises, the hotel rents electric bicycles charged by solar panels. The Asia Issue: Openings: New Hotels in Asia Embrace Their Local Settings 2011-03-18T18:55:00Z

The business moved gradually to the valley from its original premises, the Solomeo castle, because it needed room to expand. Italian designer Cucinelli makes a medieval fashion statement 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

And rather than rationalize the silliness of that premise—cops who clearly look too old to be teens going undercover at a high school—the Jump Street movie leans into it. 21 Jump Street, and How to Turn a TV Show Into a Movie 2012-03-20T12:41:17Z

The premise of "A Fragment Out of Time" became so popular that it acquired a shorthand label: Kirk/Spock, or just K/S, or eventually just slash. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z

Today, the mosque offers camps for children and runs a school on the premises. A new solution for America’s empty churches: A change of faith 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

There is a land grab taking place analogous to the coffee shop market, where big high-street brands buy up premises close to established independent cafés. Vaping is ever more popular, but is it a smoking cure or a new hazard? 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

Set designer Daniel Ostling keeps the stage bare, yet the show’s unmistakable opulence undercuts the premise of a madcap lark done on the cheap. The adaptation game’s afoot: Ludwig’s five-person ‘Baskerville’ opens at Arena 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

All of it makes the nervy premise of "Swarm" qualify as . . . stimulating, arousing, and that other word we might use to describe something that makes no promises to please but rewards being seen. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a cheap, cheesy, wooden, stupid potboiler that hinges on a premise so dumb that you can only conclude that the characters deserve everything they get because they’re all such catastrophic morons. Why does Netflix keep making so many cheap TV movies? 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

But it is so vague, cliché-ridden and devoid of surprise and suspense that once you grasp its premise, watching it is like leafing through a design magazine kept in a refrigerator. Review: ‘Equals,’ a Futuristic Tale of Defying Deadly Conformity 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

His songs lean on a strong premise with a twist, but end not with a hard joke, but on a delicate emotional note. Instead of Killer Punchlines, Killer Choruses 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Although this final startling turn of events only happens in the last five minutes of the pilot, it is undoubtedly one hell of a premise. 'The most original thing I have seen in forever': do Amazon's new pilots deliver? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

The monochrome display comes across as a little showy, just because its premise is so obvious. Orchids Take Their Star Turn at the New York Botanical Garden 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

The film’s strong and simple dramatic backbone sustains a wide range of incidental events that arise from the premise and fill in the background of the story and the characters with a cleverly calculated precision. The Counter-Superhero Calibrations of “Captain Fantastic” 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

The Grenfell fire was Britain’s deadliest fire on domestic premises since World War Two and there was criticism that the authorities were slow to provide new permanent accommodation for many of the survivors. UK duchess Meghan backs cookbook to help project set up after... 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

J. K. Rowling gave a virtuoso demonstration of the truth of that premise in her most recent book. In J.K. Rowling’s Latest Fantasy Novel, Pigs Do Fly 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

Finding the Way Back uses the familiarity of its premise to highlight ways in which sporting triumph and personal pride don’t always line up. Streaming: great basketball films to watch after The Last Dance 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z

“Do you think your political career is over?” he asks, before being escorted from the premises by security guards. | 'Sarah Palin: You Betcha!': ?Sarah Palin: You Betcha!? - Review 2011-09-30T00:09:45Z

What did you find so entertaining about that premise? Shea Serrano was as shocked as anyone when Obama endorsed ‘Basketball (And Other Things)’ 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

I’m especially curious about this—and anxious, because the premise sounds awfully FlashForward-y. Upfronts Watch: Fox Tinkers, NBC Laughs Through Its Tears 2012-05-15T13:42:20Z

The restructuring of Lanvin, the oldest French fashion house in continuous existence and one built on the premise of classic femininity and strength, is finally complete. A New Designer Is Named to Reinvent Lanvin 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

“Destroyer” was among the most unexpected, just because the premise — Ms. Kidman plays Erin Bell, a dissolute, alcoholic Los Angeles detective with a sordidly violent past — sounded preposterous, even faintly risible. At Toronto, Women Who Are Shockingly, Thrillingly Human 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

The premise of “Swearnet” is that they are trying to escape those personas and develop new projects. ‘Swearnet,’ a Project of the Trailer Park Boys 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

“Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge” isn’t as good a show as its brethren, but the premise is unbeatable. Grieving About Canceled Shows? Get Over It 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Despite the eugenic premise of “Where Are My Children?,” Lois Weber’s Vital Films of the Early Silent Era 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

The provocative but empty premise of “Homeland” leads us into another jungle maze until we’re too exhausted to suspend our disbelief any longer. Riff: ?Clues That Lead to More Clues That Add Up to Nothing? 2011-12-16T17:03:47Z

With its impeccable film-making credentials and intriguing premise, 360 combines masterful visual storytelling with a modern and moving narrative, helped by strong performances from a terrific ensemble cast. 360 to open BFI London film festival 2011-08-24T09:51:11Z

“The only thing I did know was the premise,” Tarantino told CinemaBlend earlier this year about the prequel. Tarantino offered Michael Madsen "Pulp Fiction" and he doesn’t regret turning it down 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Set in the New Mexico Territory, “Godless” has a simple premise. Review: Netflix’s ‘Godless,’ a Western With a Little Bit of Everything 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Foster responds to the outrageous premise of "The Beaver" by dialing back the direction and delivering the story in unassuming, largely realistic fashion. The role Mel Gibson was born to play 2011-05-04T20:01:00Z

The show’s specious premise is that the members of William McKinley High’s glee club are social outcasts, but clearly, they’re anything but. Cultural Studies: The Glee Generation 2010-06-11T19:20:00Z

The premise of the Netflix show is to allow singles to, well, mingle while they sit in pods, talking through walls. Behind the ‘Love Is Blind’ Wall 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Or perhaps it’s the heavy lifting of plot and theme, a process of premise building that is still in progress nearly halfway through the season. Review: HBO’s ‘Avenue 5,’ a Tale of a Fateful Trip (in Space) 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Her overall premise is, whether within the church or outside, that feminism isn’t about women being like men, but equal to men. The Vatican editor who exposed the sexual abuse of nuns – and took on the Pope 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

“The film’s premise is only half serious and wildly exaggerated, but there is enough truth in it to make you squirm and consider what went wrong,” Mr. Holden wrote in The Times in December. Roads to Nowhere and Anywhere, With Kelly Reichardt and Wim Wenders 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Harry remarks at one point that crime movies and novels strike him as fake: They rely on the premise that criminals are rational, and that their behavior always adds up. Michael Connelly’s ‘The Burning Room’ Revisits Harry Bosch 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

Then there is its premise, with its signature Tarantino mix of prestige and pulp. Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood hits Cannes to praise and boos 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

"More often than not, premises focus on someone's mounting anxiety — specifically the kind that stems from misunderstanding banal situation . . ." It doesn't get more relatable than that. How I made my peace with "I Think You Should Leave" – a cringe comedy I was one reluctant to watch 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z

Rowland, who has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and other charges, says Roraback’s testimony is irrelevant because adversarial debate and political commentary was the central premise of his radio show. Feds want to use Rowland’s radio show in trial 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

But a movement whose premise is that normal food is unhealthy has now muddied the waters of “healthy eating” for everyone else, by planting the idea that a good diet is one founded on absolutes. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

I would say we’re not changing the premise, but we are changing the whole dynamic. "Empire" Showrunner: We Always Planned That Would Happen to Lucious 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Still, Nixey delivers numerous nasty shocks and an overriding sense of menace, and if the premise is new to you this movie will do more than enough to give you nightmares. "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark": Voices in the basement 2011-08-24T20:25:00Z

All of them guest stars in a production premised on subverting old norms and expectations — of luxury, materials, silhouette, what celebrity even means — in three acts. Blockbusters at Balenciaga and Margiela 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

“Everybody Loves Raymond” ran on television for nine seasons on this very premise. Perspective | Ask Amy: Teen moving into household could place family at risk 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

It’s a credit to the series that its way of reimagining how to tell a crime story—mostly—manages to outweigh a premise unimaginatively programmed with familiar tropes around gender. Review: 'The Night Of' Tells a Powerful Story of Injustice 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Nigeria was a country founded on the premise of a regional power player. Nigeria: Africa's superpower? 2010-06-10T11:00:00Z

As a premise, this is a frightening extension of Saint Paul’s prohibition against women speaking in church. Review | Donald Trump has made feminist dystopias great again 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

That’s the whole premise – that whatever brought you to my office, it is hampering your ability to direct the course of your own life. Therapy under lockdown: 'I’m just as terrified as my patients are' 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

Even the premise that the action takes place inside a computer is undermined, unless of course the insides of computers are subject to weather conditions. Tron: Evolution ? review 2010-12-19T00:06:08Z

The story has a "killer" premise, she says, "So why does director Rupert Goold shoehorn contrivances to amplify the drama? The powerful real-life story is provocative enough on its own." 'True Story': James Franco-Jonah Hill drama doesn't convince critics 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

The distinctive premise of Patrick Wang’s new film, “A Bread Factory,” is matched by the audacity and the originality with which he realizes it. “A Bread Factory,” Reviewed: An Audacious Four-Hour Portrait of Culture Clash in Small-Town New England 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lesage seemed to think so when in 1992 he set up his embroidery school on his premises in the Parisian district of Montmartre. A Master of Embroidery Remembered 2011-12-12T12:37:05Z

Something in the premise of a joke, or whatever. "Desus & Mero" won't give 2020 candidates a pass: "We bring up receipts" 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

The shape-shifting premise proves a flexible, even powerful frame for the usual teenage quandaries — feeling different, being misunderstood by clueless parents, wanting to explore other, kinkier modes of life. Review: ‘The Innocents’ on Netflix Is a Stylish, Slender Teen Romance 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

And it is flawed from a very basic premise that left me unable to engage with the story. 'Doctor Who' Series 8 Episode 2 Review: Into The Dalek 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

What is interesting about this argument is not so much the questionable inference, as the questionable first premise. Christianity: a faith for the simple 2011-01-31T13:00:01Z

This premise comes across as nothing short of revolutionarily esoteric for the Broadway of 2018. Review | Daniel Radcliffe a stickler for the truth in buoyant ‘Lifespan of a Fact’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

That tediously obvious premise is given no illumination in this film, which was presumably largely improvised. | 'Art History': ?Art History,? Directed by Joe Swanberg ? Review 2011-09-23T04:13:02Z

He was setting the scene for “Turn It Up,” a brooding new song that builds on this premise. Robert Plant With Led Zeppelin Hits and More 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

They are just as likely to abandon a premise abruptly or embrace confusion. Tim and Eric Figure Out How to Do the Wrong Thing, Perfectly 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

It would have been nice to have on the premises, but having it close by would be a very good second. BBC George Orwell statue turned down as 'too left-wing' 2012-08-22T15:08:08Z

Recycling outtakes from previous “Panther,” the movie, with Sellers less an actor than an exploitable property, is not nearly as tasteless as its premise. ‘Pink Panther’ and ‘Decoy’ Return on Disc 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Finally, I worked it out: this is a British look at the US, based on a premise with which you may or may not agree; that American summer camps are inherently, Lord- of-the-Flies-ly fascinating. TV review: Beaver Falls; Harold Baim's Britain on Film 2011-07-27T21:00:01Z

A quirky Asian teenager transforms into a giant red panda whenever she gets excited … even the premise gives me pause. ‘Turning Red’ Review: Beware the Red-Furred Monster 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

“In 1992, in the suburban working-class community where I grew up, no one would have guessed there would be a gun on the premises,” reflects the director. 'I was terrified I was going to be a flash in the pan': three people who made Hollywood history 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

“What kind of mother parties with high schoolers?” screams an enraged mom to this film’s title character, setting up the diabolical premise in Tate Taylor’s deranged horror-thriller. Happy Mother’s Day to These Oddballs and Malcontents 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

At other times, it’s built into the absurdity of the premise. Louis C.K.’s New Special Mines Comedy From the Middle Ground 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

The play’s premise is that it’s set in an alternative universe where it’s Bill and Hillary but it’s not. Laurie Metcalf, the First Lady of American Theater 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

Yeah, I think the premise is not entirely accurate. Rev. Paul Scalia, son of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, on faith and doubt 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

Its premise is a familiar country conceit: music about the power of music. Review: Randy Houser, No Slave to Bro Country 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

These are the premises of the comic-book universe, and of fascism. Our juvenile American fantasies: Comic-book fascism, the rise of Trump and “Captain America: Civil War” 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Eager to fulfill our duty to this blog, we made our excuses and set off on honeymoon with our spouse, only to be informed that it was illegal to take alcohol off the premises. Adelaide festival 2013: week one 2013-03-05T12:39:38Z

Mr. Chéroux’s premise that mail art prefigured social media is debatable. Tracing the Roots of Photo Sharing, From Mail Art to Instagram 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

“Today Will Be Different” has a simple premise: Eleanor Flood, a wealthy, middle-aged Seattle resident with a penchant for negativity, decides to be better. Maria Semple's 'Today Will Be Different' will make you actually laugh out loud 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

A decade after Maybury's film came out, the lease on the Colony's premises expired. Michael Wojas obituary 2010-06-11T17:28:00Z

The season’s premise is also resonant with the rise of fake news and CNN chyrons that would have been jokes on “The Daily Show” six months ago. Stephen Root Is Just the Man for a Cubicle or a Castle 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

It is this story’s attractive premise—as it is that of children’s own make-believe fantasies—that feats of heroism as grand as the one Sadie and Sherman contemplate are well within their grasp. Masters of Illustration Bring Breathtaking Art to These Seafaring Stories 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

As somebody who tinkers with plots in his spare time, I remember watching Inception with the certain knowledge that I would die without having come up with a premise anywhere near that good. I Admit It: I Don’t Really Like Christopher Nolan’s Movies All That Much 2012-07-18T11:59:44Z

Nor did the premise for Christie's program seem promising. William Christie, with small Les Arts Florissants group, works magic 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

When “Suits” started three and a half years ago, its premise didn’t seem built for the long haul. ‘Suits,’ USA’s Dramedy About Corporate Lawyers 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Burton said he was instantly captivated by the book’s premise, though he had never been a serious student of the country’s heritage. Aside From the Vampires, Lincoln Film Seeks Accuracy 2011-05-09T12:00:00Z

Erotic tickling: Ha ha, what a premise for a documentary, directed by Dylan Reeve and David Farrier, a journalist from New Zealand. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Portlandia’ and ‘Passengers’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Watch if you like comedy with an outlandish premise. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘One Mississippi’ and ‘Son of Zorn’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Balking at the premise that it is in any way about death, he instead called this monumental work “a very natural, three-dimensional shape that is older even than a pyramid.” Art That Lets You Walk on Water 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Trump’s career has always been based on the premise that appearance is everything. President Trump’s Prime-Time Pandemic 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

McDonagh also spit in an officer’s face while they were taking him off the premises. McDonald’s customer calls police after employee put onions on his Big Mac, gets arrested 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

Despite this implausible premise, the show’s lasting appeal for me was something equally unbelievable: “Suits” rarely called attention to the prominent roles that its African-American actresses played on the show. Meghan Markle Left ‘Suits.’ Here’s What She Took With Her. 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

When Bismarck, enraged, threatened to torch the premises, the caretaker suddenly remembered 17,000 other bottles. Herbert Lottman, Biographer of French Figures, Dies at 87 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

It's a decent premise, not least because it traffics in a modern paranoia that it's fairly easy to identify with. A Century of Fatherhood 2010-07-05T05:44:00Z

It wasn’t a groundbreaking premise, and coincidentally or not, Mr. Breckman hadn’t worked in TV all that much since “Monk” ended in 2009. Review: ‘The Good Cop’ Emulates ‘Monk’ but Misses Tony Shalhoub 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

The fried mozzarella sticks it produces in Brooklyn and sells at music and sports events will be front and center, made on the premises. Seafood With Korean Touches Comes to Park Slope, Brooklyn 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

Then came “The Da Vinci Code,” an explosive thriller published in 2003 that hinged on the premise that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had a child together. The Many Sides to Dan Brown 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Alderman’s premise is simple; her execution endlessly inventive: Teenage girls everywhere suddenly discover that their bodies can produce a deadly electrical charge. ‘The Power’ is our era’s ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

The premises of the Factory Harm Argument, I claim, support eating roadkill at least as much as they support eating vegetarian. We must eat more roadkill. Yes, even you vegetarians 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

You've got to admire a programme that, quite early on, includes a frank refutation of its entire premise. Oedipusenders 2010-04-14T05:45:00Z

What results, she says, is “a kinder, gentler colonialism” in which humans take to orbit under premises that seem justifiable but require closer scrutiny. As Shatner heads toward the stars, visions of space collide 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

The premise for all eight Season 1 episodes that are available at launch is simple. HBO Max is here – but not for everyone! Here's how to watch, plus reviews of every original show 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

So this is the premise for Grave Encounters 2. Grave Encounters 2: a sight for really sore eyes - trailer review 2012-10-10T16:29:45Z

Rival channel ITV shattered Savile's reputation as a dedicated charity fundraiser when it broadcast interviews with women who said he abused them when they were as young as 12, sometimes on BBC premises. UK opens criminal inquiry into BBC star's child abuse 2012-10-19T16:30:22Z

The show’s premise revolves around a father in the year 2030 recounting for his children the circuitous, obstacle-strewn course of true love that led him to marry their mother. CBS?s ?How I Met Your Mother,? Late-Blooming Hit 2012-04-08T19:08:15Z

This vivid storyteller — who turns conventional premises, such as a trip to Trader Joe’s, into enthralling, epic tales — will be supported by Joe List at these shows. Comedy Listings for Dec. 12-18 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

The premise of the exhibition, although never directly stated, is that our personal automobiles will soon be replaced by “circulating fleets of autonomous vehicles.” ‘The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility’ Review: Future Imperfect 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

When the door is opened, I walk into a brightly lit room buzzing with young women; there are no men on the premises. A double standard in enforcing prostitution laws: “It’s economically advantageous to have [high-end sex work] going on” 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

It is a curious premise: Brydon and Coogan play exaggerated versions of themselves – two sometime friends, comedians in middle age, dispatched to review restaurants together. ‘I like it when people think this is real’: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon on The Trip to Spain 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

She tries out some new premises, poking fun at the ones that don’t work, then follows with more tested jokes. Dropping in at the Comedy Cellar With Amy Schumer and Leslie Jones 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

This is one premise of “the biophilia hypothesis,” which holds that people are inherently attracted to nature. Can We Learn Anything From Horses? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

“It was frowned upon,” he said, “and that’s the whole ridiculous premise of rock ’n’ roll becoming this Taliban-esque, closed thing. Sting to Perform at the Metropolitan Opera 2010-07-12T21:43:00Z

"Knock on wood, it seemed like it was totally impossible," Closs-Farley said of the show's premise. 'Hopscotch,' dubbed the 'asphalt opera,' hits the streets of L.A. 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

Even when there is video documentation — even on a show whose premise is constant surveillance — the behavior still continues and the business that she complains to still does next to nothing. How ‘Survivor’ Failed Its #MeToo Test 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

But Bausch expands her premise to embrace a world of ritualised gallantries and perfectly achieved appearance. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – review 2012-06-21T14:41:32Z

That’s the dramatically tantalizing premise, but unlike Mr. Silver’s own volatile “Exit Elena,” the story is kept largely at a simmer, keyed to Robbie’s passivity more than to the women’s interior lives. Review: ‘Uncertain Terms’ Enters a Home for Pregnant Young Women 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Not a lot of it has felt particularly vital or fresh, but certainly it’s premised upon volume in all senses of the word. The Year in Pop: Viral Stardom and Martial Dance Music 2012-12-28T17:07:10Z

Its premises have the feel of a typical Silicon Valley operation: distressed floorboards, glass-fronted offices, beanbags by an open fireplace, exposed brickwork, a snug for breathers. ‘A threat to health is being weaponised’: inside the fight against online hate crime 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

It’s a simple premise that gleefully veers to the morally illogical. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

Further complicating the show’s already untidy premise: At no point in the performance did Tyson actually appear to even really be moving his lips. Mike Tyson made us all profoundly uncomfortable in last night’s “Lip Sync Battle” 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

For the kiddos: wagon rides, cow milking, pig races, and a giant slide are also on the premises. Head to these orchards to go apple picking this fall 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

A good dumb show would embrace the absurdity of its premise, find a distinctive, who-cares voice and find ways to tweak one of the world’s oldest comic setups. Work It: Say No to the Dress 2012-01-03T14:31:57Z

The charade escalates, of course, until the film completely undercuts its original premise and morphs into a mildly offensive south-of-the-border road comedy. Review: ‘Special Correspondents’ Stars a Fumbling Ricky Gervais 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

A bonkers premise supported largely by Braugher's immense and capable shoulders – he's an acting exocet. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 29 October - 2 November 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z

In an age of ballooning pop spectacle, here was an act of spectacular compression, one that served both to illuminate the songs and to interrogate their premise. From The Times, the Best Bands and Acts Heard All Year 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

One of the casualties of the floods that hit Cumbria in November, the New Bookshop in Cockermouth has been trading from temporary premises for the last seven months. Writers deluge reopening of flood-hit Cumbria bookshop 2010-07-05T16:00:00Z

There is also a bear on the premises, Grizzles, embodied by the show’s very gifted composer and sound designer, Chris Giarmo. Tina Satter’s ‘Ancient Lives’ Is at the Kitchen 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

The premise was that the boys were chasing the summer season as it moved around the globe, hemisphere by hemisphere. Perspective | The beautiful lie Bruce Brown and ‘The Endless Summer’ told us about surfing 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

I keep going back to season 1 and 2 with the premise of a mole in the CIA. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 5: Quinn Is Not Your Ideal Babysitter 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

What she was really doing was rejecting the premise of his line of questioning. Perspective | The refreshing defiance of E. Jean Carroll at the Trump trial 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z

Although it has a juicy premise, "Orange" could use some more vigorous squeezing. The curious incident of Leela in the nighttime: New play explores the OC through autistic eyes 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

The basic premise is that when the BBC spends a pound, the impact of that pound is 'multiplied' as that pound spent by the BBC creates value elsewhere in the economy. BBC 'boosts UK economy by £8bn' 2013-01-16T16:26:12Z

That might sound like the premise for an implausible thriller, but in fact the U.S. embassy in Havana paid Hemingway a monthly stipend to lead the effort. Ken Burns' vicious Hemingway smear: PBS series totally ignores writer's lifelong leftist politics 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z

Yes, it’s treacly and unashamedly premised on the idea of material success, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. From Groundhog Day to … Raging Bull? – films to inspire and uplift 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

A new website, page99test.com, launches next month to test that premise. Putting the Page 99 test to the, er, test 2010-09-27T19:00:00Z

Not long ago, a few Hollywood executives with limited imagination decided such a conceptual premise could not be filmed. Enter "Sandman," right on time 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

It seemed entirely fitting – entirely wonderful – that when I published my debut novel, the first reading organised in Pakistan was at the BC's premises on Bleak House Road. The Taliban's attack on the British Council only hurts Afghanistan 2011-08-19T14:49:33Z

The premise — and the promise — of country music is that it tells the truth. Review | A Kris Kristofferson concert that felt like a goodbye 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

The Money Diaries — which Refinery29 does not pay its contributors money for — rests of a simple premise: "Log your spending over seven days and report back to us all of the details." The joys of hate-reading the rich: Why raging over a wealthy intern’s money diary feels so good 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

The premise of this very fictitious novel is that both Nats are willing to return more than a decade later to Montgomery to finish the hometown concert that was so viciously interrupted. In ‘Driving the King,’ Ravi Howard Imagines Nat King Cole 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

The series serves the same purpose as any talk show, but the premise allows for more relaxed conversations. Analysis | Coffee makes celebrities human. But it used to make them cool. 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

The premise is that other interventions for heart patients, especially the stent, held sway because they are more lucrative for doctors and hospitals. Movie Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

A spate of recent films with sci-fi premises, District 9, Monsters and Another Earth have also posed less than promising outcomes for earthlings. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: Love in the Ruins 2012-06-21T10:45:56Z

That will be the American interrogators’ premise, and nothing the Mauritanians and Jordanians will tell them, let alone what Slahi will say in the months of increasingly brutal interrogation, can alter their view. ‘Guantánamo Diary,’ by Mohamedou Ould Slahi 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

The ripped-from-the-headlines premise might seem sensational, but “Dear Miss Metropolitan” is not horror or thriller, but a literary novel, experimental in style, that asks readers to immerse themselves in the psyches of the deeply traumatized. If You Lived Here, You’d Be in Hell by Now 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

Its premise–an ensemble dramedy about seriously ill kids in a long-term pediatric hospital–is so conveniently timed you might call it The Fox in Our Stars. Review: Red Band Society Has Faults and (Potential) Stars 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

The story devolves into a gratuitous bloodbath toward the end, and a boatload of disbelief has to be suspended to buy the premise that Lago can successfully fake internship in a law office. Crime fiction: welcome returns by Brunetti and Anna Pigeon 2014-04-09T19:30:37Z

In any case, Mr. Jan’s use of them cuts against Ms. Didion’s premise. Review: Joan Didion’s ‘The White Album,’ Now in Living Color 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

As you might suspect, the premise of “The New Wine Rules” is that the old rules no longer apply. The stuff of the best 2017 wine reads: Everyman advice, a con man, a legendary region 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

The premise of “Poog” is not to debunk or even fact-check wellness trends, but to playfully explore them with a curious audience. Laughing All the Way to the Wellness Industry 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

In the book’s opening encounter, Maggie takes grotesque action on a flawed premise — but that first action is never revisited or questioned once Maggie learns better. Heart-Hammering Science Fiction and Fantasy Thrillers 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

By merging the psychological profundity and emotional realism Mazin applied in his historical drama to Druckmann's speculative premise, its nine episodes feel at once harrowing and, strangely enough, hopeful. Have hope for "The Last of Us," a drama about enduring at the end of the world, not just surviving 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

But here is where the very premise of the movie – enshrined in the title – fails to stack up. The Guilt Trip – review 2013-03-07T21:00:01Z

It’s a wonderfully complex premise that we’ve all been wrestling with.” Rubin Museum’s ‘Happy Talk’ Pairs Entertainers and Scholars 2012-09-20T22:35:42Z

Tolins' script sparkles with sly humor; the freedom he's created in his nutty premise lends a fresh giddiness to this work. Michael Urie superb in charming 'Buyer & Cellar' 2013-04-04T00:04:08Z

"She is now confined to the interior premises of her home at all times," Whitmore told People. Lindsay Lohan starts serving time under house arrest 2011-05-26T16:36:53Z

If you take the premise, and then you take the idea that the premise is a premise — without losing the audience, without winking at them — how much can you do? “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z

Since 2006, the company has had several short-term premises, starting in Easterhouse in a space that proved too small to accommodate its staff, before twice moving elsewhere in Glasgow. National Theatre of Scotland finds permanent home 2013-01-14T11:33:27Z

Some viewers have found the show to be oddly life-affirming, despite its premise that billions died from a respiratory illness with a 99 percent fatality rate. Finding Joy Through Art at the End of the World in ‘Station Eleven’ 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

She merely notes how surprising it is that people like you accept the premise that your good fortune is a rebuke to her reverses. Perspective | Miss Manners: Time to cut ties with longtime friend? 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Investigators hold the implicit premise that all bad properties, as well as all good properties, should be positively correlated. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z

I guess the premise of the show – and certainly this episode – is that you change the tone of a place? “The first day of shooting was the day we went to the cross burning”: W. Kamau Bell on hanging out with the KKK and claiming his space with humor 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

They revisit the premise here in trio form, with Mr. Street on bass. Jazz Listings for July 15-21 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

It’s a brave and bold premise for a play. Review: ‘On the Exhale’ Addresses Grief and the Attraction of an Assault Rifle 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

It's very funny, beautifully played, sometimes touching and, though its premise is familiar — rich family loses money — quite its own animal. Canadian 'Creek' overflows with good humor 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

We always made that one of our premises. The Superbly Original, Gloriously Weird B-52’s Say Farewell to the Road 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

As distastefully abusive as that premise seems, an undeniable chemical spark occurs between Dockery and Botto — enough to propel “Good Behavior” past the glut of stylish but mediocre cable dramas that feature morally ambiguous protagonists. Lady Mary as a boozy, floozy Southern criminal? Works like a charm. 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

Alexander Payne, the director of “Nebraska” and “Sideways,” takes on a science fiction premise about the problem of overpopulation. Venice Film Festival Opening Stars Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

It sought to clarify whether Centura could prevent Morris from helping Mahoney as long as he wasn’t on the health system premises. Terminally ill, he wanted assisted death, but his hospital was Catholic 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

The magistrate is investigating whether that decision was unduly influenced by Mr. Rybolovlev’s generosity, a premise that his representatives have vehemently denied. The Billionaire Who Bought Trump’s Mansion Faces Scrutiny in Monaco 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

But beyond the continually shifting stage, “100 Beginnings” is an awkward premise for a dance. Dance Review: Start, Then Start Again on a Newly Made Stage 2010-12-12T22:42:00Z

Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and care as productive in the same way. The case for doing nothing: It's an intentional strategy, not a luxury or a cop-out 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

The premise is this: why did Nasa never return to the moon after Apollo 17? Apollo 18 is totally eclipsed by aliens on the moon 2011-02-23T12:37:00Z

With a preposterous comic premise of a law firm that “litigates the liturgy,” and a show stuffed with songs, groansome puns, outrageous mugging and quick-change pratfalling, “Wisemen” is an onslaught of silly business. 2 holiday shows that revel in silly business| Theater reviews 2012-12-20T22:01:24Z

It’s a great premise: zombies as a metaphor for immigrants or any other despised, ostracized, and endangered minority. “In The Flesh”: a suicidal, gay, post-zombie story 2013-06-06T19:11:00Z

This is perhaps not terribly surprising, given both the premise and the pedigree of the playwright, Mike Reiss, a longtime “Simpsons” writer and producer. ArtsBeat: New York Fringe Festival Report: ‘Rubble’ 2013-08-12T19:22:31Z

Marías, a celebrated Spanish author, offers up a masterly premise and plot that are worthy of a Hitchcock adaptation, and the denouement does not disappoint. Duplicity, Grace and Violence: New Spanish-Language Fiction 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

The premise has potential as a bit of wicked comeuppance. ‘Life Upside Down’ Review: Lotharios, Unmasked 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

TIME: How much did the premise of the movie resonate, as a working mom yourself? Kathryn Hahn Would Like Moms to Stop Judging Themselves 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Made in advance of Hollywood’s strict Production Code, the two movies share daring premises compromised by studio rectitude. Julien Duvivier, a Gallic Auteur at Home, and Jacques Feyder, One Abroad 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

When we spoke by phone recently, Alsop said that the premise that women would fall into the traps laid by traditional power structures was “premature.” In ‘Tár,’ a Female Maestro Falls Into the Same Old Traps 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

It’s not really a novel but a series of interconnected stories with one of the most bizarre premises I’ve bumped into: a planet populated by people who descend from a spaceship carrying circus performers. Review | Clowns are creepy. Let's talk about horror, science-fiction and fantasy books that make the most of circus settings. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

I say that Touch’s premise is different, as a TV-drama concept; that’s not to say it is something totally new under the sun. TV Tonight: Touch 2012-01-25T15:50:11Z

Its core premise — protagonists with a secret hidden from their family and neighbors — is very much like that of “Breaking Bad,” even if its tone is different. ‘The Americans’ Finished? Thank You for Killing My Favorite Show 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Desdemona’s passivity even in facing death has perplexed many — Shaw, like Mr. Sellars, thought the play made little sense and he called her a prima donna — so this premise has intellectual potential. | 'Desdemona': ?Desdemona? at Lincoln Center White Light Festival - Review 2011-11-03T22:47:19Z

The movie’s premise is ominous — an orphan transforms a grim New England town into a kind of antidepressant commercial — but young Hayley Mills makes it work. Review | Hayley Mills became a Disney darling at 12. Her new memoir recalls how it went from there. 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

“The show has taken a premise that could be seen as sort of primitive and simply about revenge and explored it on an emotionally complex level,” Mr. Abrams said. Is ‘Westworld’ HBO’s Next Big Hit? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

In the first episode, Louie played around with the “how you get someone to break up with you” premise. “Louie” gets a male crush 2012-07-13T16:10:00Z

Washington, as director, neither emphasizes and heightens the artifice of the theatrical premise nor counteracts it by pressing the physicality of the actors to the fore. What “Fences” Misses About Adapting Plays for the Screen 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

While groups fighting discrimination against fat people lamented the fact that the main premise of "Huge" was, once again, about weight loss, there were signs of hope. "Huge" marks advance for fat acceptance in Hollywood 2010-06-30T01:59:00Z

His premise was that they didn’t see what was going on in his community. How Richard Pryor Changed the Way Comedy Sees Police Brutality 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

That premise leads Mr. Freeman to introduce scholars and researchers who are exploring the nature of self-awareness — including in elephants — and the origins of religion. Critic’s Notebook: Science Channel and NASA in Marathon on Life Beyond Earth 2014-02-28T21:10:43Z

The array of incidents and ideas that McCarthy and Singer round up and pull together is far narrower than the ones that the premise implies. The Curiously Generic Journalists of "Spotlight" 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

The premise of “Severance” might appear superficially to be out of step with the times. ‘Severance’ Review: That Makes Two of You 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Jackson-Dumont's projects spring from the premise that museums don't have to be boring or academic in an off-putting way. Seattle's Sandra Jackson-Dumont makes art a party 2011-05-26T18:46:02Z

The premise is that Scott Glenn's shuffling, white-haired, small-town barber might be the same man who 20 years ago was suspected by police to be a serial killer. Any way you cut it, 'The Barber' is dumb 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

In fact, he seems to regret the premise of the question. James Cameron on Deepsea Challenge: I'm not just some rich guy on a ride 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Taymor is now directing Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the inaugural production at Theatre for a New Audience's new premises in Brooklyn, New York, which is due to open in November. Producers, ousted director of Broadway's "Spiderman" settle dispute 2013-04-10T21:52:42Z

But in contrast to that earlier, quietly distressing story, “Unpregnant” takes this real-world issue as the premise for an energetic buddy comedy. ‘Unpregnant’ Review: Friendship Is a Long and Winding Road 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

The original premise, of a global noodle-centric spot, has given way to a focus on Asian flavors, but with culinary techniques borrowed from across the world. In Portland, Maine, Honey Paw Transforms Asian Classics 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

And for decades, the country industrial complex’s most flagrant problem has been with gender imbalance on the radio, an inexplicable unfairness that only continues to erode faith in this music’s fundamental premise. Perspective | Women aren’t the future of country music. They’re the present. 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

In the absence of the men, women often comfortably lounged around the premises in various states of undress. Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Live in This Perfect Place? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

A career that once seemed premised on staying distant from the mainstream art world is not so distant: How art-worldly to promote a new book with a show! Art In Review: Bjarne Melgaard: ‘A New Novel by Bjarne Melgaard’ 2013-01-10T22:39:18Z

The fantasy-world policemen premise is either brilliant or terrible, and the success of the film will help determine Netflix's future as a studio. These Are the Movies and TV Shows We Want to See at Comic-Con 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Because musicals always justify their main characters, even their wicked ones, just by letting them sing, “The Boy Who Danced on Air” was doomed by a paradox built into its premise. Review: Tackling a Major Taboo in ‘The Boy Who Danced on Air’ 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

This premise may sound a little strained, but Mr. Brandt immerses us so fully in his characters’ lives that the larger contrivances almost completely fall away. Review: In ‘The Whites,’ Richard Price Tries on a Pseudonym in a World of Brooding Cops 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

But the group of large new canvases showing now at Alexander Gray Gallery, though they start from similar premises, have a slightly different effect. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Instead, the clue for the show's playful premise is in the title, "Crazy Delicious." Netflix's "Crazy Delicious" is a fever dream competition that crafts inventive food for the gods 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

It should be a bold premise, but there is a curious contrast in this film between the richly defined images and the story’s ethical indeterminacy. ‘Mayday’ Review: Misandry Is the Most Dangerous Game 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

The riot sets up an exhilarating, if chaotic, premise — the inmates are in charge, and for a few days, they have something that almost resembles freedom. Review | ‘Orange Is the New Black’ returns: ‘You’ve Got Time’? Good. You’re gonna need it. 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

The zoo's ape house, unlike the rest of the premises, is built like a ballroom. Nicolas Philibert: the future's orange 2011-01-27T22:45:01Z

It was as surreal of a time as the premise of "Hollywood," the reason Murphy agreed to speak with me. The problem with Ryan Murphy, a potent Hollywood advocate with a habit of crossing the wrong lines 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z

The premise established, he imagines the conversation with Mr. Morgan after the fallout. Critic?s Notebook: Hannibal Buress Approaches Comedy From the Side 2011-11-03T12:00:04Z

The series is based on the creator Jim Reynolds’s experience moving with his family to a black neighborhood in Pasadena, Calif. What appealed to you about this premise? Cedric the Entertainer and Max Greenfield on Finding the Laughs in Gentrification 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

This proves, though, to be a slender premise for a nearly two-hour musical. ‘Nero/Pseudo’ by WSC Avant Bard fiddles away its glam-rock musical potential

Though the premise is taken from a live-action television film, the story seems well suited to the free-form possibilities of animation. Review: In ‘Fireworks,’ Second Chances, but No Magic 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

The premise of these books sounds pretentious, but his work is rich, down to earth, bemused and, as a bonus, hilarious. Nicholson Baker's 'The Way the World Works': on Wikipedia and weddings 2012-08-01T19:59:04Z

If this premise sounds familiar, it’s because it’s a nod to the wildly popular Netflix series Making a Murderer. Joe Biden's Appearance on 'Law and Order: SVU' Was a Hit 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

“The whole industry is based on the premise of having fun,” he said before launching into a brief history of sailing, touching on sea monsters and the Earth-is-flat theory. In the British Virgin Islands I learned to sail — for my father, while there was still time 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

The exposition, setting up the premise for the trip, is both lugubriously long and trivializingly brief. “Midsommar,” Reviewed: Ari Aster’s Backwards Horror Story of an American Couple in Sweden 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

“The Kids Are All Right” starts from the premise that gay marriage, an issue of ideological contention and cultural strife, is also an established social fact. | 'The Kids Are All Right': Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and the Sperm Donor 2010-07-08T22:10:00Z

The springy premise here is storytelling, allowing eight young photographers to bounce ideas around between documentary, fiction and more abstract work. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-19T23:09:33Z

For instance, even that little, calmly bitter exchange that unleashes the premise of “Cutting My Mother” is a mini-drama in which layers of time intertwine. “Cutting My Mom,” Reviewed: A Filmmaker’s Ingenious Web Series, Made in Collaboration With His Mother 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

As a play to her fan base it’s ingenious, and yet “Pieces of Me,” the song, sags under its unoriginal premise and noble self-regard. New Music 2011-06-13T22:00:32Z

Depending on how you view it, Ms. Hill may be the perfect case study for that premise. The Nudes Aren’t Going Away. Katie Hill’s OK With That. 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to judge how that premise will be developed, though, because NBC made only one episode available for review. Review: ‘Powerless’ on NBC Has Cubicles, Not Capes 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

And during a search of the unnamed gallery’s premises, customs officers seized several hundred more ceramic pieces. France returns stolen ancient artifacts to Pakistan 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

“A screenwriter is always desperate for that kind of great premise.” In a New Series, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ Gets More Worldly 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

The premise of Tales of the City is that everybody has the right to love and choose the life they want. Armistead Maupin: ‘Being gay liberated me’ 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

Potter was alarmed to find her basic premise – one mind, many lives – failing to register. Director Sally Potter: 'I've seen the grief Covid-19 causes' 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

The premise could have gone many different directions, from a sex comedy to a commercial buddy movie, but the film Mr. Baker made doesn’t fit into easy categories and doesn’t offer Hollywood answers. ArtsBeat: Competing Narratives at SXSW 2012-03-13T21:55:21Z

Below Deck’s premise is simple: put a bunch of attractive deckhands on a mega-yacht, ply them with alcohol, and encourage them to melt down every episode. Rob & Chyna: the saddest show on TV 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Its liquor license had been revoked for allowing patrons to imbibe on premises permitted solely for the sale of beer in “unbroken packages.” A Vanished New Orleans Captured on “Straight from the Projects” 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

The series begins with a tenuous premise, uses it to leap to an inaccurate dichotomy and supports that with tired, unfunny stereotypes. Television Review: ?Suburgatory? on ABC ? Review 2011-09-27T16:18:22Z

Local authorities were asked to license premises and so they started to take an interest in what was being screened. British film censor faces new challenges after 100 years of horror, killing and sex 2012-11-10T15:01:52Z

The premise of the film is that Sheba and Egypt have formed an alliance against Israel. Solomon and Sheba: Take Bible, add ninjas 2010-07-15T08:06:00Z

That's the preposterous premise for this new series, which follows six businesses that force their employees to turn up in the buff in the hope of raising profits. Luther 2010-05-18T05:45:00Z

Shoehorning Beavis and Butt-Head into a “12 Angry Men” satire is an amusing premise but feels like something “The Simpsons” would do. The ’90s Cartoon That Mattered? ‘Beavis and Butt-Head.’ (Fight Me.) 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

"I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral," he said. Welcome to the real Lego land: rebuilding the brand brick by brick 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

This is not a revolutionary book in any traditional sense, but its premise is the sanctity of human dignity. ‘Power Must Be Taken’: Excerpts From ‘The Anarchist Cookbook’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Judging by the premise and news stories like this one, we’re given to understand that the sketch was offensive to people: it was blasphemous, it mocked Jesus and it ridiculed Christians. “Djesus Uncrossed,” Grievance, and How Satire Actually Works 2013-02-19T22:42:23Z

This is the most 1980s premise for a toy ever, so of course it makes perfect sense that it wasn’t turned into a film until 2015. From Trolls to Transformers: toy films – ranked! 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Such is the premise of Melvin Burgess's new novel, The Hit, and it's a humdinger. The Hit by Melvin Burgess – review 2013-04-17T10:24:26Z

One of them is a covenant dating from 1914 that prevents the sale of alcohol on the premises. The fight is on to save Gipton fire station - a 1930s gem in east Leeds 2012-10-09T14:00:00Z

In the Military Times, a writer argued that it was a “curious place to finally draw the line in the sand,” given that the premise of Call of Duty revolves largely around killing people. The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

But even Whedon seems to recognize what a hackneyed premise that is, so he has a little fun with it. Review: `Avengers' hits big screen with a blast 2012-04-24T01:16:03Z

The title is also the premise: that there was another Russian spy at Cambridge alongside Burgess, Maclean, et al. Thrillers ? review roundup 2011-02-19T00:05:22Z

Viva’s middle-grade debut has a warmly familiar premise — a boy’s expectations of a dreadful summer away from home are swept away by new experiences and friendships — and a singular structure. Books to Give Your Precocious Readers 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Though the premise is familiar — see “Hoop Dreams” or any of the countless feature films about youth sports — the excitement still stays high when the games begin. Review: In ‘Shot in the Dark,’ Two Things Are Unforgiving: Life and Basketball 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

But Gresser is about to pick up the pace: Her newest venture — seven years in the making — centers on the premise of speed. A pizza pioneer jumps into the fast-casual game. But can she stand out? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Such is the premise of "Cocktails and Tall Tales," a special on Discovery+ that brings together Ina Garten and Melissa McCarthy. This Ina Garten special is just what we need right now 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

A major premise of the book is that religion can’t really be replaced with nothing. The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z

It’s the story of movement; of migration, its trauma or license, its challenge to one’s premises and moral coordinates, life and livelihood. A New Collection Upends Conventional Wisdom About Migration 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Curtis' premise eventually earned him the scorn of President Roosevelt, who wrote, "such a theory is wildly improbable." 'Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher': the vision of photographer Edward Curtis 2012-10-05T18:09:03Z

Given the familiarity of its premise — a handful of survivors brave the aftermath of a deadly, rage-inducing virus — “Here Alone” is unexpectedly engaging. Review: ‘Here Alone’ Will Scare You With Menacing Little Jolts 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

“The Tiger” was based on an unsettling premise of a frustrated postman who kidnaps a Long Island housewife to have his way with her. Anne Jackson, theater stalwart who teamed onstage with husband Eli Wallach, dies at 90 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Few initially thought the war would reach so far west, but one missile landed about 200 meters from one of the institution’s castles, with a fragile collection of Chinese and Japanese ceramics on its premises. Rescuing Art in Ukraine with Foam, Crates and Cries for Help 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

Taking it on seems to be a simple enough premise, but actually it’s a serious test of a creator’s originality and skill. Netflix's "Dracula": Put a stake in it – it's not well done 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z

Still, just because Jarred says he's a nice guy, are we really to accept that premise given his behavior? On "FBoy Island," the line between nice guys and fboys is thin to nonexistent 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z

The galleries in the institute’s old Manhattan premises on East 65th Street were two tiny rooms. Review: Chinese History, Writ in Stunning Stone 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Money Diaries launched in January of 2016, premised on the idea that “the first step to getting your financial life in order is tracking what you spend.” Money Diaries, Where Millennial Women Go to Judge One Another’s Spending Habits 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

A good premise wasted, this film needed another big brain to save it from its third-act excesses. The Adjustment Bureau: Matt Damon's Battle of the Angels 2011-03-04T17:00:00Z

The sign turned out to be the only well-maintained structure on the premises. Fairway to heaven: What happens to an abandoned golf course 2014-03-13T12:45:00Z

The Tattoo Expo was developed with the same premise: Connors wanted to bring ever-emerging Pacific Northwest tattoo artists together, with the public, to showcase their work. A daughter's tribute etched in ink; a tattoo expo entrenched in artistry 2012-08-03T19:02:42Z

An instruction here, some encouragement there; from her shop premises on Harlesden High Street in north-west London, Clary runs a tight ship. The importance of the Notting Hill carnival 2011-08-25T18:59:03Z

But it’s not just the sets and premises that make Game of Thrones a star factory. Michiel Huisman Proves That Game of Thrones is Changing the Industry 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

The premise of “Servant of the People” appealed to him right away. Comedy series starring Zelenskyy gets boost in popularity 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Galaxy Quest has one of the cleverest, funniest plot premises in film history, worked out to perfection. Comfort films to watch while self-isolating – ranked! 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

The premise is simple: A series of missives addressed to the Great Detective arrive in your mailbox every week or so, asking for help with an emerging case. With These Literary Puzzlers, the Game’s Afoot (and in Hand) 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

But I still kept turning the pages, looking for an elusive grail of my own, which says a lot about the story's strong premise and implacable grip on the imagination. Comics: "The Secret History Omnibus" offers a few surprises 2010-09-01T18:42:00Z

“The premise of ‘GATHER’ is that Black and brown artists in particular don’t always have a space to show their work,” Keith said. Tacoma Art Museum’s ‘GATHER’ exhibit highlights 27 years of Hilltop Artists glassblowing programs for young people 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

Before the hourlong premiere is over, we’ve been made aware of at least eight ghosts that may be haunting the premises and providing material for future story arcs. Television Review : ?American Horror Story? on FX - Review 2011-10-04T16:42:55Z

There’s a basic political premise to this stereotype, and it’s one that Arnold shares: the politics of representation. “American Honey” ’s Silent Youth 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

From this point forward, the mysteries of the Mission Street Woods dominate the novel, and two central premises quickly emerge. Review | Twenty years after ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Stephen Chbosky delivers a thrilling surprise 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

But he was aware that the premise behind a program of songs about gay men and gay life was open to question. Music Review: A Program of Personal Significance 2010-12-01T16:19:00Z

Not many comedies can claim to revolve around a season-ending twist that changes its entire premise. Best TV episodes of the decade, a highly subjective list 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z

"The funny premise and Hesseman's laid-back way with a line," Time magazine gushed about the series' pilot, "make the show one of the most promising comedies of the fall." "Head of the Class" and the man behind the '80s comedy's progressive, even radical agenda 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

For all the high drama this powerful premise calls for, Haigh is disappointingly bland and off-key in her approach. 'Faith': A molestation charge tears a family apart 2011-05-11T21:01:05Z

He’s delighted by comedy rooted in language, and like a magician distracting you with banter, he favors complex premises that are actually elaborate contraptions meant to trigger the punch line. These Stand-Ups Are in an Escapist Mood, Much Like Their Audience 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

The premise was inspired by a true incident, when in 2000, feminist author Greer was briefly taken hostage by a distraught fan. ACT Theatre's 'The Female of the Species' is a clever and contrived rap on feminism 2010-06-25T20:48:00Z

The film’s basic premise is that Elizabeth Shaw, an archaeologist with a strong faith in God, and her scientist boyfriend, Charlie Holloway, discover what they believe is a summons from another planet. Noomi Rapace Arrives in Hollywood, by Way of Outer Space 2012-05-27T14:10:42Z

“The entire premise” of the Times project, he told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, “is that America is at root a systematically racist country to the core and irredeemable.” How the 1619 Project took over 2020 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Uncharacteristically for this collection, the premise takes some time to unfold, and then the author doesn’t do much with it. All-American Stories by Walter Mosley, Matthew Baker and Ron Rash 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

But to have removed it entirely because of ideological strong-arming was to violate the premise and the promise of the show: difference was sent back into hiding. Art Review: Sexuality in Modernism: The (Partial) History 2010-12-10T23:38:00Z

The underlying premise of a high school show like Glee is that cycles repeat. Glee Holds On To That Feelin', One Last Time 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Its premise – two tone-deaf amateur designers wreck a stranger’s house in the name of artistry – is a weird throwback to the bad old days of Changing Rooms. Your Home in their Hands is one of the cruellest shows on TV 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

It is challenging the premise that we are supposed to buy into about the equality presented as the ideal — which isn't the case for a majority of people in the country. "It's America's genre": Thandiwe Newton defends her land in "God's Country," a modern-day western 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

That is the central premise of the film, the directorial feature debut of Mark Ruffalo, from a screenplay by Mr. Thornton, whose acting career was thwarted by a hiking accident that left him similarly disabled. | 'Sympathy for Delicious': A Cynical Faith Healer Who Can?t Fix Himself 2011-04-28T23:40:24Z

It took the original show’s premise — about a body that was found on the international border of the Oresund Bridge linking Sweden and Denmark — and transported it to the Channel Tunnel between France and Britain. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Tunnel: Sabotage’ and a Salute to Diane Keaton 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

I always thought the premise could be explored a million different ways. Groundhog Day: the perfect comedy, for ever 2013-02-07T20:00:03Z

Hot Pursuit tried to capture the same movie magic Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock had conjured with The Heat, but the unconvincing premise and lame jokes fell flat. 8 Reasons Women Ruled the Summer Box Office 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Today’s sexual revolution is based on two premises. America’s new sex toy revolution 2013-03-09T16:00:00Z

King's storytelling operates on the premise that the viewer zones out every few minutes, and when she swims back up to the surface again, something new should be happening. "Sex and the City 2's" incomprehensible badness 2010-05-27T00:20:00Z

Now, of course, I’ve made films that started from a particular thematic premise: Secrets & Lies came out of wanting to do something with adoption, because I knew people who had adoption-related experiences. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

The basic premise of “In Tune” is that anyone can get into meditation: all that is required is a commitment to mindfulness and concentration. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

The film’s premise is that the plays and poems commonly attributed to William Shakespeare are actually the work of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z

When Sterling Cooper lost Lucky Strike, it faded from the show’s day-to-day, but the pernicious, poisonous influence of cigarettes is baked into the premise of the show. “Mad Men” recap: “It’s been a gift to me, to know when to move on” 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Westworld’s mysterious premise—a futuristic theme park where people can do whatever they want with lifelike robot “hosts”—has made the HBO series a hotbed for fan theories. The 11 Most Interesting 'Westworld' Fan Theories 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

They are now marks for frivolous litigation premised upon nebulous assertions as well as a complete and willful ignorance of how pop music is actually made. It’s Got a Great Beat, and You Can File a Lawsuit to It 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

The sentiment is there again in Sense8, whose premise focuses on eight people who find themselves psychically connected. The Guardian profile: Lilly Wachowski 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

"We started from the premise that music was a mission, not a competition," says Mayer, who describes himself as a "sonic consultant" to Hendrix. The London years 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z

While perhaps whimsical in premise, it was not an exercise in mollycoddling. Can We Learn Anything From Horses? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

The whole premise of the impeachment case is “just too dumb not to hurt” Democrats, Carlson said. Media filters set current impeachment hearings apart 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

It started from the premise of Mr. Coleman’s music: clarion bebop themes giving way to long and grooving collective improvisations with no predetermined chord changes. Playlist: CDs From Guillermo Klein, Kris Davis and the Body 2010-08-08T00:47:00Z

Even if it weren’t cheap-looking and dreary, “Cell” would still be hobbled by an entertainment landscape already lousy with zombies, and a hive-mind premise that — at least metaphorically — has been all but realized. Review: ‘Cell’ Offers Zombified Victims and an Unfocused Narrative 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Tom and Louise, a married couple, are trying to recover from a marital infidelity and they're given a funny premise to meet in a bar before therapy. Nick Hornby gave up record stores for Spotify, cigarettes for vaping, and adapting his own books 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

This premise is an apt metaphor for the crisis facing “Declaration.” Will Los Angeles Lose a Beloved Piece of Public Art? 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

They are built to flip: human settlements organized around the premise of the Greater Fool Theory. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z

The commercial followed the same premise as the show, with Sudeikis's character instantly charming audiences. 10 fun facts about "Ted Lasso" 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

But the show, which Mr. Glover created, doesn’t obsess over that premise nearly so much as explore its felicitous human topography. ‘Atlanta’ Has Brilliant Characters. And Some of the Best Acting on TV. 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

The main problem was the theme, based on a bitcoin premise that almost no one got because they didn’t have Johnson’s IT background. Trial and error: Seattle’s board game designers and players work out bugs together with playtests 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

On the surface, this is precisely the type of schlocky premise that turns off the highbrows at Oscar time. Why "It" deserves Oscars 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

But a lot of great movies, including several of Mr. Eastwood’s, arise from the simple premise of a fight to the death between good guys and bad guys. ‘American Sniper,’ a Clint Eastwood Film Starring Bradley Cooper 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Then he adds, “I’ll give you a minute to unpretzel your brain and maybe read that again” — and then he restates the premise, only this time in italics. I’m Not O.K. Neither Are You. Who Cares? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

The force of accumulated history was baked into the premise of “Better Call Saul,” which ended after six seasons on Monday. Meet the ‘Better Call Saul’ Staffers Who Kept Its Story Straight 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

This, in fact, is the entire premise of the movie: forearmed is foreboding. 127 Hours and the one-armed box-office bandits 2011-02-24T22:15:01Z

When a premise was outrageous or a character’s behavior over-the-top, filmmakers called Mr. Hall. Philip Baker Hall, Character Actor in Roles of Authority, Dies at 90 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

But “Almería,” which was produced by Jude Cole and recorded in Box Canyon, Calif., has little of the grit or tension of its chosen premise. New Music: Big Boi’s ‘Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors,’ and Lifehouse 2012-12-10T23:17:11Z

Others, like Louis Althusser, say it is based on the premise that the people enter into a contract with nobody else but themselves – a logical impossibility. Rousseau shows us that there is a way to break the chains – from within 2012-07-15T08:00:01Z

That made him a perfect host for “The Apprentice,” whose premise was that Mr. Trump was a legendary businessman and desirable boss. Review: ‘The Confidence Man’ Finds Trump’s Business Image Was Made for TV 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

It's a nifty Hitchcockian premise that doesn't entirely deliver on its dark promise, but Rapace holds things together beautifully with a performance that treads an admirably ambiguous line between rationality and over-reaction. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-06-09T23:05:23Z

The children’s-story premise is that these people live in a painting, which the artist left unfinished. Movie Review: ‘The Painting,’ Directed by Jean-François Laguionie 2013-05-10T01:21:41Z

One must credit the sheer genius of its “Sesame Street”-busting premise, but kudos also go to Olney Theatre Center’s zippy revival, staged with well-calibrated abandon by artistic director Jason Loewith. Olney Theatre Centre’s production of ‘Avenue Q’ offers politically incorrect laughs

The premise of “The First Noel” is grim. Review: Remembering a Happier Holiday Among Many That Were Sad in ‘The First Noel’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Most of us already subscribe to the basic premise: "do what you like as long as you don't hurt other people". Buffy drives home an important issue for women 2012-02-10T17:09:04Z

Moments later, security escorted Supreme off the premises. Meet the 19th most likely guy to win the GOP presidential nomination 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

I’m still not sure whether there’s a long run of TV in this resurrected premise. Review: In ‘Shadows,’ on FX, Laid-Back Vampires Return for Another Bite 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

The premise of the show, titled “Abortion Is Normal,” is that a procedure that’s been subject to so much controversy should instead be accepted as an ordinary part of health care. A Show of Artists Galvanized by the Abortion Debate 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

That is the premise of a new series called 60 Days In. Could you survive 60 days in prison? Behind bars on the ultimate reality show 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

Given the real author's prolific output, the premise hardly seems plausible. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z

Here's what we learned: Stewart Lee's Guardian article about the commercialisation of fringe comedy got everyone talking – and then the festival set about refuting its premise through sheer force of eclecticism. Edinburgh festival 2012: the highlights 2012-08-27T16:32:15Z

That, in turn, led to “Person of Interest,” also on CBS, which has a premise similar to that of “Minority Report”: A computer system uses surveillance data to anticipate crimes. Review: In ‘Minority Report,’ a Case of Precognitive Dissonance 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

“Virgin Territory,” an earnest new MTV docu-series that begins on Wednesday, is the converse: a show premised on the absence of sex exclusively made up of conversations about it. ‘Virgin Territory,’ About Celibate Youth, Debuts on MTV 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

The fundamental premise “was to help people, and not to harm them,” Walgreens recounted, in a legal brief that sounded stunned. How One Company Scammed Silicon Valley. And How It Got Caught. 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Behind the restaurant’s locked doors, things have been busy since the owners’ rush to vacate the premises. It’s Closing Time at Forlini’s 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

“The Infinities,” a much merrier novel than its premise might suggest, is the exponentially more elaborate effort. Books of The Times: John Banville?s ?Infinities? and ?Elegy for April? 2010-04-04T21:27:00Z

Their mission is to reveal the secrets of daily and spiritual survival that allow black women to thrive in a society built on the premise that they should not. A Podcast Playlist of the Summer’s Hottest 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Still, a big family is a strong comic premise, and Lerner takes a buoyant, energetic approach. ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’ Review: Keep the Family Close 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

The remake appears to stick to the man-on-the-edge premise of the original. Death Wish: is the Bruce Willis remake an alt-right fantasy? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Anything written by human hands you have to take with a grain of salt, but I love the premise of spiritual authority as a place of servanthood and of humility. 24 Hours With Andra Day: Afrobeat and the Nixon Tapes 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

The altered action shifts the premise of “The Best of Enemies” drastically. “The Best of Enemies,” Reviewed: A Tale of Interracial Friendship Only Slightly Less Offensive Than “Green Book” 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

But that might also be a moment of self-reflection, since an important aspect of Mr. Andersson’s comic method is that it continually explores its own ethical premises. Review: ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch,’ Roy Andersson’s Rumination on Life 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

He takes as a basic premise the assumption that in a consumer society, the main purpose of photographs is to sell something — one of those things being art. Like What You See? It May be for Sale 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

“The premise was just like, ‘Wait, what now?’” In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

And the show’s writers seem to be turning the central premise into some sort of metaphor for the Trump era. ‘Designated Survivor’ Pivots From Thriller to Political Mirror 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

A: What I saw was this really wonderful premise that spoke to me, in part, because of this conversation I had six months or a year before I read it. ‘Maggie’s Plan’ director has created a comedy about our ‘contemporary confusion’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

The next photo showed a man with a bible entering the premises. Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux wed after three-year engagement 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

I get the premise, but, the execution escapes me. ‘Constellations,’ With Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, Opens on Broadway 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Before we do that, though, I’d like to start by offering three premises that should act as the logical foundation for the conversation that follows. A defense of Bill Maher (that still criticizes the heck out of him) 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

But the premise of this reasonably watchable immersion in nostalgia is “timeless,” as Hollywood hype would have it. | 'Take Me Home Tonight': ?Tween College and What Comes Next 2011-03-03T23:51:05Z

The premise – an elderly dying man writes a letter to his young son, narrating the course of his life along the way – sounds schmaltzy and unpromising. Jon McGregor's top 10 dead bodies in literature 2011-01-19T09:17:13Z

The premise of “The New Vermeer” is for contemporary artists to bring those works back to life. How Hard Is It to Paint Like Vermeer? TV Contestants Find Out. 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

For a basic-cable sci-fi drama, “Colony” took more trouble than usual in setting up and detailing its premise of life under occupation, and there’s a similar impulse at work in this new series. ‘House of the Dragon’ Review: Domesticating ‘Game of Thrones’ 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

The question did not deserve an answer, because Crowley had set it up to legitimate a false premise: that Romney’s religious belief was a legitimate issue of public debate. GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z

Festivities were held on its premises: a converted brewery with a large foyer, multiple gallery levels, and terraces with panoramic city views. The Athens Art Scene Goes Contemporary 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

If there is an underlying issue, it might be that clunky, rather bloodless title, one that seems anchored to the drama’s initial premise. Hail to the Kief! Sutherland is still TV's best action hero – even as President Dadbod 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

The premise suggests it is the story of a young Muslim radicalised by American bigotry, but the film's resolution - like the title - is deliberately ambivalent. 9/11 film explores divided loyalties 2013-05-10T05:36:38Z

News organizations disapprove of altering photos and videos, on the premise that doing so deceives readers and viewers. Sarah Sanders promotes an altered video of CNN reporter, sparking allegations of visual propaganda 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

The novel’s premise is simple: All across the United States, bands are being gunned down during live concerts. A New Novel Asks, What Is More Powerful, a Microphone or a Gun? 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

On March 25, it added, the gallery informed the landlord that it was vacating the premises on or about July 1 and demanded the return of the $365,000 deposit. Gallery Sues Landlord, Claiming Covid-19 Shutdown Voids Lease 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z

It’s a comic premise — what, is this part of the “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” extended universe? — except Larraín is only half-laughing. ‘El Conde’ Review: His Bite Is Worse 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z

What follows is an extremely lively introduction to the premise that death is indeed a laughing matter, punctuated with dark, rib-jabbing asides. Review: In ‘Beetlejuice,’ the Afterlife Is Exhausting 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

When the New Museum kicked off its first triennial in 2009, titled “Younger Than Jesus,” some critics raised their eyebrows at the ageist premise. Meet Six Disrupters at the New Museum’s Triennial 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

To judge by the qualities easiest to convey in a review — setting, characters, premise — it might sound like a readily identifiable type of novel. “Tigers in Red Weather”: Massachusetts gothic 2012-07-15T21:00:00Z

His attorney, Craig Charie, said, "These are fabricated allegations to avert the real issue: that she fails to occupy the premises as her primary residence." Faye Dunaway offers to give up subsidized New York apartment 2011-08-03T23:15:35Z

Later that became my whole premise with music. Tony Bennett makes nostalgic return to Italian roots 2012-07-23T13:58:38Z

Now watch the unorthodox Ruth Rendell work with the same premise. Book World: ‘The Girl Next Door’ by Ruth Rendell

The series is based on the premise that old folks on Earth can get new young, super-strength bodies if they enlist in an interstellar fighting force, the Colonial Union. John Scalzi conquers the publishing universe 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

But the show’s discomfiting premises often conceal personal sources of inspiration. In ‘Chad,’ Nasim Pedrad Embraces Her Inner Teen Boy 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Zobel acknowledged that the premise was not obviously cinematic: “A movie that takes place in a fast-food restaurant’s back room, and one of the main characters is on the phone — that sounds terrible.” ‘Compliance’ Raises Questions About Human Behavior 2012-08-10T21:29:29Z

Such is the premise we’re presented with, but “Ascension” does not take place in the 1960s. ‘Ascension,’ a Space Travel Mini-Series on Syfy 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

The show's premise is simple: a young unemployed couple living in a bedsit and trying to avoid engaging with the outside world. Have you been watching ? Him & Her? 2010-09-28T09:25:00Z

He doesn’t need a gimmicky plot premise; human life is strange and existential enough. In ‘The One-Eyed Man,’ Ron Currie has created a character for our times 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Klein ranges far beyond simple character-trait checklists and plot diagrams to substantively consider story premise, structure, openings, pacing, voice and characterization. How to write great books for children and young adults 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

But the premises have shifted, particularly in cultural life. Viewing World War I Through the Prism of the Personal 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Rather, it is a weapon in their culture war premised on creating confusion and misunderstanding. Why "free speech" needs a new definition in the age of the internet and Trumpist tweets 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

At Great-Aunt Sophie's place, not one, but two highly eligible men are hanging about the premises. Summer reading: Sizzling romance and more 2012-06-15T17:13:51Z

Let’s start with the premise of this exhibit, which you’ve turned into a book. “Guns in the Hands of Artists” aims to change the conversation around gun violence 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

"We got a report of a disturbance on the premises." Netflix's uneven but informative "This Is a Robbery" makes the world's biggest art heist feel stale 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

His premise about how women have the skill to seem O.K. when they aren’t won’t play the same way as it did two years ago. Louis C.K. Doubles Down on the Value of Saying the Wrong Thing 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

We even found a lot of glass cabinets on the premises.” Todd Haynes: ‘She said, there’s a frock film coming up, with Cate attached … It sounded right up my alley’ 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

But each of his arguments — like “Quitting Social Media Is the Most Finely Targeted Way to Resist the Insanity of Our Times” or “Social Media Hates Your Soul” — presents a dark premise. 17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Writing in The Times, Mike Hale called the premise “this season’s most artificial situation.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘Eighth Grade’ and ‘The Passage’ 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

When I first watched the scene, I was most unnerved by the way their talk mashed everything together, suggesting that there were only two sides to the question—a bizarrely distorted premise. “The Newsroom” ’s Crazy-Making Campus-Rape Episode 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

It’s an unfortunate failure, because the script’s time-travel premise offers some cute conundrums of parallel worlds. An Edward Snowden “Terminator” 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

The film’s visuals perforate and transform the story they’re ostensibly conveying until its cyberpunk premise is, at once, overturned and elevated to the realm of poetry. What’s on TV Monday: ‘His Dark Materials’ and a Football Finale 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

If you were going to do a road trip across the country, what would the premise be like? “The Simpsons” writer Mike Reiss: “The Trump years have been a shot in the arm for the show” 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The premise of the 17-minute music drama, minimally staged, performed by chamber quintet and sung by soprano Caitlyn Lynch, is that the memories may be there but the words to describe them are elusive. 'Another Sunrise' a powerful telling of Holocaust survivor's story 2012-05-15T16:51:06Z

Some of the show’s problems seem to stem from trying to soft-pedal this supernatural premise. Review: Netflix Tries to Channel Its Chi With ‘Marvel’s Iron Fist’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

But when those decisions about pecking order are premised on gender and race, surely it’s not ego to protest? Taraji P Henson: 'I'm glad I kept my ego in check' 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

That was always the main premise, and a very simple one. Time to move on from the "Ted Lasso" way after a bloated season 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

This show not only fails to live up to its premise and promise, it sort of fails at being entertaining too. The Lottery: why there are no winners in Lifetime’s dystopian drama 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

Maher’s limited perspective shouldn’t be a surprise because the entire premise of his show is Hollywood or D.C. personalities debating issues they aren’t qualified to comment on. Bill Maher, atheist fundamentalist: Why he gives nonbelievers a bad name 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

By the mid-20th century, Calhoun, whose racist premises were often brushed off or silently endorsed, became a hero to conservatives aghast at the expansion of federal power following the New Deal. John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

I spent 20 minutes answering emails before walking outside and found myself the only person left on the premises, other than three bored-seeming policemen trading stories on the sidewalk. In Montgomery, a City Embedded With Pain, Finding Progress 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

It’s a witty notion, of a kind that characterized old-school science fiction: the fantastic “what if?” premise that allows the writer to examine the conditions of his own time from a different perspective. film: Apes From the Future, Holding a Mirror to Today 2011-07-27T12:00:09Z

Then there are the films that manage to do both: The Shallows, Open Water and 127 Hours all micro-engineer their premise to leave their characters oppressively trapped in a place of endless vastness. Don't move! The single-location movies that ramp up the tension on screen 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Such is the premise of Haig’s whimsical novel, which introduces a young woman so miserable that she intentionally overdoses. 15 feel-good books guaranteed to lift your spirits 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

It is worth noting here that, while "Unbreakable" works quite well, its surprise sequel "Split" falls short because its premise is half as intelligent and exponentially more offensive. Why the "Glass" prequel "Unbreakable" holds up, nearly 20 years later 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

It was an unusual event from the outset: a privately funded reception and concert of music by Russian and American composers, all based on an ambiguous premise. Perspective | The concert was about unity; the message was all Russian 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

That was the premise of Sunday’s Doctor Who episode Rosa, at least, its themes underlined by a starring turn from Rosa Parks. From Rosa Parks to Van Gogh: when TV takes on real-life figures 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

It’s an intriguing premise, and some of that material has an edgy, awful resonance that suggests directions the movie might have gone. “Ruby Sparks”: Writing the perfect girlfriend 2012-07-25T00:01:00Z

Schreber documented the first and second breakdowns in his book, “Memoirs of My Nervous Illness,” but he never recovered from the final one — the premise of Pheby’s skillfully rich novel. A Novel That Delves Into the Mind of a Famous Schizophrenic 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

"Young Love" does feel rare in that way, much like his premise for "Hair Love" was when he proposed the concept in Kickstarter campaign launched in 2017. Evolving "Hair Love" into "Young Love": Matthew A. Cherry's "live action-feeling" animated comedy 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z

But no foreseeable Israeli government will accept this premise without concerted pressure from complaisant allies, principally the US but also the EU and UK. Letters: To achieve Middle East peace, first we need justice 2011-01-25T00:06:02Z

But its lyrical premise is pointed and potent: Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the song in the voice of a delusional young mass shooter, dreaming of glory and infamy: The Playlist: Barack Obama’s Summery Playlists and Green Day’s Fiery Return 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

The first of this novelist’s books to be published here, “The Country Life” boasts pitch-perfect tonal control and humor of such sly subversion that the novel’s premise transcends mere skit. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Planet Earth Live extended the brand, but turned that premise into often boring TV. TV highlights 09/07/2012 2012-07-08T19:00:01Z

I think the playwright grappled with too many ideas that led down paths and never arrived anywhere, though the premise itself was quite compelling. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

This is a model of development based on very large amounts of debt, borrowed on the premise of ever increasing property values. Will the Olympics be a winner for east London? 2012-07-07T17:00:01Z

“I had always imagined that Liza’s lie would cease to be the central premise of the series were it to continue past a certain number of seasons,” Star said. ‘Younger’ Departs a Covid-Free New York, a Fantasy to the End 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z

Then there’s counterfactual history drama The Man in the High Castle, which got people talking about its premise of a United States under Nazi rule, but then succumbed to lukewarm reviews. Can Matthew Weiner bring the Mad Men magic to Amazon? 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

You could question or reject his premises - I certainly did - but they weren't a matter of wishful thinking or wallowing in cheap contentment. Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z

Rowell pulls off this impossible premise with great charm, and her depictions of the couple’s sweet courtship and their later compromise-filled marriage are equally unsentimental and knowing. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Likewise, the movie's scariest premise is barely examined. You review: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010-05-10T12:03:00Z

The installation, called 33 Cank Street, will be in the premises until 30 October. Crochet animal art mimics taxidermy 2013-08-15T05:19:28Z

The silly premise is one that a better Ritchie film could, with some charm, style and wit, have turned into a workable romp. ‘Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre’ Review: The Getaway Car Is Stuck on Cruise 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

The seeds of Ugly Betty's demise were probably rooted at least partly in its premise: it was a show about an "ugly" woman, who wasn't actually ugly at all. The beauty of Ugly Betty 2010-12-22T11:08:21Z

Since partnering with the Toronto-based Guru Studio in 2012 to create the show, the artists have stayed involved with “True” well beyond the pilot and are still designing new characters and writing premises for stories. New at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade: A Sunny Little Cloud 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

"In the end, he was escorted off the premises minus the teddy bear, which I still have!" the model dished. Model claims Tinder date tried giving her a Chihuahua, accidentally killed it after she turned him down 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

This is not to be confused with the similarly titled Dirty Grandpa, though the premises of both films are almost indistinguishable. Santa, Teacher or Grandpa: which 'bad' movie is the baddest? 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

“Eventually, if you got the cow just for the milk, that milk loses its appeal,” Tim says, challenging part of Regnerus’s premise. Is marriage really on the decline because of men's cheap access to sex? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" builds on the premise of "The Terminator" and thereby redefines what that film is about. Why the "Terminator" series matters 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

Through six episodes, Mr. Marks doesn’t do anything especially interesting with that premise, but luckily for him and us, Mr. Simmons, an Oscar winner in 2015 for “Whiplash,” does. Review: ‘Counterpart’ Gives Us J.K. Simmons, Times Two 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

It didn't help that reviews were mostly discouraging, but exploitable assets include the film's spooky premise, its Asian-tsunami money shot and star Matt Damon. Tangled's revamped princess tale dethrones The King's Speech 2011-02-01T13:39:35Z

To answer these questions, ensembles are rejecting a longstanding premise of both musical modernism and the traditional concert hall: that music is best appreciated through hearing the abstract structural relationships between its various elements. How Do You Teach People to Love Difficult Music? 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Like her older siblings, with their retail stores, fragrance lines, nail polishes and more, Ms. Jenner juggles multiple brand extensions premised on her family fame. Keeping Up With Kendall Jenner 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

The original was standard Universal TV cheese, with a tantalizing premise. A B-Plus for The A-Team 2010-06-12T19:55:00Z

What fascinated you so much that you decided to write an entire book off that premise? Q&A with J.M. Sidorova, Seattle author of ‘The Age of Ice’ 2013-08-09T21:33:45Z

Little attention had been paid to the "lost" films until Mr Farrow - the building manager at the Park Lane premises - approached Paul Cotgrove, director of the Southend Film Festival. Lost Sellers films shown at festival 2014-05-02T15:19:33Z

Fans of the series “The Last of Us” are flocking to the show’s locations in Alberta, despite the show’s pessimistic premise of a world inhabited by survivors of a global pandemic. For $18,500 (and Up), You, Too, Can Travel Like James Bond 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

Still, we love a “Groundhog Day” premise like we love a good rager: done well and imaginatively, it’s one worth talking about. Tardy to the "Russian Doll" party? Welcome, sweet birthday babies! 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

It’s one thing to borrow a guy’s premise; it’s quite another to transform it into something this unwatchable. Review: A Sex-or-Guns Comedy That Might Make Aristophanes Wince 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Six days later, Ms. Dugan was asked to leave the premises. How the Grammys and Deborah Dugan Went From Hello to War in 5 Months 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Its premise fits much of Murphy’s recent work. Review: ‘Ratched’ Flies Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest and Into the Mire 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Such is the premise for one of the most poetic and influential films ever made. The Conformist : No 13 2010-10-20T10:42:00Z

Thanks to overpopulation and the advance of internet comedy, the premise was exhausted, and what worked in 2000 seemed dated and old hat. Scream of laughter: how today's best-loved pop culture grew from parody 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

One of this month’s novels has a premise as wonderfully outlandish as any we’ve seen in a long while. New Books: ?Irma Voth,? ?Boxer, Beetle,? ?Cabin,? ?Headhunters? 2011-09-14T22:31:31Z

It had a dumb premise and a weak punch line, but neither mattered as much as its relentlessly, endlessly disgusting description of a man doing his job. On Comedy: The Comedy of Murderfist and The Birthday Boys 2013-12-10T22:37:39Z

At the beginning of a beer odyssey through this long, slender country, I savored the unexpectedness of it all as I sipped two draft brews made on the premises, carrying Hoa Vien’s Hoavener label. Explorer: In Vietnam, Traveling an Unlikely Beer Trail 2010-02-17T19:12:00Z

It’s adversarial but also collegial, since the premise both assumes and encourages commonality, the kind of back-and-forth that breeds hybrids. Tony Nominees for Choreography Put the Past in Motion 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Instead the basic premise comes from the histories in the appendices of “The Lord of the Rings,” embellished with new characters. ‘The Rings of Power’ Premiere Recap: All is Not Calm in Middle-Earth 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” set in Alabama in the Jim Crow era, takes as its heartbreaking premise novelist Harper Lee’s conviction that a black man facing trumped-up charges was nevertheless doomed. Perspective | The offstage challenges of playing a racist in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

You don’t need a triumph of filmmaking to compete with “Transformers 5”; you just need a premise slightly more compelling than “this time, the robots talk to Mark Wahlberg.” “Tammy”: Melissa McCarthy finally gets creative control 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

So instead, Ms. Hempel and Ms. Ciment, writing under the pen name A. J. Rich, took Ms. Rich’s premise as a jumping-off point and transformed it into a psychological suspense story. ‘The Hand That Feeds You,’ a Thriller Written as an Act of Love for Its Originator 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Abloh, who died on Sunday at 41, repurposed this ethic from hip-hop and skateboarding, two cultural pursuits premised upon the provocative and ultimately correct misuse of what came before. Virgil Abloh, Ambassador and Infiltrator 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

The premise seems ripe for actors to appear in the flesh. How prosthetic penises in shows like HBO’s "Minx" reinforce existing stereotypes and taboos 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

Unique premise aside, “Memory” is an absurd slog. ‘Memory’ Review: Getting Too Old for This 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

A lot of modern, wishy-washy nonsense if you ask me, the main problem being that they start from the ridiculous premise that a child is some kind of human being. TV review: Queen Victoria's Children 2013-01-01T20:05:01Z

It's an extraordinarily modern premise, and David Eldridge's superb new version plunges headfirst into its strange Freudian depths without neglecting its sly humour. The Lady from the Sea ? review 2010-10-19T20:30:00Z

The Orange Tree, which moved to bigger premises in an abandoned primary school across the road in 1991, is London's only permanent in-the-round theatre. Walters steps down at Orange Tree 2013-07-04T14:44:39Z

The whole theatrical premise of inviting six women to portray a character, we’re living in the complexity of that. For ‘Mary Page Marlowe,’ Six Actresses Share One Role 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

For years the area was seen as this miserable, construction-zone hell, but bars were able to open up in cheap premises, and they’ve helped change the atmosphere of the place. 'The longest walk I've ever had was in New York': author Anna Pitoniak 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

Beer is brewed, spirits are distilled and wine is made on the premises. In Sebastopol, Calif., recycled junk sculptures with a Wine Country backdrop 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Though she is a charming and skilful writer, I thought the premise of a smalltown retiree setting out to repay a decades-old debt was contrived. Perfect by Rachel Joyce – review 2013-07-03T10:59:08Z

“The Girl on the Train” may contain a premise that Alfred Hitchcock or a similar director would have done better, but that doesn’t stop it from being a perfectly enjoyable suspense film of its own. 26 films Rotten Tomatoes got 100% wrong 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

I would disagree with that premise, that they’re not huge parts of his career. Adam McKay on the Veracity of “Vice” 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

We’ve often enough see the show promise a strong premise, then get distracted by shiny objects and new characters… But I’ll let myself hope just a little bit. Glee Watch: Long-Distance Relationship 2012-09-14T12:00:17Z

Manchester Woodcraft, open since 1950, sells every kind of wooden knickknack imaginable, including chessboards and Adirondack chairs, much of them made on the premises. 36 Hours in Manchester, Vt. 2014-01-31T18:48:20Z

Well, this just in from the "good news, bad news" department: Tidbit has vacated the premises and relocated to a more central Capitol Hill location. Tidbit moves, Huiyona closes, Cassis returns as caterer 2010-07-12T16:55:00Z

The premise of treating historical sources as a way of answering current questions is so good that Blom should have stuck to it. Climate Change and Human History 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

The film includes its share of imagery from famous paintings whose names roll by in the credits, but the director stages his serviceable gothic mystery premise with the elegance of an auction. Movie Review: ‘The Best Offer,’ From Giuseppe Tornatore 2013-12-31T22:45:55Z

This is a book that will anger some readers, especially those who reject Dyson’s central premise: that if we want true racial equality in America, whites themselves must destroy the enduring myths of white supremacy. A Cry From the Heart: Michael Eric Dyson Addresses Race Head-On 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

It’s a shaky premise to begin with, given that terms like “moderate” and “strong conservative” are variable and change with time. The Ted Cruz purity test: A Cruz nomination could be apocalyptic for the right 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

I thought it would be very challenging to try and mine any sort of comedy based on this dark premise. Steve Carell goes from "Office" to end of the world 2012-06-20T19:27:37Z

There was a foreboding sense of dread surrounding Netflix’s release of survival horror Bird Box, and not just because of the terrifying premise. Flying high: how Bird Box became Netflix's biggest hit to date 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

By definition, situation comedies are usually anchored by one solid premise, with the comedy generated by familiarity with the characters. How BoJack Horseman and The Good Place changed comedy forever 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

It’s a cute premise because we have three grown-up dilemmas for each show, and the kids give their advice on how to solve the problems. Carol Burnett Taps Into Her Inner Child for Adult Advice 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

That would mean that this comedy is full of possibility, instead of merely a premise that works from the title backward, losing steam along the way. Television Review: ?Don?t Trust the B???? in Apartment 23? on ABC 2012-04-10T22:15:25Z

On the surface, the novel has a rather typical horror premise — a child, Lulu, goes missing at a lake, leaving an older sister desperate to find her. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Ruhl’s premise is that pretended intimacy can be hard to tell from the real thing. Kiss me again, and again, and again, and . . . 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

It has a bonkers premise: One day, Europe disappeared and was replaced with a mysterious continent full of strange flora and fauna. Review | Ever wonder what might have been? Here are some scenarios, courtesy of science fiction 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

They do this in the vain hope that the patrons will refrain from antagonizing one another, at least on the premises. Perspective | Miss Manners: Guests preemptively admonished at housewarming party 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

“The only thing I did know was the premise,” Tarantino said, shooting down rumors that development got far along on the prequel. The "Pulp Fiction" prequel never made: Tarantino details the amazing premise 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

The premise is simple and suspenseful, but as the women debate their options, the complexity of their predicament becomes apparent. At the Telluride Film Festival, ‘Women Talking’ and Other Topics of Conversation 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

The underlying premise of our collaboration is the story line of my dad making it to America from Ghana. Virgil Abloh Projects Politics Into His Florence Fashion Show 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Eight officers arrived to arrest him for refusing to quit a licensed premises and held him in the police cells until midnight. Paul Stephenson: the hero who refused to leave a pub – and helped desegregate Britain 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Those shows have struggled to hang on to viewers who initially tuned in because of the unique premises and expensive marketing campaigns splashed across buses and billboards. ?Southland? With Michael Cudlitz and Regina King on TNT 2012-03-16T16:10:35Z

But his diffuse film would need more heft, or the farcical energy of such obvious antecedents as "Being There" and "Dave," to transcend its harebrained premise. 'Viva' could use more verve in the story department 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

But Elizabeth, whether for her sake or Paige’s, won’t accept the premise: “You would never have to do anything like that. OK?” The Americans Watch: The Evil Empire Strikes Home 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

This is the premise of the 1 in 3 Campaign. “Every time I tell my story, someone else will come up and tell me theirs”: How the 1 in 3 Campaign is turning abortion stories into art 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

But this premise is mostly loose scaffolding on which to arrange a short evening of sly and artful deceptions and effects. Review: Derek DelGaudio Sets Himself Apart From the Abracadabra Crowd 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

This is a rejection of the premise that political fashion is for marching on the barricades on your own time. Why Voting Is in Fashion 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z