Sentences with phrase «central premise»

As it stands, however, it fails to reach the lofty expectations built up around its ambitious central premise.

He confirmed that they're aiming for a late 2014 or early 2015 release and talked a bit about the film's intriguing central premise.

Although its sequel would expand upon Portal's central premise in more expansive fashion, the original provided the perfect blueprint for how to create a tightly - focused game with innovative design and a whip - smart, incredibly funny story.

The original Titanfall was a fun but divisive game, with a strong central premise but a lot of complaints about its lasting power and conspicuous lack of a single player campaign.

There are some contrivances along the way that offer varying degrees of distraction (and the idealistic central premise definitely requires a buy - in).

The script feels less like an organic whole than an effort to keep building up a scrawny central premise until it felt like a movie.

, but the film's central premise concerns three guys desperately trying to figure just what exactly

I think if Horns had kept its focus on the stories central premise, and explored the inherent humor in this supernatural tale, it would have been a lot more entertaining.

Ex Machina incorporates all kinds of unsettling imagery as Caleb investigates Nathan's secluded den of techno tricks and toys, but that simple central premise is gripping enough: the mystery of Ava's intentions.

A deliciously twisted take on the psychological thriller, this film gleefully revels in its deadpan dialogue, frosty characters and inherently ridiculous central premise, showcasing Lanthimos» talent for building worlds that are both jarringly alien and creepily familiar.

SEE ALL TRAILERS BELOW Review: A predictable trailer that looks like a poorly made 80s knock - off without an inventive central premise.

Its hot - button, admittedly exploitive central premise notwithstanding, this is a fairly typical effort for the 48 hrs.

After Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, filmmakers redefined the Apes franchise with each successive entry, while maintaining its daring central premise.

I also very much appreciated [Lecturer] Rick Weissbourd's class on Moral Education, whose central premise is that moral education is more than a matter of moral literacy, of helping children to determine right from wrong.

In this latest 2D iteration, developer Team17 has added elements that give extra depth to its successful central premise, which remains the same.

As Joel mentions, David Weinberger's central premise in the book is that the «power of the miscellaneous comes directly from the fact that in the third order [note: what the author of the book means as our current era of digital information], everything is connected and therefore everything is metadata» (p. 105).

The original Titanfall was a fun but divisive game, with a strong central premise but a lot of complaints about its lasting...

Summary: Shadwen could have been something truly special but unfortunately it fails to reach the lofty expectations built up around its ambitious central premise.

Though immigration has been a major theme of his campaign, in recent weeks the real - estate magnate and his campaign have waffled on some of the central premises of Trump's immigration pitch to Republican primary voters.

A central premise of risk parity is that, in the long run, all the asset categories offer similar risk - adjusted returns, but clearly there are environments in which the Sharpe ratios are very different across asset classes.

It is the central premise behind inflation targeting, and central bankers — essentially without exception — assert that they have the capacity to affect or even determine inflation in the long term, but that they do not have the capacity to affect the average level of output, much less its growth rate over time, even though they may have the capacity to affect the amplitude of cyclical fluctuations.

I guess the central premise behind these theories is that you are investing in only top name companies.

Repentance and belief means forgiveness, and forgiveness is infinite, it is the central premise of Christianity.

If one were to take seriously the central premise of Obama's ersatz science of politics — the distinction between political facts and moral values — the inescapable conclusion is that our president turns out to be a staunch libertarian proponent of minimal government.

In an increasingly secular Western world it's an increasingly common form of faith promoted by films such as Interstellar, with its central premise that humanity must harness technology to allow us to escape our own, ultimately doomed, planet.

But surely he owes us some argument supporting the central premise of his whole project.

Third, Sen offers no defense of the inviolability of every human life, a central premise on which depends his admirable insistence that freedom has its own inherent value.

Our Ivan Kenneally unloads on Obamacare in The Weekly Standard: If one were to take seriously the central premise of Obama's ersatz science of politics — the distinction between political facts and moral values — the inescapable conclusion is that our president turns out to be a....

But the early Church Fathers never embraced the central premises of dispensationalism, including the radical dichotomy between Israel and the Church and the resulting two peoples of God, one earthly and one heavenly in nature and mission.

With the central premise of modern love the expectation that a state of coupled permanence is achievable, and as freighted with psychological interiority as we all now are, uncoupling can only be experienced as ego - crushing crisis and inadequacy.

He thought that by lying about childbirth pain (he simply fabricated his central premise that «primitive» women don't have pain in labor) he could convince them.

The central premise of the products in the Medela portfolio is to help the infant develop the ability to create a vacuum, which is key to removing milk during breastfeeding.

Your central premise, when obstetricians hate homebirth midwives, birth becomes less safe for everyone, is completely backwards.

-- sums up its central premise - it's about the price leaders pay for leading a country through wars, economic difficulty and anything else thrown at them.

In his article setting out why there can not be a Corbynite Labour party in Scotland, Jonathon Shafi's central premise is correct: Scottish Labour is a derelict bastion of the right whose leader Kezia Dugdale is aligned with Progress, the cabal that supported Liz Kendall.

Those with an interest in Nixon will love the movie, but its central premise isn't so much with the personalities involved.

A central premise of string theory is that strings, the most basic unit of nature, vibrate in a 10 - or 11 - dimensional universe.

Ruin that symmetry and, working back through the theory, the implications would overturn the central premise of Einstein's special theory — essentially the concept that there's no way to tell if you're stationary or moving relative to the universe.

The value of this book lies not just in its central premise, that complex decisions require highly sophisticated systems of scientific advice, both institutional and external to government.

Sharon Levy wrote that before 2001, wolves in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, «would seldom take down a moose», using this statement to support her central premise that before 2001, young wolves in exploited populations lacked learning opportunities for packs to be efficient predators (12 June 2010, p 40).

Its central premise of the compatibility of God and science has been expressed elsewhere, both recently and less recently.

A central premise of regenerative medicine is that, to discover how we can regenerate lost motor neurons or insulin - secreting pancreatic cells, it is necessary to understand how such cells develop in the first place.

So it seems all roads lead back to this one central premise: optimizing your gut bacteria is essential for your good health, which includes maintaining a healthy weight.

The central premise is that since cancer cells need glucose and insulin to thrive, lowering the glucose level in your blood though carb and protein restriction literally starves the cancer cells.