Sentences with phrase «one's simple premise»

Whatever happened to simple game names with simple premises?

Written in 1967, the book was founded on a very simple premise that every pound of fat on your body can be converted into usable calories.

Few movies can mine so much tension from a pretty simple premise, and the acting is strong like you mention.

It was called the British system, and it was a fairly simple premise - if someone has a problem with drugs, they get medical help.

The joy of this game is in it's seemingly simple premise that becomes increasingly more difficult and challenging as you learn the ins and outs of digital fishing.

Everything in that list was conceived under a really simple premise: take something familiar and update it.

And the same simple premise has always applied - anyone can enter and all of the works are chosen by leading artists.

In a film with simple characters mounted on an even simpler premise, it's only natural that bodies become the main subject.

The lack of depth and variety to an already simple premise quickly makes the game feel redundant.

How about we has a very simple premise: user profiles consists of a date idea.

Adding to this pretty simple premise is a story line, which you'll pick up between levels when you're at your mum's house.

And the same simple premise has always applied — anyone can enter and all of the works are chosen by leading artists.

This is the deceptively simple premise of By the Time It Gets Dark, the experimental second feature from Thai director Anocha Suwichakornpong, but it doesn't stay deceptively simple for long.

«On Chesil Beach» works despite its deceptively simple premise in part thanks to Cooke's skill with pacing, tone, and general mise en scène.

The former takes simple premises to thoughtful, emotional and absurd places that I rarely even imagine, whereas Ex Machina essentially sets up a story with a few possible outcomes, and then delivers one of them.

The rest of the book rehearses the main tenets of classical theism, all of which can be inferred from the deceptively simple premise of God's immateriality.

A relatively simple premise, but one the writer - director tills for maximum drama, as deception after deception is painstakingly drawn to the surface.

The concept of child custody disputes make little sense if the following simple premise is considered and allowed to prevail:

It's an incredibly rich film based on an extremely simple premise: raising (and leaving unsettled) issues about art and life, the past and the present, the individual and the community, aging and love, business and family and even the British Protestant versus the Mediterranean Catholic view of work and the world.

Each artist represents a different style and approach, but a powerfully simple premise unites their work: a sheer delight in color.

How About We (AndroidiOSWeb) This service works on a very simple premise dating people should involve, you know, going on dates.

A cast well stocked with talented goofballs playing trigger - happy killers drives a baby - simple premise past the point of parody into a realm of pure, demented lunacy.

The formula of broad slapstick, sticky schmaltz, and simple premises continued throughout many of the worst children's fare, and one can blame Home Alone for a good part of why most live - action kids flicks are so devoid of anything truly worthwhile.

This alarmingly simple premise drives David Robert Mitchell's ingenious thriller along for 100 glorious minutes: it's the best horror film I've seen in a long time, and is full of witty nods to the glory days of 1970s chillers.

The eloquently simple premise presents Lee and Evelyn Abbott (director / co-writer Krasinski and his wife, Emily Blunt), parents struggling to raise and protect their three children Regan (Millicent Simmonds), Marcus (Noah Jupe) and Beau (Cade Woodward) from lightning - fast critters resembling a mash - up of the Predator, the Deadly Mantis and the villains from «Attack of the Crab Monsters.»

It's an exceedingly simple premise that is, for the most part, utilized to positive effect by Rob Reiner, as the filmmaker does a superb job of establishing both the movie's small town atmosphere and the friendship between the boys - with, in terms of the latter, the personable, thoroughly engaging work from the four stars perpetuating the film's consistently affable vibe.

It seems almost serendipitous, then, that the men who wrote and directed the last film in that franchise, American Reunion, will direct a new comedy with a similarly simple premise.

The Squid and the Whale opens with a rather simple premise.

Ironcast is fun simple premise that will take time to truly master.

The battle system's simple premise still succeeds, plus the new Domination Battles offer up a nice deviation to the familiar formula.

This is all part of Do It, an exhibition that enthusiastically embraces any idea whatsoever, with a disarmingly simple premise at its core: artists» written instructions.

It's this core belief thing that has something to do with a person's way of viewing the complicated world with short simple premises, that seems impenetrable.

Cerletty develops ideas for a painting with simple premises such as «wiggling pink paper,» or «mailman in love,» asking himself, «Is it funny?

The best compression socks for edema work on a very simple premise.

Trolls has a fairly simple premise, but it's pretty creative at the same time.

Writer - director Roberts makes the most of a relatively simple premise, using sleek filmmaking and introspective performances to heighten the tension.

That is a pretty simple premise.

The founders of Beckett Simonon, the $ 79 shoe start - up founded in 2012 and based in Bogotá, Colombia, began with a remarkably simple premise: Cool shoes should be affordable.

Naquatic knows how to make games that have seemingly simple premises, but go way further with them than you could possibly imagine.

It's a powerfully simple premise.

Chessaria's challenging, but it's a refreshing spin on a deceptively simple premise.

Burkeman begins his piece with a simple premise.

A British sitcom, The IT Crowd, exists on the simple premise that everything about the basement - dwelling IT department is so miserable it's inherently humorous.

The researchers started from a simple premise - being alone with ourselves is often seen as hard.

Companies like Bloomberg have focused operations around this simple premise because businesses need data to make educated decisions and understand industry trends.

Author and London Business School professor Lynda Gratton, along with her coauthor, Andrew Scott, had a simple premise in mind for their 2016 book, The 100 - Year Life: What is going to happen to us all, when everyone starts living to 100?

Ship Your Enemies Glitter, a business catering to those with a bone to pick, went viral earlier this year based on a simple premise: You pay $ 9.99 and provide an address, they mail an envelope filled with glitter that's sure to go absolutely everywhere.

This one is based on a simple premise: «If I (or we) didn't think of it, it must be worthless.»