All 7 Uses of
premise
in
The Da Vinci Code
- For a moment, Fache considered radioing the guards in the entresol and telling them to stop Sophie and drag her back up here before she could leave the premises.†
Chpt 11-12
- All the book titles suggested the same premise Langdon had just proposed.†
Chpt 37-38 *
- "Listen," Vernet said, "Jacques was a friend, and my bank does not need this kind of press, so for those two reasons, I have no intention of allowing this arrest to be made on my premises.†
Chpt 43-44
- The BBC producers loved Teabing's hot premise, his research, and his credentials, but they had concerns that the concept was so shocking and hard to swallow that the network might end up tarnishing its reputation for quality journalism.†
Chpt 51-52
- When the program aired in Britain, despite its ensemble cast and well-documented evidence, the premise rubbed so hard against the grain of popular Christian thought that it instantly confronted a firestorm of hostility.†
Chpt 51-52
- To my taste, the authors made some dubious leaps of faith in their analysis, but their fundamental premise is sound, and to their credit, they finally brought the idea of Christ's bloodline into the mainstream.†
Chpt 59-60
- Langdon was having trouble buying Teabing's premise that the Church would blatantly murder people to obtain these documents.†
Chpt 61-62
Definition:
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(premise as in: the premise of the argument) something assumed to be true and upon which other things are based