Luckily, "Running on Empty" has a lot more momentum than its title suggests, enough energy to take an unusual and intriguing premise and see it through.

Let's take a premise now.

You take an absurd premise - "Be Black, Baby" - and totally involve them and really frighten them at the same time.

"We take a very strong premise that it is going to get worse in all these markets," he said.

Peter Lefcourt has taken a promising premise and scored with it.

Keeping this in mind, she took a premise in 1968 at 43, Ripon Street, Kolkata.

It takes a simple premise and turns in a good number of strong comedic bits.

"Peter Lefcourt has taken a promising premise and scored with it," Hilma Wolitzer said here last year.

Ubisoft Reflections has taken a hare-brained premise and ran with it.

Cline "takes a far-out premise and engages the reader instantly" with a "deeply felt narrative makes it almost impossible to stop turning the pages".