The survey operates on the unspoken premise that books are our culture's premier system of information storage, and the preferred medium for imaginative storytelling.

Its unspoken premise was that every ethnic group until then had found its own distinctive path to success.

In fact, this argument uses the first claim as an unspoken premise.

Perhaps they were accepting Mr. Brant's unspoken premise that life on the streets these days is not to be tamed and that we better find beauty in what we have.

His unspoken premise was that such a space for freedom would always continue to exist; he saw Parliament and the courts as guardians of liberty.

Any good informal logic textbook tells us to beware of sentences that trick the mind into accepting unspoken premises.

There is no addressing of the unspoken premises and therein lies the problem.

Violent crime in Central Park disturbs an unspoken premise by which almost all American life proceeds, which is the notion that streets are dangerous but nature is safe.

The show's unspoken premise is that garages are sacred spaces, temples to male chromosomes.