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Sentence Examples I'm glad to see plenty of letters expostulating about the preposterous piece in the newspaper. It's a cliche-ridden, preposterous mess, full of ludicrously obvious plot holes. But he reminds us of the astringent truth that the preposterous has no trouble cohabiting with the malevolent. A dumpy coloratura soprano, her voice was not even mediocre, it was preposterous. It's an indulgent fantasy, saved by Chow's precise comic timing and the preposterous action sequences. All three are performing in concert, ruling out any preposterous demands from artistic directors. In place of serious and measured lament, then, the book provokes more and more comedy at its promiscuous and preposterous poor-mouthing. This preposterous number effectively amounts to criminalizing most of the teenage male population of the Rampart area. The idea that children in Scottish schools are being force-fed gay propaganda is preposterous. They remember when the idea of paying for garbage collection was preposterous. The notion that any club is owed a living by its league is utterly arrogant and preposterous. The only reason the idea seems so preposterous is because we refuse to live like them. I believe these authorities to be wasting your time and taxes on this utterly preposterous project. Among the other preposterous suggestions was the idea of building a structure a mile high. Even a sensible idea or a fine principle is exaggerated to the point that it becomes preposterous and untenable. Because we so value liberty, most Americans would find this view utterly preposterous. Those three people couldn't have acted in a more absurd and preposterous manner if they had been real actors in a real theatre. So preposterous seemed the suggestion, a stifled laugh was as much as I could offer by way of a response. It uses preposterous science fiction to delve into deeper human emotions than the usual fluff with which we are served each spring. It is surely preposterous that modern civilisation as we know it would not only collapse but also leave no reliable account of its fate. Show More Sentences I don't know about you, but I happen to think that this defense is preposterous. It is extraordinary that such self-evidently preposterous claims can be taken seriously by anybody. Some may consider it all irresistibly smart, rather than merely preposterous and precocious in equal measure. The dim-witted zealots in his cabinet are even more preposterous than he is. Another boy did a grotesque parody of a monster drawling incoherent, preposterous demands. His subsequent dive is utterly preposterous, but the referee doesn't book him. His mother and father nearly exploded with surprise and told him it was preposterous. Most preposterous is the concept of rapid introgression of Mojave toxin genes from Mojave rattlers into timber rattlers. Clearly, the notion of reading everything ever written is now entirely preposterous. John found their boundedness and self-sufficiency funny, preposterous, relativistically destabilising. But the idea that the danger is so great that it should stop us swimming altogether is preposterous. It is preposterous to ask seasoned physicians to acquire necessary qualifications to carry on with the legacies of yore. A date this early, at first blush, appears preposterous, for it suggests a common ancestor of land plants that predates land on our planet. In the '70s the idea of a lead-off man hitting 30 home runs was preposterous. To equate off-the-record briefings or informal contacts with bribery and corruption is preposterous. Perhaps this could be used when the increasingly preposterous plotlines begin to flag in a couple of series time. Somewhat less ridiculously, O'Neill claims that expecting Miller to be the saviour is preposterous. He is most certainly not a vampire, which is a ridiculously preposterous claim. The look, of course, was no big deal, but the preposterous wheelspinning start as the lights went green certainly was. Twas preposterous to Hughes anywise, who considered it a complete implausibility. Show More Sentences The B-side is a series of preposterous grunts and shrieks that makes no sense whatsoever, and is barely listenable. By the end the preposterous level of interaction between these characters left me rolling my eyes. They stand out a mile, and their final act of defiance is appallingly preposterous and embarrassing. There was a time when the O-list was so long and preposterous that virtually anyone could have a bash at winning Olympic gold. The charges against her were preposterous and she denied them with dignity, but she had never been popular and they served their turn. It is the worst, most simperingly preposterous, tepid football song I have ever heard. This story, while seemingly preposterous, is an unexaggerated fact of life, and not at all unusual. Emma is a comic figure partly because of the preposterous nature of her snobbish pretensions. Kindly keep your preposterous, specious opinions out of conversations that don't concern you! How else would he have learned to spout such preposterous notions as universal love? It has just the right amount of preposterous dialogue and clunky transitions to draw potential hate-watchers too. Elected politicians are straw men yanked about into ever-more preposterous postures. The very idea that he would leak stories to her is preposterous, outrageous, possibly blasphemous and undoubtedly iniquitous. Drew is one of those cinematic chameleons whose character changes to fit the scene, regardless of how preposterous the shift may be. The action scenes were cheesily done, preposterous, and stuck together in a stilted fashion. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. Given the Reds' surplus of outfielders, the idea of trading Griffey is not preposterous. In ordinary parlance, a conspiracy theory describes something preposterous or paranoid. I left a half hour early, and found a line around the block, full of a combination of hoodie-hardcore kids and scenesters wearing a preposterous amount of pre-faded denim. It is simply a matter of preposterous and farcical behavior by a hegemon. Show More Sentences I find this sort of pacifistic reading of Just War utterly preposterous. This braggart weaves astonishing tales of cunning and will while stalking game, and even more preposterous stories of superhuman feats of boozing. Their position is so utterly preposterous it could be construed as libel. What follows is equally preposterous as therapy and as playwriting. But that preposterous assertion is contradicted by much evidence. We pass a preposterous monument to polychrome and gilded onion domes. The ludicrousness of this assertion gives new life to the old line about some things being so preposterous it takes an educated person to believe them. A well-bred innocent, dressed in elegant sober clothes and perhaps from the provinces, falls victim to a couple of cockaded predators, preposterous in their ragged finery. Marchman takes it as a given that MLB basing its case on the say-so of a sketchy Floridian drug-dealer is preposterous. My list of possibilities, like anyone else's, is utterly preposterous. Some cough up preposterous jury awards, while others lay bare the egregious failures of the criminal justice system. Last week there was outrage over an academic's self-evidently preposterous argument about English teachers and the re-election of the Howard government. Various reasons had been given, all of them preposterous, he said. I am genuinely curious if any of the preposterous ramifications of what he is saying even occur to Kennedy. But he did not impose a tax or penalty on those who drink mountain dew, and he would not, because the mere idea is preposterous. In turn, the sender, presumably Rajan Zed or someone using that name and address, made some preposterous suggestions. The POBRBC made preposterous claims and insinuations that the politicians are not remunerated sizeably. I found the whole idea so preposterous I even Tweeted about it. Yet, though the piece is preposterous hokum, the show is put across with enormous zest. They seize the new principle that has just been discovered, and carry it to a preposterous extreme, betrashing the phrases of scientists and thinkers. Show More Sentences Another concern was just how to make such a preposterous premise buyable. A short distance away, at twilight, a fat beaver climbed out of the river onto a leaning willow oak, peered down, and dove into the water with a preposterous splash. Philosopher David Hume said, it is almost preposterous to compare the universe to a watch as we know very little about the universe, and almost everything about a pocketwatch. Monarchy, he said, was preposterous, and it had a heathenish origin. Examples from Classical Literature Why should they do everything so inconsequent, so improbable, so preposterous? The preposterous nature of the cause assigned casts suspicion upon the assignor himself. On the other hand, it may be observed, that the number of the early Chaldaean kings reported by polyhistor is preposterous. That her bondslave should have dared to dream of freedom was almost too preposterous for belief. Any comparison between the material comfort of a Kentucky slave and an English ditcher and delver would be preposterous. Carter was construing, and had made a most preposterous howler, it does not matter what. It was to him preposterous, for she was one of that underworld against which he was ruthlessly at war. To disparage his memory by citing them is a preposterous use of scholarship. He would say some rude, unprintable thing, and turn his back on that preposterous organization. As to Peretz's daughter, the notion of her assenting to marry him again seemed preposterous. It is a work unique, perhaps, in its design, but entirely unfeeling and preposterous in its overelaborate decorations. At the delicatessen he bought preposterous stores of food, chosen on the principle of expensiveness. As for having him at culm Rock, it was too preposterous a thought to be entertained for a moment. This preposterous effort of the glyptic art has the one merit of serving as a finger-board. Insisting upon his godship can only make him preposterous to the modern mind. He departed from my view, a perplexing and polysyllabic problem, claiming for himself a useless and preposterous purity. This preposterous proposition was received with the Homeric laughter it so richly deserved. The idea of spiting a town because there has been a row in it seems to me to be preposterous. How preposterous in him to mention his dead sister's name to her! The king and the whole Round Table were in raptures over this preposterous opportunity for adventure. Show More Sentences Copernicus convinced himself that this deduction was preposterous. He touched the spring of his repeater, to correct this most preposterous clock. Form, method, bulk of accomplishment, with Scotus were preposterous. I am a preposterous excrescence on the social cosmos,' said Clarence, eyeing him doubtfully. All too fearfully I divined their preposterous significance. Utterly preposterous as his cravat was, and as his collars were, I was conscious of a sort of dignity in the look. He was wondering if the Maori were really so ignorant as to believe the preposterous lie he was about to unload upon him. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. What proof have you, woman, of your preposterous allegation? To make terms with the town preacher of Wittenberg was too preposterous. The Wayans brothers have a hoot in the leads, defying logic to make the preposterous plot hang together. Wopsle's great-aunt's room, my education under that preposterous female terminated. But with this thrill welled a wave of resentment over what he considered a preposterous imposition. She insists upon this preposterous scheme of being a pilot, and will talk of nothing but revolving lights and hidden rocks, and codes of signals, and nonsense of the kind. The monkey, meanwhile, with a thick tail curling out into preposterous prolixity from beneath his tartans, took his station at the Italian's feet. Large sitting-room on the right side, well furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. Let your reason have fair play, Jack, and you will see this match in so foolish and preposterous a light, that there will be no need of any dissuasive arguments. No matter how preposterous or insane, a purpose is a Godsend to them. It seemed incredible that there lived upon earth a full-grown man who had never spoken with a fellow man, and still more preposterous that such a one could read and write. Find more words! 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