How To Use Preposterous In A Sentence
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The only way you'll be laughing at this romantic drama is at how preposterous the plot is.
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The whole thing has been a hideous blunder, and the idea of encumbering a force of four thousand men with something like thirty thousand camp followers, and with a train of no less than nineteen thousand bullocks, to say nothing of other draught animals, is the most preposterous thing I ever heard of.
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Lanikai is a community of wealthy, preposterously fit, good-looking people who seem to be constantly in motion.
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You can dismantle the preposterous plot with a small spanner.
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You can dismantle the preposterous plot with a small spanner.
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By the end the preposterous level of interaction between these characters left me rolling my eyes.
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Even a sensible idea or a fine principle is exaggerated to the point that it becomes preposterous and untenable.
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Still, there was something going around in the mid to late 90's in the gaming industry that doesn't really seem as prevalent today: Outrageous, preposterous ambitions to cram a complete history of everything into every plot point, every gameplay system, every FMV sequence ... it was like the late Romantic period at the turn of the 1900's, where Gustav Mahler could say "To write a symphony is to construct the world" and mean it.
Great Big Bites
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If a painfully hip novel set in the European fashion industry didn't contain the requisite amount of preening egomania, airy-fairy posturing and general preposterousness, you would probably ask for your money back.
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The only reason the idea seems so preposterous is because we refuse to live like them.
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Some may consider it all irresistibly smart, rather than merely preposterous and precocious in equal measure.
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The implication that marital infidelity enhances a leader's credibility is preposterous.
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A single bulb hung from the ceiling and some one had adorned it with a preposterously frilly white shade.
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Really, this is an argument that might appeal to a medieval schoolman, but, really, having regard to the summing up, to suggest that there is any miscarriage of justice in this case borders on the preposterous.
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Drew is one of those cinematic chameleons whose character changes to fit the scene, regardless of how preposterous the shift may be.
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It considers humanity and humility, our preposterous smallness in a vast world, the idea of interconnection, the possibility of love, the breath of creation, the spiritual value of journey.
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At first blush, that would seem a preposterous proposition.
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To have convicted Crosfeild for singing a regicidal song would have been unjust and even preposterous, so that at least legally there has to be some kind of aesthetic dispensation, aesthetic free space for strong expressions.
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‘I'm not signing this, it's preposterous, he's an adult,’ my husband says, hurling the papers sulkily across the room.
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Most preposterous is the concept of rapid introgression of Mojave toxin genes from Mojave rattlers into timber rattlers.
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Neither of these scenarios includes Vince, which leads us to suspect that this preposterous piece of tattle of his connection with Amanda is being bruited about by none other than Cyborg himself.
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Which is a preposterous idea.
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But that preposterous assertion is contradicted by much evidence.
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The action scenes were cheesily done, preposterous, and stuck together in a stilted fashion.
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It would be preposterous to shovel coal with a teaspoon.
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Until then the idea is preposterous.
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All these things seem closer to probable than preposterous.
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Each one shows that musicals can offer far more than a medley of melodies carrying a preposterous plot.
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Various reasons had been given, all of them preposterous, he said.
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It's preposterous to suggest that everything was her fault!
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His subsequent dive is utterly preposterous, but the referee doesn't book him.
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A preposterous seventeenth century opportunist, a loose cannon, an incorrigible hypocrite.
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You can dismantle the preposterous plot with a small spanner.
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Coming from almost anyone else, it would be a preposterous, almost laughable claim.
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Since I am not ready to rule out anything; even the preposterous idea that a pismire may indeed carry off a saw log; I would not absolutely rule out some general correlation between skin color and intelligence.
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Last season, during that preposterous and ill-tempered let-down of a mini-series they met in the final – which Madrid won – and this quarter-final could effectively be seen as this year's edition.
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I find this sort of pacifistic reading of Just War utterly preposterous.
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That is a preposterous accusation!
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I am here using the word preposterous in its dictionary sense of "contrary to nature, reason or commonsense," for in the light of modern scientific knowledge, human behavior is, demonstrably, characterized by the interaction of cultural and biological variables, and, as Melvin Konner has recently put it "an analysis of the causes of human nature that tends to ignore either the genes or the environmental factors may be safely discarded.
Evolving Margaret Mead
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When something sounds too preposterous to be true, it probably is.
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These are usually the very people that colleagues consider the most preposterously incompetent.
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The notion that any club is owed a living by its league is utterly arrogant and preposterous.
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The story is so preposterous, it should have been an odd little footnote in the history of period romance fiction.
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How else would he have learned to spout such preposterous notions as universal love?
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While the prosecution argues that Dunn and his team manipulated the books to claim the bonuses, the defense said such a fraud would have required the acquiescence of hundreds of accountants at both Nortel and Deloitte, an idea it called "preposterous.
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The idea that children in Scottish schools are being force-fed gay propaganda is preposterous.
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The story is so preposterous, it should have been an odd little footnote in the history of period romance fiction.
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That your brain cells might be catenated to those distant fossilized fireballs would strike you as preposterous, but only slightly more preposterous than your emotional links to the fellow who is lying on the sofa with an ice pack on his face.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
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Thankfully, the film contains enough dazzling special effects and smart ideas to excuse its preposterous and derivative plot.
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To equate off-the-record briefings or informal contacts with bribery and corruption is preposterous.
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Ned and Stacey asks the question of whether such a preposterously retrograde idea could be the basis of a comedy in the 1990s.
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Somewhat less ridiculously, O'Neill claims that expecting Miller to be the saviour is preposterous.
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You may balk at the cost of your highlights, but there are far more preposterously priced haircuts going on.
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It also grounds the film in a reality rarely afforded these types of genre outtings (except for the preposterous moment where our hapless cameraman is dispatched by the giant beast, somehow sneaking behind him unnoticed long enough to get the poor fool into his gapping maw).
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But he reminds us of the astringent truth that the preposterous has no trouble cohabiting with the malevolent.
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A preposterous seventeenth century opportunist, a loose cannon, an incorrigible hypocrite.
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I don't know about you, but I happen to think that this defense is preposterous.
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It is having a shared belief in something that seems preposterous.
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And given that my mother is from France, where the "Anglo Saxon" British burned French heroine Joan of Arc to ashes, and her birth being 39 miles from mom's house, isn't it a bit inflammatory and preposterous to call me an "anglo"?
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You may balk at the cost of your highlights, but there are far more preposterously priced haircuts going on.
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Shankar and his tabla player, Alla Rakha, held the apparently preposterous view that all notes were equal.
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As he becomes increasingly deranged, so the book gets more and more preposterous.
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As it stands, this preposterously long-term deal only mitigates the first year of that possibility.
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My young floricultural friend, JOE of Birmingham, who knows a bit about fruits as well as concerning orchids, let me tell you, -- JOE, I say, laughs their preposterous pretensions to scorn.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891
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That sort of rating for a distributor of disposables is getting on for preposterous.
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And how preposterous that one claimed 115 for a lunch to discuss efficiency savings.
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Preposterous as this contention seemed to Washington, he did not call a drumhead court-martial for the immediate sentence and execution of a spy caught in civilian dress.
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It's utterly preposterous but ridiculously entertaining.
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Individually and culturally, we are preposterously nostalgic for it.
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Not only is there a designated @rihannanavy Twitter feed "Introducing a new era of fandom" but there's also a preposterous two-minute Navy recruitment video with text that reads: "Her appearance infatuates us, her strength feeds us, her music created us – the Navy wants you.
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French King, for want of a herald to carry his mind to the English King, was constrained to suborn a vadelict, or common serving man, with a trumpet banner, having a hole made through the middest for this preposterous herauld to put his head through, and to cast it over his shoulders instead of a better coat armour of France.
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Every manner of artistic expression, every experiment, however imaginative, however preposterous or outrageous, was now permissible.
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You could make a good living doing this: taking a few grand to draw up plans, then blowing out the budget by such a preposterous amount that your client simply wants you to go away.
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It seemed preposterously overdressed and overeager for the byways of my small hometown.
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I should have liked to rouse them for a minute, to coax them into a game or a scamper; but the longer I looked into their fixed and weary eyes the more preposterous the idea became.
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He is a whiner, a whinger, his air of menace punctured by the feeling that he is moderately preposterous.
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The unbidden guests examine a row of family portraits, but are too dull to recognize them as men and women, beneath the disguise of a preposterous garb, and with features and expression debased, because inherited through ages of moral and physical decay.
Mosses from an Old Manse
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_were_ such a project contemplated by Ministers, they would (forgetting their characteristic caution and reserve) agitate the public mind on so critical a question, and derange vast transactions and arrangements in the corn trade by its premature divulgement; and, above all, constitute the _Globe_ newspaper their confidential organ upon the occasion, should alone have satisfied the most credulous of its unwarrantable and preposterous character.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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The Sarah Connor Chronicles only served to deaden my love for the Terminator mythos further, as the casting choices were predominantly poor and the storylines meandered between plodding and preposterous -- but this isn't about my lament for a failed franchise, it's about a promising novel.
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The palace and costumes are preposterously lavish.
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Mr. Pawlenty attributed the current impasse on what he called "preposterous" proposed spending increases.
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The dim-witted zealots in his cabinet are even more preposterous than he is.
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February 21st, 2009 at 12: 50 am the idea that we have to choose between letting housing prices dive-bomb into oblivion and reinflating the bubble is preposterous
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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.
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The intimate falls in love, to does not abandon. Lets the bastard which these wants to involve our sentiment preposterously go!
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Surely the idea is as preposterous as the notion that accountants are interesting.
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The B-side is a series of preposterous grunts and shrieks that makes no sense whatsoever, and is barely listenable.
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A triple-double in a game of this magnitude, against an opponent of such repute, is preposterous.
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From the sea it looks one dense mass of greenery, in which the bright foliage of the candle-nut relieves the glossy dark green of the breadfruit — a maze of preposterous bananas, out of which rise slender annulated trunks of palms giving their infinite grace to the grove.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Most fictional representation of politics is either excessively romantic or totally preposterous.
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But the idea that the danger is so great that it should stop us swimming altogether is preposterous.
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Were they a preposterous joke or a serious contribution to modern warfare?
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It is preposterous, ridiculous, almost farcical.
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A single bulb hung from the ceiling and some one had adorned it with a preposterously frilly white shade.
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The story is so preposterous, it should have been an odd little footnote in the history of period romance fiction.
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Ged Dale, Eccles, LancsOne is a blowsy, overblown and preposterous melodrama played out to a hysterical score.
Notes and queries: What's the difference between operas and musicals? Is getting there quicker cheaper? The house where Handel and Hendrix lived
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This evidence of witchery is preposterous.
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Why on earth should a serious villain entrust his money to a preposterous amateur, who has no aptitude for the task, and furthermore no training in the firearm and garrotte which are going to be the tools of his trade?
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It's hard to pick the right adjective -- I prefer "preposterous" over "ugly" or "repellent" -- but there is something preposterous at the core of contemporary political thinking on both sides.
"Is it possible that there might be something really ugly at the core of contemporary liberalism?"
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So either these preposterous imitations of English have been produced by infiltrators from some parallel universe, or this is one of those little corners of the language where idiolects differ.
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People dress up in preposterous costumes, drink large quantities of beer, and take part in -- or toast -- the parade floats that every self-respecting town puts on.
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If it were preposterous nonsense to say that electricity, or magnetism, or odyle, contrived and made a little bracelet box, how much more absurd to ascribe the making of the cavity of the eye to any such cause.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
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Pawlenty, for one, called the National Labor Relations Board's bid to keep Boeing from building Dreamliner 787s at a nonunion plant in South Carolina "preposterous.
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It will be preposterous to shovel coal with a teaspoon.
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A friend once made the preposterous claim that the word gullible wasn't in the dictionary.
Strange Fruit
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The very idea that he would leak stories to her is preposterous, outrageous, possibly blasphemous and undoubtedly iniquitous.
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Her influences – from Morricone soundtracks to doomy goth and opera – suggest her music could be preposterously overblown, yet Calvi is clearly an expert when it comes to dynamics and restraint.
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Mr. Straw To try to suggest that the senior chief inspector agreed to 175 is preposterous.
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It is preposterous to expect that the same superstition regarding skin ascendency, which is now so markedly played out in our Colonies in temporal matters, could have any weight whatsoever in matters so momentous as morals and religion.
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Mr. Straw To try to suggest that the senior chief inspector agreed to 175 is preposterous.
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The intimate falls in love, to does not abandon. Lets the bastard which these wants to involve our sentiment preposterously go!
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A Flynt apologist could probably wiggle away from the sexism of the word cunt; harder to excuse was Flynt's preposterous suggestion that Sandra Day O'Connor's appointment was meritless, an empty gesture of political correctness.
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It is extraordinary that such self-evidently preposterous claims can be taken seriously by anybody.
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That's why the notion of Mickelson being a choker is preposterous.
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The erratic behavior and preposterous claims of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi -- probably the only contemporary politician whose life was the subject of an opera produced in September 2006 by the English National Opera under the title Gaddafi: A Living Myth -- make it difficult to take him seriously, yet some of the utterances he made during his 42 years in power warrant closer examination.
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This may sound preposterous, but let us consider it for a moment.
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Sciaticaes lime-kills ith 'palme, incurable bone-ach, and the riveled fee sim-ple of the tetter, take and take againe such preposterous discoveries.
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This righteous indignation is at preposterous odds with a perfectly run-of-the-mill and rather sweet romantic comedy.
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I believe these authorities to be wasting your time and taxes on this utterly preposterous project.
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Kindly keep your preposterous, specious opinions out of conversations that don't concern you!
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Dr. Hone went up and down the streets, loudly denouncing such "humbugs," while his partner, Lapland, laughed at the preposterous idea of learning all about materia medica in three weeks!
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It's pretty preposterous, though, since -- putting aside the larger problem of turnout for Obama being suppressed by the knowledge that the election was unsanctioned -- there are presumably a fair, but unascertainable number of people who voted for Clinton who might have voted for Obama (or Edwards, or Richardson) had they been on the ballot.
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What follows is equally preposterous as therapy and as playwriting.
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These are some of the preposterous ‘solutions’ and responses to the terror attack offered by corporate mouthpieces.
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This was a monologue delivered in such a preposterous American accent that to begin with it sounded like a joke.
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I dread that she should acquire preposterous notions of love, of happiness, from the furtive perusal of vulgar novels, or from the clandestine conversation of ignorant waiting-maids: – I dread that she should acquire, even from the enchanting eloquence of Rousseau, the fatal idea, that cunning and address are the natural resources of her sex; that coquetry is necessary to attract, and dissimulation to preserve the heart of man.
Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
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Take away the two preposterous assumptions, and Ohanian and Cole have proven nothing except the ability of neoclassical economists to indulge in thoeretical autoeroticism.
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Olivia Williams' crisp, tinkling syllables have a very Kristin Scott Thomas-ish ennui, and she is often shown lying perfectly still in satin sheets like a vaguely preposterous alabaster saint.
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It uses preposterous science fiction to delve into deeper human emotions than the usual fluff with which we are served each spring.
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This righteous indignation is at preposterous odds with a perfectly run-of-the-mill and rather sweet romantic comedy.
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The image of 1834 was familiar enough: the reality would have been vastly more preposterous and alarming.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Instead the authors attempt to downplay the hazards of mercury, a highly potent neurotoxin itself linked to developmental disorders, and they make the preposterous, insupportable assertion that reducing any air pollution from power plants will "do nothing" to reduce health threats.
EPA Is On to Something on Mercury
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As preposterous ideas go, a rave on a plane takes the disco biscuit.
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That sounds rather preposterous but I stand by that.
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A single bulb hung from the ceiling and some one had adorned it with a preposterously frilly white shade.
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Those three people couldn't have acted in a more absurd and preposterous manner if they had been real actors in a real theatre.
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The chisel-jawed author of among numerous others Awaken the Giant Within, famous for having participants in his expensive seminars walk barefoot across hot coals, is a dispenser of some remarkably preposterous advice.
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As preposterous ideas go, a rave on a plane takes the disco biscuit.
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While the cavalcade were getting to horse, Sir William Ashton, a man of peace and of form, censured his son Henry for having begirt himself with a military sword of preposterous length, belonging to his brother, Colonel Ashton.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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There was a time when the O-list was so long and preposterous that virtually anyone could have a bash at winning Olympic gold.
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That's a preposterous excuse!
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At the time it seemed a preposterous demand for a club who last lifted silverware 44 years ago.
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To claim that removal of deformity is purely cosmetic is not only obviously preposterous, but it is ultimately a more expensive tab for the short sighted insurance industry to deny coverage.
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Why on earth should a serious villain entrust his money to a preposterous amateur, who has no aptitude for the task, and furthermore no training in the firearm and garrotte which are going to be the tools of his trade?
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I do apologize for misplacing the r in preposterous, though I imagine you quite understood what I meant.
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Claims that the club is attempting to make ‘a fast buck’ are simply preposterous.
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The very idea that he would leak stories to her is preposterous, outrageous, possibly blasphemous and undoubtedly iniquitous.
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Pausing briefly to ask oneself how the word "cockeyed" translates into Berlin vernacular, one next inquires how the theory could have been more preposterous than at first appeared.
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The preposterous notions of a systematical man who does not know the world, tire the patience of a man who does.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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He laughs at the preposterous idea.
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Did it have to be undermined by his character being offered the preposterous spectacle of officers saluting while not wearing headdress?
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Somehow it did not seem to me such a very preposterous "idee," as Esau called it, for just then I too had an idea.
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Another boy did a grotesque parody of a monster drawling incoherent, preposterous demands.
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To generalise across the entire team would, of course, be preposterous.
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She must not put faith in preposterous representations, nor may facts within her observation show the representations to be so obviously false that to rely on them requires closing her eyes to the truth.
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But, as directed by Ian Talbot, it is all preposterous fun and John Gordon Sinclair, despite his lack of visibility, excellently suggests the tormented demonism of the hero.
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They said I was jumping down from my perch and turning myself into just another bloviator in the unregulated, highly idiosyncratic and often preposterously self-indulgent crowd of bloggers.
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It is surely preposterous that modern civilisation as we know it would not only collapse but also leave no reliable account of its fate.
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He was usually preposterous vet somehow achieved a certain dignity by his remoteness and agelessness.
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Regardless, we can make bio-diesel out of plant matter that is otherwise wasted by going into landfills, et al. Electric will eventually replace internal combustion, but the idea that it must all be at once is preposterous, and a false dichotomy.
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Next, under the influence of that cultural laughing gas known as Reaganism, Hollywood created a Vietnam mythos even more preposterous than the one chronicled above.
A Disneyland of Militant Ignorance: The American Normalization of Mass Murder.
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The look, of course, was no big deal, but the preposterous wheelspinning start as the lights went green certainly was.
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The plausibility of the piece is preposterous.
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On this night, close-hauled, her big mainsail preposterously flattened down, her luffs pulsing emptily on the lift of each smooth swell, she was sliding an easy four knots through the water on the veriest whisper of a breeze.
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A dumpy coloratura soprano, her voice was not even mediocre, it was preposterous.
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I knew Aunt Agatha would be taking advantage of my long absence to retail what she termed my preposterous scheme to Uncle Keith, and that I should have the benefit of his opinion on my return, and this thought made me restless.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886
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With Brittany Snow of American Dreams as her perky assistant, who takes charge of the shoe inventory, they take on impossible clients and make ludicrous legal arguments in courtroom scenes so ham-fisted that after one case, even Harry has to admit, "That's what I call a lucky verdict — if not preposterous.
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This righteous indignation is at preposterous odds with a perfectly run-of-the-mill and rather sweet romantic comedy.
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That has to stand as one of the stranger things I've heard in the past few years, and it gladdens my heart if only because the level of sheer preposterousness in rock music has sadly fallen lately.
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Thankfully, the film contains enough dazzling special effects and smart ideas to excuse its preposterous and derivative plot.
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As he becomes increasingly deranged, so the book gets more and more preposterous.
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It's an indulgent fantasy, saved by Chow's precise comic timing and the preposterous action sequences.
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And oddly, despite sounding preposterously contrived, it works very well.
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The chief justice's supporters dismiss the allegations of racism as preposterous.
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It is preposterous, ridiculous, almost farcical.
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Yes, the plot is preposterous.
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His tendency to eroticise every same sex friendship is often preposterous.
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You may balk at the cost of your highlights, but there are far more preposterously priced haircuts going on.
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This preposterous number effectively amounts to criminalizing most of the teenage male population of the Rampart area.
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On the contrary, to find himself arraigned and put on his defense by this tall, slim woman, erect and smartly buckramed in logic and whalebone, was preposterous!
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This story, while seemingly preposterous, is an unexaggerated fact of life, and not at all unusual.
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My list of possibilities, like anyone else's, is utterly preposterous.
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The chief justice's supporters dismiss the allegations of racism as preposterous.
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Various preposterous suggestions were put forward.
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The palace and costumes are preposterously lavish.
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His mother and father nearly exploded with surprise and told him it was preposterous.
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One is unique to Germany: the preposterous voting system that tries to meld proportional representation with first-past-the-post constituencies and succeeds in aggravating the weaknesses of both.
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It would be preposterous to shovel coal with a teaspoon.
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One of the book's more preposterous claims is that ‘20,000 marchers tore palings from a Methodist Church fence and ran amok’ in the riots of April 1932.
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Due to the way in which the documentary fast-forwarded, however, his solo incarnation seemed to morph from a sharp 30-something to a scary and quite preposterous-looking 40-something in the blink of an eye.
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Thankfully, the film contains enough dazzling special effects and smart ideas to excuse its preposterous and derivative plot.
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This righteous indignation is at preposterous odds with a perfectly run-of-the-mill and rather sweet romantic comedy.
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The notion of replacing a perfectly good item with an almost identical perfectly good item sounds preposterous.
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The preposterous image of a benign West showering its goods on a grateful Africa / India / Indochina/wherever would surely have no purchase in a society where informed debate was the daily order.
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But there is something preposterous about the enterprise that I can't resist.
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They were voiceless, these poor unlucky ones, crawling away with sick white faces, to gather in groups and explain to each other, with stable jargon intermingled with oaths, how it ought not to have been, and never could have been, but for some unlooked-for and preposterous combination of events never before witnessed upon any mortal course.
Aurora Floyd. A Novel
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While it lacks the mock seriousness of the film that spawned it, it more than compensates with some preposterously appealing action sequences.
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How preposterous is Congressional oversight of U.S. intelligence?
Pssst. There's a Covert . . .
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Emma is a comic figure partly because of the preposterous nature of her snobbish pretensions.
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He pines for the old mythology of a clean, civilised Rome - no unwashed masses here, guv - no matter how preposterous it is in light of the evidence.
