Sentence examples for Entirely preposterous from inspiring English sources
An entirely preposterous premise, which is fair enough.
A return to the old system is considered unlikely but not entirely preposterous, given Albany's recent penchant for the dramatic.
The one that springs to mind is the Vertu, that entirely preposterous diamond-encrusted mobile phone they used to advertise in the FT's How To Spend It supplement.
He has written and sung dozens of songs that became standards, to the point where it didn't seem entirely preposterous when I overheard a guy in a bar describe him, absurdly, as "the white, American Chuck Berry".
During the Iraq quarrel, France and Germany seemed at one point to be edging closer to Russia, the embryo of an alliance that was stillborn and looks entirely preposterous now that Mr Putin has retreated so far from western values.
He takes four entirely preposterous characters, who take themselves entirely seriously: they begin to enact something like a dysfunctional four-way comedy routine, or perhaps a challengingly atonal modern jazz quartet.
Perhaps that meant he was a man with something to prove, willing even to take command of an untested and entirely preposterous-looking ship.
This is the kind of comedy in which the characters are construction-paper cutouts whose abrupt changes of heart are dictated entirely by the preposterous plot and not by psychological or social reality.
Not that anybody ever bought that story, but the already weak pretense got too preposterous entirely when the "militias" started showing up with attack helicopters, self-propelled artillery, and other decidedly non-homebuilt weapons systems.
It could be that Ruiz has some kind of satirical relationship with his source material, that he has taken its preposterous intricacy and, entirely deadpan, constructed from it a meditation on the arbitrariness of fate and the unknowability of the past.
