Sentence examples for Very preposterous from inspiring English sources

The Islamic organizations are spreading out in Syria like mushroom, soon they will form a very preposterous state that will affect all the neighbouring states as well as Europe.

It's all very preposterous, set in a playwright's fanciful (i.e., politically incorrect) China, but the music absolutely demands Pavarotti and Callas, along with extravagant production values and the biggest venues you can afford.

Albeit... in 1707, when John Leverett became the leading candidate for ascension to Harvard's Presidency, Cotton Mather railed, "To make a lawyer, and one who never affected the study of divinity, a president for a College of Divines will be a very preposterous thing, a thing without precedent".

Why, the very idea is preposterous, ridiculous, unheard of, unthinkable.

If pretension is a synonym for failed ambition, then the very question appears preposterous.

"Who said we were dominated?" he said after the Devils practiced in suburban El Segundo, suggesting that the very idea seemed preposterous.

The very idea is preposterous.

Whatever it is, it is very right there, too preposterous to be pretentious, too busy to be self-conscious, too consumption-driven to be precious.

Whiplash is a study in the misery and cruelty that's always involved in teaching a musical instrument at the highest level: it's outrageously watchable, very well acted, slightly preposterous, and nowhere near as desperately important as it thinks it is.

In disarming liner notes to the Beethoven concerto set Mr. Aimard admits that not long ago he would have deemed "preposterous" the very idea of adding yet another account of these war horses to a market already saturated with high-quality recordings.

How preposterous is that?" Very.