Perhaps current American dance culture is a bit preposterous, related to "real" house and techno only in the same way as the heavy metal of the 70s and 80s was to the blues.
That's not to say Bowie doesn't take himself very seriously: he is controlling and a bit preposterous too.
It's a heady thought — if a bit preposterous — that a few lines of verse might undermine a government.
The resulting images are fierce, colorful, grainy, a bit preposterous and patently artificial.
In a world of paper currency and credit, many of currency's earlier incarnations seem a bit preposterous.
"On paper, the idea was a bit preposterous.
The genocidal slaughter of Rwanda and the Great Lakes region was a nightmare too preposterous to be dreamed.
With a speed that would have seemed preposterous to contemplate a decade ago, the work of collecting, purifying and digitizing billions of discrete bits of chemical information will be finished in less than 18 months, providing a rich resource for scientists to analyze for decades to come.
It is preposterous to tell a man who has lost everything to give it his best.
