As if the syllable "Newt" is any less preposterous or any more Presidential?
Their resilience to come back with ten men, salvaging a point courtesy of Alexis Sánchez's first league goal since October, does not make it feel any less preposterous that they lost so meekly against Swansea City and Manchester United in their previous two league fixtures.
That claim might have seemed a little less preposterous, had the band not taken to the stage after its customary fanfare: recordings of Jay-Z's "99 Problems," followed by a healthy stretch of Alan Silvestri's score for "Back to the Future".
Francis suggests that Johnson's urine sample might have been deliberately contaminated by a rival, a charge that is less preposterous than it sounds.
But someone would have eventually thought of aqueducts, a 9-to-1 workday would at least sound less onerous, and a time-based thriller like "24" could be a little tighter and less preposterous.
A serial adulterer who totes his own wedge-shaped bolster to his assignations, Harry hooks up with Linda through the Internet, an improbability only slightly less preposterous than the computer disk of C.I.A. secrets that ends up floating around Linda and Chad's gym and leading them in a world of trouble.
Statham, however, manages to stand out from – or perhaps just to appear measurably less preposterous than – his co-stars even in a testosterone-heavy cast like The Expendables.
That was rather hard to believe, but it seemed no less preposterous than the idea that I would visit a park to photograph a light goods vehicle drivers' union meeting for foreign propaganda purposes.
Ambitious setups like this don't always hold up, but "Revolution" has the potential to be a more disciplined "Lost" — not necessarily more plausible but with any luck less preposterous and pretentious.
Year by year it seemed less and less preposterous, because those changes were only the beginning of a relentless process, continued by every subsequent government, that led to the Health and Social Care Act of March last year.
