In a particularly preposterous bit of spin, she told a group of Hispanic students a few days ago, when she did not realize she was being recorded, that those people were not necessarily Hispanic.
But Sassoon made individualization the hallmark of the haircut, liberating women's hair from the hair styles of the times — from, as McCracken puts it, those "preposterous bits of rococo shrubbery that took their substance from permanents, their form from rollers, and their rigidity from hair spray".
Lord had crafted a preposterous defense of Trump.
Mark Morris... gave a preposterous demonstration of his creative poverty.
It's a preposterous claim, of course, but some took it seriously.
The first comes with the opening song, Jabberwocky, a preposterous setting of Lewis Carroll's poem.
In her rebuttal, Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Patton Seymour called that claim "preposterous". This tip was not a bit of gossip, but something Stewart acted on right away, she said.
For all the posturing of the marketing men and the lighting guys telling me "nothing like this has ever been done before", for all the man hours and effort it takes to pull something like this off and for all the pointless attendance of writers and journalists, having something so barmy, so ferociously preposterous in the name of a bit of branded content, seemed oddly noble.
