Sentence examples for a preposterous premise from inspiring English sources

But he also praises Mr. Zemeckis's directing style, saying he has "a remarkable ability to take a preposterous premise and turn it into a finely-tuned farcical machine".

For example, Kirkus Reviews called the social structure a "preposterous premise".

Jane is a romantic comedy-drama with a marvellously preposterous premise: a young woman goes to a clinic for a routine checkup and comes out artificially inseminated with a stranger's baby.

It is also a wonderful example of one of the things that children's books can do best: take a totally preposterous premise for a story and make it work.

If a comic novel is to have a vaguely preposterous premise, it helps if it's one that seems immediately enticing to a high proportion of the readership.

Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times was also disappointed, saying that it "amounts to little more than series of events and has a more preposterous premise than usual".

Actually it isn't, but an elaborate, potentially preposterous premise is almost always both a stumbling block and an opportunity for a fantasy epic.

Whereas some TV concepts reek of a drunken idea, this one pretty much lifts a pub debate for its entire preposterous premise.

Upon this implausible — indeed, preposterous — premise, Muriel Spark builds a strangely gripping and gnomically illuminating short novel, "Aiding and Abetting" (Doubleday; $21).

Remade from Anne Fontaine's 2003 sex-fantasy thriller Nathalie, this film from Atom Egoyan is a steamy erotic noir with the same preposterous premise.

(As was, presumably, the 2011 contretemps between another cartel, Los Zetas, and the hacker collective Anonymous — a preposterous movie premise inexplicably graduated to reality).