The phrase "a preposterous tale of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a story or narrative that is absurd, unbelievable, or ridiculous in nature.
Example: "The novel is a preposterous tale of a man who claims to have traveled through time to meet dinosaurs."
Alternatives: "an absurd story of" or "a ridiculous account of".
Two weeks ago, at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh, I heard Gilley talk about how he came to set up Peace One Day – a preposterous tale of how he'd had this idea "because basically I was really worried about humanity" and had tried to organise the whole thing from a bedroom in his mum's house.
However, the rest of this 1877 Petipa/Minkus ballet-spectacle was something else: a preposterous tale of forbidden love and violent death in ancient India replete with lurking servants, leaping fakirs, a murderous Radjah, a horny High Brahmin, a dancing statue and a temple conveniently collapsing on everyone to punish their impiety.
But the real indicator of Daniels' sensibility may actually be 2005's Shadowboxer, an overwrought and preposterous tale of professional killers (Helen Mirren and Cuba Gooding Jr). who also happen to be stepmother/stepson -- and lovers.
Scriptwriter Ian Edginton's decision to add holograms and a robot to Poe's already preposterous tale of a killer orang-utan pushes it - perhaps intentionally - into farce.
The Rich story has taken on elements of the Comet Ping Pong conspiracy, a false and preposterous tale involving Hillary Clinton and her supposed operation of a child-abuse ring at a District pizza restaurant.
The Rich story has taken on elements of the Comet Ping Pong conspiracy theory, a false and preposterous tale involving Clinton and her supposed operation of a child-abuse ring at the District pizza restaurant.
The recent career trajectory of Vikas Swarup is nearly as preposterous as the plot of his novel, "Q & A," the tale of an uneducated waiter from a Mumbai slum who wins a billion rupees on an Indian quiz show.
It begins as a quest for Rose's daughter, Sharon (Jodelle Ferland), develops into a ghost-town mystery, devolves into a preposterous cautionary tale about witchcraft and religious fundamentalism, and wraps up like the outrageously overwrought fantasy of a French movie nerd obsessed with horror (the director Christophe Gans) who has been given obscene amounts of money to adapt a video game.
As with the first "Expendables," in 2010, Mr. Stallone has assembled a roster of prominent action stars, many of them noticeably past their prime, and a preposterous amount of explosives and heavy weaponry to enact a formulaic good-triumphs tale.
Always preposterous and occasionally tedious, it's a tale of two young people, a figurative princess and a genuine pauper who, thanks to a series of cockamamie plot twists, end up traveling from Ireland to the free shores of these here United States.
Lord had crafted a preposterous defense of Trump.
