The phrase "acting preposterous" is not correct in standard English.
The correct form would be "acting preposterously." You can use it when describing someone who is behaving in a ridiculous or absurd manner.
Example: "During the meeting, he was acting preposterously, making everyone question his professionalism."
Alternatives: "behaving absurdly" or "acting ludicrously."
But even his best pictures, "Within Our Gates," "Body and Soul" and "God's Stepchildren," all of which have at least one sequence bursting with verve, suffer from hammy acting, preposterous melodrama, confusing continuity, stiff dialogue and clumsy lapses in film grammar.
It's possible that, just this once, before the tsunami of marketing and megatude closed over "Star Wars" forever, these people were seeing the movie for what it really was — a film with comic-book characters, an unbelievable story, no political or social commentary, lousy acting, preposterous dialogue, and a ridiculously simplistic morality.
It is a complete joy to see Branagh's Olivier erupt in queeny frustration at Marilyn's lateness, space-cadet vagueness, and preposterous Method acting indulgence.
During his extraordinarily prolific five-decade career, Mr. Kuchar (pronounced KOO-char) stayed true to a style of demented, do-it-yourself movie production whose amateur acting, fractured narratives, ludicrous sets, preposterous dialogue, murky sound and all-around squalor expressed a core sensibility of cinematic sophistication, psychological acuity and moral urgency.
A third-rate TV movie with ham-acting and preposterous settings (mentally ill patients - in a dungeon?) wins the Oscar for Best Picture".
Whether or not he believes that preposterous statement, he is acting more like a publicist than like a leader.
And if their routines were creaky, their singing was a delight, and their acting gloriously in keeping with the preposterous demands of their material.
In an editorial for the Huffington Post, Gelb wrote, "Because our 'Ring' is revolutionary, not everyone supports it". Whether or not he believes that preposterous statement, he is acting more like a publicist than like a leader.
To Mr. Gordon, the idea seemed preposterous: he had never considered acting and had barely been to the theater.
In 1990, before Carrey became a movie star, he made a check out to himself for the preposterous sum of ten million dollars, "for acting services rendered," and postdated it Thanksgiving of 1995.
Mr. Pearl, 66, and Mrs. Pearl, 60, say that blaming their book for extreme abuse by a few unstable parents is preposterous and that they explicitly counsel against acting in anger or causing a bruise.
