In lesser hands, this could have been just another preposterous "project" book.
Although he later backpedaled, calling his reactions "philistine, anti-socialistic, provincial and racially snobbish," he quickly segued into another preposterous stance: "I believe at last in the white man's burden.
The First Amendment prohibits the government from privileging one religion over another, however preposterous a religion might appear.
One is a salesman, in the neurotic Mamet mode; another is a preposterous minicab dispatcher, so lonely he likes to ride around with the driver.
Not happy with that brace of box-office smashes, he reunited last summer with Disturbia's director DJ Caruso for another hit, the preposterous but likable paranoia-thriller Eagle Eye.
In the next fifteen seconds, when you become aware of another, brand new, preposterous, polarizing act, instead of immediately posting, sharing outrage, pause and shift your thinking to Larry David's unbelievably magnificent walk.
It is one thing to ignore the many positive features of "The Second Sex" (for example, the way Beauvoir deconstructs the writings of D. H. Lawrence and other male authors) and quite another to dismiss as "preposterous" Beauvoir's claim that one is not born, but becomes, a woman.
And going by the frank admission by one judicial bench that their integrity had been compromised by a "media trial," it's not preposterous that another judicial bench may also be susceptible to the same.
Now he was headed for a three-day fund-raising trip to Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, rattling the cup in one preposterous mansion after another.
"To tear it down to build another apartment house or condo is preposterous," Mr. Stern said.
That the same priests might end up undressing one another would then have been a preposterous suggestion.
