Sentence examples for appears preposterous from inspiring English sources

If pretension is a synonym for failed ambition, then the very question appears preposterous.

To much of the outside world it will appear preposterous.

Claims that once seemed elementary -- above all, claims relating to the essentially benign purposes of American power -- now appeared preposterous".

On their face, the numbers released yesterday spelling out the Board of Education's plan to link students to the Internet are so astronomical as to appear preposterous.

That a man who gave his clothes to the poor and talked to birds might be hero-worshipped would have appeared as preposterous to an ancient Greek as the notion of lauding men who painted ceilings or scribbled books would have done to a medieval friar.

"That would seem preposterous".

Jackie Chan is typically likable as Huo An, who forms an unexpected bond with John Cusack's mildly laughable Lucius before Adrien Brody appears as the utterly preposterous Tiberius – a swaggering performance that would not have looked out of place in Tinto Brass's Caligula.

Curiously, it was the same skills that led him to discover extinction that made evolution appear to him preposterous, an affair as unlikely as alchemy.

Statham, however, manages to stand out from – or perhaps just to appear measurably less preposterous than – his co-stars even in a testosterone-heavy cast like The Expendables.

Now, facing what appear to be preposterous charges — supporting an armed terrorist organization — he is facing a prison sentence of as long as a hundred and forty-two years.

If anything, The Captive - the Cannes competition entry in which he appears - is even more preposterous.