Sentence examples for as a preposterous from inspiring English sources

The idea of him casting this off as a preposterous fib is interesting.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign, after all, was first treated as a preposterous joke.

Her referring to the war as a "preposterous masculine fiction" was a tactic to elevate and distinguish feminine reason.

Elsewhere, he finds happiness in pop stars being publicly humiliated, and pegs Elton John as "a preposterous, wiggy, button-nosed berk".

But "Palace Council," the third novel from Prof. Stephen L. Carter of Yale Law, intends that statement as a preposterous lie.

Elisabeth Vincentelli from the New York Post dismissed it as "a preposterous number", while Rooney admitted that "this is where the show really jumps the shark Arachne and her Furies go shoe-shopping before entering the human world.

He's too busy being out of touch, making not-too-funny jokes about what it means to be "rich," which he defined at Saturday's Saddleback Church forum as having a preposterous $5 million lying around. .

At the end of the 18th century, Immanuel Kant wrote that to imagine Du Châtelet a great thinker was as preposterous as imagining a woman to possess a beard; by the Victorian era, most references to her name were gone.

But when it ends I will be left thinking: if I can get ~obsessively~ on board with a relationship as preposterous as Ellie and Charlie's, why can't more people get on board with mine?

"Gypsy girls are so demanding," Sondra Celli, a dressmaker, says in Episode 1, as she makes a preposterous wedding dress for a 17-year-old named Shyanne.

Charles Fried, solicitor general under President Reagan and now a Harvard law school professor, has described the lawsuits as "grandstanding in a preposterous way".