Sentence examples for be deemed preposterous from inspiring English sources

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The story of Joan's short life would be deemed preposterous if it had not actually happened.

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The mere mention of women in the legal profession and coeducation in Saudi Arabia would have been deemed preposterous not long ago.

It is dangerous to read too much into one result but, look closely, and it is difficult to deny that all the ingredients are there for Stoke to not only establish themselves as one of the league's higher-ranking middleweights but to do it in a way that would have been deemed preposterous only a few short years ago: by winning over the aesthetes.

Lloyd was deemed missing.

Some were deemed betrayers.

The complex was deemed revolutionary.

Eight were deemed hazardous.

But "Orange" was deemed ineligible.

The Guardian's Bradshaw declared it "a tangled and conceited mess" and said, "line by line, scene by scene, it is offensively preposterous and crass". THR's David Rooney deemed it a "lumbering thriller" in which Egoyan "renders an already bogus story more preposterous by lathering it in portentous solemnity". "Maps to the Stars" goes in two directions.

That would be preposterous!

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