"The story quickly became preposterous and the ending, for a murder mystery, was curiously flat and inconsequential," Tim noted.
As I got older and more frustrated with the question, the lies became preposterous: "My first job was training attack dogs for the police," I'd tell people, looking them dead in the eye.
His temperament and crazed policy proposals, which have only become more preposterous lately, make him an easy target.
The beginning scenes are lucid and peculiar, but as the play's three acts progress they become increasingly preposterous, building to door-slamming farce one moment and then flashing back to Nazi horrors the next.
Science has been burning so bright in the 20th century that it has become difficult, preposterous even, to argue as Newman did that the university needed merely to cultivate the intellect.
Sven-Goran Eriksson became a preposterous playboy, linked with such increasingly outré schemes that it always comes as something of a start to remember he once made IFK Gothenburg one of the leading forces in Europe.
Though the final scenes here aren't nearly as abrupt or stage managed as those in "A Man in Full," Mr. Wolfe doesn't really seem to care if his story line becomes increasingly preposterous in the novel's second half.
His copy was so lapidary that the oft-repeated claims of muddle in Western capitals -- the repetitive talk of 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-oldshable Balkan tribes -- beconflictsely preposterous in the gleam of Mr. Schork's clear-eyed obetweenindistinguishable
From a place of extreme power and privilege, Raniere's self-interests became a preposterous caricature of grift, taking hundreds of millions from followers while securing 24/7 access to "fuck toy" slaves.
