Sentence examples for both preposterous and subtle from inspiring English sources
For le Carré, spying has always been devoted to fiction-making — the creation of false identities, elaborate mirages, lies both preposterous and subtle, many of them sustained for years.
The idea that he could be deported from the city is both preposterous and evil.
"The details of his character are both preposterous and beside the point," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
Such arguments, both preposterous and disingenuous, are mere fig leaves to disguise the phobia that can no longer dare speak its name.
Mr. Shyamalan's treatment of this story is both preposterous and complicated, and the movie sinks under the weight of a dozen small inconsistencies and several large contradictions.
"The idea that free-thinking adults could be barred from buying cigarettes because of the year in which they're born is both preposterous and discriminatory.
After picking their jaws up from the floor, a number of Democratic and Republican foreign policy experts reacted, saying Trump's comment was both preposterous and dangerous.
In Shlaim's view, Finkelstein had produced an "unanswerable case" with "irrefutable evidence", proving that Peters' book was both "preposterous and worthless".
The way it portrays the contemporary art world is both deadpan and subtle.
