Sentence examples for by preposterous from inspiring English sources

9.10pm BST 66 min: A second change for Atlético, this one not forced by preposterous circumstances.

Now, it has become a hard to read a book with a premise that seemed so fictional merely two years ago but has, by preposterous events, been turned into something of a survival guide.

At its heart, the Law on Personal Names is designed to protect Denmark's innocents -- the children who are undeservedly, some would say cruelly, burdened by preposterous or silly names.

It is a signifying element of Mr. Wright's stage persona that his remarks seem to arise unbidden, conjured up in an unpredictable sequence that makes it seem as if he is constantly being startled by preposterous revelations.

But then it's far easier to see through the propaganda of other times and places than your own – especially when delivered by preposterous 1950s-style Harry Enfield/charactersy-Warner characters.

An atmosphere of science-fiction irreality would be punctuated by preposterous intrusions of everyday life: the petulance of the President; his wheedling conversations on the telephone with Kissoff, the Soviet Premier; the squabbles, tantrums, and jockeying for position among diplomats and military men; the petty human ego struggling for precedence right up to the moment of apocalypse.

This is the kind of comedy in which the characters are construction-paper cutouts whose abrupt changes of heart are dictated entirely by the preposterous plot and not by psychological or social reality.

Forged more than 30 years ago, in the heat of Top of the Pops camera lights, this self-image should by now be preposterous – and yet, in his case it seems somehow heroic.

He does this by reëxamining familiar evidence but also by dismissing preposterous theories, such as one that J. Edgar Hoover masterminded the murder to keep his job.

Of all the waste deposited in the ocean, perhaps the best known is the plastic debris that shows up on our beaches, in the stomachs of fish and shore birds, in the enormous floating "island" of plastic in the Pacific Ocean, assembled there by the confluence of currents, and by its preposterous scale, capturing the imagination of international media and the public.

Sivamani was surrounded by his hardcore fans, who were elated by his preposterous rhythms.