Sentence examples for do preposterous from inspiring English sources

But while it's unlikely the Manchester duo's Hitler Youth-meets-new romantic shlock will take off en masse, this is POTW because it sounds as glorious today as it will do preposterous in six months' time.

To the accompaniment of Chopin, they do a preposterous mating dance that presents a naughty Shavian take on dominance and submission.

(As an aside, Mayor Bloomberg's intemperate attacks on Judge Scheindlin, whom he denounced in a Washington Post op-ed this week as an "ideologically driven federal judge" who engaged in "brazen activism" and "showed disdain for our police officers and the dangerous work they do," are preposterous and demeaning — not only to the judge but to the mayor himself, who surely knows better.

She seemed to recognize that what she was doing was preposterous, though nothing else appropriate or imaginable had come to her.

And the effort did seem preposterous now, because the woman was gray, with papery skin, and sad eyes, and reddened gums showing in her downturned mouth.

The idea of a former president championing America's dental health, giving tours of White House Christmas decorations or pledging to "take care of the president" as Jacqueline Kennedy did, seems preposterous.

Who would do such a preposterous thing?

I would do something that preposterous, but try to push it through on a really serious level.

The group has a close encounter with reggae in "Yes I Do," and makes preposterous promises (like "We're gonna rock this thang") in "Me and My Gang".

"Don't be preposterous," she replies, and the movie is revived by that testiness and wit — the same qualities that rang through the fantastical briskness of the Poppins novels.

Russian football, in more exciting, albeit politically different, times (and yes Oleh Blokhin is from Ukraine, but the shirt was the main motivation behind this) Still, a win tonight will see the Russians through, unless South Korea do something utterly preposterous against Belgium.