Sentence examples for for preposterous from inspiring English sources

But people were attacking that play for preposterous reasons.

Once some Russian gangsters muscle into the story, the book meets its own quota for preposterous plot developments.

Like the Lonely Planet guides that it sends up, the Molvania guide is obsessive in its devotion to detail, from the fake maps inside the cover to the conversion charts for preposterous weights and measures.

That way, the publicity department could write slavering blurbs for preposterous movies I don't want to see ("Beats 'Gladiator' to a bloody pulp!!"), while I go to the ballet instead.

If the public's weakness for preposterous cults tends to fluctuate, its belief in parents remains unshaken by regular child murders, even though everyone knows these eclipse in number anything the police ever invented in Jersey.

Chuck is crestfallen, saying, "I was hoping it got lost in all that furor over 'baby slips off soapy dog.' " There isn't anything particularly new about a newsroom sitcom, but the setting is almost irresistible for comedy: Everyone is already in on the joke of local news and its weakness for preposterous sweeps-month killer-bee stories, gel-coiffed news readers and weather bimbos.

He goes to jail; the girl promises to wait for him.Were it not for the preposterous ending, "The Docks of New York" would take a higher rank.

In 1990, before Carrey became a movie star, he made a check out to himself for the preposterous sum of ten million dollars, "for acting services rendered," and postdated it Thanksgiving of 1995.

For his incisive wit and keen eye for the preposterous, Mr. Rakoff (pronounced RACK-off) was often likened to the essayist David Sedaris, a mentor and close friend.

Join us later as we stage a candlelight vigil for Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman. 3) If Leading Off has a warm spot for chaos, it has an entire shrine for the preposterous.

She took Tim shopping for the preposterous uniform, the required books; she met the school's endless demands for documentation.