Sentence examples for grow preposterous from inspiring English sources

Ms. Thoene next plunges into numerological deductions and calculations that soon grow preposterous.

While Mr. le Carré uses his intimate knowledge of spies and spycraft to infuse the adventures of Mundy and Sasha during the cold war with suspense and verisimilitude, the story grows increasingly preposterous as they enter the post-cold-war era.

Reality shows like "Real Housewives" — be they of Orange County, Atlanta, New York or New Jersey — "The Bachelor," "Jersey Shore" (and a hair salon knockoff, "Jerseylicious," on Style beginning this weekend) keep growing more stagily preposterous and rococo.

Associated Press: While director Joseph Kosinski's feature film debut is thrilling and cool-looking for about the first half, its races, games and visuals eventually grow repetitive, which only draws attention to how flimsy and preposterous the script is from Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz….

It's an enjoyable place to be, even more so as this twisty film grows increasingly complicated and preposterous with the addition of some Navy types (James Marsden and Fred Ward, among others), a Central Intelligence Agency whack job (a funny Bill Paxton) swooping in on a black helicopter and empty gesturing at corrupt national institutions.

What makes "Vacancy" thoroughly terrifying is our growing realisation that this preposterous story could actually be happening.We see very little of the snuff movies (films in which actors do not pretend to be killed but actually are) playing on the various television screens but enough to understand what will happen to our couple if they don't escape.

Its imagery is preposterous.

This image is preposterous.

The statement was preposterous.

Unz calls these allegations preposterous.

But these claims are preposterous.