Sentence examples for has been preposterous from inspiring English sources

The fuss has been preposterous.

I'm all for a good story line, but the adulation of Frank at the expense of coherent analysis of the Nets' precarious prospects in the playoffs has been preposterous.

On rare occasions when she had bought a pair they were always 'bargains', so cheap that it would have been preposterous and unreasonable to have expected them to be fitted to the hand.

Homeowners have had to decide quickly whether to sell out or pour more money in to fix storm-damaged homes, as the real estate speculators who have descended on these areas make offers that would have been preposterous just two months ago.

JERSEY CITY — Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy knows that a decade ago, the idea of a golf tournament here — one featuring Tiger Woods and a national television audience, no less — would have been preposterous.

Pusztai, however, defends his work, telling ScienceNOW that his interactions with the Royal Society have been "preposterous".

Twenty years ago it would have been preposterous to think that Germany could reunite, or that the Soviet Union could dismantle itself.

It would have been preposterous for Rheticus to expect Copernicus to mention him in a dedication to the pope, and Rheticus was with Copernicus when he wrote the dedication.

There's a Season 2 scene in which Octavia overpowers a much larger character and the moment should have been preposterous, but Avgeropoulos sold the hell out of it.

It would have been preposterous to call Brown boring while he hunkered down close to home, engaged in countless hours of behind-the-scenes talks and negotiations, because he's always quite interesting.

The evidence that has been produced is preposterous (the dates on the evidence are in American date format — month first, day second — whereas the rest of the world does not use this format).