Sentence examples for have been preposterous from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

That the Redskins would even be in this position — facing a win-and-get-in game in Week 17 at FedEx Field — would have been preposterous seven weeks earlier, when the Redskins staggered into their bye week with a 3-6 record two days before Election Day, with their fan base in revolt and their coach, Mike Shanahan, facing pointed questioning about whether or not he had given up on the season.

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.

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.

That would have been a preposterous idea 20 years ago.

That the same priests might end up undressing one another would then have been a preposterous suggestion.

Pausing briefly to ask oneself how the word "cockeyed" translates into Berlin vernacular, one next inquires how the theory could have been more preposterous than at first appeared.