Sentence examples for into preposterous from inspiring English sources

He has been updated, travestied and conscripted into preposterous tales so many times — including by Doyle himself — that it is silly to hold his character sacred, or to scold Mr. Ritchie for taking liberties.

Others are bamboozled by the far-from-seamless shift into preposterous M Night Shyamalan territory about an hour in: with all those nosebleeds, mysterious figures and hints of the presence of powers from beyond this Earth, the movie is like an extended episode of Lost without the verdant Pacific island vegetation and taut torsos to sugar the perplexing pill.

She buffs up Plum's real name into the preposterous Aria.

The Republican spin-masters whipped this into a preposterous claim that Obama denied American entrepreneurs any credit for their creations.

They all want to know how he scored 8 points in 18.7 seconds, flipping a 6-point Knicks lead into a preposterous Pacers victory.

Will we talk ourselves once more into the preposterous argument that we are in a position to beat the best of the world game?

Although he later backpedaled, calling his reactions "philistine, anti-socialistic, provincial and racially snobbish," he quickly segued into another preposterous stance: "I believe at last in the white man's burden.

Yet not long ago, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood entered into a preposterous political alliance with that same Khaddam after he had exiled himself to Paris and begun to denounce the regime that he had served so faithfully for decades.

The trilogy's first installment, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," depended solely on the irresistible odd-couple appeal of Salander and Blomkvist as a new age Nick and Nora; its plot devolved into a preposterous mashup of bad serial-killer movies.

In the third story, Travolta, bloodied after accidentally killing a young man in the back seat of a car, goes to wash up with his equally blood-soaked partner, Samuel L. Jackson, and the two get into a preposterous argument over the appropriateness of getting the towels dirty.

(Holden) 'PERFECT STRANGER' (R, 109 minutes) There is enough of a grain of truth in this noirish, paranoid thriller set in the New York media world that even after it lurches from the farfetched into the preposterous, the movie leaves a clammy residue of unease.