If the scenes of Steven acting up in the courtroom or trotting out fake statistics at a business meeting are preposterous, they keep the movie aloft.
"I think they see some sort of political value in having the city tell them no, so they keep coming up with preposterous demands".
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.
And that's remarkable given how difficult it is to sustain a show that made its mark by preserving psychological realism even as it kept adding increasingly preposterous plot turns.
2. The "science" of the world keeps getting more preposterous.
Paula Radcliffe, 17 Dec 1973 22 Dec-19 Jan A preposterous call maybe, but keep one eye on your plans for January, when Mercury enforces a slowdown.
Since her son was standing next to me, it was really an effort to keep my composure while discreetly cursing her and the preposterous request.
It is preposterous but not surprising that people like John R. Bolton keep making arguments to justify one of the largest blunders in American history, the decision to invade Iraq.
Every day, Franken donned a proper suit and a serious expression, and keep the laughing to an absolute minimum, no matter how preposterous life on Capitol Hill got.
The series is not known for plausibility, but it still tries to keep a scrim of current events over its action sequences and preposterous subplots.
