Rand's days at the Communist-controlled Petrograd State University are depicted in her first — and least preposterous — novel, "We the Living" (1936), in which the heroine, Kira, tries to coax her doomed lover, Leo, toward a thunderous vow of resistance: "We'll fight it, Leo.
At least that preposterous but addictive entertainment, in which Kerry Washington plays an inside-the-Beltway crisis manager who has an affair with the president, is juicy, trashy fun.
Throw in four goals, some tremendous saves and at least one preposterous miss, and we had a bona fide thriller that kept us gripped until the final whistle.
It struck me, while laughing my way through "Me, Myself and Irene," that its creators may be the only comic filmmakers in America who truly find white people at least as preposterous as they find black people.
And while it seems absurd to include such a picayune event in the annals, the filmmaker Kevin Rafferty makes the case for remembrance and for the art of the story in his preposterously entertaining documentary "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29," preposterous at least for those of us who routinely shun that pagan sacrament.
So some of his key plot turns are preposterous, not least a foray into the virtual computer world of Second Life.
That notion is borderline preposterous, at least as long as the A's are in contention, but Tejada will be a free agent after this season and Oakland is unlikely to re-sign him.
BRUSSELS — There was always, at least for its critics, something preposterous about the idea of Turkey entering the European Union.
It was not so long ago that the idea that Senator John McCain would even entertain tapping Mitt Romney, his bitterest primary rival, as his running mate would have seemed preposterous, rating at least 7.0 on the strange-bedfellows scale.
At least you can budget for the preposterous £100 letting agent's renewal fee every year.
This macabre scenario, preposterous though it is, does at least inspire some amusing reflections.
