Sentence examples for making a preposterous from inspiring English sources

When she saw Sylvia looking at her, she stopped and flung out her arms as if she were splayed there, making a preposterous gargoyle-like face.

"We want to make sure any approach he considers be responsible, that it be achievable, that it be plausible," Mr. O'Keefe said, "and that there really would be the wherewithall to support it if he so chooses, rather than making a preposterous commitment that no one signs onto".

"Gypsy girls are so demanding," Sondra Celli, a dressmaker, says in Episode 1, as she makes a preposterous wedding dress for a 17-year-old named Shyanne.

Barroso had made a "preposterous comparison" between Scotland and Kosovo in a recent interview on BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show, Salmond argues.

The idea of God making a bet with Satan is preposterous.

Launching himself on the preposterous mission of making high art in a lowbrow medium - and making a few bucks off it - he devoted his entire life to turning a silk purse into a sow's ear.

Gonzalez was frustrated by the Yankees' attitude, and made a bold, if preposterous, prediction.

Earned repute is a hard thing to shed in the pro sporting sphere, and Beasley has been made a victim of the preposterous "he is who he is" line of basketball analysis.

The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity makes an even more preposterous claim in opposing any intervention by us: "Iran has not sought a nuclear weapon, and the country's leader declares such weapons contrary to Islam".

Reading Mr. Kinsely's column for Bloomberg Views brings the added joy of role reversal: after all, making seemingly preposterous arguments, and then arguing diligently for them, is something of a Kinsley trademark.

From on-air performances of bodily functions (Howard Stern to preposterous conspiracy theories (Oliver Stone), these controversialists make a name for themselves.