Sentence examples for mildly preposterous from inspiring English sources
The Proms, the BBC and the WEA made mildly preposterous the crass assumption that the great unwashed were also unread.
STUART, Fla., Oct. 2 — As land-boom boasts went, the 1925 headline was only mildly preposterous: "Stuart Bigger Than Miami in 10 Years," it sang.
The idea that, say, Glenn Greenwald or Jane Hamsher or Bill McKibben or Rachel Maddow or me or anyone else slandered as the "Professional Left" is somehow responsible for public opinion trends among the national Democratic electorate - and the White House, the Democratic Party and others are not - is, to put it mildly, quite preposterous.
Jackie Chan is typically likable as Huo An, who forms an unexpected bond with John Cusack's mildly laughable Lucius before Adrien Brody appears as the utterly preposterous Tiberius – a swaggering performance that would not have looked out of place in Tinto Brass's Caligula.
(Petrusich) Ben Lee (Monday) Mr. Lee is a singer and songwriter from Australia whose innocuous power-pop ranges from mildly beguiling ("Catch My Disease") to silly ("American Television") to fully preposterous.
Absolutely preposterous".
