Sentence examples for my preposterous from inspiring English sources

I did actually go to the Great Wrington village fête (and very nice the 15p brownie was, too), but my preposterous neo-con outrage is borrowed from Chicago Sun-Times columnist and US TV economist Terry Savage, who set Twitter aflame this week with her diatribe against three young children who were naïve enough to offer her free lemonade from a stall they had set up on a street corner.

"Why don't we get a heated driveway," he suggested, a clearly reasonable alternative to my preposterous suggestion.

That is preposterous, my friends.

As I got older and more frustrated with the question, the lies became preposterous: "My first job was training attack dogs for the police," I'd tell people, looking them dead in the eye.

For my money (a preposterous phrase for a critic to use), the most joyous cut on the record is "Chi Passa per 'Sta Strada," an ad hoc arrangement of a 16th-century street song, in which the entry of Wu Tong's sheng -- an ancient Chinese mouth organ -- is as jarring, and then as tonic, as a Renaissance traveler's first taste of tea.

In 10th grade, I wrote an essay for my Russian history class entitled "Communism: World Saviour?" that my teacher said was preposterous, but he gave me a good grade anyway because it was well argued.

While a black columnist, Stanley Crouch, has declared that, "When black Americans refer to Obama as 'one of us', I do not know what they are talking about".I find it preposterous that my fellow black Americans harbour misgivings about supporting Mr Obama.

"I mean, it is absolutely preposterous that my presence is inciting people, per se".

If these movies existed, then surely whatever measly story was bubbling in my brain was not so preposterous.

"My only hope was a preposterous pre-posthumous award," he said, "and I guess that is what I have won here".

What my friend saw was a preposterous English schoolboy with soft down on his upper lip and shorter legs than Toulouse Lautrec's.