It sounds not nearly as preposterous as it should.
The recent career trajectory of Vikas Swarup is nearly as preposterous as the plot of his novel, "Q & A," the tale of an uneducated waiter from a Mumbai slum who wins a billion rupees on an Indian quiz show.
But there's recent evidence to suggest that larger screens on tablet devices might not be nearly as preposterous as they once were; the Surface Pro 3, for instance, has a 13-inch display and packs a full computer within, yet remains perfectly usable (if a tad heavy) as a tablet device.
These stats are one of the many reasons why the "voter fraud" lie is so preposterous: nearly half the country isn't even motivated enough to vote once, much less to figure out how to commit a federal crime by voting multiple times or under false identities.
Here was a man who is wholly preposterous in nearly every circumstance.
Brooding, over-privileged and Danish, he sported a preposterous quiff that stood nearly six inches tall.
(A scene with the treasury secretary Hank Paulson, played by a brooding William Hurt, wandering about a nearly empty Times Square at dawn is as visually striking as it is preposterous).
It's preposterous, really, given that by age 21 they can legally drink, and nearly all do.
Preposterous, surreal and often visually striking, "Essential Killing" tracks a possible Taliban jihadist (a bearded, nearly mute Mr. Gallo) as he's captured in Afghanistan by Americans who water-board him.
It is preposterous to assert that indoctrination is more responsible for anti-Japanese sentiment than the Japanese invasion itself, which left nearly the equivalent of the entire population of the United States in 1937 dead, injured or homeless.
