Sentence examples for only preposterous from inspiring English sources
Only preposterous conspiracy theories could sustain Hiss's claim that "forgery by typewriter" had done him in.
The plot thus summarised can seem only preposterous and confused, but Chabrier responded to every element of it with passion, imagination and wit.
"The idea that two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro provided Oscar winner Eric Roth with a script from an unknown Italian writer so that Mr Roth could use it to write the 14-minute short film Ellis, about Ellis Island and early immigrants' experience, is not only preposterous, it is libellous," De Niro's lawyer said on Friday in a statement.
The suggestion that we can't transfer and successfully imprison Gitmo's detainees is not only preposterous, it's offensive to any American with even half a brain.
Knust, who is in addition to a professor an ordained American Baptist pastor, thinks that this confidence is not only preposterous but perhaps idolatrous as well.
"It is not only unrealistic, but preposterous".
That is simply preposterous.
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.
But if you like your crime dramas dimly lit, ably acted, only occasionally preposterous and chock-full of cut-open dead bodies, then Silent Witness is still right where it always was.
"Traitor," a somber, absorbing and only moderately preposterous new thriller written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, manages an impressive feat of economy, condensing a vast and sometimes contradictory compendium of post-9/11 fears and anxieties into 110 swift minutes.
