"outlandish situation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an unlikely or strange event, especially one that raises questions or concerns. For example, "The President's decision to fire his cabinet members in the middle of a global pandemic was an outlandish situation that shocked many."
"We're trying to prevent outlandish situations, create a more balanced playing field," he said.
Although his tales often are silly, featuring young protagonists in outlandish situations, many address real childhood concerns.
The characters Colbert created were relaxed and charming, even when embroiled in outlandish situations; she imbued them, seemingly effortlessly, with intelligence, style, warmth, and humour.
Silhouetted behind the screen, she is thrust into increasingly outlandish situations — advanced on by a minotaur, pursued by knife-wielding chefs and yes, transformed into a dog — that are by turns comic, cartoonish and dark, sexually charged and sweet.
In works like "Medea in the Laundromat" and "Awful People Are Coming Over So We Must Be Pretending to Be Hard at Work and Hope They Will Go Away," he presented cartoonishly stylized characters, equipped them with arch dialogue and set them loose in outlandish situations.
But mostly we just see how hardWelsh has worked to place his charactersin outlandish situations: a filmmaker,stalled out on every project he's got going,encounters a widow who's actually an amateurtaxidermist with some dark secrets;a shallow, Xanax-popping Chicago real estateagent fears that the Korean chef whohas moved into her apartment complexhas captured and cooked her tiny dog.
This kind of comedy is usually a mix-and-match of outlandish situations with any of several outcomes: a misunderstanding that ends in humiliation for someone; a moment of great danger, which is miraculously/hilariously survived; a moment of total absurdity that gets brazened out (successfully or unsuccessfully, in which case the characters flee in fear).
"People would say 'You can't say you like 'Mama's Family' in interviews!' " No matter how outlandish the situations in which Mama found herself — karate at her age, really?
It's a situation outlandish enough to recall Greek black comedy Dogtooth, yet I can't help being wary of this haphazardly structured film, in which so few pertinent questions are asked or answered – beginning with why Moselle was granted access to this cultish household in the first place – that even its most poignant observational details obscure more than they reveal.
Mr. Greenspan's ability to bring emotional weight to outlandish characters in unexpected situations seems entirely right for Ms. Ruhl's whimsical smarts.
