Rampant speculation, outrageous psychologizing, insouciantly unscholarly behavior — but diabolically plausible.
From what is known of the private lives of centurions, the speculation is not outrageous; in Plato's Symposium and many other sources, a pais is a boy beloved by an older man.
His tendency, when addressing outrageous incidents and systematic outrages on his new documentary series, is to skid into bewilderment, or to stammer with upset, or to fight through weariness and retreat into sombre speculation.
Managing to have its bloody cake and eat it, the film plays the novel's talky resolution off against scenes of battlefield dismemberment, blending spectacle and speculation to pleasingly ripe and intentionally outrageous effect.
The usual suspects are present: grotesque executive compensation, shady accounting gimmickry, outrageous fund fees and the folly of short-term speculation.
One day, he's infuriating my brother with speculations about two friends' having an inappropriate affair: "I said I thought he was being outrageous and that it was none of his business, even if his wild speculations were true.
The outrageous use of physical cargoes as a Fed-financed instrument of speculation in the oil trade, and as a forceful determinant in the ever-increasing price of oil, is not new and not isolated.
This guaranteed to potential buyers that there was no speculation-minded investor in the background hoping to make an outrageous profit at their expense.
There's been much speculation that the Trump administration is up to something a great deal more than a few outrageous executive orders, that these are only to distract attention from the real conjurer's trick.
Such speculation — widely repeated on the Web in recent months — may seem unfair, even cynical; Dr. Hansson dismissed it as "outrageous".
