Sentence examples for preposterous about from inspiring English sources

There's something enjoyably preposterous about Bartaco's atmosphere of Ralph Laurenesque machismo.

BRUSSELS — There was always, at least for its critics, something preposterous about the idea of Turkey entering the European Union.

Nor was there necessarily anything preposterous about his conviction that mind-expanding drugs might be worth looking into.

Given that background, there was always something abjectly preposterous about the suggestion that Acting Gov.

Unlike the orotund elegance of Jamesian, for example, or the insinuative darkness of Kafkaesque, the word Kiplingesque has something comic and preposterous about it now.

Back in 1987, there was still something rather comical and preposterous about Douglas's finance villain; now, after the recent credit crunch meltdown, the whole subject has lost a bit of its jauntiness.

One of the most preposterous ideas floating about is that the world's poor feel "entitled" to assistance.

Although it is a genuinely sad occasion there is a preposterous sentimentality about the funeral.

"You bring me this fucking preposterous story about some girl with a — Fuck you.

In the past month, the family of Martin Luther King has swallowed a preposterous yarn about his assassination, involving an alliance of secret servicemen, mafiosi and white racists.

"Charm City" is an equally preposterous story about a grifter named Margaret who works with her meth-head daughter and the daughter's boyfriend.