Sentence examples for preposterous account from inspiring English sources
The most exuberant example of Leskov's use of skaz is his famous story "Lefty: The Tale of Cross-Eyed Lefty From Tula and the Steel Flea," a buoyantly preposterous account of the Russian desire for technical and artistic mastery over British gunmakers, who have created a minute mechanical dancing flea.
While executives can be trusted to face reality and learn from it, even if it means bankruptcy, no such corrective faced the politicians and judges who allowed the bankruptcies of some 35 onetime producers of asbestos on account of preposterous claims of "potential illnesses" from this mostly safe and useful material.
As a simple matter of accounting, this is preposterous.
The story is preposterous.
This account, alas, is just as preposterous as Mr. Reyburn's similarly hilarious history of the invention of the toilet, "Flushed With Pride".
Moore himself later abandoned this definition of the distinction between natural and non-natural properties, and described his earlier account of a natural property as "utterly silly and preposterous" (1942, 582).
The Tinder account added: "Our actual data says that 1.7% of Tinder users are married – not 30% as the preposterous GlobalWebIndex article indicated".
Absolutely preposterous".
