Sentence examples for preposterous acts from inspiring English sources

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In it Fairbanks plays a Kansas go-getter whose obsession with Alexandre Dumas drives him to ever more preposterous acts of romantic gallantry.

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"It clearly is an utterly pathetic and preposterous act of desperation that insults people's intelligence.

Until a preposterous second act subplot involving the maid's son, Diego, and Gloria, the comedy stays true to life without ever saying anything significant about life.

In the next fifteen seconds, when you become aware of another, brand new, preposterous, polarizing act, instead of immediately posting, sharing outrage, pause and shift your thinking to Larry David's unbelievably magnificent walk.

Arguably their only truly memorable result of the season was a 2-2 home draw against eventual double winners Manchester United, but even then that brave scoreline is chiefly remembered for Eric Cantona's preposterous Gene Kelly tribute act along the breastplate of John Moncur.

Prime Minister Oduber stated that Aruban investigators have done their best to solve the mystery, and responded to the call for boycott, "This is a preposterous and irresponsible act.

And the director, Martin Campbell, manages, until matters turn completely bloody and preposterous in the third act, to inject a few subtle touches.

An Indian summer being a preposterous description for the acts of a 25-year-old, but this is what we've been left to deal with.

Whiplash is a study in the misery and cruelty that's always involved in teaching a musical instrument at the highest level: it's outrageously watchable, very well acted, slightly preposterous, and nowhere near as desperately important as it thinks it is.

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

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.

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