Sentence examples for preposterous assertions from inspiring English sources

Instead, he has written a book that reads like a combination of White House talking points and a partisan brief on presidential prerogatives — a book that is strewn with preposterous assertions, contorted reasoning and illogical conclusions.

Critiquing her preposterous assertions again is a fool's errand, but here goes anyway.

To anyone treating CF at the time, it was a preposterous assertion.

Marjorie Drake Preston I must protest at the preposterous assertion that there is an "engineering mindset" that is unwilling to argue with authority.

I must take exception to Tony Hendra's opinion that it is a "preposterous assertion" that in the 1980's, "a huge number of Americans... were energetically and enthusiastically educating themselves about wine in ways other countries, including France, never had".

He quotes without challenge the preposterous assertion from Colin Slee, Dean of Southwark, that "atheists like Richard Dawkins are just as fundamentalist as the people setting off bombs on the tube" (since when is writing books and making arguments comparable to mass murder?).

Kinbote's preposterous assertion that the poem "Pale Fire" was somehow inspired by his daring escape from the remote arctic kingdom of Zembla is part of a paranoid fantasy actually triggered by Shade -- from the dead.

All one needs to validate a preposterous assertion is to express it.

His assertion that "If we hadn't had troops in the Middle East for the last 50 years terrorists wouldn't have attacked us on 9-11" is a preposterous statement.

Steven Goldstein, a Corzine spokesman, called the assertions "preposterous beyond belief".

There may indeed be much that is dated about Simone de Beauvoir's "Second Sex," but contrary to Francine du Plessix Gray's claim (May 30), there is nothing "preposterous" in the assertion that "one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman".