Sentence examples for preposterous attempt from inspiring English sources

The British Medical Journal at the time declared: "It is high time that this unnatural and preposterous attempt... to establish a race of feminine doctors should be exploded".

The voting public has adopted identities so preposterous that attempts to clarify them are as absurd as trying to educate the Tea Baggers in the facts of American history.

As the second half narrows its focus on the heist, however, things get increasingly convoluted and preposterous, as Athale attempts to graft a twist-laden, stylish, crime-of-the-century sheen on something slice-of-life and pulpy.

Under the preposterous circumstances, Ms. Lauren attempts to conceal her uneasiness to no avail.

As might be expected of this wildly imaginative theater company, what it attempts is preposterous: an exciting journey into the ideas of Galileo, who pushed the Earth aside; Tycho Brahe, whose precise astronomical observations helped establish a vital scientific standard of evidence; and Johannes Kepler, whose laws of elliptical planetary orbits foreshadowed Newton's theory of celestial mechanics.

This argument borders on the preposterous, as does Carter's attempt to liken the civil rights movement of the 1960's to those culture wars.

Curry's lawyer Kelly Saindon has called the allegations preposterous and the lawsuit an extortion attempt.

This sometimes led to defensive or even defiant answers, or deflecting questions with humour in an apparent attempt to illustrate how preposterous it was to suspect that they might be suffering from depression.

Curry's lawyer has called the allegations "preposterous" and has described the lawsuit as an extortion attempt.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) — An exiled Rwandan general was shot and wounded in South Africa on Saturday in what his wife called a Rwandan-backed assassination attempt, a charge the Rwandan government dismissed as "preposterous".

The idea that fires could be excluded entirely from millions of acres was generally regarded as preposterous and the most gloomy pictures were drawn of any such attempt.