Steven Goldstein, a Corzine spokesman, called the assertions "preposterous beyond belief".
The more unsubstantiated, untenable, or preposterous the belief, the more virtuous the believer.
What a preposterous notion.
It's a preposterous notion.
RUSE IS A RUSE IS A RUSE As courts become less tolerant of tax protesters' belief in preposterous things that just happen to coincide with their self-interest, as one federal judge wrote, it may be that scofflaws are being forced to explore even more abstract rhetorical territory.
Though he expresses scant optimism for improvement in our ability to make better choices, and confesses to be as prone to errors as the rest of us, this remains a humane book, which allows that "the confidence we have in our beliefs is preposterous — and it is also essential".
The main lesson for those of us who are supposed to traffic in facts — journalists, academics, policy makers — is not to be too dismissive of those who hold beliefs that seem preposterous.
If the public's weakness for preposterous cults tends to fluctuate, its belief in parents remains unshaken by regular child murders, even though everyone knows these eclipse in number anything the police ever invented in Jersey.
The notion is preposterous.
The notion seems preposterous.
