Sentence examples for preposterous character from inspiring English sources

As Burley doesn't "speak to the Guardian", Monkey can only guess that she will playing the same preposterous character as in her three previous IMDb "actress" credits, a hardboiled TV anchorwoman by day who's a slinky erotic novelist by night and a Barbour-clad chicken farmer at weekends.

Dr. Squires, by turns squirrelly reckless, with a less than firm grip on his marriage (to a dazed and tragic Famke Janssen), reality and the will to live, is perhaps the most preposterous character in "The Wackness," and for just that reason the most intriguingly plausible.

Heroic double act Don Titelman (a doctor addicted to anti-anxiety pills) and his lawyer Eva are preposterous characters.

Subsequently, lots of students are essentially actors playing an idealised version of themselves, so you'll probably encounter lots of heightened and preposterous characters.

Four preposterous characters launch into something like a dysfunctional four-way comedy routine, or perhaps a challengingly atonal modern jazz quartet.

He takes four entirely preposterous characters, who take themselves entirely seriously: they begin to enact something like a dysfunctional four-way comedy routine, or perhaps a challengingly atonal modern jazz quartet.

The team's quartet of lively, preposterous characters were perfect for kids reliving episodes in the playground: George Peppard as "Hannibal" Smith, the cigar-chomping leader of the pack; Dwight Schultz as pilot "Howling Mad" Murdock; Dirk Benedict as Face, ladies' man and con artist; and of course the show's breakout star, Mr T's BA Baracus.

Not only has the show become cluttered with too many characters and preposterous case histories, it's forgotten what it's supposed to be about.

Reading to a child about ridiculous characters in preposterous situations can be entertaining.

The plot is slapdash; the coincidences preposterous; the main characters not interestingly conflicted, just doomed.

But then it's far easier to see through the propaganda of other times and places than your own – especially when delivered by preposterous 1950s-style Harry Enfield/charactersy-Warner characters.