Sentence examples for preposterous child from inspiring English sources

Veda may be poisonous – in its 1941 review of the novel, the New York Times accurately described her as "a reptile", a "prodigious, incredible, preposterous child... at the age of 11, she carries on like Marie Antoinette, at 13 like Moll Flanders, at 17 like the witch of Endor, Sappho and Juno combined" – but she epitomises the social and material ambition of the world around her.

If it is preposterous to evaluate children generally and try to fit them into molds with standardized testing, just imagine how ridiculous it is to judge an emotionally disturbed child by such test scores.

Trusting in federal testing to assess the learning of children is preposterous.

The Americans said claims that they had attacked the children were "preposterous".

Barely named products of his transgressive partnership (his sons are called "C" and "X," his daughter referred to only as "my girl"), the children are preposterous hybrids — "the wreckage of miscegenation" — at war with a nation's desired purity.

But it is just as preposterous to hand our children a tool without any instruction of how it works and what it can do.

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

The national anthems in Time and the Raven are certainly modern parodies of preposterous originals... On writing for children I have often said that in all the works I write for children to play and sing, I am presenting myself with the musical childhood I didn't have..

Experts at a German-language society run a helpline offering advice to puzzled parents (at a cost).Governments argue that these rules prevent children being saddled with preposterous names (Sinbin) that may cause them problems in later life.

There's something fantastic and, to me, funny in this catalog of items, in the same way that it seems preposterous to ask a six-year-old child to confess her sins.

It may sound preposterous to people who don't have children, but most working families struggle with how to quickly and easily make dinner on a daily basis.