Sentence examples for preposterous concept from inspiring English sources
Steinbrenner said he was trying to motivate Jeter, a preposterous concept in the clubhouse.
When, in 1843, Congress considered financing Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph trial, the debate on the House floor turned into a carnival — Congressmen joked about the preposterous concept, even laughingly offering an amendment to share the money with a trial of mesmerism, or hypnotism, as a means of communication.
Every year, it seems, one new series is offered up as a sacrificial lamb to the critical gods: a fledgling show that earns early and widespread contempt due to a horrible title or preposterous concept ("Shasta McNasty," "Stacked"), unfulfilled potential or poor execution ("Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," "Emily's Reasons Why Not") or the presence of a former cast member of "Seinfeld" or "Friends".
Skeptics might find the concept preposterous.
Ally Carnwath Ry Cooder My Name Is Buddy (Nonesuch) £14.99 It sounds preposterous - a concept album about a hard-travelling tabby cat, Woody Guthrie with whiskers - but Cooder's feline yarn proves a delightful romp through America's music and history.
While the court stopped short of repudiating separate-but-equal, Mr. Sweatt's case made the concept look preposterous and helped pave the road to Brown v. Board of Education.
In view of what's happening elsewhere in the region, that concept is preposterous.
"The concept of collaboration between American BioScience and Bristol-Myers is preposterous," Mr. Phelps said.
But, for all its good points, this film is a high-concept contrivance of the sort Bier turns out easily, and looks like a faintly preposterous cine-soap opera for haemophiliac-hearted liberals.
Whereas some TV concepts reek of a drunken idea, this one pretty much lifts a pub debate for its entire preposterous premise.
