Sentence examples for preposterous effect from inspiring English sources

The most demonstrable, most preposterous effect of Vatican II in the mid-1960s was to spatially reconfigure churches so that the congregation might be closer to the host, as though the host were a physical entity.

Juliet collaborated in this fantasy, even to the point of making up some marvellously silly songs and preposterous stage effects.

This is exactly the kind of movie that would never have been greenlit a few years back, yet somebody somewhere thought it had a good chance of making a profit, despite what must have been a preposterous special effects budget.

But "Dangerous Ishhq" itself feels out of time, beamed from a long-ago era of preposterous plotting and cheesy effects.

This series is not particularly high-tech, and it doesn't have a real-time ticking clock conceit, spectacular special effects or preposterous red herrings.

"This series is not particularly high-tech, and it doesn't have a real-time ticking clock conceit, spectacular special effects or preposterous red herrings," Alessandra Stanley wrote in The New York Times.

The horrors of war were made memorable in letters from the front, while the onerous effects of preposterous government or ponderous church intrusion on the sensuous spirit were brought into the open.

The Congressional Budget Office employs this preposterous method to "score" the revenue effects of changes in our tax laws.; THEY'RE COMING DOWN.

The special effects are garish and the idea is preposterous.

What we are left with, instead, is a fine array of visual and auditory effects, their beauty adrift on a wave of preposterous narrative.

"The special effects, while they're interesting, are not suspenseful because they're preposterous..