Sentence examples for preposterous elements from inspiring English sources

It all happens in such a frenzy of momentum and on-the-fly exposition that some of the more preposterous elements in the story will strike you only in retrospect, after the helicopter leaps, the elevator-shaft daredevilry and the race-the-clock flirtation with thermonuclear war.

"The Goldfinch," on the surface, definitely has preposterous elements.

Times reviewer Richard Corliss praised the action scenes and Noyce's persistence in keeping a serious tone – "he ignores the story's preposterous elements and lets the audience decide whether to laugh, shudder or both".

Her novels always feature surprising, in some cases preposterous, narrative elements, but she makes us believe them.

The more preposterous plot elements inherent in this kind of mythological narrative became humorous, not ridiculous; the tender moments were imbued with genuine feeling.

In short, Gone with the Wind is a preposterous, almost unclassifiable mix of highly questionable elements.

The movie is grimly overproduced and exhausting, an irritating, preposterous, but fitfully enjoyable work, in which every element has been inflated.

The plot thus summarised can seem only preposterous and confused, but Chabrier responded to every element of it with passion, imagination and wit.

Perhaps there is an element of hypocrisy in how we view these tragic and preposterous events when they happen far away.

Turning again to Shakespeare, Mr. Branagh said that the mystical elements of "Thor" -- enchanted hammers, frost giants -- were no more preposterous than the supernatural tropes in plays like "Macbeth" or "The Tempest".

An element of contemporary clerical culture continues to excuse and nurture this preposterous and outdated understanding of sexual abuse.