Sentence examples for preposterous events from inspiring English sources

Don't humans adapt all the time to preposterous events?

Stylization has given way to a sort of desultory, sarcastic naturalism, in which the joke lies not in Carreyesque abstraction and amplification but in a kind of muttered, balloon-popping underreaction to preposterous events.

Now, it has become a hard to read a book with a premise that seemed so fictional merely two years ago but has, by preposterous events, been turned into something of a survival guide.

Based on "I Married a Dead Man," a novel by the prototypical noir author Cornell Woolrich (writing under his favorite pseudonym, William Irish), "No Man of Her Own" begins with a meticulously wrought chain of coincidences: a series of smoothly linked, preposterous events that add up to a strong sense of predetermination.

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

It was in many ways a preposterous event.

The Oscars telecast is a preposterous event, but occasionally something extraordinary happens: a brief, pure moment.

Ms. Bishop mocked this as "a perfect storm for a number of rare medical conditions" and "a preposterous chain of events".

Mr. Bialas, 57, who takes a dim view of organic farming in any case, found even this highly qualified chain of events preposterous.

One of the 19 artists who did take part, Wen Jie, said he found the turn of events preposterous, given that the content — save for Mr. Ai's phantom presence — was so strenuously apolitical.

To many, Gyanendra's version of events seems preposterous.