Sentence examples for preposterous fantasy from inspiring English sources

But to suggest that the Lion King advances the art of the musical or achieves a Shakespearean complexity is to surrender to preposterous fantasy.

Breakfast had seen the critics taking chunks out of this preposterous fantasy in which France comes under Islamic rule eight years from now.

For most of his life this supposed defender of equality clung to a preposterous fantasy that he was of noble birth.

This endlessly inventive family comedy, set in a preposterous fantasy kingdom, follows Debbie as she battles to save this endearingly daft place from the encroaching forces of darkness – namely Negatus, a hapless pantomime villain who wants to dominate Yonderland simply for something to do.

Such scenes would have been better suited to Quentin Tarantino's deliberately over-the-top Inglourious Basterds; in a superhero film these interludes move the paradigm too far from the "grounded" rule that often saves these preposterous fantasy tales from descending into complete and utter farce.

For those who prefer intimate movies, this is a cause for dismay; for those who unashamedly like their cinema loud, bombastic and wedded to preposterous fantasy, mind-bending glimpses of the future and/or synapse-searing adventure, 2012 has been a vintage year.

But Vuitton is in the business of creating preposterous fantasies around an object really just meant to hold your money and house keys.

How people of good will, even kindly people, can become so caught up in preposterous fantasies of salvation that they will die for them is a subject implicit in the material, and I wish Malkovich had taken it on.

Ron Howard's 1984 movie is a preposterous male fantasy in which everyman Tom Hanks swaps his loveless big city existence for a new life with an awesomely hot blonde who just happens to transform into a fish (from the waist down) when she makes contact with water.

A lot of the scenarios in shunga are preposterous – there's fantasy at work".

More preposterous is the dark fantasy Edgar concocts about Asuncion's history.