New Yorker's under-fire cover illustrator Barry Blitt says his infuriating cover was intended only to show that the incessant rumor that Obama is a closet terrorist is preposterous and ridiculous fear-mongering.
After seeing the post, Butina, who was working with Torshin to develop the Right to Bear Arms, shot back, calling the fears "preposterous".
The suggestion that citizens should withhold political criticism for fear of offense is preposterous — far more embarrassing to Singapore than any videos by Yee could be.
It says here that big-time college sports have virtually nothing to do with education, so let's get over the sham fears of disrupting our scholar-athletes (that preposterous term).
She'd have added, "And what, pray, is that preposterous costume supposed to indicate?" "Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death,"Hazlitt wrote, "is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.
Cissé's remarkable debut season in the Premier League, where he was one of the most feared strikers in the country and scored a preposterous classic for the ages, seemed a million miles away.
The preposterous story is that of Scottie (James Stewart), a detective who develops a fear of heights after watching a colleague fall to his death.
It was, similarly, a preposterous suggestion that the Prime Minister shouldn't wear tails to the royal wedding for fear of looking too grand in austere times – I can't think of a posher occasion to save them for.
One "preposterous statement" by the prosecutors, the judge said, was their claim that the agent had no reason to fear the suspect, Egbert David Dewgard, because the case merely involved a nonviolent drug crime.
It sounds preposterous, but a recent study in online medical journal Nature Neuroscience found that it is indeed possible to change people's fear reactions while they sleep.
