BATTING EIGHTH, CATCHING Johnny Bench, of Cincinnati's Big Red Machine, was only one of many ridiculous features in a preposterous episode of "Mission: Impossible" from 1970.
This week Sting became the latest in a long line of those considering themselves authentic musicians to hit out at the show, describing it as a "preposterous" programme featuring judges who had "no recognisable talent apart from self-promotion, advising [contestants] what to wear and how to look" and a form of karaoke in which singers were permitted to conform only to narrow stereotypes.
Far better are its oases of absurdity, like an increasingly preposterous sex scene featuring the inevitably naked Mr. Ferrell, once again flaunting his furred assets, and a lysergic trip to the other side with a conspicuously ersatz white leopard whose coat is almost as matted.
They called the feature vain, preposterous, credibility-killing, ill-advised; they hooted for weeks.
In addition to the seal-woman (a figure from Celtic mythology called a silkie) and the Mossad agent with the preposterous mission, the book features Zink herself, Eitan, and a mysterious submarine powered by a slip of paper on which is written the name of Moshe Dayan.
Joe Were points out that Nick Hancock's Football Nightmares featured "a preposterous goal" from the early 1990s, scored by Marseille after the ball had travelled the length of the pitch without touching the floor, but try as we might, we haven't been able to track down any footage (anyone who wants to admit that they have the video and upload the clip is always welcome here).
The Unknown Woman is an odd, dramatically stilted and passionless quasi-procedural concerning a mysterious death; it depends on a series of unconvincing, and in fact borderline-preposterous, encounters and features a bafflingly inert performance from Adèle Haenel, whose usual spark appears to have been doused by self-consciousness.
Run! Run!'" It was a preposterous play, one that will feature in blooper reels for years to come.
Backlighting is one of those features that sounds preposterous until the very first time you move the laptop to a place that's badly lit.
Sweden, meanwhile, start with 10 of the players who featured in their preposterous 4-4 comeback in Germany, the only newcomer being Udinese striker Mathias Ranegie.
Her novels always feature surprising, in some cases preposterous, narrative elements, but she makes us believe them.
