Sentence examples for preposterous figure from inspiring English sources

"In some ways you'd be the most preposterous figure in the crowd, and in some ways the wisest".

A product of his environment, Patrick is a conservative, faintly preposterous figure -- always wearing a tie, he's prudishly disapproving of drugs, radical haircuts, alternative comedy, homosexuality, porn.

There are hours of fun to be had detecting which media-friendly Yorkshiremen have had their worst traits conflated in this preposterous figure.

If I weren't able to publish all this material on Inayat Bunglawala, then it is possible that he would not be recognised as – in the words of Christopher Hitchens – the sinister and preposterous figure that most sensible people know him to be.

Preposterous figures like that one are repeated several times, and no one, back there in 1999, seems to laugh at them.

Agamemnon's plot is sprung by Achilles, a preposterous, swashbuckling figure who, on discovering the lie, swears to Clytemnestra that he will avenge her - and his - wounded honour.

In the communal idiom of Gawker and its viewers, Hogan was as preposterous a cultural figure as Donald Trump was an absurd political figure — but the rest of the country, it turned out, was speaking a different language.

Mr. Iger had previously called the $300 million figure preposterous and yesterday he said the companies were actually not very far apart financially.

Mr. Iger, the president of Disney, called the $300 million figure "totally preposterous".

It helps, perhaps, that, while common sense exposes the billion figure as preposterous, Hollywood common sense reinforces it.

Of late, she has become a Michael Jackson-ish figure, too preposterous to function even as a nostalgia act.