Sentence examples for preposterous from from inspiring English sources

Of course, that was just preposterous from our point of view".

John Sifton, a former researcher with Human Rights Watch, found the whole thing preposterous from the start.

Coming from most other performers — even most other stand-up comics — such a statement might seem coy, if not outright preposterous; from Galifianakis, it comes close to being credible.

That is preposterous from certain perspectives and the outcome might have been different had a linesman, with a bad offside decision, not denied Paul Scholes a second goal to extend the lead on the verge of half-time.

Obviously I don't know what would be possible for you with another body than mine, but I love you and yours so dearly the thought's too much for me despite your saying your love for me makes the idea preposterous from the get-go.

The rest has long been dismissed as preposterous, from the theory of the four humours - according to which all illness resulted from the imbalance of yellow bile, black bile, phlegm and blood - to diagnosis by smell, whereby a patient reeking of stale beer indicated tuberculosis and the aroma of freshly baked bread pointed to typhoid.

He is averaging more than 19 points a game -- up from 14 last season -- and is shooting a preposterous 52percentt from the field, which ranks seventh in the league and first among guards -- he finished fifth last season at small forward.

Hodge banana-kicked a preposterous goal from the boundary line.

Carter goads Mitchell into a furious counterattack that leads to a potentially lethal — and preposterous — fight, from which both emerge seriously weakened.

Music punctuates the play, along with more clichéd dialogue ("Music is the dark corner of your soul where nothing else matters") that sounds preposterous coming from subway singers.

Ironclad (2011, Warner, 15) is preposterous balderdash from start to finish, pitched somewhere between Monty Python and the Holy Grail and "Carry on Up My Chainmail".