Sentence examples similar to preposterous history from inspiring English sources

Look at Simon Schama's preposterous A History of Britain for the BBC, God help them, where after 1800 nothing happens to the place until we Scottish nationalists appear, apparently hellbent on an ex-Yugoslav, chaotic future.

Not only has the show become cluttered with too many characters and preposterous case histories, it's forgotten what it's supposed to be about.

Lévy, he attests, is a "philosopher without an original idea but with excellent contacts", a "specialist in farcical media stunts", the "obscenely wealthy epitome of champagne socialism", the creator of the "most preposterous film in history" (the fabulously bad Le jour et la nuit), a man who even gives his trademark white shirts, provocatively unbuttoned to near the waist, a bad name.

They were imbued, individually and collectively, with the most magnificently preposterous arrogance in the history of the entire known universe.

That is, of course, a preposterous reading of nature and history, not to mention of Mr. Clinton.

Weah would have to make do with titles in Italy and France, the Ballon d'Or, a Fifa World Player of the Year award, and the most preposterous goal in Serie A history.

It characterizes their appearance, in which men styled their hair and dressed in a manner similar to their footmen, as history's most preposterous.

This account, alas, is just as preposterous as Mr. Reyburn's similarly hilarious history of the invention of the toilet, "Flushed With Pride".

This History show recounts a preposterous plot by Chicago counterfeiters in 1876 to spring one of their mates from prison.

The claim of his new novel, to deal with contemporary history in a serious way, is preposterous.

Crazy Rich Asians does not offer any kind of deeper commentary on Singaporean colonialism, or address the darker history of the Young family's preposterous wealth.