Sentence examples for preposterous ideas from inspiring English sources

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The issue was preposterous ideas that in some cases threatened the privacy of the American people".

One of the most preposterous ideas floating about is that the world's poor feel "entitled" to assistance.

Without hare-brained, impetuous plans and preposterous ideas to add some va-va-voom to our waking hours, we would all proceed in a pre-ordained, predictable fashion – in fact, our lives probably wouldn't be worth living at all.

The campers in Cottage Grove spent half their time agonizing over cultural sensitivity ("We're highly dominated by elderly white engineering types," a stovemaker who'd worked in Uganda told me. "So you get a lot of preposterous ideas that'll never fly in the kitchen") and the other half grousing about "design drift".

"I represent to myself and I hope to convince you of this radical ideas, innovative ideas, even peculiar ideas, but not loose or preposterous ideas," said McKenna.

Despite a long career of lampooning human folly, it has only been in recent years that I have fully appreciated the strong predilection among Homo sapiens to willingly and fervently believe in preposterous ideas.

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A preposterous idea?

It was a preposterous idea.

That's a preposterous idea.

That would have been a preposterous idea 20 years ago.

And then there's the preposterous idea that "viral videos" should be a concern at all.

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