Sentence examples for preposterous line from inspiring English sources

Part of it is certainly Davis; among the fabulously gifted performers enthusiastically delivering preposterous line after preposterous line, he perhaps above all of them seems to know what he's doing and whom he's playing, which is doubly fascinating because the character is such a mess of contradictions and mysteries.

"If you die, I'll kill you!" bellows a sergeant (Gene Evans) to a wounded comrade in Fuller's 1951 Korean War movie, "The Steel Helmet," and in context this preposterous line becomes something more than lucid: pulp poetry.

At least they think it does, but most simply come over as naive or imbecilic; witness the Pretty Things' Belfast Cowboys, with its preposterous line about "Celtic children born with stone in hand".

I refer, of course, to those preposterous platitudes lining the hallways of corporate America, extolling virtues like "Teamwork," "Determination" and "Efficiency".

But any verisimilitude is undercut by a preposterous story and lines no actor should be forced to utter.

In a story line as preposterous as it is portentous — it includes the sighting of a slave ship near the Statue of Liberty, with the narrator's demented father at the helm, and an attempt to rescue him on the day of a poetry slam — Beaty shows off his histrionic skills.

That last line is preposterous because it's not the way any group scores members of Congress.

Some will no doubt say that I'm unjustly reading into things, that my questions are out of line and preposterous.

It's a heady thought — if a bit preposterous — that a few lines of verse might undermine a government.

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

That is preposterous, but it was a line repeated when, calling as a parent, I contacted the office in charge.