Sentence examples for preposterous man from inspiring English sources
Winter Sleep is the story of a conceited and preposterous man in late middle-age, a former actor who has evidently retired from the stage and screen to run a hotel.
Luciano spares no grisly detail in elaborating the preposterous lengths men now go to in order to maintain their viability in the world, including remedies for hair loss that sound like fertile material for comedy skits: one procedure in which balloons are inserted under the scalp to stretch skin where the hair still grows, another in which snaps are attached to the skull to anchor a toupee.
It's preposterous for a man to claim he's too hard to get involved in these things; for some reason, it's often the most independent women who let their partners get away with this old-fashioned chauvinism.
John G. Stackhouse for instance argues that it is preposterous that any man as strikingly handsome as Brosnan and Connery could be a secret agent, saying, "When Sean Connery or Pierce Brosnan enters a room, everyone notices.
The authorities offered a preposterous explanation: the men tunneled out of their cell with spoons and table legs and emerged in the bathroom of a neighboring mosque.
Gregg Rosenthal of ProFootballTalk.com wrote: "That is a preposterous number for a man that big.
Like the hero of his newly translated novella, Aira is a man of preposterous fecundity.
It is preposterous to tell a man who has lost everything to give it his best.
It was no more preposterous than the large man in a biker outfit practicing his bagpipes, or the group practicing Ultimate Frisbee.
"The fact that America would honor this man is preposterous," said Cliff Matias, lead organizer of the powwow and a lifelong Brooklyn resident who claims blood ties with Latin America's Taino and Kichwa nations.
The idea was preposterous, and the younger men laughed.
