Sentence examples for preposterous nonsense from inspiring English sources
It's all preposterous nonsense, of course, but who's going to notice in 20 years time?
And the business of Steve Pate's injury was the most preposterous nonsense of the sporting year.
Why aren't we doing something about that?" Mr. LaPierre, of the rifle association, scoffs at the notion that he or his four million members are to blame for the A.T.F.'s troubles, calling it "preposterous nonsense".
The head of the International Cricket Council's Anti-Corruption Unit, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, has described as "absolutely preposterous nonsense" claims that they did a deal to protect New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum from punishment for his delay in reporting an alleged match-fixing approach.
It's the infectious daftness of the whole thing; the claret-hurling ultraviolence; the inability of Jessica Lange to be anything other than an absolute dude even when spouting some truly preposterous nonsense, the reset system at the end of every season – meaning each is its own standalone tale with the cast in different roles.
He recalls taking stock of himself at 30, and finding himself "full of nonsense, preposterous in many ways".
Meanwhile, Colleen Harris, Prince Charles's former press secretary, told reporters that the claim was "preposterous" and "utter nonsense".
In one sequence of 90 pages, albeit with World War II impending, he flings around terms like "nonsense," "madness," "outrageous," "preposterous," "pestilentially," "insane," "mad," "insane" and "mad" again, and "lobotomous".
Terrible doggerel verse from Robert Lowell; sentimental nonsense from Arthur Schlesinger; a preposterous exercise in pre- Hitler Diary" absurdity from a Hugh Trevor-Ropre- Hitlerntly convinceDiaryt the murder wabsurditypiracy.
It's also a joke about a preposterous voice: here and elsewhere, the duo reap rich rewards from their flair for accents abstracted into nonsense sounds.
At the end, after their preposterous concoction has carried the day, the two Hollywood pros, played by Alan Arkin and John Goodman, double over laughing; the nonsense they have perpetrated successfully sprung six people from captivity.
