Sentence examples for preposterous one from inspiring English sources

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This book has a thesis, and it is, on the face of it, a preposterous one: George Orwell = Evelyn Waugh.

Charlotte Alter, the author of the Time piece, goes so far as to say that pit bull attacks are on the rise because of Hurricane Katrina, which is both a silly claim and a preposterous one: there's no evidence that pit bull attacks are on the rise at all.

Clare Connor qualifies but would be a very surprising appointment, though not such a preposterous one.

The idea of reading a novel dispassionately is a preposterous one.

"Preposterous!" one outraged woman exclaims; another reader, male, asks: "Is this just not wish fulfilment on your part?" Perhaps it is.

No more preposterous, one might argue, than the premise that a half-ape/half-human girl could exist in the first place, but having concocted that premise, it would seem that the job of the novelist is to try to get the reader to suspend disbelief for the story's duration.

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Will there eventually be so much pressure to start companies on campus that students create preposterous ones?

Miriam is also seen in a wonderful, long chapter that has her as a contestant on a quiz show, imagining her own questions and answers as the host, Art James, asks preposterous ones.

Her play's setting allowed her to show the black characters acting both the execrable roles in the comically bad play-within-a-play they are rehearsing and the equally preposterous ones they must assume to get by in their real lives.

Of a heart attack in bed, though I have my suspicion that it was brought on by savouring Frances Barber's preposterous décolletage one time too many.

Run! Run!'" It was a preposterous play, one that will feature in blooper reels for years to come.

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