Sentence examples for preposterous people from inspiring English sources

A veteran Democratic consultant looked at the 2004 presidential field and found it symptomatic of a basic party problem: "Sometimes we're so respectful of our diversity that we take completely preposterous people seriously.

Also at the National, the venerable Alan Bennett followed up a lazy full-length play (the frequently preposterous "People") with two delicious one-acts about, well, Bennett himself, as here embodied by a vowel-perfect Alex Jennings, who across both "Hymn" and "Cocktail Sticks" showed himself to the quizzically deadpan, inimitably Bennettesque manner born.

The New Yorker, August 18 , 1934P. 9 We hear from the most preposterous people - a lady, for instance, who says her cat pays no attention to the radio except when President Roosevelt speaks, when the animal rubs up against it and purrs.

By E. B. White The New Yorker, August 18 , 1934P. 9 We hear from the most preposterous people - a lady, for instance, who says her cat pays no attention to the radio except when President Roosevelt speaks, when the animal rubs up against it and purrs.

Pollsters proceed from the assumption that "public opinion" is an aggregation of individual opinions, each given equal weight — an assumption Blumer demonstrated to be preposterous, since people form opinions "as a function of a society in operation".

It may sound preposterous to people who don't have children, but most working families struggle with how to quickly and easily make dinner on a daily basis.

It's kind of startling that Newt floated the drastically preposterous notion that people use their food stamp money for travel rather than make the more believable claim that people were buying drugs.

Mr. Beresford hesitated in his walk and then thought, It's preposterous, all these people watching.

It's time to wave goodbye to the preposterous prejudice that people shouldn't be streamlined or time tabled.

Charles Fried, a Harvard law professor who was solicitor general in the Reagan administration, said the law professors' statement was a "preposterous" declaration by people "in the grip of partisan excitement".

But national cohesion, and indeed public order, now depended on a preposterous punctilio: the people wanted a flag flying at half-mast above Buckingham Palace, and the Queen wasn't having it.