Sentence examples for preposterous premise from inspiring English sources

An entirely preposterous premise, which is fair enough.

The day that Marber's preposterous premise rings true, gallstones will be jewelry.

Upon this implausible — indeed, preposterous — premise, Muriel Spark builds a strangely gripping and gnomically illuminating short novel, "Aiding and Abetting" (Doubleday; $21).

But he also praises Mr. Zemeckis's directing style, saying he has "a remarkable ability to take a preposterous premise and turn it into a finely-tuned farcical machine".

Actually it isn't, but an elaborate, potentially preposterous premise is almost always both a stumbling block and an opportunity for a fantasy epic.

Whereas some TV concepts reek of a drunken idea, this one pretty much lifts a pub debate for its entire preposterous premise.

In 1988, The New York Times wrote, "Many Nintendo best sellers, like Super Mario Bros. 2, are based on wildly preposterous premises," noting that the two mustachioed heroes of that game "endure various trials, such as dodging hammer-swinging turtles and lava balls and man-eating plants, in order to save a Mushroom Princess".

"It's a preposterous hook, of course, but Ms. Barthes introduces her absurd premise with deadpan restraint," Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in August.

He keeps reminding us how preposterous this premise is.

(As was, presumably, the 2011 contretemps between another cartel, Los Zetas, and the hacker collective Anonymous — a preposterous movie premise inexplicably graduated to reality).

If the premise is preposterous, there goes the play.