Sentence examples for preposterous propositions from inspiring English sources

Back then I explored this group and some of its more (preposterous) propositions: there should be an uprising against "The New World Order", of which the US government was a puppet; there was a site in Nevada where the militias believed a crashed UFO had been taken, the government plotting with aliens.

That is a preposterous proposition.

That's an inherently preposterous proposition".

At first glance this looks like a pretty preposterous proposition: Planet Hulk is one of those outlandish sci-fi-style storylines beloved of Marvel that might not translate well to a live-action big-screen movie, where screenplays need to be built around the charisma of the actors involved rather than pseudo-mystical subplots and mysterious extraterrestrials.

But Disney's adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars books is such a preposterous proposition – the opener to a mega-budget franchise, directed by a first-time live-action film-maker, set on a Mars that doesn't remotely resemble the real red planet and based on a series of books from a weird outdated genre which hardly anyone has read – that I can't help rooting for it.

Putting aside the former President's preposterous proposition and despite all the concern over rising temperatures, even Bill Clinton's heated rhetoric won't spare us from a more likely threat: abnormally cold weather.

And just having spent so much time with Nick, it just seemed sort of a preposterous proposition to us, to try to take away that stuff because it felt to us like all of that mythology and all of that creation was a part of who Nick really is".

On the face of it, that proposition seems preposterous.

The thoughts that scurry through the mind: the whole proposition was preposterous.

But as the Palestinians have chosen to be governed by terrorists who call for the destruction of Israel, this proposition is preposterous.

On the face of it, the proposition is preposterous.