Sentence examples similar to preposterous public from inspiring English sources
At Stalin's order, prisoners even built preposterous public-works projects: rail lines that cut through the forest and then were abandoned when Stalin died; dams to reverse the direction of rivers; canals that proved useless.
Even if they ban the wearing of red coats in public, preposterous and illiberal as this will be, the world will still turn.
It is to be hoped no other players feel the need to follow suit, and that the whole vaguely preposterous idea of public apologies is quietly dropped.
She's got proper ballads!' The previous year and the previous three weeks in particular have been a masterclass for Adele (and the rest of us) in the preposterous speed of the public profile of a 21st-century newcomer.
He continues: "These laws are self-evidently ludicrous, and the fact that a western government is harassing Wolff and GQ for publishing opinions about a public figure is preposterous.
During their chat he let slip about those preposterous death benefits, not yet made public by the company.
For Helen Vendler, it was Moore's public eccentricity, like her "preposterous exchanges with the Ford Motor Company over the naming of the Edsel".
By what preposterous logic is informing the American public about it's government's wrong doing is aiding the enemy?
It is not clear how this preposterous conclusion made its way into the public as an official publication of CBO, without someone there catching it.
You could think of a thousand programs that might serve a small group, but it's preposterous to think that's serving the public good, and economically it's just not sustainable".
