Sentence examples for preposterous situations from inspiring English sources

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Reading to a child about ridiculous characters in preposterous situations can be entertaining.

But others argued that Westerners simply lacked the education in totalitarianism that revealed his preposterous situations as merely slightly exaggerated versions of everyday realities.

If Punk'd's raison d'etre was to be as brutal as possible – making Justin Timberlake cry, basically – then Glitchy shares more with Trigger Happy TV's good-natured silliness; seeing how far preposterous situations can be pushed without its "victims" calling bullshit.

Not just an impressive physique and the physicality of a young Marlon Brando, but also a surprising sensitivity, a lightness of manner that makes him credible even in preposterous situations.

Series creator Nic Pizzolatto too often handed the actors preposterous situations and pretentious dialogue.

My cousin George is one of those people who always ends up in preposterous situations.

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"So you have had this preposterous situation where the UK government and the Welsh government regularly go to the supreme court to argue about who is responsible for bylaws or agricultural wages.

But the wit and invention of Mr. Tolins's writing and the immersive storytelling skills of Mr. Urie are such that not only do they spin a sturdy narrative out of this preposterous situation, they actually persuade you to buy into it.

Fortunately, thanks to Toews's off-kilter sense of humor, Irma is also in a preposterous situation, surrounded by hilarious characters, including a 41-year-old German actress who tells her that because of an unspecified trauma she "stopped progressing at 14" and has a 16-year-old son who is "spiritually much older.

Prepare your responses as in a funny game, where you are always ready and aware to detect his next move: "what else will he come up with now"? and laugh at the preposterous situation this employee creates for you and for him.

That's a preposterous position.

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