Sentence examples for preposterous stuff from inspiring English sources

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Now I have to go through the part of the trailer where all the tiresomely preposterous stuff happens.

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It sort of sounds preposterous - the stuff of programming fantasy.

The gaudy rhinestones, the fake cowboy swagger, the suburban dudes told to sing about a dirt road... it was preposterous and hollow stuff.

It's on somewhat firmer ground when it decides to be a somewhat meatier version of "24," as it was Dec. 7 outing, in which the preposterous and pulpy stuff was offset by some nuanced character moments.

Even by Hollywood standards it's Tin Cup stuff, a preposterous tale that even the most schmaltziest producer would baulk at green-lighting on the grounds of sheer implausibility, unless of course that Hollywood producer happens to be Jamie Gold, a former agent to the stars who is on the verge of bringing home the coveted winner's bracelet from the Rio Hotel Las Vegas.

But while Butterworth's play is full of momentary life it is stuffed with preposterous symbolism.

The idea that this stuff might have any practical application seemed, well, preposterous to most of us.

Kellyanne Conway, whose defenses of Trump's most preposterous statements are sometimes so tortured that they become the stuff of late-night satire, could not bear to back the President on this one.

But he is hampered by a preposterous long-haired wig that looks to be made of the synthetic stuff usually used for the manes of plastic ponies.

Whether these words were preposterous or prophetic no one could say for sure, but everyone wondered: Who could have written such stirring stuff?

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