Sentence examples for preposterous theory from inspiring English sources

It is a preposterous theory.

I have in the past tried to justify my love for the show by formulating some complicated, preposterous theory involving postmodernism or meta-irony: how Beavis and Butt-head is actually so clever that it transcends dumbness and re-materialises as a subtle commentary on modern America... but nah, I don't buy it either.

— — I find it to be an offensive irony, a toxic irony, that Lyndon Baines Johnson — the founder of the so-called Great Society, which I consider to be the greatest insult to the individual man since Immanuel Kant first laid out his preposterous theory of the noumenal, that is to say, not objective reality — that I should share with this man, this evil man, the same love of the soft drink Fresca.

Q, who is purported to hold high-level government clearance, has promoted the preposterous theory — among others — that special counsel Robert Mueller is working for Trump in an operation to ensnare "deep state" Democrats in an international child sex ring (Roseanne Barr appears to be a believer).

Then preposterous theories become just as likely as rational ones.

No doubt The Times could elicit equally preposterous theories of innocence from any number of individuals incarcerated on Rikers Island.

Naturally it started with Sigmund, the numero uno Freud, whose preposterous theories of the subconscious have been so unbelievably influential".

He does this by reëxamining familiar evidence but also by dismissing preposterous theories, such as one that J. Edgar Hoover masterminded the murder to keep his job.

"What does it mean?" he asks, answering himself, "What do you want it to mean?" I never had the chutzpah to ask strangers about the meaning of theater subscriptions, but when I sold them by phone, I made jokes, asked lots of questions and spouted preposterous theories.

"Varamo," like all the Aira books in translation, is charming and infuriating, built of plain prose that blooms without warning into carbuncular visions; they're filled with invented games, preposterous theories delivered in reasonable tones, portentous subplots that later appear to have no importance and metafictional shifts only partly rewarding the attention they demand.

The country, including many top figures within the GOP itself, is struggling to come to terms with the unthinkable, the unconscionable, the downright preposterous: in theory, Trump is now one short hop away from the White House.