Sentence examples for preposterous to run from inspiring English sources

The leadoff joke, logically enough, is that Jack declares it's preposterous to run an outdoor adventure magazine, web-only or not, where you replace actual reporting on adventures with flashy, attention-getting headlines that lead the reader into short gimmicky items with no substance.

The office of an elected head of state would be cheaper to run – it is preposterous that there are something like 18 "working" royals on the public payroll.

He's the kind of guy who likes to run New York, with its brutal bridges and preposterous start up the Verrazano, and win.

HOWARD DEAN admits that when he decided to run for president even his mother said it was preposterous.

Winter Sleep is the story of a conceited and preposterous man in late middle-age, a former actor who has evidently retired from the stage and screen to run a hotel.

The preposterous legislative sideshow taking place around sequestration gives a pretty clear picture of how little the people who were elected to run the government actually know about it.

As the preposterous feminist revisionism continues apace, we are supposed to believe that she would be Lady Mary's main champion, encouraging her to run the house.

So it is realistic for, say, Cole MacGrath to run around shooting lighting bolts out of his hands, but if he were a woman that would be preposterous?

The preposterous scheme filled the tabloids: Malcolm Smith, a powerful state senator from Queens, who was also arrested, had been angling to buy a legal exemption to run in the Republican mayoral primary.

There is, surely, far more to running a company than the preposterous cut-throat competition of the TV challenge show, The Apprentice.

It's preposterous to say that the world is running out of energy.