Even so, it's possible to see that "Possession" would look fairly preposterous at any length.
Forced to stare Islamism in the face - to see it in every shadow - Salman discovered that, at its core, there are preposterous superstitions some of the left want to wave aside as irrelevant or even as bogus propaganda myths.
But then it's far easier to see through the propaganda of other times and places than your own – especially when delivered by preposterous 1950s-style Harry Enfield/charactersy-Warner characters.
It is a complete joy to see Branagh's Olivier erupt in queeny frustration at Marilyn's lateness, space-cadet vagueness, and preposterous Method acting indulgence.
It is preposterous to expect to hear wisdom emerge from them".
That may appear preposterous to Americans, particularly those who saw the film "Wag the Dog" and watched as a fictitious American President engineered a fictitious war with Albania to divert attention from his personal woes.
Yet the film once seen as too preposterous to make has stunned international critics and is now tipped as the first silent film in more than 80 years to win an Oscar, having this week being named best film by the New York Film Critics Circle.
But some see America itself as the prime conspirator, whose objective is to control the world.This may all sound preposterous to most Westerners.
To anyone who has seen a tornado's funnel-shaped cloud, it seems preposterous to suggest that tornadoes reach up from the ground.
That sounds preposterous to me.
