Sentence examples for preposterous with from inspiring English sources
It is technically elegant, with vehemence and control, though often preposterous, with the imagined classiness of high-end prostitution and art-porn cliches of secret sexiness in grand chateaux: shades of Eyes Wide Shut.
But the suggestion Italy might follow in the UK's footsteps is broadly viewed as preposterous, with a post-Brexit poll finding that two thirds of Italians would vote to remain in the event of a referendum.
It's an enjoyable place to be, even more so as this twisty film grows increasingly complicated and preposterous with the addition of some Navy types (James Marsden and Fred Ward, among others), a Central Intelligence Agency whack job (a funny Bill Paxton) swooping in on a black helicopter and empty gesturing at corrupt national institutions.
On one level, this incredible performance evokes being trapped in a bar with a twenty -something blowhard of a salesman, whose braggadocio becomes more appalling and preposterous with every rum and Coke.
It is vulgar, noisy and preposterous; flirts with racism, goes steady with misogyny and pretty much marries homophobia.
With months of gloomy rhetoric and rafts of preposterous promises, with a chaotic convention in Cleveland and with troubling remarks Wednesday suggesting he'd be pleased if Russian cyberspies hacked Hillary Clinton's email account, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump set the ball on the tee for President Barack Obama.
Smith's leaving Kentucky is not even that preposterous, even with a recent contract extension.
She faces appalling and occasionally preposterous circumstances with a mixture of innocence and skeptical intelligence that is close to heroic.
Mr. Fry has written a silly, often preposterous book with a filched plot and a derivative hero.
Mr Craig brings off cinema's most preposterous role with insouciant grit: I hope he doesn't quit too soon.
One of the many great things about the same man's direction is that it treats every preposterous turn with absolute seriousness.
