Sentence examples for preposterous world from inspiring English sources

This almost preposterous world of the television superstar and this disgraced president".

A sharp piece of social satire, the book pulls apart the preposterous world of expatriate Hong Kong.

Welcome to the joyously preposterous world of Penny Dreadful, a show that delights in dropping well-known, out-of-copyright names from the the gothic A-list almost as much as star Josh Hartnett's breeches.

If credit-default swaps and structured investment vehicles are legal, as they are, and if marching in the streets is becoming ever less so, as it is, then on January 16th we should begin to turn that kind of preposterous world upside down.

Helped by the fame of judges like Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green, its first series performed fairly well on NBC (although still some way behind Idol) and its return promises to help saturate the singing-reality space to the point where it resembles the boxing market with its preposterous number of world titles.

Many Muslims got the preposterous idea that the world will end soon from interpretations of their holy book, the Quran.

Even if they ban the wearing of red coats in public, preposterous and illiberal as this will be, the world will still turn.

"So it is preposterous to suggest that World-Check is genuinely interested in removing innocent parties.

It also represents another polarity of the art world, just as preposterous in all its piety.

They covered anyone whom Mr. Bush declared beyond the reach of law with the preposterous claim that the whole world is now a field of battle.

For many years now Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel have been producing some of the world's most preposterous and overpriced sporting goods.