Sentence examples for quite preposterous from inspiring English sources

"Breaking Bad" is preposterous and utterly believable; "Ray Donovan" is more believable and quite preposterous.

'Stories of O'Connell's philandering have been too readily dismissed by historians, often for quite preposterous reasons.

"Listen," said Douglas, "you've — I've — This has been a lovely meal, but — Well, aren't you all being quite preposterous?

The main - quite preposterous - argument for delaying an inquiry is that it would distract people involved in the ongoing "overwatch" operation.

Yes, You'll See It: A Musical Saw It seemed quite preposterous, the idea of substituting a harmonica and accordion for the woodwinds of Bach's orchestral suites.

Hamburg is the biggest and most entertaining city in western Germany, and has a quite preposterous number of hostelries whose precise role is hard to define you can eat, drink and be as merry as you wish.

The G8 would be the flagship, and its role was to make such a notion seem not quite so preposterous.

No, the Explorers aren't quite as preposterous as Florida Gulf Coast —  mostly because their university has been around longer than "Law and Order" — but they are awash in their own little corner of improbable fun, writes Bob Ford in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

If this result wasn't quite as preposterous as the notion of a socialist Texas Albertata's political culture, though it is notoriously conservative by Canadian standards, is more akin to Colorado's than to Texas's — it was at least strange enough that images of airborne swine soon filled social-media chatter about the results.

In this context, it doesn't seem quite as preposterous as it should when somebody suggests using 3D printers (machines that build up objects layer by layer from a digital file) to print 3D printers, which can then print a pair of shoes.

Today the concept of the celebrity-endorsed gala is familiar, but in 1976 when the three-night run of shows was launched, under the title A Poke in the Eye (with a Sharp Stick) – it would not become The Secret Policeman's Ball until 1979 – it was an idea that seemed quite magnificently preposterous.