By the time he was done, "Leaving on a Jet Plane," "Sunshine on My Shoulder" and "Country Roads" were in tatters, having been rendered in preposterous accents and rhythms that were the antithesis of the syrupy Denver sound.
Its preposterous narrative, efficiently rendered by the blue-chip screenwriting team of Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp, unfolds with the locomotive elegance of a Tintin comic or an episode of "Murder, She Wrote".
In 1990, before Carrey became a movie star, he made a check out to himself for the preposterous sum of ten million dollars, "for acting services rendered," and postdated it Thanksgiving of 1995.
It takes the most preposterous of coincidences, in the face of which he is rendered helplessly, almost religiously awestruck by the forces of fate, to achieve the play's inevitably happy ending.
Ellis thought scissors was a downright preposterous spelling of sizerz, and he went about calculating how many other ways the word could be rendered.
In this "excursion from the sad to the sublime by way of the preposterous, the always controversial Danish director Lars von Trier offers his own, highly personal version of apocalypse: a celestial collision rendered in surprisingly lovely digital effects and accompanied by mighty blasts of Wagner," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
In "Melancholia," an excursion from the sad to the sublime by way of the preposterous, the always controversial Danish director Lars von Trier offers his own, highly personal version of apocalypse: a celestial collision rendered in surprisingly lovely digital effects and accompanied by mighty blasts of Wagner.
In this "excursion from the sad to the sublime by way of the preposterous," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times, "the always controversial Danish director Lars von Trier offers his own, highly personal version of apocalypse: a celestial collision rendered in surprisingly lovely digital effects and accompanied by mighty blasts of Wagner".
Tebaldini's evidence -- some 50 pairs of examples from the two scores -- renders any notion of telepathy preposterous.
The idea that a bloated federal government having more sway over health care will render us better outcomes at less cost for patients with cancer, heart disease and other illnesses is headshakingly preposterous.
