Sentence examples for some preposterous from inspiring English sources

I remember the time I first caught Mum in some preposterous untruth, as she called it.

If the only dignity they have is adhering to some preposterous logic that Al Qaeda gives them, then people will do that in desperation.

Over the next quarter century this murder story would take some preposterous turns, but the Skakel family never did break into the clear.

"Oh my God, don't tell me," he'd say to some preposterous misfortune that was only half true, and then laugh about it.

His romantic leanings led him to some preposterous combinations of punk leather, wasp-waist pinstriped suits, sparkling lace underpants and the odd feathered tricorn.

But the most surefire role is Ms. Kayden's as the wily Suzette, who coolly demands a few more hundred francs every time she is asked to undertake some preposterous new role in the confused shenanigans.

In a six-decade career, Rauschenberg turned out more than 6,000 works of art, some of preposterous size and ambition.

And there are some predictably preposterous detonations, as well as a whole host of enjoyably unlikely takedowns.

This messy feast of a play blends genres, hints at enough political, religious and sexual themes to suggest all kinds of modernizing possibilities and incorporates some truly preposterous twists.

It's the infectious daftness of the whole thing; the claret-hurling ultraviolence; the inability of Jessica Lange to be anything other than an absolute dude even when spouting some truly preposterous nonsense, the reset system at the end of every season – meaning each is its own standalone tale with the cast in different roles.

I have in the past tried to justify my love for the show by formulating some complicated, preposterous theory involving postmodernism or meta-irony: how Beavis and Butt-head is actually so clever that it transcends dumbness and re-materialises as a subtle commentary on modern America... but nah, I don't buy it either.