Sentence examples for somehow preposterous from inspiring English sources

That this peaceful haven could once have been a pulsating mass of hot steam, burning coal and industrial noise seems somehow preposterous – which is a true testament to Berlin's capacity for transformation.

But this wasn't because the idea of supplementing is somehow preposterous.

The idea that a voucher program so limited in scope somehow equals Brown is preposterous on its face.

Propelled by the sheer nervy force of his anxiety, the film, subtitled "A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love in the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation," manages to make the personal political, or at least historically freighted, in a way that is at once comically preposterous and somehow persuasive.

He ably reconstructs one of the most preposterous and yet somehow deeply inspiring stories of human curiosity ever recorded.

The director, Leigh Silverman, can do nothing with the play's more preposterous developments — Harper somehow absconds with all the contents of Paul's office, from the walls of books to the last paper clip — but does coax fine performances from the cast that occasionally distract from the play's contrivances.

Much of the rationale for the delay was the preposterous fear that somehow Mitnick could — without a modem — wreak cyberhavoc from prison.

"They have this preposterous idea that somehow there is this other kind of state of matter -- a dried residue that is completely inert".

The notion that BP somehow got "hosed" or "fleeced" is preposterous.

It is hard — if preposterous — not to feel somehow Odyssean sailing between the pillared cliffs of the harbor mouth, as if we were "Heroes/Sitting in the dark ship/On the foamless, long-heaving/Violet sea".

But it's an obligatory sort of updating that somehow makes the central premise seem more preposterous than ever.