Sentence examples similar to the almost preposterous from inspiring English sources

Yet the idea behind the treatment seems almost preposterous: Take bone marrow stem cells from a boy with the ALD gene mutation.

Earlier this month, ESPN.com ranked him the 40th best player in the league, an almost preposterous rating for one of basketball's all-time greats.

Likewise, the Cardinals' Larry Walker looks almost preposterous in the No. 2 hole.

The bookies' offered almost preposterous odds of 1/50.

Last year Mr. Leader reassembled the key surviving members of his old cast — Mr. Bates died in 2003 — and remade the film, an almost preposterous undertaking.

The premise is strange, almost preposterous, but Mr. Glazer presents it with a hushed, solemn intensity that keeps you in a state of pleasurable disorientation.

(On the cover of "Christmas From the Heart" he cracks an almost preposterous smile, as if you just said something that validated his life).

It's an almost preposterous ambition – and the ultimate test of his claim to the job.

The chasm between ordinary, middle-class Israeli Jews and their Palestinian counterparts is so wide — or, more concretely, the wall is so high — that it takes an extreme, almost preposterous happenstance to bring the two sides together.

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

This chance encounter escalates to almost preposterous portions as the season rolls on.