Tristram Hunt, the Labour education spokesman, scented a "whiff of eugenics", which was preposterous, but politics as usual.
In 2010, during the military offensive into the Taliban-held town of Marjah, in southern Afghanistan, American officers insisted that the operation was "Afghan-led," which was preposterous.
"This movie has been and will continue to be put in political boxes," said Boal. "Before we even wrote it, some people said it was an Obama campaign commercial, which was preposterous.
This is Federer's seventh straight Wimbledon final, which is utterly preposterous.
Nicolas Winding Refn brings the cinéma du choc to Cannes with a movie which is fantastically preposterous and objectionable, but expertly varnished with a sheen of pure evil.
HENRY F. FINKELSTEIN Brooklyn I am sorry that your column did not address the real scandal of the Book Review, which is the preposterous number of pages it now devotes to various permutations and combinations of best-seller lists, even as it reviews ever fewer nonfiction books (five on July 15).
The most absurd thing is his suggestion that all women are defined by their beauty, which is as preposterous as suggesting that all men are defined by how hard they are.
Which is both wholly preposterous, and also not on.
"It sounds to me like they are trying to claim that the entire brownie is like a tablet, which is, of course, preposterous," Dr. Czeisler said.
