Sentence examples for wholly preposterous from inspiring English sources

Which is both wholly preposterous, and also not on.

Here was a man who is wholly preposterous in nearly every circumstance.

Part comic-book superhero, part Old West vigilante and wholly preposterous, Reacher is far less enigmatic than he or anyone else in the movie thinks he is.

"Part comic-book superhero, part Old West vigilante and wholly preposterous, Reacher is far less enigmatic than he or anyone else in the movie thinks he is," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in December.

It's actually wholly preposterous, as half of the products we so liberally apply to our skins are full of carcinogens.

It's all preposterous.

But if you care more about the cycle's nuances -- its characters and their relationships, its emotions, its philosophical complexities -- then the idea of giving the reins to the creator of "Ka," which is wholly devoid of all those complexities, is preposterous.

The demon has invaded you... "It sometimes happens that people completely unsuited for word-play will improvise an endless string of puns and wholly improbable idea relationships fit to outdo the ablest masters of this preposterous craft.

At once metropolis and country, neither wholly natural nor wholly artificial, home to the sedate swan and the preposterous pelican, a place of new growth that speaks urgently of death, a city park enables us to rejoice in those contrarieties that prevent us turning fanatical or tedious.

Under the influence of hashish, "people completely unsuited for word-play will improvise an endless string of puns and wholly improbable idea relationships fit to outdo the ablest masters of this preposterous craft," wrote the French poet, essayist, and general chill-ass dude Charles Baudelaire in 1860.

HONG KONG — It sounds quite preposterous, of course, this idea that 1.3 billion people could be kept wholly in the dark about a news event in their own country, an event that was simultaneously making headlines in the rest of the world.