So we're going to take these pieces of paper and I'll write numbers on them and it'll be money," it would be preposterous.
Some people will proclaim that price to be preposterous; after all, you're already paying for Internet service.
That would be preposterous.
"We find this thesis to be preposterous".
Albeit... in 1707, when John Leverett became the leading candidate for ascension to Harvard's Presidency, Cotton Mather railed, "To make a lawyer, and one who never affected the study of divinity, a president for a College of Divines will be a very preposterous thing, a thing without precedent".
Never mind that the supposed Fat Cat "bailout" was a disaster for Bear Stearns stockholders, and that the idea of a "moral hazard" risk — that other investment banks will be tempted to emulate Bear Stearns — is preposterous.
Anyone who has seen that preposterous mess will be relieved that it may be a while before anyone gives him a second chance behind the cameras.
When he speaks this week as his party's choice, he will be the most perplexing, even preposterous candidate ever, not unlike the P.R. man described by Don DeLillo, in "End Zone," as someone whose mouth "seemed to invent the words as well as speak them".
The day that Marber's preposterous premise rings true, gallstones will be jewelry.
They fail to realize that we have taxes taken out of our income, we have laws that we must follow or we face consequences, we have liberties that we take for granted, we have a right to vote for the individuals we think will best govern... It's preposterous for anyone to say that politics isn't relevant in their lives because they truly do have a place in nearly every aspect of our lives.
