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At this point I agreed with you that it was preposterous, and was glad to find that all my deductions had been correct.

In the entire history of mankind, there has not been a more preposterous spectacle than this.

It might sound preposterous but the only way out of this logjam is to pull back the manufacturing base out of China.

It's such a preposterous setup that I was always aware of the plot chugging away, and the logistics of the chase defy all common sense.

There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was preposterous and embarrassing to work in such a government.

I find that preposterous, not to mention distasteful, given that some of these people have lost their life savings.

Once upon a time, the thought that Korean or Japanese vehicles could compete with Detroit seemed preposterous.

The project was all the more preposterous because Mugabe's "official" salary as president is only about $57, 000 per year.

He was usually preposterous vet somehow achieved a certain dignity by his remoteness and agelessness.

So for me, it was preposterous to believe that everybody's individual identity can be determined by four blood types.

So a sum that seemed preposterous only a few months ago has won overwhelming approval from politicians.

The excuse he gave for his lateness was so preposterous that everyone laughed.

The idea that by 1975 more than 60 percent of American families would own two or more sets was preposterous .

Proper rock stars who could actually play an instrument had Ferraris which they drove at preposterous speeds, usually into a swimming pool.

"It would be preposterous to take so grave a step on the advice of an enemy" (J. A. Froude).

The movie has a keen, bitter sense of the sudden breakdown of preposterous illusions.

The idea of reopening the treaties had seemed merely to be a preposterous German obsession.

And having just sentenced Miss Suu Kyi to another 18 months' house arrest on the most preposterous of charges, just as repressive.

Utterly preposterous as his cravat was, and as his collars were, I was conscious of a sort of dignity in the look.

Actually, when it comes to the real thing, that result doesn't sound all that preposterous.

Yet his mistakes and follies notwithstanding, Russia's claim that it was "enforcing peace" is preposterous.

Some think it preposterous to ban a work of literature that many in the rest of world admire as a shining symbol of Arab culture.

Therefore for someone to say that through prayer I am able to know 80 or 90% of God's hidden or unrevealed will is really preposterous .

But mental health charity Mind said it was a "preposterous suggestion" .

Of course, South Korea can spin itself around these preposterous fabrications, and become laughter for the civilized audience.

"Too does the year old inherit the person's thought, and gain eternal life? This was truly too preposterous. " He says.

So the idea that Egyptians would trust him to rule for months more, and possibly engineer a succession to a Mubarak clone, is preposterous.

It is audacious, disruptive and preposterous on the face of it.

Can electricity cause cancer? In a society that literally runs on electric power, the very idea seems preposterous.

However, Epiphyllum, although only one is now, it is preposterous to glory over the world up.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

Don't see you for well is be not and my a type of person, let folk listen to also not fearful utterly preposterous.

But in private, Chinese officials say the suggestion that China will do much more to save Europe is preposterous.

Any presumption that smoking is in anyway beneficial is totally preposterous .

Swearing actually is demonstrably beneficial, according to scientists in a different preposterous news story entirely.

This legally and politically untenable and indeed preposterous position is similarly reflected in the new "Boycott Bill. "

Has our perception made some of them into preposterous personas automatically?

The Marlboro Man, meanwhile, master of wild beast and wild country, seems too far-fetched and preposterous even for advertising.

And while it may sound preposterous they are even treating it like a disease.

The preposterous bailouts of this decade will come back to haunt Americans in future decades in preposterously high tax rates.

Qiao Er knows that the monk absolutely can no approve this kind of preposterous material.

Steve Kutner, Lampard's agent, described the Chelsea insider's statements as 'preposterous'.

The stone, that token of preposterous times, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell into the water .

Flamboyant , sexually blatant, frequently preposterous, it is redeemed in part by Mailer's energy and curiosity.

Looking back over the years, it preposterous eyeful, and ab bitter tears it.

This was a MOST preposterous method; but the eagerness of my fancy prevail'd, and to work I went.

No matter how preposterous the rule, it stays and stays, regardless of whether it works to accomplish its end.

The hotel staff boasts that it goes to almost preposterous lengths to maintain the room at a mega-deluxe level.

Yet the idea of putting the constitution to French and Dutch voters again is preposterous.

And whenever you hear laughter and somebody saying, 'But that's preposterous! '

the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions.

Also, it lets me pace while I talk on the phone, which also looks preposterous, but is energizing.

It may sound preposterous to imagine that the mathematics of quantum theory has something to say about the nature of human thinking.

his body rattled with pins and plates, and it seemed preposterous that he should have died in his bed, of pulmonary fibrosis.

At this I burst out laughing. This sounds preposterous to me, I can't help it.

They had all inherited their father's preposterous quickness and elegance.

Any presumption thover smoking is in either way helpful is totficasly preposterous .

The slow progress of Sebelius's nomination was preposterous.

That's preposterous ! I do not resemble C-3PO. Don't get me wrong, I'm flattered , I just don't see it.

AT FIRST sight, the idea that Europe has anything to teach America about tackling unemployment seems preposterous.

And whenever you hear laughter and somebody saying, 'But that's preposterous! '

the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions.

I knew then that the idea I 'd had and dismissed as preposterous was true .

Also, it lets me pace while I talk on the phone, which also looks preposterous, but is energizing.

It may sound preposterous to imagine that the mathematics of quantum theory has something to say about the nature of human thinking.

Pension money was squandered in the past on things like buildingholidayresorts preposterous but politically important places.

his body rattled with pins and plates, and it seemed preposterous that he should have died in his bed, of pulmonary fibrosis.

At this I burst out laughing. This sounds preposterous to me, I can't help it.

They had all inherited their father's preposterous quickness and elegance.

The remarks you quoted are absolutely preposterous.

Any presumption thover smoking is in either way helpful is totficasly preposterous .

The slow progress of Sebelius's nomination was preposterous.

With their silly titles and preposterous claims to fame, the ghouls are violent, strong, and perfectly daft .

That's preposterous ! I do not resemble C-3PO. Don't get me wrong, I'm flattered , I just don't see it.

She didn't know what to say to such a preposterous idea.

AT FIRST sight, the idea that Europe has anything to teach America about tackling unemployment seems preposterous.

To the fair-minded, such claims are preposterous.

I find this accusation preposterous. Ms. Temmel, would you please send the student in?

And then we say, "Well we have to do that to be safe" . That is what is preposterous.

All students claim that the proposal to ban all soft drinks in the school is preposterous.

I realize that seems a preposterous claim.

I resisted for a long time, because it looks so preposterous , but it's really much more comfortable.

That's preposterous. I do not resemble C3PO.

If this information is true, then it is the most preposterous thing in the world.

What makes it true is that it's more preposterous to claim about anywhere else.

Yes, I know. This sounds preposterous.

I think that this statement preposterous, if the husband can not concentrate on why Mingzhi?

Mrs Bachmann has a record of making factual mistakes, repeating untruths and adopting preposterous stances.

The story is getting more and more preposterous.

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Wrong time, met the wrong person is a preposterous;

they are asking a preposterous price for the work

If this preposterous story was true,