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Some of the Hetman's `` ideas '' were dream-ridden, vaguely imparted, and at times preposterous.

The White House itself has taken steps to remove a former Batista official, Col. Mariano Faget, from his preposterous position as interrogator of Cuban refugees for the Immigration Service.

The Faget appointment was preposterous on several grounds.

Downtown Los Angeles is already two-thirds freeway, interchange, street, parking lot and garage -- one of those preposterous `` if '' statistics has already come to pass.

It's a wonder, really, to how much mendacious trouble Larkin puts himself to sell the Jerebohms that preposterous manse.

Jasmuheen was awarded the Bent Spoon Award by Australian Skeptics in 2000 (" presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle ").

The campaign in North Africa was designated Operation Torch ; French cooperation was deemed necessary to the campaign, and Eisenhower encountered a " preposterous situation ' with the multiple rival factions in France.

Affinities had before him been observed between Latin and German, between German and Slavonic, etc., yet all attempts to prove one the parent of the other had been found preposterous .”

George ... It's wildly preposterous, imaginative and funny ( often intentionally ).

They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine.

When I was a student in Dublin we scoffed at the American celebration of St. Patrick, finding something preposterous in the green beer, the search for any connection, no matter how tenuous, to Ireland, the misty sentiment of it all that seemed so at odds with the Ireland we knew and actually lived in.

She was awarded the Bent Spoon Award by Australian Skeptics in 2000 (" presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle ").

Patrick Trench ( Angus Deayton ) – Patrick and his wife Pippa live next door to Victor, and often catches Victor engrossed in seemingly preposterous situations, all of which in context seemed perfectly acceptable.

In fact, the very notion of finding coherence and permanence within sensory experience was so preposterous to him, that he had to postulate the notion of a God who holds all reality in HIS mind, in order to explain why the world doesn't just vanish when we stop perceiving it.

Theodore Dalrymple wrote in 2010 that Singerian moral universalism is " preposterous — psychologically, theoretically, and practically ".

As Ted Gioia notes, Heinlein “ has been accused of many things –- of being a libertine or a libertarian, a fascist or a fetishist, pre-Oedipal or just plain preposterous.

The notion of a general resurrection of the dead was therefore apparently quite preposterous to the Greeks.

W. H. Auden called it " a pure verbal opera ", while The Times wrote that " The story is almost too preposterous to go without music.

" She said of the Stansfield character, " In this preposterous role, Mr. Oldman expresses most of the film's sadism as well as many of its misguidedly poetic sentiments.

Of no small irony, the United States Navy was also the yard's insurer — though the concept of reimbursing General Dynamics under these conditions was initially considered " preposterous " in the words of Secretary Lehman, the legal basis of General Dynamics ' claims included insurance compensation.

While the Zamorin was willing to sign a new treaty, Gama made a preposterous call to the Hindu king to expel all Muslims from Calicut before beginning negotiations, which was naturally turned down.

Clouseau considers himself a cunning master of disguise, oftentimes using costumes, outfits and names / personas that range from the seemingly ordinary ( a worker for the phone company ) to the preposterous ( a hunchback ).

" While Castelnau himself dismissed this claim as " absolutely preposterous ," and the fluid mechanics of such a thing occurring literally defy the laws of physics, it remains one of the more stubborn myths about the candiru.

In truth, 2003's DVD package houses better live performances, but if you want to catch Zeppelin in all their preposterous, ' because we can ' glory, The Song Remains ... is the one.

) Like most things associated with the Decadence, such exotica discombobulated the mainstream American public, who regarded the little magazines in general as " freak periodicals " and declared, through one of their mouthpieces, Munsey's Magazine, that " each new representative of the species is, if possible, more preposterous than the last.