| 单词 | preposterous |
| 例句 | Though success in Cambridge conversation frequently came from saying something preposterous, hoping that someone would take you seriously, there was no need for Francis to adopt this gambit. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “The charges leveled against my client are preposterous,” he said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His account is vague, but one imagines that *These preposterous tales may actually be true; other amazing Smith stories certainly are. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But when he explained the details of the operation, I began to see that the idea was simply too preposterous to have been made up. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z While he groused about so preposterous an idea, the kid laid down the mat he never used, bulldogged him down to it, pulled off his shoes and draped a blanket over him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “What? But that’s preposterous. He’s nine. He’s just a boy,” the woman said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She thought it was preposterous, that she, a girl of fourteen, with nothing but a grade school education, would be considered eligible to take over the work of a thirty-year-old college graduate like Miss Armstrong. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Three sprightly figures whirled madly in her head—hours filled with Uncle Jack and Dill dancing to preposterous measures blacked out the coming of tomorrow with tomorrow’s troubles. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The Annual Sledge Game is a preposterous game of soccer played at the Grounds before Christmas. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The effect was one of enormous strength and energy and craft; he was quite big enough to carry the absurd overdecoration; on him it didn’t look preposterous, it looked barbaric and magnificent. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Her escape had been a preposterous idea, but even a sliver of it amounted to the best adventure of her life. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But the idea of Utah getting in on the action seemed unlikely and even preposterous. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Hercules, whose life was one long combat against preposterous monsters, is always said to have had his home in the city of Thebes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I could just picture him, at the end of his ten o’clock class, organizing it with the easy authority which always came into his manner when he had an idea which was particularly preposterous. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is preposterous! Let me through at once,” the Uncle said, holding up the Celestial Sword. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z This question is so preposterous coming from the Commandant that I almost laugh. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Given the blanket nature of the ruling, courts have found police encounters to be consensual in truly preposterous situations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And it is the sight of her looking like some preposterous zombie that sends a hummingbird of panic ricocheting through me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Anything more preposterous, more thoughtless, more discourteous What is it, Michael?” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Most compelling was his final point: Given that both his splits and final time for the race were record-shattering, the idea that Seabiscuit had been restrained was preposterous. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But Pena had an idea—innovative or preposterous, depending on the point of view—of how one might find some Botocudo DNA anyway. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The gossiwor, played only in the king’s presence, produces a preposterous disconsolate bellow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The least likely choice, and the less costly one, is the most preposterous hat I’ve ever seen. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The very notion that Jefferson should feel himself the injured party with the moral leverage to forgive her husband was a preposterous presumption. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps there was something in Newlands’s manner of presentation, but the idea was considered fundamentally preposterous and widely mocked. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But the idea of not talking to them here was so preposterous to him that he had a hard time grasping the concept. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She glanced at Diego as he served himself a preposterous helping of ribs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “This is preposterous!” declared Mrs. Chiltington, striding forward to the front of the viewer gallery on the first floor. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The whole thing was so preposterous he almost wanted to laugh. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Some were in so far over their heads that they resorted to invention, fabricating preposterous stories or quotations out of thin air. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed a preposterous way to confront the colossal power of the United States government. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z That I proposed to climb to the cruising altitude of an Airbus 300 jetliner struck me, at that moment, as preposterous, or worse. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Radios howled the various party slogans and preposterous wagers were made by party members on both sides. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy was preposterous—six feet and three inches tall, with a chest and shoulders like a box of kitchen matches. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z To twenty-first-century ears the story sounds preposterous, but it did not to Gonzalo Pizarro, who had already helped seize an empire laden with jewels and precious metals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I do believe that you are encouraging these preposterous people.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “But do you for a moment think that such a preposterous dream can ever come true?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “This seems to me perfectly preposterous and uncalled for. I don’t like it. I don’t understand your motive for silence and mystery, never saying a word to me about it this morning.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Eccentric souls with too much money in their pockets and far too much time on their hands, they had blown thick wads of cash on preposterous machines called automobiles. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a preposterous idea, illogical, and yet...she remembered the building pressure in her chest, followed by that brilliant sense of release. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “It’s preposterous,” said the gentleman in the bow tie. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “No,” he said robustly, as if dismissing a preposterous and possibly slanderous allegation. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z As I sat down in front of this modern-looking machine, I realized the enormity of what I was about to do: Asking my best friend to pay for my schooling seemed preposterous. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Izzi and I exchange another glance, and as preposterous as it is, I find I’m suppressing my laughter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Well, you know, I had the preposterous idea that it might be the truth.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Naturally, with my Western education, I found such an explanation preposterous; I decided to “test” the diviner. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s not like they can just let us die of thirst,” her mother adds, as if this notion were preposterous, but then waits for someone to chime in with validation. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Lavoisier had thirteen thousand of them in what was, to an almost preposterous degree, the finest private laboratory in existence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In fact, it had made things harder for Cecilia with her third, though it was preposterous of her to pretend to be disappointed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The idea that such a tiny creature could kill a human was considered preposterous in Nott’s day. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “For far too long, Mr. Lemoncello has pretended to be a library lover when, in truth, this was all a clever publicity stunt so he could sell even more of his preposterous games!” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Though you tell yourself it’s preposterous, you can’t quite shake the feeling that you are being watched. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They looked at Claire as if she had said something preposterous, or unintelligible. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It also represents another polarity of the art world, just as preposterous in all its piety. Bedwyr Williams: My Bad ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:32Z It's preposterous because it's a TV show and has only a certain number of minutes to tell it's story for that specific episode. ‘Outlander’ Season 3, Episode 8: The Secret Revealed 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z “It’s preposterous to say that zoning doesn’t allow for artwork,” he said. Seattle’s Museum of Museums is set to open, but there’s still drama over its 3rd floor 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z These days, archbishops tend to have more Christian charity, while the petty spites and preposterous self-importance of their 1936 counterparts have been transferred to breakfast television presenters and so on. Meghan and Harry's story is quite the drama, but it's no abdication crisis 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z That awareness of the unwelcome implications of seeing one’s future is soon subsumed by the movie’s more preposterous concerns, including the arrival of the time-travel police with memory-wiping powder. ‘Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes’ Review: Hello, It’s You 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z As in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" or "Xena: Warrior Princess," the epic and preposterous blend profitably with the commonplace and casual. Syfy's 'Almighty Johnsons' an amiable take on Norse gods 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Much more creative than violently killing people off, throwing them in jail, or preposterous ridiculous stuff. 'Mad Men' Finale: Readers Respond 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Sounds fairly preposterous, but it’s based on a wildly successful French movie franchise, and we all know the French have great taste in comedy. 14 TV shows worth watching this summer 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The stories of the saints he regarded as preposterous fables invented to hoodwink a gullible and illiterate populace. Catholic art was once the domain of Titian. Now, we get Susan Boyle 2010-09-19T21:15:00Z The dream I carried to America was preposterous. Danger in my belly: I know where Donald Trump’s tribal rhetoric can lead 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The offerings not aimed at the art house crowd involve either preposterous heroes participating in violence or glamorous women displaying their hotness. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Nature silencing this creative behemoth seemed somehow preposterous. Tributes pour in for Sondheim, the greatest theater composer-lyricist of our time 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z The notion that they ever had a chance is just preposterous Considering how bad at each position their whole roster is. Style Invitational Week 1367: Pick me up at work, okay? A come-on contest. 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Still, until they literally start harvesting our blood, perhaps the chance to boggle at their self-satirising anti-ageing treatments is what we want from our more preposterous celebrities. Why Victoria Beckham's quest for eternal youth pales beside the stars who are after your blood 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The Brewer Boys, surrounded by a preposterous bevy of dancers reminiscent of a ’60s variety show, were sent home. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: Squabbling and Dancing (and Some Singing), All of It Live 2011-10-26T05:30:17Z A poignant or else preposterous moment to claim a connection with your father's vulnerability, when he's on the point of abandoning you. Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir by Greg Bellow – review 2013-04-13T13:00:01Z Having to learn a new language and a new culture was preposterous. Danger in my belly: I know where Donald Trump’s tribal rhetoric can lead 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The film – whose trailer has been described as “preposterous”, “outrageous” and “completely crazy” – is already promising to be quotable. Big Shark: Tommy Wiseau releases 'preposterous' trailer for follow-up to 'worst movie ever' 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z I’m sometimes described as a “pioneer” in broadcast journalism — which is preposterous. ‘Making It on My Own,’ With Mary Tyler Moore as a Guide 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The idea seems almost preposterous; it’s hard enough to keep up with the books that have been written without worrying over the ones that haven’t. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z In Eugenio Mira’s gaudy, amusingly preposterous new thriller, “Grand Piano,” the world’s foremost young classical pianist returns to the concert stage after a five-year sabbatical and finds himself in a deadly line of fire. Movie Review: In ‘Grand Piano,’ an Unknown Stalks a Musician Making a Comeback 2014-03-07T01:12:49Z All that’s left is an exchange — Nacho hands over the baseball cards, Wormald hands over that preposterous Hummer, which is headed to the chop shop. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2, Episode 2: What’s Hoboken Got to Do With It? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z That they don’t read as preposterous, even as they confound, is due to the author’s inventive play with form and his deeply affecting focus on human desire. Review | In Matthew Baker’s ‘Why Visit America,’ the U.S. is an absurd place, but also full of hope 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z And yet Tarantino, to judge by his promotional interviews, wants it both ways: to create a preposterous entertainment and at the same time to have it taken seriously as a rewarding study of American slavery. All that bloody mayhem and we're still supposed to take Django Unchained seriously? 2013-01-25T17:00:01Z “It’s absolutely preposterous to think that I am doing anything wrong,” the person wrote in response to a question sent through eBay. Auction of Japanese internment art pulled after protest 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z But the most surefire role is Ms. Kayden’s as the wily Suzette, who coolly demands a few more hundred francs every time she is asked to undertake some preposterous new role in the confused shenanigans. Theater Review: ?Don?t Dress for Dinner? at American Airlines Theater 2012-04-27T02:00:01Z God chose it through my father, and the fact that my siblings and I belonged to the clan of our dead father was definitely preposterous. Danger in my belly: I know where Donald Trump’s tribal rhetoric can lead 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Lowe, who survived his own sex-tape scandal a generation ago and looks not a day older, lends a sweet derangement to the movie just as it’s going massively stupid: preposterous yet boring. REVIEW: Don't Dare Watch This Sex Tape 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z But it becomes clear that the deeper threat to Ines’s comfort comes not from a preposterous character in an ill-fitting suit but rather from the hypocrisy, conformity and casual sexism that define her normal life. At the New York Film Festival, a Defense of Human Dignity 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z At least that preposterous but addictive entertainment, in which Kerry Washington plays an inside-the-Beltway crisis manager who has an affair with the president, is juicy, trashy fun. Movie Review: ‘Knife Fight,’ With Rob Lowe and Carrie-Anne Moss 2013-01-25T02:18:00Z Perhaps I have already said too much, since part of the experience of a Nicholas Sparks movie is encountering revelations and reversals in the plot that challenge your sense of the preposterous. Movie Review: ?The Lucky One,? Based on the Nicholas Sparks Novel 2012-04-19T14:00:00Z On the face of it the question is a preposterous one. You've Come a Long Way Daddy 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Miriam is also seen in a wonderful, long chapter that has her as a contestant on a quiz show, imagining her own questions and answers as the host, Art James, asks preposterous ones. Books of The Times: ‘Dissident Gardens,’ Jonathan Lethem’s New Novel 2013-09-11T19:49:43Z Rose accepts the apology and offers a preposterous response. Review: ‘Rasheeda Speaking’ Finds a Chilling Place to Work 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z His best dialogue is decorous, with a preposterous thrust. The Stealth Absurdism of Patrick deWitt’s “French Exit” 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The claim of his new novel, to deal with contemporary history in a serious way, is preposterous. Martin Amis: saviour of modern literature? 2010-04-20T13:33:00Z And there are some predictably preposterous detonations, as well as a whole host of enjoyably unlikely takedowns. The Expendables: Old-timers wheel out the one-liners 2010-08-16T15:36:00Z When the answers are revealed and the penny drops, this twisted story becomes a little preposterous, but intriguing nonetheless. Cannes 2012: Mystery ? review 2012-05-18T12:17:33Z But if preposterous, pulse-pounding pileups of bizarre accidents and obscure medical conditions appeal to you, sure, put the trashy beach novel aside and help yourself. ‘Night Shift’ Gets Adrenaline Flowing on NBC 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z In the beginning, it seemed preposterous, but over the course of the talk it appeared likely that Flex identified part of Tyler’s rhetorical strength: the veneer of who-me innocence. Tyler, the Creator, Funkmaster Flex and the Wildest Interview of the Year 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z However preposterous its storylines have been – psychotic twins, satanic booksellers and Pam Ferris playing a hardened crime boss – it is always a thrill. The best TV for summer 2013 2013-05-26T18:50:01Z No matter the result, the very idea of a sequel or remake to the original Bad Lieutenant is such a preposterous concept that people were just not willing to play ball. Post-credits scene: Bad Lieutenant 2010-05-24T16:01:00Z Then this line-stander decides he doesn’t want to be quoted after all and shoos me away, but it’s a preposterous statement, right? Perspective | Loving Elizabeth Warren means having a plan for when America breaks your heart 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z But any verisimilitude is undercut by a preposterous story and lines no actor should be forced to utter. Movie Review: ?Man on a Ledge,? With Ed Harris as an Evil Real Estate Tycoon 2012-01-26T23:44:01Z “I think it’s so preposterous, I haven’t even discussed it with my clients,” said Pierre Rougier, an owner of PR Consulting, who works with brands like Hood by Air, J. W. Anderson and Louis Vuitton. How Smartphones Are Killing Off the Fashion Show 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Howard King, an attorney for Dr. Dre, called the lawsuit “preposterous,” ABC News reports. Suge Knight Sued for Wrongful Death; Dr. Dre and Ice Cube Named Defendants 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Surely, it's the Brits who'd be belly-laughing at the idea of two deluded Yanks leaving their Salt Lake City comfort zone to impose their preposterous religion on sceptical rural Ugandans? Why British critics don't get The Book of Mormon 2013-03-26T18:40:04Z But the show also includes plenty of physical high jinks alongside all the preposterous plans and toxic behavior. Meet the Secret Weapon of ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Lennon, who always seemed both to revel in his celebrity and find it preposterous, has been the focus of all sorts of tributes and remembrances this fall; Oct. The Week Ahead: NOV. 21 ? 27 2010-11-20T19:34:00Z And in Sparkle’s big final number at a preposterous solo concert debut with a full gospel choir, to a packed house after minimal preparation, she delivers. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘Sparkle,’ With Whitney Houston and Jordin Sparks 2012-08-17T15:03:02Z Yannis has a habit of making grand statements that sound vaguely preposterous in print, yet are delivered in person with earnest enthusiasm and more than a glint of knowing humour. Foals on Holy Fire: 'We were inspired by voodoo' 2013-04-25T17:11:02Z Is the whole premise of the show preposterous? 'Blindspot' Series Premiere Recap: The Show Rests on Jaimie Alexander's Heavily Tattooed Back 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Working for Chertok, Cahn developed the almost preposterous proficiency that would later allow him to turn out 10 or 12 low-budget features a year. ‘Crime Does Not Pay: The Complete Shorts Collection’ on DVD 2012-07-20T22:24:27Z More preposterous is the dark fantasy Edgar concocts about Asuncion’s history. Theater Review: ?Asuncion? at the Cherry Lane Theater ? Review 2011-10-28T02:00:00Z A romantic comedy filled with preposterous facial hair and ridiculous hats, it is also a film with a serious, moral undercurrent. Good fellows: Martin Scorsese and Colonel Blimp 2012-10-28T13:00:01Z “What I remember most is the stark contrast to the preposterous glamour.” 2010-01-31T05:37:00Z He is also an incorrigible jerk and a punk, and, when you get right down to it, as a cat, is a preposterous object to have around the house. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I’ve got a bad feline about this 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z “The preposterous lie on the screen before me isn’t that far off,” he wrote. Here’s Why Norm Macdonald Was Comedy Royalty. It’s Not ‘S.N.L.’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z The song My Girl makes me cry, for God’s sake, which is preposterous because I don’t really like it and also we had a boy. My baby has ruined culture for me 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z The strange biographical essay documentary “Inside the Mind of Leonardo in 3D” has the somewhat intriguing, somewhat preposterous idea of trying to illustrate Leonardo da Vinci’s way of viewing the world. Peter Capaldi Narrates ‘Inside the Mind of Leonardo in 3D’ 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z There are twists and turns, some obvious, others preposterous. ‘Who You Think I Am’ Review: A Woman of Feeling, in Bed and Out 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z This sounds to me like the most preposterous distinction ever. Joseph Fiennes: ‘I’ve done my bit for society – I’ve illustrated the patheticness of misogyny’ 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z “The idea that an 18-year-old doesn’t know how to fail on the one hand sounds preposterous. But I think in many ways we’ve pulled kids away from those natural learning experiences.” On Campus, Failure Is on the Syllabus 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z He is a stay-at-home dad, he said, “which I would have considered preposterous when I was self-centeredly in my music universe but now I can’t imagine wanting life to be any other way.” The 18-Year Wait for New Wrens Music Is Over. Sort Of. 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Those poor creatures are still recovering from George Lucas's preposterous efforts a few years ago to "update" his original trilogy with random, poorly placed additional CGI monsters and aliens. Star Wars: can Disney bring back Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo? 2012-11-09T14:53:52Z So it was almost preposterous to watch Ms. Lopez doing something as mundane as performing a concert Wednesday night, and also a relative rarity. Review: Jennifer Lopez Back in the Bronx 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z In the age of Trump, Mr. Friedlander’s preposterous arrogance, which extends to believing he can solve every political problem in a quick sound bite, does not seem so silly, which he seems to understand. 4 Comedy Specials to Watch: Seasoned Stand-Ups Making Debuts 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z In almost every other respect, this overbaked romantic hokum is preposterous. Movie Review: In ‘Labor Day,’ Josh Brolin Romances Kate Winslet 2014-01-30T23:07:17Z Nor does the plot avoid some faintly preposterous excesses. Review: ‘Amazing Grace,’ the Story of a Slave Trader’s Moral Awakening 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Southern California is a preposterous paradise, a luxurious dystopia. California will never stop burning 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z The newspaper said her superior called her lawsuit preposterous. Gray hair's in fashion, but what about at work? 2012-04-02T15:53:18Z Then I look at the preposterous price tag. On the search for antiques in small Upstate New York towns This real trauma is bookended by the preposterous, as this season suddenly piles on more issues from Jack's past. Why trauma is cozy on “Virgin River” 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z So I changed the subject and talked about something else because I thought maybe she thought it was preposterous. Director Wim Wenders On Filming the Work of Pina Bausch in 3-D 2011-12-22T14:45:55Z Lembit meanwhile, clad in unflattering stripes and a preposterous hat, grinned through the bamboo bars of his new home, looking as happy as a panda. I'm a Celebrity: what effect will Nigel Havers' exit have on the show? 2010-11-22T13:37:00Z Every reader is different, and some people might well like to fall into flamboyant thrillers with high body counts, corrupt officials and preposterous plot twists. John Grisham Brings Back His Hero Jake Brigance for a Third Case 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The movies are barely distinguishable and often preposterous. Is Liam Neeson cancelled? Of course not - he's played this character for years 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z But as far as Lana is concerned, the notion that Natalie accidentally drowned after getting into a dinghy, alone, on a stormy night is preposterous. Lana Wood, Natalie’s Little Sister, Has Plenty to Say 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z He makes her lonely and neglected, gives her an unfaithful husband and links her to Kiki — or “Kikey,” as Mastodon keeps pronouncing it — in a suitably preposterous way. A Python Ate the President’s Neighbor? Only in Carl Hiaasen’s Florida 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z At once solemn and preposterous, sinister and sentimental, efficient and overwrought, “Split” represents something of a return to form for its writer and director, M. Night Shyamalan. Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Split’ Has Personality. O.K., Personalities. Lots. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The New Yorker called it “ponderous” and “preposterous”. Big stars, little interest: when movie heavyweights fizzle on TV 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Two people for whom the idea of romance is preposterous. I Give It A Year: how I tried to subvert the romcom 2013-02-02T06:00:00Z When he first watched it as a teenager, he simply enjoyed it as a full-throttle action film in which a wisecracking hero overcomes preposterous odds to beat up bad guys, Marsh said. Yippee Ki Yay: ‘Die Hard’ Comes to the Christmas Stage 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z He wrote a lengthy and impassioned letter to Wikipedia, for example, challenging the online encyclopedia’s preposterous contention that he was not a credible witness to his own life. No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z But once the surgeon wriggled out of that predicament, the story lost its dramatic tension and fizzled, a victim of preposterous characters with ludicrous motives. Television Review: In ‘Crisis,’ on NBC, Children of Rich and Powerful Are Taken 2014-03-14T22:12:34Z “All the things I thought were the ultimate agony seem preposterous now.” Nora Forster, 80, Who Married (and Stayed Married to) a Sex Pistol, Dies 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Beth suggests one, but it’s too preposterous to consider seriously. James Franco Directs ‘The Long Shrift’ 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z I know it must sound absurd to people who aren't drug addicts, but it just seemed preposterous the idea of not taking drugs. Russell Brand: methadone is a bad way to treat heroin addicts 2012-08-11T23:06:16Z It is ridiculous, preposterous even, certainly wrong, a sugary pudding of groans and cliches. TV review: Digging for Britain and Mistresses 2010-08-20T05:45:00Z The story pans out in a long, involved and more than faintly preposterous style, though with a few procedural diversions along the way. Jack Reacher – review 2012-12-20T15:29:01Z But, as Mr. Abloh said in that Dazed interview, “what seems preposterous actually becomes the new norm.” Streetwear Is Dead 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z But Vuitton is in the business of creating preposterous fantasies around an object really just meant to hold your money and house keys. Fashion Review: McQueen, Louis Vuitton and Miu Miu Bring Paris Shows to a Close 2012-03-08T00:21:03Z Soon all of their respective underlings pulled guns and aimed them at one another, and the preposterous prospect of a shootout between F.B.I. agents and C.I.A. agents seemed imminent. ‘Blindspot’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: Lighten Up, Everyone 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z The president contends this request is not preposterous, petty or in any way morally outrageous. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: This invoice will not be silenced 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Simultaneously preposterous and dull, “Dear Dictator” is the kind of movie where music and wardrobe choices — like the mean girls’ stridently visible underwear — substitute for character. Review: In ‘Dear Dictator,’ a Despot Does Housework 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z An effective mix of lean and over-the-top, "The Expendables" is often preposterous, but it achieves the immediacy of a graphic novel without the overdone mythology. "Expendables" revels in excess 2010-08-05T01:30:00Z Many scholars find this to be somewhere between insufficient, improbable and preposterous. Noam Chomsky 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The result included enviable book sales, preposterous polemics, and the almost overnight development of a national media platform. Secularists are not atheists 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z Also in animation, last year’s Disney teen Moana had a more realistic shape – and this is in a genre previously well known for its preposterous female figures. Hollywood’s grim century of fat-shaming: from Greta Garbo to Chlöe Grace Moretz 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z His pretending not to get it is just the preposterous cherry on top. Social Q’s: Social Q’s: No Dibs on Love 2012-05-24T20:10:21Z Hindu apologists claim they are only reacting to Muslim intransigence, but that is preposterous. Why Pakistan's writers must attend the Jaipur literature festival 2013-01-24T16:00:01Z Unruffled, Gus answers this potentially fatal allegation by declaring it too preposterous to dignify with words. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 9 Recap: Bye Bye Love 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z The preposterous report card he sent your husband? Work Advice: When the boss sends a letter about your work — to your husband 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z This is as preposterous as what the two Republican-supporters in the cabin say about Hillary Clinton drinking blood, but those guys do not have the ear of the president of the United States. Rudy Giuliani, Maria Bakalova and an antisemitic cake: discuss Borat Subsequent Moviefilm with spoilers 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z In a world fraught with more danger than Donald Trump's candidacy, such unthinking actions are not only preposterous, they are deadly. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 12: Your Child Is Your Child 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Hall of Fame featured celebrity muttering from the nakedly preposterous will.i.am, another of The Voice's judges, and a man who pulls off the incredible trick of looking precisely like an action-figure version of himself. The Voice: not just a talent contest – you can watch it while waiting to die 2013-03-31T18:59:01Z They seriously mulled over some preposterous locations — an amphitheater in Tripoli? a children’s hospital? — for the impending live show. For Pop Music, 2021 Was the Year of the Deep Dive 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z They were committed to taking something that might seem preposterous but playing it very straight, and very, very real. Zombies, Aliens and Robots: The ‘Walking Dead’ Producer on Her Greatest Hits 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Here, for your pleasure, is a ranking of all them from least preposterous to most. The Gentlemen trailer – how ridiculous can Guy Ritchie's new movie get? 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The prejudicial scolding of the trailer—the presumption of fat-shaming—failed to appreciate that “Insatiable” is excitingly preposterous, but it did provide an early proof of the show’s provocative power. The Provocative, Preposterous Power of “Insatiable” 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z It's an attempt at large-scale seriousness in a genre that's frequently preposterous. World War Z – first look review 2013-06-07T14:31:05Z If software can empathise, fall in love and fear for its own death, then the idea that the concept of a soul is limited only to homo sapiens becomes even more preposterous. Blade Runner 2049: does it live up to the critical hype? Discuss with spoilers 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z He and a friend fall in with a rich man and woman who entertain themselves by issuing preposterous dares, and Craig and his friend become their playthings, to gruesome but amusing effect. Movie Listings for April 4-10 2014-04-03T22:28:24Z Leos Carax's picture is flamboyant and preposterous; completely joyous and wholly unclassifiable. Kylie Minogue: I want to stop people thinking, 'What's she doing in a film?' 2012-06-07T14:10:19Z The film, a mock anthology of fragmentary episodes from preposterous telenovelas, is a minor addition to the Ruiz corpus, which runs to more than 100 titles, among them a handful of masterpieces. ‘The Wandering Soap Opera’ Review: An Excursion Into Raúl Ruiz’s Fertile Mind 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Currently, however, there’s a preposterous incongruity at the David H. Koch Theater. Bolshoi Ballet Turns Back the Clock in Its New York Season 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The country has endured so much burdensome weather lately that I feel a bit sheepish in admitting I’ve been smiled on with preposterous regularity so far. In Transit Blog: Just Me and My Shadow, Pedaling Toward Chicago 2011-09-09T15:53:53Z THE history of the Green Hornet is as convoluted — and, if possible, as preposterous — as the plots of the long-running radio drama that spawned this masked vigilante. Float Like a Franchise, Sting Like a ... 2011-01-09T02:13:01Z The film overflows with such preposterous yet earnestly spoken dialogue. Two Comedy Writers Take “Face/Off” to a New Level of Weirdness 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Would that really be so strange, so preposterous? Perspective | I’m dating a conspiracy theorist. But it feels like I’m the one going crazy. 2020-08-16T04:00:00Z Both the book and film of “The Graduate” have an ending Prescott would call “preposterous”: Benjamin barging in on the wedding of Elaine to another man and running off with the bride, destination unknown. Charles Webb, author of ‘The Graduate,’ dies in England 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z The direction from Eric Lartigau keeps things moving along fast and furious: preposterous it may be, the movie is carried off with some style. The Big Picture ? review 2011-07-21T21:00:03Z It is a morbid idea — one that the related essay describes as "preposterous" — but there is something seductive about it too: a rider loop-de-looping his way to eventual, euphoric annihilation. Devising death: 'Design & Violence' portrays real tools of violence and they are chilling 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Mac’s true identity, for instance, involves a preposterous coincidence. Review: ‘Broadway Bounty Hunter’ Stars Annie Golden as Herself 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Eve is a throwback to Ms. Lopez’s abused wife in the preposterous 2002 thriller “Enough,” in which her character, Slim, the imperiled wife of a rich, vengeful psychopath, took the law into her own hands. Review: In ‘Lila and Eve,’ a Grieving Mother Turns Gun-Toting Vigilante 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Which is the only visual preposterous enough to evoke the absurdity of it all. Perspective | Ivanka Trump is acting as if everything is normal 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z This last entirely preposterous detail is one of an initial sprinkling of oddball and leftfield touches that, for the first 10 minutes, delude you into thinking you might be watching something out of the ordinary. Dead Man Down – review 2013-05-03T10:12:34Z Harcourt-Reilly is a preposterous device, the kind of thing found in a second-rate detective novel, where conflicts don’t evolve and resolve so much as they are explained away in tediously long monologues. Theater Review | 'The Cocktail Party': Shaken and Stirred at a T. S. Eliot Comedy 2010-03-19T22:09:00Z He turned 80 in October, but the notion still seems preposterous. Gift Ideas for Classical Music Fans 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The "Access Hollywood" tape didn't prevent Trump from winning the presidency, but in their recreation the actors invite us to reclaim the preposterous dark humor beneath the horror of that tape. Trump satirist Sarah Cooper's new Netflix special is a joyous acknowledgement that we're not OK 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z That’s plausible, but from here the musical careers into increasingly preposterous territory. ‘Family Album,’ a Musical From Heidi Rodewald and Stew 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z One of the delights of this knowingly preposterous story is the dialectic it constructs between the real and the fantastic. The Malevolent Little Mermaid: Not Your Usual Fantasy Heroine 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z So is the job of carrying this entirely preposterous, not entirely unenjoyable movie. Review: In ‘Self/less,’ Immortality at a Cost 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Others called them tedious, fatuous, preposterous and exploitative. Tim LaHaye Dies at 90; Fundamentalist Leader’s Grisly Novels Sold Millions 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Why hadn’t I put my foot down and insisted on Starwood-only properties rather than this preposterous RV and the promise of nightmare experiences from the plot line of Chevy Chase “Vacation” movies? How I learned to stop worrying and love RV-ing “I’m going to build a big, beautiful wall and Mexico is going to pay for it” may be preposterous, but it is easy to understand, and the human brain, in its weakness, likes easy things. Double-plus effective 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z "This is a pact of cowards and the most contemptible and preposterous zigzag in Israel's political history," Labour party leader Shelly Yachimovich was quoted as saying in the media, where commentators hailed Netanyahu's political prowess. Netanyahu surprise gives Israel grand coalition 2012-05-08T12:15:11Z "The allegations brought upon our clients are preposterous and without merit," Plonsker says. Actor Casey Affleck sued for sexual harassment 2010-07-25T22:46:00Z So it is with Smirnoff, whose marketing campaign flounced on for years with some preposterous airs and graces – Ten times filtered! The new Smirnoff advert 2012-11-17T00:05:22Z I found myself smirking at the preposterous cascade of coincidences that had the central characters tumbling into one another continually, as if the population of early-19th-century France numbered around 27. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: 'Les Misérables,' Stage to Screen 2013-01-03T17:53:43Z Obviously, it is preposterous to consider potato chips less fattening than walnuts — because potato chips are among the most addictive foods on the planet, along with French fries, pizza, cheeseburgers and Oreos. The Science Behind Your Need for One More Potato Chip 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z It’s a ridiculous, preposterous, sometimes maddening experience, but also kind of a blast. Movie Review: ‘John Dies at the End,’ Directed by Don Coscarelli 2013-01-31T23:09:01Z The movie, in addition to being expectedly vulgar, is noisy and preposterous, and its humor flirts with racism, goes steady with misogyny and pretty much marries homophobia. | 'Horrible Bosses': A Treatise on Issues of the Workplace. Not. 2011-07-07T16:06:51Z Everything is supersized and preposterous, but Mr. Chu, with two films in the “Step Up” franchise under his belt, is undaunted by crowds and confusion. Review: ‘Now You See Me 2’ Illusionists Are Out to Save the World 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z In Curb's most recent season, the character of Larry – also separated from his wife – goes to characteristically preposterous lengths to win her back. Larry David: 'I'm cranky' 2010-06-25T23:02:00Z We just assumed that he would be an authority in what he was saying, and the idea of trying to interpret the technicality of his words seemed preposterous to us. David Gordon Green Narrates a Scene From ‘Stronger’ 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z “The idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous,” he told the Journal. Steve Wynn not entitled to severance payments, Wynn Resorts says 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The whole preposterous charade of royalty was performed perpetually in her presence. When the Empress of India Met Her Muslim Teacher 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Honorable mention: United States. At first blush, claiming the United States is a good place for atheists seems preposterous. Eight of the best countries to be an atheist 2012-08-29T14:55:00Z The preposterous but not incoherent plot centers on the relationship of Lucrezia and Gennaro, the son she concealed, who grew up knowing his mother only through her letters. The 1833 ‘Lucrezia Borgia’ Version Is Sung at Caramoor 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Hirst is genial enough, but as essentially guarded as his preposterous sunglasses suggest. Touched By Frost | Heston's Chocolate Factory Feast | True Stories: Starsuckers | In Confidence: Damien Hirst | Watch this 2010-04-06T05:45:00Z This preposterous guidance for the most glamorous woman in the world made Taylor and her stepdaughter laugh so hard they had to duck into a bedroom. Elizabeth Taylor loved John Warner. Life in Washington nearly killed her. 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z To Homer, as to the rest of the ancient world, what became the Christian idea of personal resurrection was preposterous. Jesus Died Only to Rise Again. Where Did the Concept of the Resurrection Come From? 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z In this context the royal we is of course, preposterous, both too big for such a small desire and terribly puny for the centuries of royal prerogative that Eric evokes when he uses it. ‘Cosmopolis,’ Directed by David Cronenberg 2012-08-16T21:29:47Z But Hatcher says that for her and the other survivors she counsels, the idea that escape might come from a man who buys sex is preposterous. Here's What Former Sex Workers Think of Pretty Woman 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z His latest efforts, which he collectively calls “Painted Sculpture,” are gorgeously preposterous. Review: Mark Grotjahn’s ‘Painted Sculpture’ Offers the Gorgeously Preposterous 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The idea is not as preposterous as it sounds. Is Amazon really going to open hundreds of brick-and-mortar bookstores? 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z A relatively low-budget project, especially when compared with the “Transformers” franchise he started, it bundles explosive set pieces into a plot that would be preposterous if you stopped to think about it. ‘Ambulance’ Review: Michael Bay Is Our Emergency Movie Technician 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z In Somalia, a country with a single race, a single religion and single tribe but with many clans, the war between clans was beyond preposterous. Danger in my belly: I know where Donald Trump’s tribal rhetoric can lead 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z “Generation Q” is not without its pleasures—the story lines, in keeping with tradition, are nice and preposterous, and there’s a nostalgic comfort in watching long-dormant characters misbehave again. “The L Word” Reboot Seeks to Absolve the Original’s Sins 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z “I think it’s preposterous to presume that anyone who endorses a candidate for public office agrees — or disagrees — with their public policy positions 100 percent once they’re in office,” he said. Petition Wants Met Gala Dedicated to Gay Rights 2013-08-19T22:33:41Z But the real joy derives from beating it into the ground until the joke becomes, in part, about how preposterous it is to tell it. On Comedy: The Comedy of Murderfist and The Birthday Boys 2013-12-10T22:37:39Z Hunt does perfectly fine with a script that calls for standard issue spunkiness and weeping, though she can’t quite sell the clearly preposterous romance. Pam Grier's Jackie Brown snub proves Oscars have always been #SoWhite 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Facebook, for example, is given to engaging fancy consultants to produce preposterous claims about the number of jobs it creates. Digital capitalism produces few winners 2013-02-17T00:05:48Z Here Banville feels at home, just as I did all those preposterous years ago. An Irish Flâneur, Greeting the Past on His Present Wanderings 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z The pat and occasionally preposterous story is really just a pretext, a serviceable scaffolding for a handful of expert, satisfying performances. Movie Review: ‘Trouble With the Curve,’ With Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams 2012-09-20T21:56:24Z A Nicholas Sparks movie is a romantic melodrama in which the road to enduring love is paved with complications, some preposterous, some life-threatening. Review: In ‘The Longest Ride,’ the Nicholas Sparks Brand Endures 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Why, if “Suits” can catch you up in its characters’ often preposterous crises, can’t “My Struggle”? What’s More Appealing: Eight Seasons of ‘Suits’ or Six Volumes of Karl Ove Knausgaard? 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z “My previous name was so preposterous and such a burden, I couldn’t wait to get rid of it,” Mark says. ‘I understand my wife’s lived experience better’: meet the men who have taken their wives’ surnames 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z On “Nomi Song,” his preposterous combination of opera, electronics, new wave, rock and pop combined with his pale, paranormal presence dislodged the expected. 15 Songs That Shook New York’s Queer Dance Floors in the 1970s and ’80s 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z So despite a year-long contract that altogether added up to a preposterous proportion of my income – “Two thousand American dollars?” The straight cis men at a corporate gym helped save my trans soul 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z This suddenly turned the usually preposterous attempts at acting of the "mechanicals" in the palace into something true and even moving. Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night's Dream: a cook and a concept 2013-04-15T14:28:03Z A columnist, Lew Freedman, responded at length: “Saying West’s arrival means Wyoming is no longer worth visiting on vacation is preposterous.” Kanye, Out West 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Unpacking it all is a lot of fun if you can afford it; preposterous expense is one reality of the old restaurant that the new tenants preserved. The Grill Is Confident, Theatrical, Sharp and New Yorky 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Denzel is so cool, so made of pure nails he can make even the most preposterous action scene feel thrilling. The Equalizer review – Denzel Washington: ordinary guy, cool killer 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z It fumbles the issue it purports to address, and it eventually runs aground in a preposterous ending. Movie Listings for Dec. 2-8 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Relatively seamless computer effects render even the most preposterous ideas as relatively realistic while also blurring the line between what might be real and the imagination of the filmmakers. SXSW: Surprise 'Furious 7' screening met with tears by Paul Walker fans 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z But this inane, preposterous and stupefying film lacks the courage to milk the concept for the extreme satire that might have made it watchable. ‘A Long Way Down,’ a Suicide Pact Comedy 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The notion is almost as preposterous as that of an Italianate Chicago Symphony. Music Review: Bringing His Baton and Bold Hopes to Philadelphia 2011-01-07T23:49:54Z Do not suppose that this is reflexive literary snobbery or a preposterous apple-and-orange comparison. Movie Review: ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ Directed by Joss Whedon 2013-06-06T14:57:14Z In an age overrun by hyperbole, it seems preposterous to call pictures of flowers sublime. Take a walk through the imaginary garden of Anna Zemánková 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z After all, this was an epic, epoch-defining debacle that deserves more scrutiny than, say, the Fyre Festival, a preposterous fiasco from 2017 that crashed before actually happening yet has already prompted two films about it. ‘Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage’ Review: How a Festival Went Wrong 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Partly because “Miss Sloane” is more a character study than a coherent political drama, it fumbles the issue it purports to address, and it eventually runs aground in a preposterous ending. Review: A Chilly ‘Miss Sloane’ Makes a Lecture out of Lobbying 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Embracing the Piano and the Material In the quest to describe the music of Fred Hersch in a word — a preposterous task, but not a pointless one — you could do a lot worse than “refinement.” Music Review: Fred Hersch Trio, Live and Recorded, at the Village Vanguard 2012-02-08T22:51:48Z And behind its macho preening is a preposterous, routinely executed story about the theft of bricks from the Kalgoorlie-Boulder goldfields in Western Australia. ‘Son of a Gun,’ a Ewan McGregor Action-Adventure 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Some thought the notion of educational equality preposterous; some seem to think so still, in what George W. Bush identified as “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” ‘The Teacher Wars,’ Dana Goldstein’s History of Education 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z This season in particular, “American Horror Story” is a glorious mess, a preposterous, celebratory splatter of midcentury design, eclectic pop music and slasher-film violence. It’s Jessica Lange’s Show on ‘American Horror Story’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z "It's more difficult if you're from a more working-class background to have the time, the liberty, to attempt something as preposterous as writing a novel." Mick Jackson: 'Taking pity on the reader' 2010-04-08T09:41:00Z What Rosenthal's delightful play really proves, however, is that musicals operate in a special way: in conjuring up a world of fantasy, they leave their creators trapped in their own private bubble of preposterous self-delusion. Smash! ? review 2011-04-01T20:30:00Z One set piece involving an emergency escape pod is so preposterous that even Bill Clinton spoke out to deny its feasibility. Clip joint: plane disasters 2013-01-31T12:58:00Z This preposterous new series on TruTV, which begins Thursday night, also looks at the television news business but it’s a reality show, as droll and frivolous as “The Newsroom” was serious. ‘Breaking Greenville,’ About Rival News Stations 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Measured against these possibilities, however remote, the idea of air travel felt preposterous. My fear of flying 2012-12-16T17:00:00Z There is no introduction to the lost world these monsters stalked, what Mongolia was like 70 million years ago, or how a creature as preposterous as T. bataar ever came to exist on our planet. The Bizarre Tale of the ‘Dinosaur Artist’ Who Trafficked in Stolen Fossils 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z In the preposterous solution Travis dreams up, the whole school will have to fail the test, along with Henry. Movie Review: John Stalberg Jr.’s ‘High School,’ With Adrien Brody 2012-05-31T22:21:00Z Jo’s editors are happy to have sensational tales about women that end in either marriage or death, but her impulse to make literature out of “domestic struggle” seems either radical or preposterous. Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Her referring to the war as a “preposterous masculine fiction” was a tactic to elevate and distinguish feminine reason. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Cinematic police officers, outlaws and international men of mystery are usually the ones allowed to get away with this kind of dizzyingly preposterous swagger. | 'The Wood' : ?The Wood,? at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater - Review 2011-09-18T22:19:01Z It really is bizarre: a farcical thrill-less thriller that is inert, melodramatic and preposterous. Requiem for a Killer – review 2012-06-14T21:10:01Z Having expended all that stamina, the film collapses from exhaustion and settles for an abrupt, feel-good ending that is as perfunctory as it is preposterous. Movie Review: ‘Why Stop Now?’ With Melissa Leo and Jesse Eisenberg 2012-08-17T15:07:21Z The preposterous accent — Mr. Gill sounds as if he were clearing his throat every other syllable — and the booming basso voice combine to delightful effect. | 'The Guardsman': In the Berkshires, Revisiting Molnar?s ?Guardsman? 2010-07-19T21:49:00Z The Anacostia River flows on, and the people name “the unnameable, the preposterous, and the miraculous in the kingdoms of the land.” Review | Morowa Yejidé’s capacious imagination is on full display in ‘Creatures of Passage’ 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Frankly, it's preposterous that he's still in uniform at his age. Your next box set: Dixon of Dock Green 2012-07-19T19:00:01Z Everyone comes off as ridiculous; the architect drops his pants, while his accuser confesses to a preposterous conspiracy. | 'The Bilbao Effect' and 'The Glass House': Skewering ?Starchitects? at Clurman and Center for Architecture 2010-06-02T21:58:00Z For most of us, this is a preposterous notion, but that sort of missionary work defines the experience of many young members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, better known as Mormons. ‘Elders’: Mormon odd couple wrestles with faith and doubt 2013-05-23T20:27:47Z The explanation for the planet's origins is so preposterous that veteran science-fiction writers everywhere must be rolling their eyes. 'Melancholia': Dunst goes doomsday-mad 2011-11-17T23:00:14Z I realize these are slightly preposterous words to use, but I find Marvel characters somehow more believable. David Tennant Craves Old English Dinners and Cigarettes After Sex 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z None of this is ever less than preposterous. ‘Deep Water’ Review: Love and Loathing in New Orleans 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The bookies' offered almost preposterous odds of 1/50. Baftas: stars dress for show not snow as awards hail director Ben Affleck 2013-02-10T21:57:39Z A preposterous number of the show’s characters, male and female, are played by the series’s two creators, David Walliams and Matt Lucas. The Week Ahead: June 26 ? July 2 2011-06-24T14:32:49Z Ridley and Driver are downright valiant in their pursuit of tragic dignity in increasingly preposterous circumstances. ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Review: Revolution No. 9 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Ideally, of course, we would watch all four, as well as the first “Borat” movie, which today looks more prescient than preposterous. Perspective | Movies are rushing to impact the election. Don’t ask whether they’ll work. Ask whether they’ll last. 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Crawford and Blaze are more bearable than Mr. Rivera, though the deals they strike with the people who hire them to open stuff seem preposterous. Critic’s Notebook: More Lockers to Open in ‘Safecrackers’ and ‘Treasure King’ 2014-03-19T20:41:18Z I never had the chutzpah to ask strangers about the meaning of theater subscriptions, but when I sold them by phone, I made jokes, asked lots of questions and spouted preposterous theories. Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z I wasn't interested in making a movie that was making an apology, or pro-police, or "adopt a policeman" kind of movie, that would be preposterous and ridiculous. "A Cop Movie" director: "Being a cop involves performance. You put on a costume and play a part" 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Would their purchase be justified at that point, or is it immoral and preposterous under all conditions? What in the World Is a $590 Scratch-and-Sniff T-shirt Doing in 2020? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Directing a succession of thrillers, Mr. Hanson emerged as a filmmaker who could elevate preposterous material with his increasingly assured and deft touch. Curtis Hanson, director of crime drama ‘L.A. Confidential,’ dies at 71 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Eight years after its last season, “Prison Break” is back — and as preposterous as ever. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Prison Break’ and ‘Louis C.K.: 2017’ 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Anyway, it all comes to a soggy, preposterous conclusion at Niagara Falls. Review: A Shark Storm in the Desert. And That’s Just for Starters. 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Hunter and the Iranian president have a disconcerting way of saying preposterous things in a calm, complacent tone; both are serenely impervious to contradiction or sarcasm. TV Watch: One Woman?s ?Truth?: Rielle Hunter Talks to Oprah 2010-04-29T22:45:00Z I don’t really believe that anyone can see the future, but I also don’t find the idea any more preposterous than that of God, insofar as that both defy reason and any tangible evidence. 'I thought psychics were full of shit': how a sceptic turned to clairvoyance 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Carter goads Mitchell into a furious counterattack that leads to a potentially lethal — and preposterous — fight, from which both emerge seriously weakened. Movie Review: In ‘Scenic Route,’ Josh Duhamel and Dan Fogler Are Stranded 2013-08-22T21:22:45Z And here, there's this preposterous situation that you have with the siblings in their 40s – as Max and Jake would be – where there's an age difference of a couple of years. PBS' "Guilt" examines what happens to estranged brothers after they finally bond over killing someon 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z It was the preposterous Courtenay whose task it was to present the case against hip-hop. Hip-hop on trial, but is the accusation false? 2012-06-27T15:02:00Z Like most of this album, it's absolutely preposterous. Foxy Shazam: Foxy Shazam 2010-10-14T22:00:00Z The preposterous plot of “Lucrezia Borgia” relies on ancient stigmas and honor codes as well as a cultish veneration of the mother, which makes it an awkward fit for contemporary stagings like this one. Review: LoftOpera’s ‘Lucrezia Borgia,’ With Flying Bottles of Beer and Poison 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z In the film’s press notes Mr. Tully — who describes his story, accurately, as “preposterous” — explains that one of his intentions was to fuse multiple styles, including horror and 1980s television drama, into a single project. | ?Septien?: A Rural Homecoming Stirs Trouble 2011-07-05T21:10:09Z Fortunately, these two have a comfortable, playful rapport that makes their preposterous circumstances almost feel natural. Netflix Holiday Movies Ranked, From Tree Toppers to Lumps of Coal 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z “Destroyer” was among the most unexpected, just because the premise — Ms. Kidman plays Erin Bell, a dissolute, alcoholic Los Angeles detective with a sordidly violent past — sounded preposterous, even faintly risible. At Toronto, Women Who Are Shockingly, Thrillingly Human 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z His portrayal of the preposterous yet admirable courtly knight was superbly thought through, vividly capturing his grandeur and despair. Don Quichotte – review 2012-11-26T15:36:33Z He's also obsessed with astrology, space and UFOs, but what comes across most in his music as Big Black Delta is his unashamed love of electronic rock at its most pompous and preposterous. New band of the day – Big Black Delta (No 1,332) 2012-08-16T15:21:42Z He’s in high demand as a lecturer, being offered what he deems “a preposterous amount of money.” ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ made J.D. Vance the voice of the Rust Belt. But does he want that job? 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z In 1990 I illustrated the second issue of my magazine, The Baffler, with preposterous home designs clipped from a local realtor’s catalog. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z We will complain, however, about the voice-over narration at the beginning, accompanied by self-pitying acoustic guitar, and also about a story that slides too easily from the predictable to the preposterous. | 'The Art of Getting By': Allergic to Homework and Possibly Smitten 2011-06-16T23:10:19Z At a rally Thursday, Trump again denied the women’s claims, which he said were “preposterous, ludicrous and defy logic.” A Trump libel suit against the Times? Don’t count on it succeeding. 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z How preposterous, I thought, that those who are so deeply invested in the quality and origin of their ingredients would be baking cake from a box. Be better than Betty Crocker. Here's how to make your own baking mixes like a pro. 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z The idea of packaging those seemingly mismatched bands sounded preposterous from the vantage point of a homogenized music industry. Lollapalooza at 20: Highlights, lowlights, revolution and evolution 2011-07-29T05:34:00Z There’s just no need to carefully walk an audience through the preposterous pseudoscience whereby the heroes are supposed to have turned into rocks or flame or whatever. Pulling punches: why origin stories keep superhero films from soaring 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z As the years pile up the withholding of vital information about family, children, background and work seems increasingly preposterous. Movie Review: ‘28 Hotel Rooms,’ by Matt Ross, With Marin Ireland 2012-11-16T01:40:55Z The spirit of Wile E. Coyote hovers over the action, which splits the difference between preposterous and sublime. ‘F9’ Review: Objects in Rearview Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Yet it was this focus on introducing new cultures and technologies that led to the awful prequel trilogy and its preposterous midichlorians – tiny beings that live symbiotically inside humans who are strong with the Force. Will Kevin Feige's Star Wars film spell the end for the George Lucas era? 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The fact they get engaged so quickly did strike me as pretty preposterous, but I loved the way the programme showed them using Facebook. Last Tango in Halifax: an Age UK executive's view 2012-11-28T18:57:11Z Just hearing that stated out loud seems utterly preposterous: No horse has won the Triple Crown since Affirmed back in 1978. Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank And His Underdog Horse Farm 2012-09-07T13:00:00Z Mad Men is "static and airless", "rusty and unsubtle", "melodramatic rather than dramatic", its plotting "haphazard and often preposterous". Waiting for the Barbarians by Daniel Mendelsohn – review 2013-01-06T00:08:39Z “Once you meet T, you realise how preposterous that is,” she says. Life in our transgender family 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z The idea that taking a class on how finance works at the age of 17 can save someone from a predatory 100-page small-print mortgage when they are 40 is just preposterous. The personal finance industry can’t save us 2013-03-06T20:53:00Z “Blindspot” was one of NBC’s success stories in the first half of the TV season, and on Monday night it came back after its winter hiatus as fast-paced and preposterous and addictive as ever. ‘Blindspot’ Season 1, Episode 11: Can You Land This Plane? 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Ambitious setups like this don’t always hold up, but “Revolution” has the potential to be a more disciplined “Lost” — not necessarily more plausible but with any luck less preposterous and pretentious. Television Review: ‘Revolution,’ From J. J. Abrams and Eric Kripke, on NBC 2012-09-16T22:07:53Z Sessions seemed unaware of that book, and appeared to agree that Cotton’s proposition sounded too preposterous for even fiction. Spy novels get shout-out during Jeff Sessions' testimony on the Russia probe 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z There’s a preposterous choice involved here that may look like self-sabotage at the outset. I Love Dick on television marks the rise of the female loser 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z It was literally the most preposterous phone call in the history of time. Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z An unashamed and genially preposterous fairy tale, a kind of "Cinderella" with restraints, "50 Shades" is about as believable as "Jack and the Beanstalk," albeit considerably more kinky in intent. Film review: 'Fifty Shades' brings little pleasure 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Dmytryk seems to have adopted a Zen-like detachment to get through this one, staging the most preposterous scenes with a glacial sobriety that somehow only makes them appear more ridiculous. DVDs: Class Alliances and Ambition in Thatcher Time 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Last year Mr. Leader reassembled the key surviving members of his old cast — Mr. Bates died in 2003 — and remade the film, an almost preposterous undertaking. ‘Sins of a Father’ Resuscitates a 1991 Film Starring Alan Bates 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing were dubbed Shakers by disdainful contemporaries because of their ecstatic, shuddering worship dances — "a preposterous sort of trot," snorted Charles Dickens. A clear channel to the Shaker past: Woosters' 'Early Shaker Spirituals' 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z But he is hampered by a preposterous long-haired wig that looks to be made of the synthetic stuff usually used for the manes of plastic ponies. | 'Dracula': Bloody Bloody Revival Revival 2011-01-06T03:01:21Z It is enjoyably preposterous, occasionally touching and generally likable. | 'Captain America': Hey, Brooklyn, Where Did You Get Those Muscles? 2011-07-21T12:00:01Z The need for such a program might seem preposterous in this day of million-dollar contracts, but such contracts weren’t always the case. In Comic Book Industry, Needy Have Heroes of Their Own 2012-11-09T03:40:12Z Marvellous, unlikely – and you might well add preposterous and charming to the list for this family show created by one of theatre's most cherishable young companies, Little Bulb. The Marvellous and Unlikely Fete of Little Upper Downing ? review 2011-02-28T22:45:00Z Dynamic conductors fail to get everyone's pulse going He says it is "a preposterous idea that young people should somehow be denied any particular kind of music". Doomed? 2011-05-12T12:33:19Z But it is a slight against whoever’s in charge of The Snowman’s marketing campaign, because it is absolutely preposterous. The Snowman, Yogi Bear and Hollywood's unintentionally funny movie posters 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Then, 15 years later, the preposterous porcelain party in Rylan Clark’s mouth came along and bit a massive chunk out of any remaining notion of natural gnashers on the telly. From guybrows to manbags: eight unlikely things that Friends popularised 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z However, while self-evidently preposterous, The Listener is beautifully shot, relatively plausibly acted and wryly written. Silk 2011-03-01T08:00:02Z For a moment, anyway, Sondheim as God didn’t seem preposterous. ‘Sondheim on Sondheim’: A Broadway baby in symphonic clothes 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z His jokes mosey to the punch line, earning laughs along the way by veering between a sleepy drawl and preposterous defiance. Critic?s Notebook: Hannibal Buress Approaches Comedy From the Side 2011-11-03T12:00:04Z I don't blame any actors in either show but the directors for some of the more preposterous plot twists and manufactured suspense in the past season of The Walking Dead. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 8: The Zombie Code 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z Try as they might, the fashion world just can’t seem to shake the preposterous pants. Bella Hadid, Irina Shayk rock thong jeans on virtual Mugler runway 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Would he write one that is at once as deeply felt and softly preposterous as Mr. Nakli’s? ‘Shesh Yak’ Stars Laith Nakli and Zarif Kabier 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z The proposal, advanced by Palo Alto’s vice mayor, travelled far and wide because the numbers seemed preposterous. Welcome to the Future: Middle-Class Housing Projects 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z I would have liked to see a fuller depiction of the family's relationships: the script was quite thin, and elements of the plot verged on the preposterous. A family therapist on Jeff, Who Lives at Home 2012-05-20T19:30:02Z This messy feast of a play blends genres, hints at enough political, religious and sexual themes to suggest all kinds of modernizing possibilities and incorporates some truly preposterous twists. Theater Review | 'The Duchess of Malfi': Sometimes Brothers Can Be Too Protective of a Sister 2010-03-08T22:18:00Z I wouldn’t dream of hinting at the diabolical twists that give the movie a badly needed shot of adrenaline in its final 20 minutes except to say that they are beyond preposterous. Movie Review: Stephen Dorff in ?Brake? 2012-03-20T22:15:31Z “The idea that they’d dress in designer clothes, or anybody’s clothes other than the ones they made, was absolutely preposterous. It was exactly what they wouldn’t do.” His Name Was Blame: A Legend of London Fashion Remembered 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z The play is absolutely fictional and admittedly "preposterous." Michael Urie superb in charming 'Buyer & Cellar' 2013-04-04T00:04:08Z Even her preposterous twists, like the sudden demise of an ancillary character I was sure planned to kill everyone, are well executed. ‘By the Time You Read This, I’ll Have Killed One of Your Husbands’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z The biggest problem is the use of a contrived plot — culminating in one of the most preposterous cross-examination scenes ever filmed — to get through what should be a simpler story of overdue reconciliation. 'Fury' treads on Peckinpah war picture territory 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z Yes, it seems preposterous on the face of it. Alex Gibney interview: journey into the seductive world of Scientology 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z From the outside, so many of its central tenets seem preposterous. Alex Gibney interview: journey into the seductive world of Scientology 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The serious moments tilt toward the preposterous, above all a climactic revelation that seems, on sober examination, to be more of a technical detail than a seismic explosion. Movie Review: ‘August: Osage County,’ With Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts 2013-12-26T15:07:50Z “The writing throughout ‘The Secret History’ is at once lush and precise, and it keeps the more preposterous aspects of the plot in check. 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z It seemed like such a crazy, preposterous, brazen, terrible gesture — but at the same time, astonishing, like New York. Classic Skyscrapers Define New York. Take a Virtual Tour. 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z The artificial “Hispanic” category is even more preposterous than the “non-Hispanic white” category, including blond, blue-eyed South Americans of German descent as well as Mexican-American mestizos and Puerto Ricans of predominantly African descent. Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t say the N-word 2012-06-05T15:45:00Z But once outside the theater, they may think again and realize that this kinder, gentler Messer is a preposterous invention. | 'Life as We Know It': Finding Love Over Dirty Diapers and Sippy Cups 2010-10-07T22:29:00Z What we said: Colossal, cataclysmic, delirious, preposterous – and always surreally entertaining in the now well-established Marvel movie tradition. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z This series is not particularly high-tech, and it doesn’t have a real-time ticking clock conceit, spectacular special effects or preposterous red herrings. Television Review: ?Homeland,? Starring Claire Danes, on Showtime ? Review 2011-09-29T16:32:19Z Phoenix brings a wild physical energy to his role – in truth, his character verges on the preposterous but Phoenix tackles it with such commitment that he just about keeps absurdity at bay. Dark Blood - first look review 2012-10-01T12:54:20Z But if ever a comic book flick found the perfect era within which to ground its preposterous conceits it was Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman. From Blade Runner 2049 to It: Week in geek's top science fiction and fantasy films of 2017 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z She brings a convincing realism to the most preposterous situations or maybe she’s just an actor with limited range. ‘M3gan’ Review: Wherever I Go, She Goes 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z The more preposterous the situation, the more impressive the feat of seeming to take it utterly seriously. Film: Midwinter Ritual: When Good Actor Meets Bad Movie 2011-02-19T03:43:01Z The plot, meanwhile, tilts from the random to the preposterous, and a final twist feels less like a payoff than like a cheat. Movie Review: ?Thin Ice,? With Greg Kinnear and Billy Crudup 2012-02-17T00:20:13Z Maybe because there’s no way to describe this droll fantasy that makes it sound anything other than preposterous. The Week Ahead: Dec. 18 ? 24 2011-12-16T18:54:22Z This feverish thriller about child kidnappings is one of those pop novels that keep you snickering over how preposterous it all is, and yet you can’t put the thing down. Review | Looking for a summer thriller? Here are 9 picks for your beach bag. 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Watching “Crazy Rich Asians” can be a pleasure akin to reading about preposterous spreads in a real-estate section, and salivating over recipes in a magazine. ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Review: Conspicuously Consuming Fun 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The most riotous aspect of the tweets was that most were preposterous and/or simply untrue. 'Black people activities' versus 'white people activities'? Give me a break 2013-03-10T15:40:37Z The violence is interrupted, or rather annotated, by much lush verse that sometimes strikes a preposterous note in the context of the vile deeds being committed. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z The ability to believe in the preposterous is, of course, at the very heart of “Don Quixote,” called the first modern novel with its commentaries on fiction, metafiction and reality. ‘Quichotte’ Is Salman Rushdie’s Latest. But the Act Is Getting Old. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The screenplay is so haphazardly constructed that when the movie seems to be ending, it refuels with preposterous new developments. ‘The Best of Me,’ an Adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks Novel 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z How naïve I was in 1960 to think that I was an American living in preposterous times! No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Bruce Willis is the police chief: lonely and depressed for reasons of his own, and Edward Norton is the scout troop leader, preposterous yet dignified in his absurd shorts and long socks. Moonrise Kingdom – review 2012-05-24T14:15:01Z It's a silly, far-fetched show, though not without a breezy charm provided by its central characters and enjoyably preposterous crimes. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z That the feeble machinations of this breathless action thriller are based in a semblance of spy-trade truth does help its hurtling narrative seem slightly less preposterous. 'Salt': Angelina Jolie is breathless in action-packed spy thriller 2010-07-22T17:22:00Z Funny though “Kin” often is — and audacious, too, in its inclusion of a potentially preposterous scene involving the aforementioned bear — the play is most memorable for such moments of tender emotional gravity. | 'Kin': No Connection Is Too Far, or Unlikely 2011-03-22T02:01:24Z For better or worse, this is the brand: a combination of inchoate fury and utter buffoonery, feeding on one another as they become more angry, and more preposterous, and finally, more dangerous. Perspective | Trumpist masculinity reaches its high water mark 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Now I have to go through the part of the trailer where all the tiresomely preposterous stuff happens. Grave Encounters 2: a sight for really sore eyes - trailer review 2012-10-10T16:29:45Z We sometimes joked they were us in 15 years, though back then the idea that we would still be drinking together 15 years later would’ve seemed preposterous to me. Perspective | For 20 years, happy hour has seen us through work — and life 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The crime thriller "Good People" goes from being simply pedestrian to outright preposterous without batting an eye. 'Good People' a preposterous crime thriller 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z He is still working for the frankly preposterous Millennium magazine – which is, as ever, operating casually out of what looks like a small loft apartment. Film review: The Girl Who Played With Fire 2010-08-26T21:20:00Z "It is simply preposterous to imagine that you can go to a party with the Widgett girls dressed as a Corsair." Digested classic: Ann Veronica by HG Wells 2010-03-26T14:06:00Z Much of her material angles away from her actor persona and her celebrity power, a decision that burdens the performance with a preposterous unreality. “Growing,” Reviewed: What Amy Schumer Won’t Expose 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z They were perfect foils for each other during the aptly titled “Xanmanny,” a song where their lethal boasting reached preposterous levels. Perspective | Teen rappers Xanman and YungManny master the art of getting ahead of yourself 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z In the process, it indulges in preposterous twists and leaden dialogue about nature, nurture and conscience. Review: In ‘What Keeps You Alive,’ a Couple, a Cabin and a Crisis 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z After the Greyhound left the Northeast, many people I met seemed to be telling me that Hillary was going down in flames, which, back then, I thought was preposterous. Gary Shteyngart on How Hedge Funders See the World 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Soon they are inseparable, but Do develops an envious obsession with Micky and her gilded life, and it leads to a tangled and preposterous . A Trap for Cinderella – review 2013-07-11T21:29:01Z The preposterous Gustave is energetic and exacting, taking a passionate pride in the high standards of his establishment and ruling the staff with a rod of iron. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Maybe it’s preposterous that she refuses, after all this time, to play by the rules of the game. ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win’ Catches Up With a Hard-Luck High Achiever 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z So the whole elephant thing is obviously just completely preposterous. Perspective | Gene Weingarten answers your religion questions. Heaven help us. 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z As a piece of theatre, it's perfect, brilliantly edited and satisfyingly complete, but it's predicated on a single ugly truth: the preposterous idea that a homely, middle-aged woman could possibly have talent. Susan Boyle: What happened to the dream? 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z I informed Tom that his supposition was preposterous. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Why would I question a last-minute invitation to a book festival? 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z And sex, including the industry’s often preposterous representations of women, is completely off the table. 'Video Games: The Movie,' Produced by Zach Braff 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Stories that are preposterous, inane, moving and downright dull. The Coming Storm – review 2012-06-22T16:19:25Z I'm sorry but the entire "hostage situation" seemed preposterous to me. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 5: Quinn Is Not Your Ideal Babysitter 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z The bigger quandary is how can a happy ending that is completely preposterous leave you feeling upbeat? Embracing the chill in Jimmy Buffett's 'Escape to Margaritaville' 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The last season was, if anything, more plausibly preposterous than the preceding few. The TV Watch: After 8 Seasons, Kiefer Sutherland Hangs Up His Lethal Toys 2010-05-25T02:26:00Z That's the preposterous premise for this new series, which follows six businesses that force their employees to turn up in the buff in the hope of raising profits. Luther 2010-05-18T05:45:00Z “The idea that you would come home without going swimming is just preposterous.” The Women Who Brave Winter Swimming at London’s Ladies’ Pond 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z As preposterous as the idea of homosexual panic may sound today, for much of the twentieth century it was treated as something like common sense. The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Gone were the flabby one-liners, the preposterous gadgets, the ubiquitous cocktails and the world-threatening schemes. My favourite Bond film: Casino Royale 2012-10-01T16:29:02Z On Monday evening at Alice Tully Hall the new-music ensemble Axiom gave a classy performance of “Grand Pianola Music” that celebrated it as the preposterous, delightful ride that it is. Music Review: Axiom, a Juilliard Ensemble, at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-13T21:26:23Z A thin line separates the magical from the preposterous, and by insisting so strenuously on its own magic, “Winter’s Tale” pitches helplessly into earnest ridiculousness. Movie Review: ‘Winter’s Tale’ Takes Beauty and Wonder to Its Limit 2014-02-13T23:57:22Z I was very pleased to see that Dan Brown's latest preposterous novel didn't make the list. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Eventually we started exploring the theme to more preposterous lengths. ArtsBeat Blog: The Theme Parties That Inspired an Orgy 2011-09-01T21:03:31Z And like many books or movies about the financial world by arty civilians, this rhetoric is strained and redundant and cliched, and Packer's supposed connoisseurship of the yuan and the baht just sounds preposterous. Cannes 2012: Cosmopolis – review 2012-05-25T11:16:33Z That is the kind of preposterous sentence that a critic sometimes finds herself writing from the Cannes Film Festival, where Mr. Pattison’s new movie, “Good Time,” is in competition. Robert Pattinson Knows What You Think, but He Can Work With That 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z It was late 1990s in the best way, a preposterous proportion that somehow, on the body, landed naturally. Why Is There No Great Multibrand Men’s Store in New York? 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z But it’s nearly as preposterous, not to mention insulting to men, to say that he’s manly. Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z The idea of doing a rock opera seemed preposterous, especially given the band's roots in hardcore punk and that scene's aversion to classic-rock pretension. Redeemed by a rock opera 2011-07-01T07:00:00Z The result is “by turns brutal and sentimental, lovely and lurid, as serious as the grave and blissfully preposterous,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Crip Camp’ and ‘Dark Phoenix’ 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z “Partly because ‘Miss Sloane’ is more a character study than a coherent political drama, it fumbles the issue it purports to address, and it eventually runs aground in a preposterous ending,” Mr. Holden wrote. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ and Charles Manson 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Pineapple Dance Studios is preposterous enough already – all botox, baby oil and bizarre fantasy sequences. TV voiceovers 2010-03-25T15:43:00Z Lovett’s characterization is wooden, his plot alternately predictable and faintly preposterous. Book review: ‘First Impressions,’ by Charlie Lovett And — what do you know! — the old man turns out to have been a Jewish superhero with a brain “whose flights of preposterous idealism were matched only by its reveries of unfettered violence.” Michael Chabon’s ‘Moonglow’ is a cunning dance with autobiography 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z I had a souvenir of the gracefully stylized and mildly preposterous gesture that is the basis of Salt Bae’s fame, the source of his nickname, and the point of his restaurant. A Sprinkle, a Snapshot, a Sensation: My Dinner With Salt Bae 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z These private detectives still have preposterous work clothes: picture a tall blonde hunting down sex-slave traffickers while wearing a white chiffon romper and stiletto heels. | Television: ?Pan Am,? ?Playboy Club? and ?Whitney? New on TV 2011-09-16T15:26:17Z The hideous walk in the jungle between Kenya and Somalia was preposterous. Danger in my belly: I know where Donald Trump’s tribal rhetoric can lead 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z So, instead, I will just start by throwing out some permissible insults: artificial, clichéd, mawkish, preposterous, incompetent, sexist, laughable, insulting. Review: Lots of Plastic in the Face of ‘Collateral Beauty’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z That may be why this year’s Goop list, and many of Oprah’s 2023 Favorites, feature relatively sensible preposterous items in the two- or three-figure range. From Goop to Oprah, this year's gift guides may signal the end of the world 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z Like a lot of music I loved, and still love from that era, it was kind of preposterous. Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ the Album Has Always Rocked 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z But then he suddenly cropped up directing Halle Berry in the preposterous Hollywood thriller Gothika. Mathieu Kassovitz: 'I'm not proud to be French any more' 2013-04-18T19:00:00Z So, as preposterous as it sounds, my favorite movies as a child were Jean Cocteau’s “Orpheus” and François Truffaut’s “Jules and Jim.” Better to Be Interesting Than Right 2011-03-24T20:14:19Z This seems preposterous, given that both jousters are on galloping horses and that, with this armor on, you can barely see. ?Full Metal Jousting? Gear. No, It?s Not Tinfoil. 2012-02-08T21:59:44Z Suddenly it's period melodrama – quite entertaining, utterly preposterous. TV review: River Cottage; The Making of a Lady; Him & Her 2012-12-16T21:45:01Z When I think, too, of what Shakespeare writes about, I become totally convinced by his Palestinian-ness, preposterous though this might seem at first glance. Why Shakespeare is … Palestinian 2012-06-11T14:10:02Z Its plot – never remotely as preposterous as the Queen show We Will Rock You – hangs around Johnny, Will and Tunny, three hapless teenage rebels desperate for a cause in post-9/11 small-town America. American Idiot – review 2012-10-11T11:47:04Z I am, in some ways, exactly the wrong person to take up these questions, since I go to the movies for the preposterous and sociologically unrepresentative reason that it’s my job. Film: In Line at the Movies, Hoping for Good Enough 2010-11-20T19:14:00Z The most preposterous of many preposterous things involving Lane may have been when a slew of letter writers in the early 1960s called for Superman to spank the pesky reporter. From “sob sister” to badass: Lois Lane’s long, amazing journey out of Superman’s shadow 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Also preposterous is that various authority figures seem unfazed that this clearly out-of-her-element girl is wandering the streets and turning up alone in a prison visiting room. Movie Review: ’33 Postcards,’ Directed by Pauline Chan 2013-05-16T23:37:35Z I thought “Prophecy” had reached its nadir during this patently preposterous scene. | 'Prophecy': The Legacy of Wars in Karen Malpede?s Play 2010-06-10T23:30:00Z Why did this idler, this third-rate artist, this undistinguished soldier, this preposterous ranter who offered religious hatred, dictatorship and war, appeal to so many? 'Hitler': the mystery of the F?hrer's appeal 2012-04-11T22:26:08Z In short, it’s a well-intended mess of a show with preposterous medical emergencies and a few flickers of ingenuity. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Bad Teacher’ and ‘Black Box’ Have Their Premieres 2014-04-23T21:19:29Z So this is a book about how fab, and also how preposterous, it was to be a hippie. To Live Outside the Law by Leaf Fielding ? review 2011-07-07T13:13:00Z “It’s completely preposterous and silly and at the same time — and this was very important, it’s what I was hoping for — it’s actually moving.” Not Even Plácido Domingo Can Say No to ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z “The Girl on the Train” is a preposterous movie but not an unenjoyable one. Review: In ‘The Girl on the Train,’ a Boozy Emily Blunt Never Winks 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z A beleaguered audience indulged in fantasies of vicarious wealth and in preposterous extravaganzas. Culture of Recession? Or Vice Versa? 2010-12-17T14:43:26Z Yeah, it paid off but, you know, on paper it just looks— like you said— preposterous. “If we came out now, we wouldn’t have a chance in hell”: Shirley Manson looks back at 20 years of Garbage 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The plot, which involves an all-the-way-to-the-top kidnapping conspiracy catering to the depravities of powerful men, is lurid and preposterous, an episode of “Law and Order SVU” amplified with self-conscious “Taxi Driver” overtones. Review: Joaquin Phoenix Is a Melancholy Avenger in ‘You Were Never Really Here’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z MTV rated the content of the program as appropriate for a child as young as 14, though most parents of teens that age would find such a content rating preposterous. Parents TV Council Criticizes Miley Cyrus for 'Offensive Content' at VMAs 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Prescott would have likely found their life following “The Graduate” to be “preposterous.” Charles Webb, author of ‘The Graduate,’ dies in England 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z On the page, that voice is at once imperiously self-aggrandizing and unconsciously preposterous, with di Benedetto’s ironic detachment reverberating in each of Zama’s utterances. Review: In ‘Zama,’ Trying to Say Goodbye (Cruel) New World 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z An exhibit titled “The Bureau of Arts & Culture” presents 21 ideas — some preposterous, some easily doable — to make Seattle a better city. Artists re-imagine Seattle with ‘what if?’ exhibit of the doable and the wild 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Especially in family situations, a strong belief in something that another person finds preposterous can lead to frustration, anger, and possibly even to deep-seated animosity or disgust. How to pull a friend out of the conspiracy theory rabbit hole 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z His cultural initiatives seem conceived precisely to generate preposterous statistics. Art Review: A Man of Contradictions, With a Collection to Match 2011-02-03T23:00:07Z Streisand called the charge "preposterous" and says Katherine was "very hurt" by the statements. Family Attorney: Jackson children just normal kids 2010-06-21T08:31:00Z "He is famous for the position he set out 10 years ago in Straw Dogs, that human improvement is a preposterous chimera," wrote the Sunday Times's Sam Leith. Book reviews roundup: The Silence of Animals, Instructions for a Heatwave and Calcutta: Two years in the City 2013-03-01T16:01:01Z And so “The Campaign” wobbles between the vaguely topical and the completely preposterous. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘The Campaign,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis 2012-08-10T03:56:14Z She runs from London to New York and, ultimately, into the land of the preposterous. Review: In ‘Survivor,’ a Thriller About Terrorism, Milla Jovovich Is on the Run 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z He recalls taking stock of himself at 30, and finding himself "full of nonsense, preposterous in many ways". Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z It's a magnificently preposterous spectacle, although playing 2001's Origin Of Symmetry album in its entirety seems a curious choice for a festival set. Elbow and Muse weather the storm at Leeds festival 2011 2011-08-27T11:50:15Z Their — literally — overnight romance is preposterous and embarrassing, as is so much else in this creaky, contrived tale. 'A Night in Old Mexico' a waste for Robert Duvall 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z He’s delivered what Vladimir Nabokov said a biographer should: “plain facts, no symbol-searching, no jumping at attractive but preposterous conclusions, no Marxist bunkum, no Freudian rot.” Review: Harry Crews’s Sense of Menace in Writing and in Life 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z "There was some work inside – a bite, a knee to the groin", we are told, and it all seems joyfully preposterous. The Trade Secret by Robert Newman – review 2013-06-07T17:35:01Z Near the end of the book, the possibility of a terrible plot twist arises — the kind that rests on a preposterous coincidence. In Nell Zink’s ‘Avalon,’ a Young Woman Is Too Busy for Revenge 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z They're teetering on the preposterous, but are irresistible all the same. Cinderella 2010-04-12T21:00:00Z The shirt’s retail price of twelve hundred dollars is, even by the preposterous standards of the luxury market, bananas. The Prada Flame Shirt Is Performance Art 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z The notion that his curtain call might take place aboard the Starship Enterprise has struck many a fan as preposterous, leading them to speculate that Tarantino wouldn’t count it towards his self-imposed 10-film limit. Quentin unchained: what will Tarantino's 10th and final film be? 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Winnie's predicament may be preposterous, but there's nothing contrived about Adams' flesh and blood portrayal. Beckett classic 'Happy Days' on superb ground at Boston Court 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z “I want a Black woman for president,” she writes, and if you say that's preposterous, you evidently did not see that the preposterous just happened. Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Democrats' failure and our future 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Written from the hero’s rather than the heroine’s point of view, this 700-plus-page tome is a bad romance novel, driven by a preposterous, melodramatic plot and filled with some truly cringe-making prose. Books of The Times: Mark Helprin’s ‘In Sunlight and in Shadow’ 2012-10-05T05:17:21Z The story itself is so outrageous and so preposterous. Getting Pumped: Tony Shalhoub Talks New Movie Pain & Gain 2013-04-26T09:45:36Z April Fools’ Day may have been two weeks ago, but there’s no need to dip into the realms of fantasy tomfoolery to find Hollywood mashup movie ideas just as preposterous as Batman v Bananaman. Hollywood blockbuster mashups better than Men in Black v 21 Jump Street 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Not long ago, the idea of three contemporary operas in a Met season would have been preposterous. At the Met This Season, Opera Was Icing on the Cake 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Their motto, usually attributed to the writer Ronald Tavel, declared, “We have passed beyond the Absurd: Our position is absolutely preposterous.” John Vaccaro, Iconoclastic Director, Dies at 86 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The two main parts are also played with the right preposterous venom. The Dance of Death 2012-12-18T12:35:01Z Suspense, done well, captures the attention so there’s no time to notice plot holes or preposterous coincidences. ‘Fear’ Review: 3 Men in a Shed, 1 Missing Girl on Their Minds 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Opera is an art form awash with preposterous endings. Review: A Cast Change Adds Suspense to the Met Opera’s ‘Pearl Fishers’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Writing in The Guardian, critic Xan Brooks says of it that it "bludgeons the body and tenderises the soul - it is perplexing, preposterous and utterly fascinating." LaBeouf walks out of news conference 2014-02-09T18:40:24Z As her cockamamie tale comes out, you might have an even harder time accepting that an important literary editor would have any tolerance for such preposterous fiction. 'Bright Star' at the Ahmanson: Bluegrass, tears and a big, vacuous smile 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z And it already sounded pretty preposterous in May when it was first released ... This week's new singles 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z Mr. De Palma, retaining the basic structure of his source, sets out in search of the surreal and the preposterous, which he has never had much trouble finding. Movie Review: Brian De Palma’s ‘Passion’ Stars Rachel McAdams 2013-08-29T22:04:14Z The special effects are garish and the idea is preposterous. Why The Shallows is better than The Birds 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Silly to begin with, these dishes became preposterous if you tried to carve them into four equal portions. Small Plates Grow Up 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z To Mr. Gordon, the idea seemed preposterous: he had never considered acting and had barely been to the theater. Carl Gordon, a Late-Blooming Actor, Dies at 78 2010-07-23T04:30:00Z “The World’s End” completes a cycle begun with “Shaun of the Dead” and continued in “Hot Fuzz” that blends genre parody, snappy verbal humor and sublimely preposterous action-movie mayhem. Movie Review: ‘World’s End’ Continues ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz’ 2013-08-22T21:06:38Z It’s worth enduring the Orientalist nightclub atmosphere and mildly preposterous prices for high-style Cantonese cuisine that is often superb, particularly the dumplings and other dim sum dishes. The Broadway Shows to See Now 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z It’s preposterous, not to mention insulting to women, to say that Trump is womanly. Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z For that matter, Mr. Wolfe doesn’t really seem to care if his story becomes increasingly preposterous: his aim is to serve as an entertaining tour guide to the theme park-reality show that he calls Miami. Books Of the Times: ‘Back to Blood’ by Tom Wolfe 2012-10-18T12:00:00Z Many years ago, when I ran The Washington Post’s Sunday Style section, a copy editor came to me with an idea for a preposterous, obnoxious, nakedly seditious story. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I declare these jokes groundbreaking 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Though his blog is enormously popular, some people find Mr. Schuman’s photographs of painfully chic posers a bit precious, and, well, preposterous. Front Row: The Sartorialist Blog Is a Victim of Knockoffs 2010-03-31T19:46:00Z “The portions you cite from the book are preposterous lies,” she said, adding that “the allegation about Mr. Miscavige is false and defamatory.” Scientology Fascinates the Author Lawrence Wright 2013-01-02T22:27:36Z And when duty calls and the job requires it, he can swiftly unleash preposterous amounts of deadly violence. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Tarantino's last word? Discuss with spoilers 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The climactic sequence of his “Fast Five” involved a preposterous scene in which racecars towed a giant bank vault through the streets at high speed. Movie Review: ‘Fast & Furious 6,’ With Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson 2013-05-23T23:07:53Z Tarantino wants 'to create a preposterous entertainment and at the same time to have it taken seriously as a rewarding study of American slavery', writes a sceptical Ian Jack. All that bloody mayhem and we're still supposed to take Django Unchained seriously? 2013-01-25T17:00:01Z What's telling is how many plot scenarios that may have seemed preposterous in past eras have effectively come true. Forget civility: On “The Good Fight,” “Luke Cage” and “Dietland,” resistance means go... 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z “Breaking Bad” is preposterous and utterly believable; “Ray Donovan” is more believable and quite preposterous. Television Review: ‘Ray Donovan,’ on Showtime, Stars Liev Schreiber as a Fixer 2013-06-27T21:32:46Z It was certainly one of their most preposterous. John Forsythe, ?Dynasty? Actor, Is Dead at 92 2010-04-02T20:24:00Z “The pat and occasionally preposterous story is really just a pretext, a serviceable scaffolding for a handful of expert, satisfying performances,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in September. DVD: New DVDs, Mary Pickford on Blu-ray, Early Perry Mason 2012-11-18T01:53:01Z Sometimes the more unlikely and preposterous the proposal is, the more interesting it becomes. ‘Cultural Corridor’ Proposed for Northern Berkshires 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z That's not to say Bowie doesn't take himself very seriously: he is controlling and a bit preposterous too. David Bowie - Five Years; Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette – TV review 2013-05-27T06:00:13Z His candid observations range from the insightful to the preposterous; sometimes both. Flawed detective takes on cult's 'Great Leader' 2011-11-09T23:04:04Z At the heart of this big, big secret lay further secrets, some so huge they bordered on the preposterous. How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory 2011-01-07T07:59:02Z Oh, Christ no, does that mean we're going to get another series of this preposterous tosh? TV review: The Bill, The Deep and Natureshock: Killer Squid Invasion 2010-09-01T06:00:00Z Which explains how she took a preposterous character like Wickie and gave her a real, recognizable emotional life. A ‘Hamilton’ Star Discovers Lunatic Comedy With ‘Girls5eva’ 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Lurking under the preposterous mirth are sinister revelations and a fair amount of hostility. Angela Lansbury keeps spirits high in 'Blithe Spirit' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z He’s such a preposterous person, but yet they found a way to ground him. Ennis Esmer of ‘Red Oaks’ Talks Tennis and Comedy 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The idea of actually downloading and playing the copycat app, “The Q,” is preposterous, even though its relatively minuscule traffic increases players’ chances of winning bigger sums. How HQ Trivia Became the Best Worst Thing on the Internet 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z With the same hour the action skips from the preposterous glee of one scene into another where someone, Catherine included, endures horrific abuse. "The Great" is the cheeky post-enlightment balm we've been waiting for 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z This preposterous, unengaging and extremely dull novel comes with an author's note explaining why it failed to find a publisher after its completion in 1998. The New Republic by Lionel Shriver - review 2012-06-08T21:55:11Z Each episode follows its narrative arcs to often preposterous ends. John Wilson Reveals the Absurd Poetry of New York 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z People focus on the silly anti-science hypotheses of the Creation Museum, and those are certainly preposterous, but there’s also beauty in the beliefs. My return to the Creation Museum 2012-07-31T00:00:00Z "Amateurs" jumps back and forth in time, with the main narrative focusing on Archer's upcoming wedding to a "likably preposterous woman" named Gemma in Winnipeg, Canada. Growing up is hard to do in 'Amateurs' 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Part microwave and part dishwasher, this ingenious invention is sci-fi sculpture at its best: 99% preposterous but too chilling in its realism to dismiss. L.A. artist Carl Cheng's darkly amusing supply kits for the apocalypse 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z It is a tense situation that results in a preposterous wrestling match between our two hombres – broken up by their grizzled, greying commander. Code Name: Geronimo – The Hunt for Osama bin Laden – review 2012-12-13T21:30:01Z “I could almost throw you out of the back of this car for asking such a preposterous question,” he says. Jonathan Van Ness on being HIV positive: 'It gave me a reason to really fight' 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z It’s histrionic and preposterous without being entertaining, and those qualities infect all the performances. Television Review: ‘Those Who Kill’ Joins ‘Bates Hotel’ on Monday Nights 2014-03-02T23:20:45Z But as he touches up the polish on “Re-Do,” he never loses the sense of preposterous honesty. The Playlist: Lost (and Found) John Coltrane, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z There was nothing “preposterous” about the impeachment crisis. Letters to the Editor 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z The story quickly became preposterous, and the ending, for a murder mystery, was curiously flat and inconsequential. TV review: Zen: Vendetta 2011-01-03T07:59:00Z Relentless and thoroughly preposterous, Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy’s script hews to its own batty logic, its frantic pacing peppered with morbid humor. ‘Ready or Not’ Review: The Run-and-Slay Bride 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z RV Lie To Me10pm, Sky1 Two episodes into its third season, Lie To Me is becoming no less preposterous, but in the way of high octane, high budget American television dramas, no less compelling. Tonight's TV highlights: Republic Of Doyle 2010-10-26T23:05:00Z In this preposterous future, the inhabitants of Arc One hook themselves into small devices called “infopaks,” through which they’re connected to a giant central computer that has replaced traditional human knowledge. An Accidental Activist 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z So that was preposterous just to start with. Jimmy Kimmel addresses late night in the era of Trump: “Some nights the news is too grim to ign... 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z With a preposterous comic premise of a law firm that “litigates the liturgy,” and a show stuffed with songs, groansome puns, outrageous mugging and quick-change pratfalling, “Wisemen” is an onslaught of silly business. 2 holiday shows that revel in silly business| Theater reviews 2012-12-20T22:01:24Z The preposterous narrative might not have seemed quite as egregious had director Jean-Baptiste Léonetti wrung more tension from the loaded scenario or simply moved the mayhem along at a brisker clip. 'Beyond the Reach' plot stretches beyond the pale 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Still, say hello to the campaign trail’s most preposterous new sublebrity, as the Trump machine decides to play its butler. What Donald Trump’s butler saw: behind the scenes of a real-life Xanadu 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z In this preposterous ensemble piece, residents of the greater Los Angeles area become better people through the extended influence of a motivational book. ‘Reach Me,’ Starring Sylvester Stallone and Thomas Jane 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z But I’ve always thought that the myth of the “helpless addict” who couldn’t control his own actions was preposterous. My first time scoring heroin 2013-01-01T01:00:00Z Hardly presidential either, GOP sore losers concoct this flat-footed overreaction: the preposterous NeverTrump fantasy, plus bizarre chatter pushing third party sabotage by a “real conservative.” What “unity” with Trump means: For Republicans, winning is everything, principles are swept away and hypocrisy reigns 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The Guardian's Bradshaw declared it "a tangled and conceited mess" and said, "line by line, scene by scene, it is offensively preposterous and crass." Cannes 2014 reviews: 'Foxcatcher' applauded, 'The Captive' panned 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z A bit too obviously naughty, are they, like Sabbath's just a little too preposterous occupation as obscene finger puppeteer? Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z For one thing, the Zoe-Sam connection is preposterous on any level. | 'Ceremony': Here Comes the Bride, a Wedding Crasher in Pursuit 2011-04-07T20:48:34Z It is, she added, “by turns brutal and sentimental, lovely and lurid, as serious as the grave and blissfully preposterous.” What’s on TV Thursday 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z “It’s a preposterous hook, of course, but Ms. Barthes introduces her absurd premise with deadpan restraint,” Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in August. DVDs: Another Trippy Rabbit Hole 2010-02-27T03:01:00Z The crazed ingenuity of it is at once impressive and preposterous. My book cull 2010-11-24T09:29:00Z Almost as preposterous as the plot, which turns on a fact about Eva that is incredible and demands lengthy explanation if we're to suspend our disbelief. Thrillers: review roundup 2012-06-08T21:55:07Z The title is preposterous, a huckster gimmick; it may also be a dig at those who, I think wrongly, label him a misogynist because of the abuse he rains down on his female characters. Movie Review: Pain Abounds in Lars von Trier’s ‘Nymphomanic’ (Surprised?) 2014-03-20T22:09:41Z Most of the rest have a flat charm rooted in understanding that all of this is a bit preposterous, but Mr. Yammouni came off like an excited puppy, not too cool for the room. The Janoskians Bring Their Brand to Irving Plaza 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z With no artifice at my disposal, basic grooming suddenly takes on a preposterous weight. Barefaced trick: lose the lipstick, grab the spotlight 2012-07-13T22:01:21Z It seems preposterous that the United States government or its agents would throw this teenage girl into a cage on an Air Force base. Books of The Times: In ?Lucy? by Laurence Gonzales, a New Species 2010-07-05T21:57:00Z The setup of this debut novel that takes place in London is a little preposterous. Alissa Nutting’s ‘Tampa,’ and More 2013-07-24T19:27:43Z In fact, Parasite pretty much doubles as a blueprint of everything you shouldn’t do if, like us, you enjoy a life of preposterous material privilege. Trust your nose: what rich people can learn from Parasite 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “It may seem preposterous, but I hope young musicians will see the film and say, ‘Let’s be different. The Internet Swallowed INXS. Can a Movie Rescue Its Legacy? 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Many Poles who were prominent in resisting the Nazis were accused of preposterous crimes; the independent-minded were shot or hanged. 'Ida,' by Pawel Pawlikowski: A Film Masterpiece 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The delicate pitch of this scene, the highlight of the trilogy, is light-years away from the preposterous dystopia of “Nursing,” directed by Trip Cullman and set midway through the current century. | 'The Hallway Trilogy': Love Thy Neighbor? Yeah, Right 2011-02-25T03:00:00Z This may sound like a preposterous question, but given that this is “Homeland,” is he definitely dead? ArtsBeat: Damian Lewis on the Season Finale of ‘Homeland’ 2013-12-16T17:50:30Z In the pecking order of Hollywood, journalists fall somewhere between grips and the guy who drives the craft service catering truck, so I knew the idea of my wooing a star was preposterous. Modern Love: How Hollywood Ruined Me for Romance 2014-01-23T19:38:45Z In this regard, his inclusion in this film isn’t actually very preposterous at all. The Gentlemen trailer – how ridiculous can Guy Ritchie's new movie get? 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z No sensible person, with the possible exception of EL James, would ever create a character this preposterous on purpose, surely. Is Renee Zellweger's Netflix thriller the best trash TV show of 2019? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Isadora Duncan wrote in her autobiography: “I am an enemy to the ballet, which I consider a false and preposterous art, in fact, outside the pale of all art.” Review: An Incandescent Journey Through 20th-Century Dance 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z It was always a preposterous show – but at the beginning, gloriously so. TV OD with Lucy Mangan: Desperate Housewives 2012-06-01T23:05:34Z Eco's sixth novel is a must for devotees of historical , unreliable narrators and preposterous plots. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2012-05-25T21:55:02Z Haim-Aharon’s predicament threatens to become preposterous rather than haunting, but there is no denying the film’s uncanny power or its visual discipline. Review: In ‘Tikkun,’ a Hasidic Student’s Visions Merge With Metaphor 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z It was democratic, pragmatic and mobile, as well as misguided, preposterous and hopelessly optimistic: America, sealed in a can. Possessed: One Designer?s Love: Vintage Trailers 2011-02-25T17:39:51Z The film is “an excursion from the sad to the sublime by way of the preposterous,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in November. DVD: Dana Andrews in Jean Renoir?s ?Swamp Water? on Blu-ray 2012-03-16T17:49:47Z “Outlander” remains at once preposterous and very serious. TV Picks: 'Daredevil,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Outlander' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z It looks preposterous in front of the manor, and the sight seems to delight him. A Visit to Donleavyland, Sixty Years After “The Ginger Man” 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z On the other hand, the amount of rap, slam and jazz-funk-mix-ups on offer is preposterous. A plea for old poetry 2010-10-02T11:59:00Z But others argued that Westerners simply lacked the education in totalitarianism that revealed his preposterous situations as merely slightly exaggerated versions of everyday realities. Slawomir Mrozek, a Leading Polish Playwright, Dies at 83 2013-08-28T14:58:53Z But such things are common in the preposterous dialogue and haphazard plotting in the screenplay by J.H. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-03-08T13:41:08Z For the changing consumer demographic, including new area residents, homophobia was just preposterous. Breaking Glass Ceilings In Florida: Bubba Gump Meets The Good Old Boys 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z There aren’t many jokes, but it’s a nicely staged sequence in which barreling action becomes joyfully preposterous farce. Why New TV Comedies Are Choosing Plot Over Jokes 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z “The Raven,” unfortunately, does not settle on just one, preferring the usual moviemaking practice of multiplying effects until they pile up into a welter of breathless incident and preposterous exposition. Movie Review: ?The Raven,? With John Cusack, Directed by James McTeigue 2012-04-26T23:19:38Z I had better stop; “Rear View,” with more than 60 paintings, sculptures and photographs of human figures facing the more interesting way, invites a preposterous amount of wordplay. ‘Rear View’ Is Rather Forward Thinking 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z At first, the idea seemed preposterous to me. Warming Up to Vegan Pozole 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z "The idea of looking at a screen while some cycling pro broadcasts encouragement is preposterous." Daughter shares dad's epic email in response to her interest in buying a Peloton bike 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most preposterous part of the reality show “Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood,” the first season of which concluded on VH1 last week, was the recurring pretense that actual music was being made. Omarion and K. Michelle, on Parallel Tracks, Release Albums 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Nuclear power was pursued as an economic panacea and a source of prestige, with Politburo officials imposing preposterous timetables and equally preposterous cost-cutting measures. An Enthralling and Terrifying History of the Nuclear Meltdown at Chernobyl 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z “How I despised her, with her preposterous literary pretensions!” she wrote. ‘Little Women’ Marches On: Fans Celebrate the Novel’s 150th Anniversary 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z His eye-rolling, pantomiming performance sometimes grew exhausting, but vocally, he remained focused and resonant in every angle and turn of the sometimes preposterous coloratura passages Rossini assigned to him. Review: ‘L’Italiana in Algeri,’ a Comedy With Coloratura and Pasta 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Twenty-five years ago, the notion of a middle-aged Public Enemy appeared preposterous. Public Enemy – review 2013-07-26T16:24:39Z “I think a lot of middle-class, middle-aged journalists like putting this preposterous intellectual scaffolding on it, saying it’s a bit like Shakespeare or Jane Austen,” Mr. Abell said. If It’s on ‘Love Island,’ Britain’s Talking About It 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z A short video documentary reveals that he never actually built any of the preposterous contrivances associated with his name. Pootwaddles and Dunklewimps: Rube Goldberg’s glorious cartoons at MoPOP 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Eventually my kids took up the challenge, and vying for the most preposterous quibble became a weekend-long game. ‘Taking the waters’ at the regal, glamorous Homestead Resort But it’s an obligatory sort of updating that somehow makes the central premise seem more preposterous than ever. Television Review: ‘Coma,’ an A&E Mini-Series With Lauren Ambrose 2012-09-02T21:56:33Z Mr. Williamson turned the short tale into a silly, preposterous visual tableau, with one Twerm munching on a hot dog and another watching “The Mod Squad.” Skip Williamson, Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 72 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Stylization has given way to a sort of desultory, sarcastic naturalism, in which the joke lies not in Carreyesque abstraction and amplification but in a kind of muttered, balloon-popping underreaction to preposterous events. DVDs: Jim Carrey as the Id Unleashed a Bit Before Its Time 2011-02-25T20:14:20Z It is amazing to think that Parker's career survived such an idiosyncractic opening; that a film he still describes as "preposterous" could have got him the searing, Oliver Stone-scripted Midnight Express. Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set' 2013-01-24T19:00:00Z The mash-up, like much in the movie, seems both preposterous and somehow touchingly apt. ‘The French Dispatch’ Review: Remember Magazines? 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s a bit preposterous, but not that preposterous. The Gentlemen trailer – how ridiculous can Guy Ritchie's new movie get? 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The mood was festive, the audience large and enthusiastic, for the gala premiere on New Year’s Eve of a rare new production of Umberto Giordano’s lovably preposterous potboiler “Fedora” at the Metropolitan Opera. Review: The Met Opera Found an Audience for ‘Fedora.’ For Now. 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z He isn’t, but to fake a “blaccent” would be, for him, preposterous. Beyond black and white 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The drink was as delicious as its rushed delivery was preposterous. In Ecuador, the Frugal Traveler Tries Luxury 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Turning again to Shakespeare, Mr. Branagh said that the mystical elements of “Thor” — enchanted hammers, frost giants — were no more preposterous than the supernatural tropes in plays like “Macbeth” or “The Tempest.” Summer Movies: Creating a God, With Links to Olivier 2011-04-28T13:49:44Z "It seemed preposterous even to me. But I don't mean to say it was preposterous. I didn't think it was going to happen in that moment," she said. Once preposterous, now immediate; Margaret Atwood on 'Handmaid's Tale' 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Believing the plan to be preposterous and impossible to carry out, he dismisses the idea. Movie Review: ?Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,? With Ewan McGregor 2012-03-08T23:10:43Z This version keeps spinning off into the preposterous and whimsical. Review: ‘How to Get Into Buildings’ Finds Love Amid a Crash, a Duel and Soups of the Day 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z “Breaking Greenville” is not quite so consciously funny, but it is an almost shocking show—“preposterous,” the New York Times put it, when the show debuted in January. The red-state media war with no winners 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Hill zooms in on the preposterous, eye-popping bits you would instinctively rewind and howl at with your family. Your next box set: Harry Hill's TV Burp 2010-07-23T05:45:00Z It’s preposterous, of course, that a fetus should be thinking such earthshaking thoughts, but Mr. McEwan writes here with such assurance and élan that the reader never for a moment questions his sleight of hand. Review: ‘Nutshell,’ a Tale Told by a Baby-to-Be (or Not-to-Be) 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z A grab bag of random notions lifted primarily from the “Terminator” and “Matrix” universes, “Hitman” is a sexless, virtually bloodless chain of preposterous battles rendered in a two-dimensional gloss. Review: Rupert Friend and Zachary Quinto in a Pas de Bullets, ‘Hitman: Agent 47’ 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The quartet of fauns scamper with preposterous, effete randiness; the Nymphs get caught up in their floaty bri-nylon veils; the Maidens chomp through their bunches of grapes. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 2010-09-26T21:30:00Z The point turns out to be the ingenious, preposterous trigger of a plot that takes in a police raid, with the cast hidden under sofas and tables, and a magistrate trying his own family. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Twelfth Night; The Magistrate – review 2012-11-25T00:05:48Z But instead of pursuing this idea, Roussin turns the play into a preposterous island fling with the arrival of a fourth party. The Little Hut 2010-05-02T21:45:00Z Mr Laws has been far too apologetic about breaking this preposterous rule against "renting accommodation from a partner", which is a meaningless sentence when nobody knows what a "partner" really is. Sex and the City 2: What happened to good old Sex?| Victoria Coren 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z It may seem preposterous to read so much into board books. The Hidden Depths of Sandra Boynton’s Board Books 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z As it winds toward a somewhat preposterous conclusion, Mr. Cosson’s text is pocked with speeches about the urgent necessity of mending man’s rapacious ways. Theater Review: ‘The Great Immensity’ Gives Environmentalism Its Own Lyrics 2014-04-25T02:00:01Z The series is not known for plausibility, but it still tries to keep a scrim of current events over its action sequences and preposterous subplots. 2010-01-15T04:09:00Z It allowed me to tell this story with these preposterous fantasy qualities. Comics artist Scott McCloud on art, death and drawing bad sculpture 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z As for the rest, there is plenty of nonsense, a great deal of stylish posturing and clothes-horsing, and a few action sequences that manage to be both gripping and preposterous. | 'Takers': Taking a Long, Cool Look at Both Sides of the Law 2010-08-26T23:36:00Z The Deep is preposterous – the cast, the set, the script, the story, the idea, the whole thing. TV review: The Deep and Glamour Models, Mum and Me 2010-08-04T07:00:00Z Working for 15 years and discovering that I was a black man in America was beyond preposterous. Danger in my belly: I know where Donald Trump’s tribal rhetoric can lead 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The fortunately preposterous dilemmas cited above are among the “Questions for Terrible People” in a new book by that name by Boston comedian Wes Hazard. Style Invitational: Make some bad choices — ‘questions for terrible people’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Trump had suggested to Pence that he had the power to essentially rejigger the electoral outcome as head of the Senate, an idea that Quayle told Pence was “preposterous and dangerous.” Bob Woodward Extends His Trump Chronicles With the Chaotic Transfer of Power 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z And better yet, if the trailer is any indication, everyone gets to do doing something that’s differently but equally preposterous. The Gentlemen trailer – how ridiculous can Guy Ritchie's new movie get? 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z “The stories in ‘The Dinner Party’ that don’t take a preposterous turn tend instead to pile on the clichés. Granta's Best Young American Novelists in L.A., #FollowMeBook and more from the literary web 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Though these films are indisputably preposterous, Mr. Baker’s ever-present interest in realistically grounding his tales is nonetheless detectable. Roy Ward Baker, Prolific British Filmmaker, Dies at 93 2010-10-08T05:43:00Z Ms. Binoche, almost unrecognizable and with a New York accent, is outstanding as a crusading newspaper reporter, except that her character is preposterous. | 'The Son of No One': ?The Son of No One,? With Channing Tatum - Review 2011-11-03T23:41:22Z The narrative of “State of Affairs” is not as outré as the one in “Scandal,” but it’s still preposterous and at times laughable. Katherine Heigl Stars in NBC’s ‘State of Affairs’ 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z The solution is ingenious, bordering on preposterous, and Higashino's skill clearly lies in contrivance rather than characterisation – but the process of deduction is fascinating. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2013-03-22T12:00:02Z The suggestion is so preposterous that you’ll be tempted to dismiss it completely. Andy Cohen Had a Year 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z By preposterous chance, the first bookshop I strolled into, Andy Warhol was standing inside, about to sign copies of the book in question. Smarties with Andy Warhol 2013-02-16T23:30:01Z It is preposterous to the Nth degree, and I am kind of here for it. The Gentlemen trailer – how ridiculous can Guy Ritchie's new movie get? 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z I won’t describe the women’s final solution to the religious strife, except to say that it is both ingenious and preposterous. Movie Review: ?Where Do We Go Now?,? From Nadine Labaki 2012-05-10T23:24:34Z In a delightful appendix called “The Backstories,” she describes “the convoluted, sometimes preposterous lengths I would go to track down my quarry.” Review | Who was Vivian Maier? A new book explores the inspired life of the nanny with a secret gift for photography. 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z I can well imagine Faulkner spinning out the tale on a lazy afternoon, as anyone may launch freely into preposterous invention to amuse a child. When William Faulkner and Langston Hughes Wrote Children’s Books 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Uneven casting, patchy orchestral playing and a preposterous plot ultimately faded into irrelevance next to the glittering performance of Angela Meade in the title role. Review: The Opera Orchestra of New York Shares a Story Inspired by a Byron Poem 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The screenplay, by Bill Dubuque, is so determined to hide its cards that when the big reveal finally arrives, it feels as underwhelming as it is preposterous. Review: In ‘The Accountant,’ a Savant With Daddy Issues Has a Dark Secret 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z She then retires, watches and connives as the story takes its misanthropic, labyrinthine, somewhat preposterous course. Confessions ? review 2011-02-20T00:05:30Z Years earlier, Saul Bellow stated that "a dune of salt has grown up to season the preposterous things Gore says." Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z Needless to say, expecting one person to have seen even an episode of every series, let alone followed them through entire seasons, is preposterous. “Sorry for Your Loss,” an honest and real show about grief, actually uses Facebook for good 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Instead of those barmy scenes are new ones that are no less preposterous. What, no Whistlestop? Why The Girl on the Train should have stayed in bleak backyard Britain 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Other words and phrases that made their first appearances in English that same year include “famed,” “harangue,” “excrement,” “good-for-nothing,” “ovation,” “ungrateful,” “vigilance,” “preposterous,” “carrot,” “turnip” and “utopia.” Did you know 'apology' and 'civil war' were coined the same year? Thank Merriam-Webster's new Time Traveler feature 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Scacchi excels in a small role, but the scene in which she finally tells Andrea what happened in the past is preposterous. American youngster best part of Italian "World" 2010-12-29T23:52:31Z They fight at sea and on the streets of Hong Kong, and their bodies are rendered in loving, preposterous detail. ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Review: Let’s You and Him Fight 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z “It was supposed that after his defeat it would be preposterous to ask him to sit,” Brady said later in an interview. Books of The Times: ‘Mathew Brady,’ a Biography by Robert Wilson 2013-08-07T21:29:29Z Before we even wrote it, some people said it was an Obama campaign commercial, which was preposterous. Zero Dark Thirty is not pro-torture, say film-makers 2012-12-12T14:30:14Z With witty nods to Bach and Handel, Bizet and Gershwin, the remarkable score subsumes the oversized passions and preposterous romantic plots of classical opera into a lurid spectacle of American pulp fantasy. Trash TV goes highbrow in ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’ 2014-01-14T00:50:22Z |
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