ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PREPOSTEROUS
From Latin praeposterus reversed, from prae in front, before + posterus following.
10 QUOTES WITH «PREPOSTEROUS»
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preposterous.
Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal.
To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.
Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.
They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques.
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.
For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.
It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.
Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.
Predictions are preposterous.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREPOSTEROUS»
Discover the use of
preposterous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
preposterous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Preposterous Proverbs: Why Fine Words Butter No Parsnips
After all, do ‘many hands make light work’ or do ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’? You can’t really have it both ways.In 'Preposterous Proverbs', Max Cryer looks at a vast array of proverbs from around the world.
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Preposterous Erections: A Book of English Towers
Monument or observatory, watch tower or water tower, these are sixty of the very best. Preposterous Erections will arouse the interest of even the most casual observer.
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Penelopethe
Preposterous Birthday Party
This is the third book in the award-winning Penelope series which also includes ''Penelopethe Monsters, '' which the ''Vancouver Sun'' called ''comedy both parentskids can relate to, ''''Penelopethe Humongous Burp, '' a Canadian Toy Testing ...
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Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art,
Preposterous History
The author's primary object of investigation in this text is not the Caravaggio, but rather the issue of temporality in art.
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Captain Underpants and the
Preposterous Plight of the Purple ...
When we last saw George and Harold, they were about to take their pet pterodactyl Crackers back to the Cretaceous period. But things didn't work out quite as they had hoped.
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Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the
Preposterous
A coruscating barrage of dispatches from his sniper's post, Cruel Britannia celebrates Cohen's lonely stand.
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Eight
Preposterous Propositions: From the Genetics of ...
If there isn't something in this book that you already agree and disagree with then you will by the time you finish it because these are among the most politically and culturally controversial ideas in all of science.
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Preposterous violence: fables of aggression in modern culture
Discusses the psychological attraction of make-believe violence, looks at ritualized violence, and examines the connection with adolescent anxiety Twitchell begins the story in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the 'cheap ...
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Our
Preposterous Use of Literature: Emerson and the Nature ...
Our Preposterous Use of Literature proposes a new natural philosophy of reading: a method of reading at once more responsible to the texts we interpret and more closely connected to the worlds in which our interpretations take place.
Tracy Scott McMillin, 2000
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Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and ...
Defines unusual and obscure but legitimate English terms
Josefa Heifetz Byrne, Josefa Heifetz, Robert Byrne, 1994
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREPOSTEROUS»
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preposterous is used in the context of the following news items.
Actor's sexual assault claims are preposterous, Ken Clarke tells court
He also told jurors that he “never had the compulsion” to grope a man, adding: “It's preposterous. It's off the Richter scale. It was a remarkable ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Clarke calls grope claim preposterous
Kenneth Clarke told a court yesterday that being accused of groping an actor while he was chancellor of the exchequer was like Martians ... «The Times, Jul 15»
Ralkina Jones Is the Latest Person of Color to Die in an American …
As absurd it is to die over the crime of failing to use a turn signal, it's really just as preposterous that someone should die days earlier for failing ... «VICE, Jul 15»
Manute Bol's 6'11 son Bol Bol does things 6'11 people SHOULD …
But teams are sure to start offering him, and if he continues growing and retains his preposterous skill set, he could be really special. (h/t USA ... «SB Nation, Jul 15»
Metro says Silver Spring Transit Center needs yet more repairs
... general manager, Jack Requa, on Monday, the county's chief administrative officer, Timothy Firestine, called Metro's requests “preposterous.”. «Washington Post, Jul 15»
Kelly McParland: The sorry saga of Eve Adams puts Trudeau's …
“I just find the whole thing preposterous.” Darren Calabrese/National PostOntario Liberal Mike Colle: "I just find the whole thing preposterous.". «National Post, Jul 15»
Is it possible to permanently delete a social media profile?
“The notion of a defunct Facebook seems preposterous today,” says Bernardo Huberman, director of the Social Computing Lab at Hewlett ... «New Scientist, Jul 15»
Trump snagged in Obama's birth-certificate war
Last week, Tapper ripped into the Maricopa County, Arizona, sheriff for his refusal to give up the “preposterous notion” that President Obama's ... «WND.com, Jul 15»
British woman lets Montreal student camp in her yard; in exchange …
... had made him comfortable with life in a nylon shelter, so the idea of taking on a longer-term camp-out didn't strike him as too preposterous. «Lethbridge Herald, Jul 15»
Lawmakers Resist 'Billy Joel Boulevard' Because The Piano Man Is …
... Green' mentioned in his song 'Scenes From An Italian Restaurant' folks said the argument against a Billy Joel Boulevard is preposterous. «CBS Local, Jul 15»
