preposterousness
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Perhaps by now you’ve picked up on the preposterousness in this parade of terms.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2025
The earnest preposterousness of this sequence, which might have worked on MTV sometime in the early ’90s, is representative of the movie’s silliness and its longing for sublimity.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
When she first came to Los Angeles 50 years ago, its whimsical preposterousness was her “personal welcoming committee to the city.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
But she’s also fully clued in to the preposterousness of a 24-year-old millionaire singer issuing prescriptions, and the soporific luxury of her lounges on the beach.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2021
Mrs. Marshall-Smith forbore to over-emphasize her victory by a feather-weight of gloating, and turned to her sister-in-law with a whimsical remark about the preposterousness of one of the costumes passing.
From The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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