outlandishness

Early in the “Mission: Impossible” series, the outlandishness of the movies’ plots and Cruise’s equally fantastical stunts started to make him seem less than human.

Tacopina insisted that the outlandishness meant that the assault was a fiction; Carroll argued that the outlandishness is precisely what had made the assault possible.

All of the actors acquit themselves with dignity amid the outlandishness: Pfeiffer’s Janet turns out to be a chief protagonist in a story that delves into her past in the Quantum Realm.

As Chiefsaholic, Babudar reinvented himself in the public eye, in the parking lots and stadiums where it’s easy to be a character instead of a person and outlandishness isn’t just tolerated, but celebrated.

But the outlandishness of his outfit diminished in importance once he began to speak.