To dismantle the love triangle, rather than choose one admirer over another, some faint-hearted characters may choose neither, a preposterous solution that assumes a person might actually be artful enough to pull off such wholesale rejection of love.
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The idea of taking time off seems preposterous for a lot of entrepreneurs.
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It's a preposterous position: We shouldn't protect ourselves because of a treaty signed with a state that no longer exists.
Yet this report, like so many, adopts a preposterous pretence of precise measurement which immediately arouses suspicion.
That is simply a preposterous assessment of our present threat conditions, to say nothing of the law.
That is, assuming unplugging entirely is a preposterous idea (which it is).
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Patents on business methods used to be a rarity, because it seemed legally preposterous to claim ownership of a way of doing business.
Murdoch made what seemed like a sort of preposterous offer for the company, offering two thirds over what was then the stock value for the company a month ago when he made this unsolicited bid.
Once, it was preposterous to think that a woman could become the editor of the Times.
The idea is preposterous, similar to a retailer's believing that reducing prices doesn't help move merchandise.
Once you are finally seated, the place offers a certain preposterous charm.
The whole thing is so preposterous that only someone with a Lewis Carroll-like imagination could have dreamt it up.
One hopes that such a suggestion is preposterous, but that is what disclosure is for -- to replace speculation with truth-telling to the American people.
In the Microsoft-Yahoo case, even a pro forma investigation is preposterous--Google has an overwhelming share of the search market, 65% at last count.
Using the economy as a monetary tool is dangerously preposterous.
Just to show the preposterous amount of profit inherent in such a misjudged award, the profit Schultz made on just a portion of the grant almost equaled the profits made on a grant he had held for 10 years not just four short years.
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To argue that the site experience was damaged, or that the anomaly represented a changed site policy, was preposterous.
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Mark Glover, chair of the Gedling Conservation Trust, said building a solar farm in the middle of a country park would be "preposterous".
They will write their members of Congress to remind them that relying on 1% of Americans to shoulder a nation's burden is preposterous.
And to have such a barrier at a time of labor shortages is truly preposterous.
"The notion that Wales has a divine right to 40 MPs is preposterous" says the man who heads up the Welsh Governance Centre.
The softly spoken 39-year-old has the air of an academic, while he has built a remarkable investment record through a combination of patient optimism and almost preposterous confidence.
U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns responded by calling Putin's accusations "preposterous, " saying Washington would "not give a millimeter" to any proposal that would weaken the monitoring organization.
But to assume that someone in Ireland had not put irish whiskey coffee and a little sugar in a mug before 1952 is flat-out preposterous.
It is worth recalling that, as recently as 1966, a Labour government imposed a special tax on service employment in the preposterous belief that pushing people into manufacturing would boost economic growth.
The idea that the juvenile Anne (as she is played by Portman) could have the vision to maneuver herself into the position of Queen of England is preposterous, and the simplistic portrayal of the King as a petulant oaf detracts from the story.
"It's almost like you have to pick a side, and I think that's preposterous, " Eppler said.
At the time, such a critique of the Israeli- Palestinian negotiations seemed preposterous to many.
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