The man nicknamed Megatron was preposterously, unrealistically effective in Madden.
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Parliamentarians have accused Ms Bensedrine of corruption and, preposterously, terrorism.
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We had a preposterously long sense of our own youthfulness.
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But why should we not be paid as preposterously as men?
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Nowhere was this more palpable than in Brain's preposterously elaborate plans.
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Dujardin plays a man besotted with a preposterously unfashionable deerskin jacket.
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His initial reaction was, preposterously, to blame the fires on NGOs.
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Mr Kadyrov retorted, preposterously, that there are no gay men in Chechnya.
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It was ludicrously expensive and preposterously underpowered, but who gave a crap?
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It was ludicrously expensive and preposterously underpowered, but who gave a crap?
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Barked commands, fierce glares and preposterously high kicks all signal violent intent.
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Even when the plot becomes preposterously melodramatic, the songs save the day.
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But they can't, because [the nominees are] preposterously unprepared for the jobs.
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This is the most preposterously dance-thin ballet I have ever seen.
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It seems like the preposterously lazy plot of a sub-B movie.
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For whatever reason, there are not preposterously huge boobs on this snake.
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Ellroy has described his conduct as boorish, oblivious, callow, heedless, isolated, "preposterously male".
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" Fry added of his "repulsively handsome" friend that he is also "preposterously talented.
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My options are preposterously good — this is the Golden Age of Television, after all.
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For most state enterprises the rate is 1:1, which preposterously overvalues the CUP.
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This is not one of those years, at least by UConn's preposterously high standards.
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Kevin even, preposterously, has to be freed from an asylum as the apocalyptic invasion begins.
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Last month Uhuru Kenyatta was re-elected president with 98% of a preposterously flawed vote.
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Farther along the Enguri River, preposterously large Georgian and Abkhazian flags fly from opposite hilltops.
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In the preposterously entertaining "Red Sparrow," Jennifer Lawrence plays a Russian ballerina turned murderous spy.
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Yes, the preposterously macho performance coach played by Marc Kudisch during Season 2 has returned.
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Preposterously plotted and crammed with overly potted history, "Darwin's Ghosts" doesn't come close to succeeding.
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Several Republican candidates have preposterously promised to ban all Muslims from traveling to the United States.
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We have no idea what to expect from this, but it looks and sounds preposterously cool.
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Mr López Obrador imagines, preposterously, that reducing graft will pay for most of what he wants.
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Preposterously, it says the firm owes taxes of $190bn, or roughly four times Tanzania's annual GDP.
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All conclusions over Kim Jong Un's motives are speculative at best, and preposterously hysterical at worst.
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At one point, a preposterously long horn trill seems to unleash an attack of martial bumblebees.
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It is a real show about the preposterously saccharine courtships even fake movies are ashamed of.
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The show is so full of cryptic clues preposterously delivered that it's hard to take seriously.
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The Pentagon, however, stalled for six weeks, preposterously arguing that it was protecting Mr. Ba Odah's privacy.
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In other words, what you think is happening is happening: The rich really are getting preposterously rich.
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Sophia has come off as sympathetic despite her infidelities because George was such a preposterously terrible husband.
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This is both plausible and, because of Rhys' completely believable air of troubled unhappiness, preposterously, even comically relatable.
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Simply put, if you're not preposterously high when you see Doctor Strange, you're going to feel like it.
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" On the subject on equal pay, she argued that actors are "all paid preposterously considering what we do.
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And Rihanna is a shapeshifting exotic dancer who's given a preposterously convenient send-off after a couple of scenes.
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Either way, that's a preposterously large output, and it's especially extraordinary considering that very little of it is bad.
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Stung by the criticism, Turkey's pro-government media have claimed, preposterously, that America must have been behind the coup.
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If only, preposterously, all those minuscule actions were not tiny inflictions on the environment, but tiny improvements to it.
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Once again, he is an anomaly, preposterously ahead of schedule and now possibly doomed well before his time, too.
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People who've had this since youth are preposterously competent at it and, by extension, often other things as well.
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It was a preposterously contoured park, a left-field fence being a Little League-like 251 feet from home plate.
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He has claimed, preposterously, that crime is under control, and still insists he has no intention of rethinking his approach.
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Characters speak in preposterously long paragraphs, heaping expository backstory on one another until almost every exchange resembles a wiki entry.
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He maintains, preposterously, that the religious freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment is solely intended to protect Christians and Christianity.
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He's teamed up with the loudmouthed Chris (Alexis Manenti) and the comparatively laid-back Gwada (the preposterously handsome Djibril Zonga).
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A core of preposterously old-fashioned classics is rounded out with a few modern compositions to keep everybody on their toes.
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It should be crystal clear that this particular ploy is by no means 'saving a fortune' as Eric Trump preposterously claimed.
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" He cleaved to his lap-dog role, saying preposterously of Trump: "What he wants to do is get to the truth.
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The following year, he doubled down on maximalism, putting on a show that was, preposterously, a retrospective of his own career.
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The United States, its biggest trading partner by far, has slapped tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium exports, preposterously citing "national security".
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In the video, a preposterously cute, gray squirrel monkey named Dalton bonks his head against a computer screen in front of him.
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"They want to believe in me because they are preposterously narcissistic, and they believe they can get anything they want," he said.
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Mr. Degnan said that number had been raised in a private meeting between the two men and that it was "preposterously" high.
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Mr. Trump's lawyers preposterously contend that because he was not an elected official when the lease was signed, he hasn't broken it.
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Simply put, LeBron would be a preposterously large soccer player, and probably couldn't run 10 miles per game at the same pace.
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When LaVar preposterously said he could have beaten Michael Jordan one-on-one back in his day: LOL, get a load of LaVar!
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It's easy to forget we live in a modern world where preposterously expensive technology is flying somewhere above our heads at all times.
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Women have had to fight tooth and nail for every measure of equality, including many privileges that seem preposterously basic by today's standards.
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Space-based interceptors might deal with that problem, but would require a preposterously large constellation of satellites costing hundreds of billions of dollars.
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The idea that a billionaire doesn't feel bad when someone outs him because he's a billionaire is a preposterously naive thing to say.
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Video footage recently obtained by ABC7 shows the moment the cop car got smushed, along with the preposterously low-speed chase that followed.
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" Notre Dame spokesman Paul Browne issued a one-sentence statement saying: "The assertions on the face of it are maliciously and preposterously false.
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He preposterously claimed to have a secret plan to defeat ISIS and said he knew more about the group than the generals did.
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He preposterously proclaimed that there was "no political repression" on the island, which was then ruled by President Jean-Claude Duvalier, a tyrant.
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This latest play does hold back one trick, setting up a preposterously sentimental ending that, it won't surprise you, isn't what it seems.
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He also launched the preposterously large balloon Le Géant, with calamitous results, and was heavily invested in a doomed early version of a helicopter.
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It's as blankly ornamental as the rest of the movie, which stars Claire Foy as a preposterously jacked-up version of the renegade hacker.
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Baldwin's voice is preposterously out of sync with a fat little infant, which is the funniest thing about The Boss Baby by a long shot.
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Instead of the land seizures that Mothakge had once hoped for, there was a new, gated housing development with a preposterously giant, faux-Roman aqueduct.
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"Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad," he tweeted, preposterously blaming her for the chaos in Somalia, one of several hardship posts in which she served.
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Either way, they are a welcome change from other, preposterously expensive tasting menus that just present a long sequence of dishes without a common thread.
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Ad dollars mean a lot to any pro sports league, and the Super Bowl — historically ground zero for preposterously pricey commercials — is the NFL's biggest night.
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Many Kenyans, even those who do not support Mr Odinga, worry that Mr Kenyatta is determined to push ahead with an election, no matter how preposterously flawed.
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I do not know how to translate these laws into clinical practice because often the language is preposterously vague and they include terms with no medical meaning.
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Contemporaneous illustrations show men in comically tall white wigs, carrying preposterously tiny hats, wearing tight and garishly embroidered waistcoats, brightly colored stockings and impractical slipper-like shoes.
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Now, four years since he first toyed with the idea of saying sorry in time to a preposterously catchy beat, Justin Bieber is doing it for real.
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Once the adult flies crawl beneath the surface, their bodies are almost entirely enveloped by an air bubble as they nonchalantly walk around, looking preposterously out of place.
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GRAVITY pulls them together using a technique called interferometry that combines observations from multiple telescopes to produce artificial images that only a preposterously huge real telescope could make.
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A critical aside: Why would Barack Obama have been any different even if he had been born in Kenya, as has been preposterously but repeatedly claimed by Trump?
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In fact, he put the illegal votes at somewhere between 38,000 and 2.8 million — a preposterously large range — and then Trump and others simply used the highest figure.
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He held a press conference in September to claim he had not started the "birther" rumors about President Obama's birthplace, then preposterously accused Clinton of being behind it.
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Prowling the stage with a feline gait, Jeselnik, in a leather jacket and jeans, never breaks character: a preposterously confident jerk with the cool indifference of a sociopath.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads New World Design, a Chicago-based architecture and design firm, has proposed a gilded, electrified design for Donald Trump's preposterously costly border wall.
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Even this Court could not find legal lipstick for this pig: Commerce did not, as it had preposterously argued, include the question to help enforce the Voting Rights Act.
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LeBron James is a prototypical athlete of superhuman proportions, a dominant force even in a league full of other athletic anomalies who have become preposterously good at shooting hoops.
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So much, then, for Elon Musk solving climate change or everything else he has promised to do, like building cities on Mars or (much more preposterously) solving L.A. traffic.
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But as preposterously large and byzantine as these carnivals are, and as low as the stakes can feel this early in the process, the opening act was surprisingly informative.
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James Jr. seems to be playing in fast-forward compared to the other kids, yet his skill level is also preposterously developed for a player who's only 12 years old.
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And just like Kevin McCallister, guests are offered a preposterously large ice cream sundae, hand-scooped by some dude from room service, as long as whoever's eating it isn't driving.
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The world did not just love Bolt, smiling with him as he made winning look preposterously easy; athletics trusted Bolt in an era when the sport was engulfed by disenchantment.
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And yet — because Mr. Scovel often adopts the persona of a preposterously confident, thin-skinned egotist with a conspiratorial streak — his comedy does seem suited to the age of Trump.
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Even the nuclear industry's grandiose and preposterously expensive proposal to build two new nuclear reactors a month, from now to 85033, would be far too little and far too late.
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Mortimer, a preposterously under-celebrated actress, crafts Jane's character with luminous precision: She is beaming and passionate, a steady, smiling port in the storm for her brother, niece, and nephews.
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The high-tech stoves that limited toxic smoke were as much as $150 each — preposterously expensive for African villagers, many of whom lived on less than 50 cents a day.
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For those not lucky to enough to have gotten seats at the preposterously intimate, one-night display, we recommend praying that the piece grows legs for an East Coast tour.
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When his son applied, "he didn't get in, and it would have been seen as preposterously unfair" if the son had been admitted simply because his father is an alumnus.
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Critics assailed it as a preposterously high valuation for a three-and-a-half year old company and yet another sign that Ballmer was spending recklessly like a drunken sailor.
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Secretary dresses and skirts with matching blouses — pussy-bowed, preposterously colored, embroidered — got louder and sheerer as the show went on, proving that outfits can be as open-concept as offices.
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Once you get past its gray surface, "The Witcher" turns out to be delightfully unpretentious, reveling in its pulpiness and occasionally poking fun at its stoic hero with preposterously large muscles.
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When his son applied, "he didn't get in, and it would have been seen as preposterously unfair" if his son had been admitted simply because his father is an alum, Reeves says.
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When I started dancing professionally four years ago, dancers I worked with would sometimes make one another laugh in rehearsal by whipping out old competition moves: preposterously wide smiles, coquettish shoulder tilts.
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Yet, recovering in the hospital, battling the Big C — and preposterously negotiating the chaperoning of a roller-skating party — I was fiercely determined to survive, which took reconnecting to my essential self.
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On the back cover of his new book, "The Threat: How the F.B.I. Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump," Andrew G. McCabe looks preposterously fit (he competes in triathlons).
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Even so, the number 154 is preposterously low, as Clinton would routinely meet dozens of civil society leaders, journalists, and others on any one of her many foreign trips as secretary of state.
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His dreadful drive at the short par-four fifth flew so far left that it crashed into a grandstand and rebounded preposterously onto the green, enabling him to two-putt for a birdie.
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Mr. Hamilton, a comic in his mid-30s whose cadences evoke Jerry Seinfeld, has a wide smile, but when he goes onstage, he emphasizes it, broadening his mouth into a preposterously toothy grin.
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The Beatles, more than any other musical act, epitomized the soft danger of rock n' roll—the long embraces and dance floor imperatives that seem preposterously innocent now, but genuinely were innocent then.
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To be fair, Cohen has earned a pretty obsessed following in part because of her finely sharpened first impression, that of a preposterously preening, rigorously self-regarding, sexually arrogant diva in Lululemon leggings.
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The bottom line: "The hype is so preposterously misaligned with economic reality that inevitably there's going to be this disastrous crash in expectations and people are going to call it a failure," Moffett said.
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There seems to be little interest in Congress to authorize the campaign against the Islamic State, which is predicated, preposterously, on the 2001 law passed to take action against the culprits of the Sept.
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MOX was designed to turn that plutonium into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors but in addition to being preposterously over budget, the technology is questionable at best and lacks even a single potential customer.
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That's especially crucial with a civilian superhero like Langdon, one of those preposterously capable types who wears professorial threads instead of a cape and excels at cracking gnarly codes rather than bad-guy heads.
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In response to the news of the methane emissions increase in Pennsylvania, EDF's Andrew Williams shamefully and preposterously minimized the problem of methane leaks from oil and gas operations to Public News Service-PA.
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Bourdain Market, as it will be known, is a preposterously ambitious venture; it will be three times the size of the original Eataly—Mario Batali's super-emporium of Italian food in the Flatiron district.
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He was on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, doing promo for John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum, the preposterously enjoyable third film of the action franchise that's come to define this period in his career.
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Founded by musician and producer Tommy Dietrick, the fest is preposterously unassuming, but its charm appears from the moment you turn off Highway 62, and drive up the breathtaking road flanked by stacks of boulders.
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Like the preposterously difficult rhythms Conlon Nancarrow developed in his studies for player piano, the microtonal intricacies of Mr. Johnston's quartets can seem like exercises designed to measure the gap between human imagination and ability.
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The biggest and most artificial contrivance is the creation of a fictional character, a Belarusian scientist played by Emily Watson who takes a suspicious radiation reading in Minsk and magically, preposterously takes over the story.
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" Hatch preposterously accused Hill of scavenging her testimony about Long Dong Silver from an old law case, and her story about Thomas asking "Who put pubic hair on my Coke?" from the novel, "The Exorcist.
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Or it may be as simple as this: If Trump continues to demonstrate just how preposterously unfit he is for the job of president, a message of "to impeach Trump, vote Democrat" may be enough.
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From pizzas with downright offensive toppings to preposterously sliced bagels and an ambitious take on caviar and more, here are 28 of the most ridiculous crimes that have been committed against food so far this year.
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As a grand, if ill-fated, gesture of welcome the West German chancellor, Helmut Kohl, converted some of their worthless savings into hard currency at the preposterously generous exchange rate of one Deutschmark to one Ostmark.
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Female rowing teams sometimes list as many as 100 members, a preposterously high number that is obviously arranged as a Title IX "offset" to the average squad size of 120 men on Division I football teams.
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She does this with almost preposterously extraordinary gifts for composition, paint handling, and, in particular, color, suffusing clashes of hue and tone with ghostly essences of a chromatic unity that you feel rather than quite see.
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We must bring to this task the same "preposterously ambitious" vision that its original creators had, and we must stop looking at transit in New York as a city problem when it is a regional one.
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Given the actor's preposterously prolific career as an action star in the '90s, the film in which Schwarzenegger plays a police officer who reluctantly goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher could have been lost to time.
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Naming the top films of 2019 is preposterously hard; nearly every week, a new film worth seeing arrived in theaters or debuted on a streaming service, which means there's an embarrassment of riches to choose from.
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Right now, the company's making a smartphone for the same reason Andy Rubin's Essential started with a smartphone, the same reason anyone talks themselves into entering this preposterously huge market: It's the most important device anyone owns.
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But as someone who's watching it live and getting to participate in ludicrous theorizing about who is and isn't a host and what preposterously convoluted scheme someone is up to, it's all a surprising amount of fun.
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And yet, when Wade is in his kitted-out DeLorean, tearing along a preposterously difficult game racetrack, menaced by King Kong and dodging flying debris as his fellow racers crash and burn, very little of that matters.
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Somewhat preposterously, when Caufy, his brother, Stingy Brim (CB Murray), and Caufy's assistant Doris (Traci Michelle) run into trouble with customs officials in Haiti, in swans a confident Addie, who saves them from being sent back home.
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"Between Two Ferns," for those out of the loop, is a popular series of "Funny or Die" videos, in which the comedian and actor Zach Galifianakis plays the preposterously stupid host of a public-access talk show.
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What made the situation less amusing was that the preposterously late finish was the latest of several signs that the organizers of these new-look Davis Cup Finals have not had their hands firmly on the tiller.
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On the one hand, the results are not surprising, considering that the biggest-ever VC round (a preposterously large $14 billion Series C raised by Ant Financial) and several rivals for that top spot were closed last year.
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It's a more polished take on the slapstick demolition-derby energy of his debut, "The Creator," one of last year's most preposterously engaging albums, full of quasi-nonsensical, punk space-rap redolent of the early, rowdy Beastie Boys.
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She compared the Green New Deal to going to the moon: an exciting and perhaps preposterously ambitious plan, but one that is doable with dedication and resources -- and could even include, she said, getting to net-zero carbon.
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The new dating tool, which Zuck is threatening to roll out in the US this year, will let me select up to nine of my friends—a preposterously large number that encourages unhealthy mass crushing—I'd like to bang.
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We write a lot about the world's biggest hard drives and solid state drives here at The Verge, but sometimes, you need to be able to carry a preposterously large amount of storage in a more portable form factor.
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ANDREW NORMAN: 'Play,' 'Try'The reputation of "Play" (2013), the preposterously challenging quasi-symphony that has catapulted its composer into the limelight, is impossible to imagine without BMOP, for whom it was written, and who recorded it to wide praise.
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That pickle, communicated with dazzling clarity in its marketing outlay from Sony, is as follows: A young medical student, preposterously privileged with looks, brains, athleticism and means, is attacked by a shark while surfing a hidden cove in Mexico.
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Among the lesser-known gems that get substantial attention is From Beyond, the companion piece to Stuart Gordon's preposterously gory Herbert West: Reanimator, and The Society, a satirical political paranoid thriller with massive gross-out body modification and literal talking butts.
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Madison says she always thought a company where strangers with cars could making money by driving around other strangers seemed like a good idea; the rest of the group thinks it sounds like a preposterously good way to get murdered.
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Her attitude about her early experience seems almost preposterously optimistic -- she described life on the run as a child as "wonderful," and in her final years she said that given the chance, she'd not change a thing about her youth.
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Its name evokes a preposterously broad sonic terrain, but it is commonly identified with its 1970s standard-bearers like Lynyrd Skynyrd, which emphasized rock's country and blues roots in songs that generally reflected Southern working-class concerns, with ambiguous political affiliations.
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Not that long ago, the idea of sending a drone or stealth aircraft halfway around the world to hang out, wait for a high-ranking Islamic State leader to appear, and then whack him with an anti-tank missile was preposterously high-tech.
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Armajani, seventy-nine years old, is preposterously under-recognized, even in the art world, considering the local successes of the seventy-odd site-specific works he has made since 1968, in eighteen states, plus the District of Columbia, and five European nations.
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Preposterously handsome for a man whose occupation requires taking blows to the face, Mr. Joshua, who stands 28.9 feet 2350 inches tall, weighs 33 pounds and appears to have the body fat of lettuce, has an undefeated record (23-21, 21 knockouts).
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CreditCreditDamon Winter/The New York Times Long before it became an archaic, filthy, profligate symbol of everything wrong with our broken cities, New York's subway was a marvel — a mad feat of engineering and an audacious gamble on a preposterously ambitious vision.
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There's also the preposterously overpriced $29.95 Micro USB cable, and $24.95 Utility Series laptop sleeve — but don't be fooled by the Otterbox name here, it's a regular microfiber-lined polyester pouch, not some sort of ultra-rugged case that the brand is known for.
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There, in the front of the store, as part of the Diesel Black Gold collection, was such an item: a pair of preposterously long jeans, designed to scrunch and gather not just around the ankle, but up the full length of the leg ($450).
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The clincher, for many, is the Putting Experience, along the northeast side of Berckmans—replicas of the seventh, fourteenth, and sixteenth greens, with Augusta National caddies on hand, in their coveralls, to help the civilians manage what, up close, look like preposterously hilly putts.
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The character is preposterously pompous — the kind of guy who tells his entire family to "eat shit" — but at times Evans' killer blue eyes and razor sharp jawline manage to cut through Ransom's insufferable attitude and make a strong, albeit shameful, case for attraction.
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McPhail and writers Ryan McHenry and Alan McDonald leave the usual anti-zombie weapons (guns, axes, chainsaws) out of the equation, make their zombies preposterously fragile, and give the characters room to dispatch them with absolutely anything that comes to hand, including a seesaw and a spatula.
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The bad part is that while the spec bump is greatly appreciated, Huawei has also increased the MateBook X Pro's starting price quite a bit, which makes it feel more like a fair to good deal instead of the preposterously sick bargain that was last year's model.
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"Today's epic 2743 percent run in Netflix, after the company reported some preposterously fantastic sign-ups, is the kind of thing that makes you want to tear your hair out, if you have any, if you're trying to value the stock on traditional metrics, " he said.
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"Today's epic 9 percent run in Netflix, after the company reported some preposterously fantastic sign-ups, is the kind of thing that makes you want to tear your hair out, if you have any, if you're trying to value the stock on traditional metrics, " he said.
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Housing in Oakland was cheaper than in San Francisco, which had grown preposterously expensive: The part of the city that had once housed techno raves and all the wondrous weirdness that spawned Burning Man itself was now home to tech titans like Dropbox, Reddit and Airbnb.
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Senator Kamala Harris, whose dud presidential campaign has lately become a slightly more plausible vice presidential one, took the opportunity to reheat her LIFT Act, which would direct preposterously insufficient payments to a narrow subset of Americans who were neither too rich nor, not a little nauseatingly, too poor.
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Hitt adds: There is still no comprehensive study to determine just how many cities pay their bills by indenturing the poor, but it is probably no coincidence that when you examine the recent rash of police killings, you find that the offenses they were initially stopped for were preposterously minor.
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The company also managed to attract a preposterously large sum of capital from investors ($6 million, to be precise) while marketing itself to a very specific segment of American society—the kind who clamored for a $178 Wi-Fi-enabled touchscreen bottle sleeve that came with four aluminum wine cartridges.
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With its stratospheric $47 billion valuation and preposterously ambitious cofounder and CEO, Adam Neumann — his goal wasn't merely to make money or rent office space, he claimed, but to "change the world" — WeWork had become a glaring symbol of Silicon Valley's boundless audacity and self-professed exemption from the laws of economics.
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There's the Saint (Louis Gerardo Méndez), the Angels' helpmeet, offering vegan ice cream and electrolyte-enhanced water after a tough day on the job; and Langston (Noah Centineo), Elena's assistant, mostly tasked with being adorable; and their preposterously handsome mentor (Djimon Honsou), looking like he's wandered in from a Paul Smith store.
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Perhaps the biggest Brazil thrills we've had during these games have come from the most amazing sprinter and the most amazing swimmer in Olympic history, a pair of preposterously tall, hard-abbed physical marvels, Jamaica's Usain Bolt and America's Michael Phelps, who while getting older (234 and 230, respectively) just keep on getting better.
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His first, "Sin Nombre," had been an almost preposterously ambitious undertaking for a first-time filmmaker, tracking the intertwining stories of an immigrant and an erstwhile member of MS-2000 as they made the dangerous journey to the United States border atop fast-moving train cars, all written by Fukunaga in slang-heavy Spanish.
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It tells the story of three generations of Latina women: the sincerely devout but still frisky widow Alba (Yvonne Coll), her sexually liberated daughter Xiomara (Andrea Navedo), and Xo's daughter, the titular Jane (Golden Globe winner Gina Rodriguez), an aspiring novelist who is trying to carve her own middle path when the preposterously accidental pregnancy blows up her life.
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There is something jarring in the idea that those talents usually ascribed to the preposterously gifted—the ability not only to get shots but to take over games, to turn a team contest into an exercise of individual will—might be learned, year after year, by a guy who used to be a solid fourth option.
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And yet the story of the tulips is still lodged in the modern mind as the perfect case study of a "bubble" — more so, even, than the South Sea Bubble, one of several speculative crazes of the early 18th century, in which British investors were thrown into panic by the rise and fall of a preposterously overvalued trading company.
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She's been extremely funny in a dizzying number of ways: quick online character work ("art wife" but "workout mom" should be enough evidence to give her an IFC sketch show), podcasts, her weekly show at Club Cumming, but her finest showcase so far is her cabaret act where she plays a preposterously cocky chanteuse with go-for-broke showmanship.
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The next in the series is the actor Hugh Dancy, who shares his list exclusively with T. "The Pickwick Papers," Charles Dickens When I need to read something that I know will fill my imagination, lift my spirits and also be effortless, I go to Dickens, and this is the most preposterously, comically overflowing of them all.
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His eye now firmly on the 1972 election, the president offered a preposterously incoherent stimulus plan: tariffs, a wage and price freeze, targeted tax cuts, a suspension of the gold standard and, in 1971, the closing of the gold window, which blocked foreign governments from selling dollars for gold — in effect killing off the gold standard entirely.
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If female journalists in rom-coms aren't getting romantically involved with their sources or male colleagues (Sleepless in Seattle, The Devil Wears Prada, Never Been Kissed, He's Just Not That Into You, Trainwreck, Top Five, the list goes on), they're being preposterously manipulated by people who want to make their love lives the center of the story.
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Consider this detail from Foreign Policy's John Hudson, who reported on the Clinton campaign's almost preposterously vast pool of "advisers," who've been recruited from every tier of Washington's Democratic foreign policy community and who produce "reams" of memos and policy papers that no one will ever read: But free advice isn't the only advantage to having a big foreign-policy team.
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He has announced preposterously that he "fell in love" with North Korea's murderous dictator, Kim Jong UnKim Jong UnUS proposed helping North Korea build tourist area amid nuclear talks: report Kim poses for photos on white horse on sacred mountain, plans 'great operation' Beware the 34th month of Trump's presidency MORE, and repeatedly has insulted our best and longest-term allies.
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From the never-ending games to the overzealous coaches to the preposterously priced equipment to the emphasis on private swing coaches to the thug middle-of-the-order kid who thinks he's the next Bryce Harper, youth baseball is too often a miserable, jerk-riddled endeavor that I would no sooner wish upon my future grandchildren than I would a head filled with lice.
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"From the never-ending games to the overzealous coaches to the preposterously priced equipment to the emphasis on private swing coaches to the thug middle-of-the-order kid who thinks he's the next Bryce Harper, youth baseball is too often a miserable, jerk-riddled endeavor that I would no sooner wish upon my future grandchildren than I would a head filled with lice," wrote Pearlman.
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And now, instead of its standard Kohler toilet, it will have a solid 18-karat-gold working replica of one, a preposterously scatological apotheosis of wealth whose form is completed in its function: You could go into the restroom just to bask in its glow, Mr. Cattelan said, but it becomes an artwork only with someone sitting on it or standing over it, answering nature's call.
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Fans streamed to the exits, and I ended up sneaking down into preposterously good seats for the rest of the game—which was a huge stroke of luck, as the Jays came back to win with an incredible six-run ninth inning that ended with Tim Corcoran (the Rays' fourth pitcher of the frame) walking Aaron Hill with the bases loaded to score Matt Stairs as the winning run.
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More broadly, a 2015 report by Jack Hitt for Mother Jones found one of the problems is that traffic stops in many municipalities are too often incentivized to generate revenue, at the expense of the most vulnerable: There is still no comprehensive study to determine just how many cities pay their bills by indenturing the poor, but it is probably no coincidence that when you examine the recent rash of police killings, you find that the offenses they were initially stopped for were preposterously minor.
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More broadly, a 2015 report by Jack Hitt for Mother Jones found one of the problems is that traffic stops in many municipalities are too often incentivized to generate revenue, at the expense the most vulnerable: There is still no comprehensive study to determine just how many cities pay their bills by indenturing the poor, but it is probably no coincidence that when you examine the recent rash of police killings, you find that the offenses they were initially stopped for were preposterously minor.
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