Firedamp), even more preposterous place names (Galloping Fronds, Crumbling Outset) and absurd deaths.
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Jobs based on which genitals you have – have you ever heard of anything more preposterous?
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Now, thanks to one intrepid YouTuber, Doom modders have achieved another, even more preposterous, level of success: They wired a toy trumpet to play Doom.
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In lieu of filing a malpractice claim, Martin has chosen a more archaic — and, in the film's modern setting, a far scarier and more preposterous — form of score settling.
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Down at the harbor, huge mock galleons, capable of carrying more than 100 tourists on day cruises, are moored in a row, looking all the more preposterous for their pointlessness.
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Just ride it to its even more preposterous climax, enjoying Mr. Costner and a steady supporting cast (Gary Oldman as the C.I.A. honcho; Gal Gadot as Bill's wife) along the way.
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But it's looking more and more preposterous to desperate federal workers, who pop up hourly on cable news with heartbreaking tales of skipping doses of vital medicines or missing rent payments.
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More preposterous still, later on, is the gleam of golden arches reflected in Ray's windshield, and the drumroll that we hear just before he reveals his expansionist dream to Mac and Dick.
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Hodges, which secured a fundamental right for gay couples to marry, Kagan pushed John Bursch, the lawyer arguing against that right, to own some of the more preposterous implications of what he was saying.
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The joke finishes by making the story even more preposterous, as Trump's imagined staffers cut the gorilla footage down to just the fighting and Trump talks to the TV, believing that they can hear him.
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And, of course, King George's taunt of "you'll be back" is no more preposterous than King Donald's claim that the midterm elections are going to result in a "red wave," when every respectable poll, based largely on his unpopularity, foretells just the opposite.
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A long series of scenes depicting what might really have taken place between Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas — from Carlyle's virulent anti-Anita point of view — is more preposterous than funny, not to mention gratuitously long, especially when it's followed by a (staged) insurrection in the audience.
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Under the guidance of the showrunner Bruce Miller, the TV series did a brilliant job in Season 1 of translating the novel to the screen, but in generating new story lines for Seasons 33 and 3, the show's writers have subjected Offred (played by the gifted Elisabeth Moss) to a wearisome "Groundhog Day" loop of tribulations, including several failed escape attempts, repetitious, soap-opera confrontations with Serena and Aunt Lydia and more and more preposterous situations calling for bad-ass heroics.
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In the blink of an eye, we're asked to simply: forget about Democrats on this committee falsely claiming they had "more than circumstantial evidence" of collusion between President Trump and the Russians; forget about them reading fabrications of Trump-Russia collusion from the Steele dossier into the congressional record; forget about them trying to obtain nude pictures of Trump from Russian pranksters who pretended to be Ukrainian officials; forget about them leaking a false story to CNN, while he was still testifying to our committee, claiming Donald Trump Jr. had colluded with Wikileaks; and forget about countless other deceptions, large and small, that make them the last people on earth with the credibility to hurl more preposterous accusations at their political opponents.
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The film has been described as a box office flopEverett Aaker, The Films of George Raft, McFarland & Company, 2013 p 55 and a hit. The Los Angeles Times thought the story was even more "preposterous" than Bolero but felt it was a better movie due to its dancing, attractive women and music, calling the film "a sensory experience".
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Mr. Brooks received mixed reviews from film critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, a Review aggregator, the film has a score of 55% based on 153 reviews with an average rating of 5.7 out of 10. The critical consensus states "The setup is intriguing, but Mr. Brooks overstuffs itself with twists and subplots, becoming more preposterous as it goes along." Costner and Hurt were both praised for their performances.
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Although Beyond Tomorrow was considered a "Christmas Carol" and had some redeeming features including its talented cast of character actors, reviewer Bosley Crowther of The New York Times felt that the plot let the film down. "For its first half it is a latter-day Christmas carol, told with a gamin tenderness and warming as a hot toddy. But when its three elderly good Samaritans return from a plane crash as celluloid chimeras, its mystical peregrinations are more preposterous than moving." Crowther, Bosley.
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SFX reviewer Richard Edwards was more negative, giving the episode three stars out of five. He felt that the story had a lot of interesting ideas but then became standard. He also criticised the use of the sonic screwdriver and the Doctor's monologue, which he felt had been overused too much recently, but said that the episode was saved by Clara. Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times was also disappointed, saying that it "amounts to little more than series of events and has a more preposterous premise than usual".
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16 Popularization of animal magnetism was denounced and ridiculed by newspaper journals and theatre during the Romantic Era. Many deemed animal magnetism to be nothing more than a theatrical falsity or quackery. In a 1790 publication, an editor presented a series of letters written by an avid supporter of animal magnetism and included his own thoughts in an appendix stating: "No fanatics ever divulged notions more wild and extravagant; no impudent empiric ever retailed promises more preposterous, or histories of cures more devoid of reality, than the tribe of magnetisers".Pearson, John (1790).
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As both superior of the missions and bishop, Carroll instituted a series of broad reforms in the Church, especially regarding the conduct of the clergy. He promoted the use of vernacular languages in the liturgy, but was unable to gain the support for such reform by the church hierarchy. In 1787 he wrote: > Can there be anything more preposterous than an unknown tongue; and in this > country either for want of books or inability to read, the great part of our > congregations must be utterly ignorant of the meaning and sense of the > public office of the Church. It may have been prudent, for aught I know, to > impose a compliance in this matter with the insulting and reproachful > demands of the first reformers; but to continue the practice of the Latin > liturgy in the present state of things must be owing either to chimerical > fears of innovation or to indolence and inattention in the first pastors of > the national Churches in not joining to solicit or indeed ordain this > necessary alteration.
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She spent more time in film and independent endeavors after reducing her role on Glee, being the first of the cast to "cut out on her own", first playing Belle Blake in Luc Besson's ultra-violent mob comedy film The Family opposite Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Besson reportedly "had Agron specifically in mind [when writing Belle] and wanted her to star in the movie after he had seen her exemplary performance as [Quinn] on Glee." Belle is another teenage character, with Agron saying that she is "the daydreamer and romantic of the family" but "feels very justified in taking matters into her own hands"; the Irish Independent called her "a sexy young psychopath", adding that "Agron is one of the best things in the film [and] successfully grounds the more preposterous aspects of the plot". Agron said she worried a little about her parents watching the film, not because of her character's violence but because of her intimate scenes. The film was released on September 13, 2013, and received mixed reviews, debuting at #2 in its first weekend with $14.5 million.
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