BENNETT: That is the most preposterous thing I could possibly imagine him saying.
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Anna Sauerbrey BERLIN — It was the most preposterous mic drop in German history.
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Of all the arguments advanced by the Trump forces, this has to be among the most preposterous.
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It's goofy as hell, but it's not even the most preposterous team-recorded anthem of that year.
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The movie gives Hopkins the most preposterous dialogue, and he delivers all of it like it's grand theater.
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Even the most preposterous developments often hint at the fears and neuroses woven into the fabric of family life.
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"One of the most preposterous hoaxes in the history of the planet," scoffed Rush Limbaugh of Palm Beach. Gov.
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Can you recruit people who take the most preposterous lies of the right-wing news media as gospel truth?
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We're using Russia to help me win the great state of Iowa or anywhere else is the most preposterous, embarrassing thing.
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" Then, Skarsgård suggested the most preposterous alternate explanation possible, that he might've been on-set to "help Meryl Streep with her acting.
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Addressing reporters before Trump tweeted about the sentence, Fidell said Trump had already caused one of the "most preposterous" legal situations in American history.
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Of all the techniques a fighter could choose to attempt as an intercepting counter, the axe kick has to be among the most preposterous.
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For a stadium that includes renderings of people rollerblading alongside a moat in which other people are surfing, this particular image is the most preposterous.
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Over big-bubble bass and sci-fi synths, the most preposterous part of "Tokyo" is the fact that Thundercat slid the word "reckless" into the chorus.
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News is fake unless it comes from sources that espouse our worldview, in which case even the most preposterous conspiracy theory is seen as ironclad truth.
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" So now we have an actual, accredited university, where people go to get bachelors and advanced degrees, trying to protect itself from sanctions in the most preposterous, existential way: "Sure, it happened.
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As a candidate, Trump "made really extraordinary reprehensible comments targeted directly at our client," Fidell told reporters Friday, calling the situation "one of the most preposterous states of affairs" in American legal history.
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Which brings us to perhaps the most preposterous rationale for not electing someone to a Hall of Fame: "He's a Hall of Fame player that five teams couldn't wait to get rid of."
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Perhaps the most preposterous pair are the Economic and Social Committee, which brings together trade union and civil representatives for monthly meetings, and the Committee of the Regions, which does the same for regional authorities.
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Over time, of course, the sleight of hand has grown increasingly sophisticated, to the point where computer-generated imaging now makes it seem as if even the most preposterous events are unfolding before our eyes.
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Here are the 12 most preposterous arguments the right is making against gun control: Charlie Kirk, the director of the conservative organization Turning Point USA came very close to making an argument for why we need stronger gun control legislation when he tweeted: Yes, most gun deaths are suicides.
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The whole thing is worth a read but, according to Eaves, CP3 and grown increasingly frustrated with head coach and president of basketball operations Doc Rivers, and his breaking point was a nixed deal that could have brought Carmelo Anthony to Los Angeles: This scenario is so mind-bogglingly dumb for both parties that I can't even decide which aspect is the most preposterous.
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" Sir Walter Scott found this the most preposterous part of "Frankenstein": "That he should have not only learned to speak, but to read, and, for aught we know, to write—that he should have become acquainted with Werter, with Plutarch's Lives, and with Paradise Lost, by listening through a hole in a wall, seems as unlikely as that he should have acquired, in the same way, the problems of Euclid, or the art of book-keeping by single and double entry.
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From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830–1910, JHU Press (2003), p. 221, Charles Dickens had an opposite reaction: "[It is] the most preposterous peg to hang ballets on that was ever seen. The people who act in it have not the slightest idea of what it is about".Forster, John.
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In 2014, Marshall was awarded the Australian Skeptics Bent Spoon award for being the "perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudo-scientific piffle" after publicly endorsing water divining. Marshall said 'is there instrumentality that we could create that would enable a machine to find that water?', and that it is CSIRO's job to "push the envelope".
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At the Battle of Spion Kop, on 23–24 January 1900, he had operational command, and his failures of judgment, delay and indecision despite his superior forces culminated in the disaster. Farwell highlighted Warren's fixation with the army's oxen and his view that Hlangwane Hill was the key to Colenso.Farwell, pp. 159–61 Farwell suggested Warren was "perhaps the worst" of the British generals in the Boer War and certainly the most "preposterous".
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Key findings of the report (esp. about their rejection of the plane-crash-theory) have been criticized and the report contains other glaring inaccuracies. Sugata Bose notes that Mukherjee himself admitted to harbouring a preconceived notion about Bose being alive and living as an ascetic. He also blames the commission for entertaining the most preposterous and fanciful of all stories, thus adding to the confusion and for failing to distinguish between the highly probable and utterly impossible.
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This award is bestowed by the Australian Skeptics to 'the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudo-scientific piffle'. In early 2017, the university unsuccessfully attempted to block their Bent Spoon nomination. This led to a number of articles appearing in the media taking an in-depth look at the National Institute of Complementary Medicine. The university was found to have accepted an untied gift of $10 million from the controversial supplement company, Blackmores.
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From the fjord, the farm has a difficult uphill hike to get to the farm. Magdalene Thoresen, Henrik Ibsen's mother-in-law, said of the area: > This fjord is surrounded by the steepest and, one is almost tempted to say, > the most preposterous mountains on the entire west coast. It is very narrow > and has no habitable shore area, for the precipitous heights rise in sheer > and rugged strata almost straight out of the water. Foaming waterfalls > plunge into the fjord from jagged peaks.
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Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the score by David Shire and the casting of Mitchum as Marlowe both seemed "exactly right", but criticized the voice-over narrative, finding that "the effect undercuts the visual splendors and reveals the plot complications at their most preposterous. Too bad, because it breaks the fine mood Richards & Company establish and makes Farewell, My Lovely an interesting but mixed blessing instead of the unmitigated triumph it almost was."Champlin, Charles (August 20, 1975). "'Lovely' Catches Look of the'40s".
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Baradwaj Rangan wrote, "The film is a disaster...it's impossible to digest the overall preposterousness...Romeo Juliet just cannot make up its mind whether it wants to be a screwball comedy or a melodrama — the tone is all over the place. And the writing is painfully inconsistent". The Times of India gave the film 2/5 and wrote, "here is a film that could prove to be a worthy challenger to Valiyavan for the title of the Most Preposterous Movie of the Year. Rediff also gave it 2/5 and wrote, "Lakshman's Romeo Juliet is just a rehash of old clichés.
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She has stated that she has not yet mastered the ability to be fluid-free for more than short periods. Jasmuheen was awarded the Bent Spoon Award by Australian Skeptics in 2000 ("presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle"). She was also awarded the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for her book Pranic Nourishment – Living on Light, "which explains that although some people do eat food, they don't ever really need to."2000 Ig Nobel Prize Winners Jasmuheen maintains that some of her beliefs are based on the writings and "more recent channelled material" of the Count of St Germain.
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Suddenly, he has his edge back." Soap Opera Digest gave the storyline a thumbs up and a thumbs down because, though it was an exciting twist, it happened too closely to the other Chancellor family rewrite undoing the mother and daughter relationship between Jill and Katherine. The magazine later named the storyline the "Most Preposterous Plot Twist" of 2009 because the rewrite "was way out of sync with Y&R;'s usual authentic approach to storytelling". In 2011, Tommy Garrett of Canyon News said that Goddard is "forever second guessing his character when asked about Cane by the media", also stating that, "To keep an edgy Cane, never to make him boring and lifeless.
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Richardson said that Goldfinger "is the most preposterous specimen yet displayed in Mr. Fleming's museum of super fiends", and, referring to the novel's central character, observed that "the real trouble with Bond, from a literary point of view, is that he is becoming more and more synthetic and zombie-ish. Perhaps it is just as well." In The Manchester Guardian, Roy Perrott observed that "Goldfinger ... will not let [Bond's] close admirers down". Perrott thought that overall "Fleming is again at his best when most sportingly Buchan-ish as in the motoring pursuit across Europe"; he summarised the book by saying that it was "hard to put down; but some of us wish we had the good taste just to try".
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Much of Dunlop's advocacy as a skeptic is focused on countering the claims of the anti-vaccination movement, specifically the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) and its former president Meryl Dorey. In 2010 the AVN was ordered by the Health Care Complaints Commission to post a prominent warning on their website, but the organisation refused to comply and appealed the decision. In response, Dunlop and other skeptics organised a "Google bomb" so that Web searches for the name of the organisation resulted in several links to critical websites on the first page of results. In 2009 the Australian Skeptics presented Dorey and the AVN with their Bent Spoon Award, which is "presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle".
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2009 winners: Meryl Dorey & The Australian (anti)Vaccination Network The Australian Skeptics awarded their Bent Spoon Award, "presented annually to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle", to Meryl Dorey and the AVN in 2009, stating that the award had been earned through their "scaremongering and misinformation about childhood vaccination". In response, Dorey stated that winning the award meant she was "on the right track". In September 2010, the AVN was accused of numerous copyright breaches relating to their sale of information packs containing photocopies of selected parts of old medical journal articles, newspaper reports and cartoons. After receiving complaints from authors and copyright holders, the AVN withdrew the packs from sale on their website.
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Reprinted as The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Horror, Overlook Press, 1995, On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, A Bay of Blood holds an 85% approval rating based on 13 critic reviews, with an average rating of 7.07/10. Joe Dante, on the other hand, was enthusiastic about the film, writing in The Film Bulletin (later reprinted in Video Watchdog) that it "features enough violence and gore to satisfy the most rabid mayhem fans and benefits from the inimitably stylish direction of horror specialist Mario Bava (Black Sunday). Assembled with a striking visual assurance that never ceases to amuse, this is typical Bava material, simply one ghastly murder after another---13 in all---surrounded by what must be one of the most preposterous and confusing plots ever put on film."Dante, Joe.
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Reviewing the original production, The Bulletin said "the dramatic cliches and tortuous contrivings that go with resolving the situations are rather less than bearable, and the scene wherein Scobie recovers his manhood and Max reveals his yellow streak must be one of the most preposterous bits of hoo-ha served to an audience for many a day." The Sydney Morning Herald said the play "ran a wayward course through melodramatic shallows" and "had an entertaining enough adventure yarn to tell, but Mr Pullan seemed unable to develop the issues of his intriguing first act in a rich way through the stationary second, and then abandoned adventure to turn his third act into a much too rapid_, much too tritely tremulous, much too improbable study of a wrecked man's redemption into full and confident manhood." The paper's reviewer added that the "dialogue had the surface fluency to be expected of an experienced hand in day-to-dsy radio writing, but the play...had something of radio's way of forcing over-heated dramatics into situations that could seem more plausible if allowed to generate more stealthily." The Age said the play was "undistinguished" with "some of the most predictable action ever seen on stage".
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