So they'll say something preposterous, and I've learned not to tolerate preposterousness.
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The preposterousness of "The Passing of the Great Race" approaches the sublime.
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Committed to this preposterousness, the movie is consistently tougher to resist than it might seem.
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Plot holes and preposterousness aside, the film seems to have made one choice mistake: it was set in New York.
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The lavish costumes and lovely real estate — requirements of the genre — are offset by a fizzy, giddy mood of spirited preposterousness.
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To be honest, a plot summary would make "Life Itself" sound like fun, because it might create an impression of antic preposterousness.
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Mostly, the show pricks at the preposterousness of the Great Vorelli, with his scarcely evident charisma and his convoluted, Hugo-facilitated evil schemes.
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So it's probably a good thing that Howard, Hanks, and everyone else involved conspire to ignore the story's preposterousness and pretend they're making a real thriller.
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The claim "almost creates its own level of preposterousness," said the official, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, dispensing with the usual diplomatic courtesies.
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It was the preposterousness of the notion that issuing stressed-out inner-city teachers with firearms, along with their parking permits and keys to the staff bathroom, could ever make sense.
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One suspects Stahelski recognizes this: Chapter 2 is a lot campier than its predecessor, as if he hopes that owning up to the preposterousness will make it go down more smoothly.
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Mr. Gottlieb's assessments include drawing positive attention to the "robust sex and amusing plotting" in one writer's novel and noting another's "preposterous" story line (though he adds that the preposterousness is what allows for the fun).
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Had any of my peers come to me at high school and told me they planned to defeat the root of all evil, I'd have laughed in their face at the sheer preposterousness of this naïve plan.
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Chappelle's Show riffed on serious realities of race, sex, inequality, politics, and the preposterousness of pop culture, but never forgot Oscar Wilde's famous adage: if you're going to tell the truth, be funny—or else they'll want to kill you.
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A 23,500-square-foot behemoth at the corner of Sunset and Vine, the store is kitted out to the point of preposterousness with, among other things, a sushi bar, a supermarket, a florist, a warren of frozen-yogurt kiosks and a sidewalk cafe.
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Both the are-you-kidding-me preposterousness of the arguments and the vehemence of Governor McCrory's attack on the Justice department are good signs that North Carolina faces stiff winds in its legal battle to erect novel "keep out" signs against its transgender citizens.
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Still, Greta Van Fleet enjoys some of the open-ended preposterousness of the old days, tucking a spoken-word passage under wild echoes in "Lover, Leaver (Taker, Believer)" and swerving into a scat-singing interlude around the syllables of "mama" in "The Cold Wind," two songs that clearly reference Led Zeppelin.
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All in all, though, The Book of Henry sounds like cause for Star Wars fans to spend the next two years fretting about Episode IX. Here's John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter: The preposterousness of Gregg Hurwitz's screenplay isn't enough to throw star Naomi Watts off her game, and the actor's sincere performance may suffice to keep a segment of the family-film demographic on board, barely.
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If you're in any doubt as to the dearth of decent movie roles available to women of a certain age — certain never to see 40 again, at any rate — then buy a ticket for "Shut In." In this achingly inept thriller, you will see Naomi Watts do what she can to sell a plot of such preposterousness that the derisory laughter around me began barely 20 minutes in.
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Bonnie Bluh, herself an actress-playwright-singer-dancer, has done it." Lynda Schor added in Ms. Magazine that "What makes Banana exceptional and fascinating is its inventiveness, its verve, originality, its sometimes sheer madness, its rage. Preposterousness and eccentricity woven into the mundane. The result is as colorful and variegated as a Peruvian scarf... the most scintillating dialogue I've come across in a long time.
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" Ed Potton of The Sunday Times gave the film a positive review, observing that the premise "really shouldn't work, yet somehow it steers a course between corniness and barminess. By the end I was crying like a baby, along with many of the other people in my screening, as well as giggling at the preposterousness of it all." Peter Debruge of Variety wrote: "Granted, there aren't a lot of surprises in The Art of Racing in the Rain. If anything, knowing — or at least anticipating — how the film's myriad tragedies will unfold seems to heighten the effect.
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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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The IST expert assigns the same mental states to Blockhead as he does to Jones, "whereas in fact [Blockhead] has not a thought in his head." Dennett has argued against this by denying the premise, on the basis that the robot is a philosophical zombie and therefore metaphysically impossible. In other words, if something acts in all ways conscious, it necessarily is, as consciousness is defined in terms of behavioral capacity, not ineffable qualia.Daniel Dennett, The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies Another objection attacks the premise that treating people as ideally rational creatures will yield the best predictions.
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The most commonly given answer is that we attribute consciousness to other people because we see that they resemble us in appearance and behavior; we reason that if they look like us and act like us, they must be like us in other ways, including having experiences of the sort that we do. There are, however, a variety of problems with that explanation. For one thing, it seems to violate the principle of parsimony, by postulating an invisible entity that is not necessary to explain what we observe. Some philosophers, such as Daniel Dennett in an essay titled The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies, argue that people who give this explanation do not really understand what they are saying.
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According to Lawson minimalism was the result, even though the term "minimalism" was not generally embraced by the artists associated with it, and many practitioners of art designated minimalist by critics did not identify it as a movement as such. Also taking exception to this claim was Greenberg himself; in his 1978 postscript to his essay "Modernist Painting" he disavowed this incorrect interpretation of what he said; Greenberg wrote: > There have been some further constructions of what I wrote that go over into > preposterousness: That I regard flatness and the inclosing of flatness not > just as the limiting conditions of pictorial art, but as criteria of > aesthetic quality in pictorial art; that the further a work advances the > self-definition of an art, the better that work is bound to be.
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According to Lawson, minimalism was the result, even though the term "minimalism" was not generally embraced by the artists associated with it, and many practitioners of art designated minimalist by critics did not identify it as a movement as such. Also taking exception to this claim was Clement Greenberg himself; in his 1978 postscript to his essay Modernist Painting he disavowed this interpretation of what he said, writing: > There have been some further constructions of what I wrote that go over into > preposterousness: I regard flatness and the inclosing of flatness not just > as the limiting conditions of pictorial art, but as criteria of aesthetic > quality in pictorial art; that the further a work advances the self- > definition of an art, the better that work is bound to be.
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