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preposterous
«I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.»
Author: Alec Baldwin
(Actor)
| Keywords:
preposterous, President of the United, President of the United States
«When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too»
Author: Bayard Rustin
(Activist)
| Keywords:
brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, manifest, misuse, preposterous, redeem, social change, The Social
«It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to be read while chewing gum.»
Author: Wolcott Gibbs
(Writer)
| About:
Movies,
Opinions
| Keywords:
chewing, chewing gum, exhibited, gum, gums, indignant, moving picture, picture writing, preposterous, publication, publications, witless, write about
«Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.»
«The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| Keywords:
account of the creation, Eve, fable, preposterous
«And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldn't it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
An electric, claim, convenience, conveniences, electric, electric light, large number, large numbers, number, plumb, plumbed, plumbing, plumbing system, preposterous, servant, system, The Men, The State
«A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
approximation, correspondence, Correspondences, haunting, impertinent, irrelevant, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, preposterous