When he recovered, the preposterousness of these semi-magic ways of attempting wisdom was plain to him.
It is not, however, free either from the preposterousness or from the dulness of the earlier book, though the first characteristic is less preposterous as such preposterousness goes.
Sylvia, half startled by the preposterousness of the idea that they might not be.
We divide all intellection: the obviously preposterousness and the established.
But the climax of hardihood or impropriety or wickedness, preposterousness or enlightenment: "One could hardly resist the conviction that it was a shadow, yet it could not be the shadow of any known body.
Have had to-day a lovely, sublime example of that preposterousness which so often characterizes American humor.
