Present a difficult problem, they provide a clear, direct, and preposterously simplistic answer.

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Music spills out onto the streets and drunken 20-somethings are wandering around, drinking beer out of preposterously large plastic cups.

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He was preposterously fair-skinned, weak in the chin, cherubically curly up top, and had worn the same round wire frames forever.

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Like Monument Valley, the Grand Canyon is a totemic American landscape, a preposterously huge chasm that seems to open up from nowhere.

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Mr Hood's supporters think the threat to Oxford's ethos is preposterously exaggerated.

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He comes off as a preposterously likable man, though the movie is so one-sided that you never get the truth of any situation that it touches on.

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All this while the elected government preposterously delays taking action.

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But the limits are simply preposterously high.

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This is a preposterously beautiful country.

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