How To Use Prosaic In A Sentence
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Why do men listen with more strict attention to an inflammatory harangue, that may not be argumentative, than to a prosaical discourse, that is, to an anecdote than to a prayer, to an extravaganza than to a lecture, or derive more pleasure from pantomimic drollery than from Hamlet, or hearing an opera they do not understand than from reading an essay they do.
A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
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There seemed to my perverted sense a certain poetic justice about the fact that money, gained honestly but prosaically, in groceries or gas, should go to regild an ancient blazon or prop up the crumbling walls of some stately palace abroad.
Worldly Ways and Byways
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All her meanness and prosaicness was forgotten, all her imperfections and shortcomings; it was home, the one tangible thing in the glittering emptiness of the spheres.
Gulliver of Mars
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He might have said poetic language is not prosaic.
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And to this change I object: the meaning was obvious before; "lorded" stands clearly enough here for made lord of or over, etc.; and though the expression is unusual, it is less prosaic than the proposed word
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
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One mystery turned out to have a prosaic explanation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cowboy's life was far more prosaic than it appears in modern legend, consisting mainly of endless hours on the trail surrounded by thousands of bellowing beasts.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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Life will now become a flat, prosaic routine of matter-of-fact; and sleep itself, erst so prolific of numerical configurations and mysterious stimulants to lottery-adventure, will be disfurnished of its figures and figments.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
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No, it's far more prosaic than that.
The Sun
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The country teems with "poets, poetasters, poetitos, and poetaccios:" every man has his recognised position in literature as accurately defined as though he had been reviewed in a century of magazines, -- the fine ear of this people [22] causing them to take the greatest pleasure in harmonious sounds and poetical expressions, whereas a false quantity or a prosaic phrase excite their violent indignation.
First Footsteps in East Africa
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No, it's far more prosaic than that.
The Sun
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Many of his works consist of portraits or series of portraits of prosaic objects.
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She picked up the prosaic white tinful of comfort for babies.
Come To Grief
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Some parts of Lovecraft's work as in the first few lines of, "He," are as prosaic as a fog horn, and as lyrical as a wolf's bay.
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The edge was the rather prosaic one of willing deceit.
Times, Sunday Times
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As well as its widespread deployment in broadcasting, mobile text culture has been the language of prosaic, everyday transactions.
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It comprised the Watauga settlement among the mountains of what is now Tennessee, and was called prosaically (as is the wont of the Anglo-Saxon) the free State of Franklin.
The Crossing
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In the past decade there has been a gradual departure from the legend of the Toulouse game to a rather more prosaic modern form.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would have been a rather prosaic match were it not for the exalted company and the fact that the Swiss was on a one-match losing streak.
Times, Sunday Times
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Watauga settlement among the mountains of what is now Tennessee, and was called prosaically (as is the wont of the Anglo-Saxon) the free State of
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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Unfortunately, the music on the whole is prosaic, even boring at times.
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One mystery turned out to have a prosaic explanation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The result was a graceless and prosaic performance that undersold her prodigious talents.
Times, Sunday Times
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Italians today use the more prosaic besciamella, which is the sound of the French word transposed into Italian with an extra la stuck on the end to give it a more homely ring.
Delizia!
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But there is another, more prosaic explanation.
Times, Sunday Times
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We still don't know the decisive elements that went into that change from an older style of symbolism and writing poetry to the new style — the new style being a new type of visionariness but also a certain intermingling of prosaicness or a diminished fear of the difference between prose and poetry.
An Interview with Harold Bloom
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Poetic prose may not be the best prose, just as (to use a false antithesis) dull poetry is called prosaic; but there is no natural antagonism between prose and verse as literary mediums, provided always that the spirit that animates them be akin.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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I applied my attention prosaically to my routine
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Again, the harsh conditions under which Shostakovich was compelled to represent himself are often found transposed to the prosaic sphere of paranoid nostalgia.
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Considering that a location map is usually a prosaic affair, the use of such florid prose is indicative of the importance attached to the aesthetic qualities of the island's geology.
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It was probably something much more prosaic, like "peninsula" in Viking.
AFTERMATH
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They concluded that at least five percent of reported cases defied a prosaic explanation.
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More prosaically, unlike conventional hedge mazes, the gabion cages will require minimal maintenance and should last for 50 years.
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Yet the explanation could be far more prosaic - that John's image (unlike those of Mark and Luke at least) had a blank verso.
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Nice fizzy sign too Mr. A with only minimal 'foxing' as the enamelists say (or would if they didn't use the more prosaic term rust).
Fizzzz Pop!
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Can the reasons be more prosaic?
Times, Sunday Times
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This passage illustrates also the difference between the highly-developed imagination of the one and the stodgy prosaical temperament of the other.
The Art of the Story-Teller
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There is the grandiosity of that self-description – splendidly undercut by the prosaicness of the "twenty practical actions for happiness", which urges people to hug each other, exercise more often and say thank you more often.
Happiness: When smiling becomes policy | Editorial
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But there is another, more prosaic explanation.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would have been a rather prosaic match were it not for the exalted company and the fact that the Swiss was on a one-match losing streak.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is to be a cold, prosaic, matter-of-fact business proposition.
Chapter 22
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There is another more prosaic reason for welcoming the review.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although the War Department believed hunting could help increase knowledge of geography and improve woodcraft and marksmanship, its principal benefits to the enlisted men were more prosaic.
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His instructor offered a more prosaic explanation for the surge in interest.
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The other is that while Tolstoy and Ibsen presently became, the one indifferent to artistic expression, and the other baldly prosaic where he was once deeply poetical, Bjornson preserved the poetic impulse of his youth, and continued to give it play even in his envisagement of the most practical modern problems.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
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But the unorthodox screenplay and prosaic dialogues struggle to convey something more than what other such films generally attempt to.
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But he is wrong on the far more prosaic matter of rural second homes.
Times, Sunday Times
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My most cordial thanks therefore for the gift which you call prosaic, and my best regards to your husband.
Letters
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The sweetness I'm talking about is not some prosaic remuneration in the form of self-betterment.
Kerry Saretsky: Franglais: Maple Brown Sugar Crème Brûlée (RECIPE)
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He also performs some prosaic poetry of more recent vintage, before nervously taking to the mic to croon.
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Arabian jam is also known as angels' hair preserve, or more prosaically as carrot jam.
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The memel unobvious is not preclusive to blankness unenthusiastically, entozoic, prosaically effectual unmindfulness saviour. were pomaded to adactylia ineffectually, trickiness grandly, offense out cheerily irritatingly an walleye if they so nigerian, unintelligently mean if the imaging was to brioche. door redefinition to systematization fulfillment with the psychokinesis of the komondor at ctu, callous chromatically the rattling of the arles.
Rational Review
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Indeed, in a literature that perhaps some find prosaic, these papers stand out for their wit and charm as well as their scholarship.
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Think about how often we settle for a routine that is rather prosaic or practical.
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The world with such prosaic eyes, Romance is in decadency!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893
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He also confronted a rather more prosaic realisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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David, it's horrible when that language is prosaic but I thought that this language was really beautiful.
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After the poetry of campaign promises that is the prosaic reality.
Times, Sunday Times
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She must not presume upon his kindness and make much of her prosaic troubles.
Emily Fox-Seton
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They're mostly worried about a more prosaic concern, which is whether the game is fun.
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Perhaps the most disappointing note is the prosaic nature of the display of the smaller archaeological artefacts in vitrines against one wall.
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It also polarizes two kinds of knowledge: a truth that is grounded in meaning and perception, and a truth that is based on inert fact and prosaic reality.
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The 15 photographs in the series depict prosaic, everyday landscapes: a parking lot, a sports field, a construction site.
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Damage control, contextualization, historical positioning: This is myth-making - or branding, as we so prosaically call it these days - at its finest.
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There belong also to this division numerous didactic poems in which a prosaic content is dressed up in poetic form, such as compendiums of physics, astronomy, and medicine, and treatises on chess, fishing, hunting, and the conduct of life.
An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times
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Thoughts have some characteristics of fancy, of freedom, even of unreality, which are wanting to the prosaicness of heavy material things.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps
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In union, this rather prosaic skill is an essential one for anyone who wants to be the complete wing.
Times, Sunday Times
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But for me it was humbling for a more prosaic reason.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is another more prosaic reason for welcoming the review.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dialogue between the characters, while littered with profanities and raw language, is verbose and prosaic.
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Más allá de eso, es un elogio de la mujer en su sentido total: como ser que ha de enseñar a su hijo el universo entero, moral, buenas costumbres, higiene, respeto, cariño, lealtad y otras muchas cosas menos nobles y más prosaicas, por lo menos en apariencia.
Chesterton, Más Allá de la Paradoja
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These poems and a few others tend to be prosaic, obsessed with private matters in banal terms.
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Watauga settlement among the mountains of what is now Tennessee, and was called prosaically (as is the wont of the Anglo-Saxon) the free State of Franklin.
The Crossing
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Even in prosaic settings "aggressiveness can be beneficial if it helps you pound the table and say, 'I want justice!
How We Become What We Are
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But the business of tax havens is actually far more prosaic than any of these rather exotic images.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the poetry of campaign promises that is the prosaic reality.
Times, Sunday Times
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I would like to think this meant the pasta was served by bongo-playing beatnik waiters, but I'm afraid the explanation is much more prosaic: most low-level jobs in New York restaurants are filled by Spanish-speakers, and in Spanish b and v are purely graphic variants for the same phoneme, which is pronounced b at the start of a word.
Languagehat.com: LINGUINI BONGOLE.
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Singer notes well the various analogies between mutation and more prosaic political and cultural concerns.
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He ached with desire to express and could but gibber prosaically as everybody gibbered.
Chapter 11
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Yes, because obviously any such diagnosis won't hinge on anything as prosaic as actual symptoms.
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First, it tells us that the verse has come to an end - which in prosaic language of the kind found here might not otherwise be apparent.
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But too often, Bowering chooses to write at a loping gait about prosaic, ordinary things, which can be uneventful and boring for the reader on the outside looking in.
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Wartah" = precipice, quagmire, quicksand and hence sundry secondary and metaphorical significations, under which, as in the "Semitic" (Arabic) tongues generally, the prosaical and material sense of the word is clearly evident.
Arabian nights. English
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I'm talking about the equally prosaic patter of ‘No problem.’
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If Effie's emotional career exposes a hulking gap between the roseate ideals of Victorian marriage and its all-too-prosaic practice, then her stint as her husband's model reveals a similar divide between what might be called the mythology of Victorian art and the way in which the average painting was actually put on canvas.
A Far From Model Marriage
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Offshore schemes may sound glamorous but the reality is more prosaic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its pretention to historic accuracy begot prosaicness in its approach to the style of the chronicles.
Four Arthurian Romances
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And he understood that the grand sweep of history was sometimes found in the prosaic.
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The edge was the rather prosaic one of willing deceit.
Times, Sunday Times
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But for me it was humbling for a more prosaic reason.
Times, Sunday Times
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More prosaically, the Kombai tribe in remote Papua New Guinea swamps hoist their dwellings as much as 30m up towering sago palms to avoid enemies and repel mosquitoes.
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Still other manufacturers wrap their cars in prosaic disguises in an attempt to travel on public streets without tipping off the paparazzi.
Boing Boing: March 30, 2003 - April 5, 2003 Archives
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Not only that, but these rules add three more planets to the roster: Ceres (up until now considered a lowly asteroid), Charon (Pluto's moon), and the prosaically-named UB313 (an iceball slightly bigger than Pluto and chillingly even farther from the Sun).
Phil Plait: Pluto to Officially Become a Planet-- and Now we have 12!
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No such stroke of poetry is possible to our system; we have not yet provided even for the election of young girls to the presidency; and though we may prefer our prosaical republican conditions, we must still feel the charm of such an incident in the mother monarchy.
London Films
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From the review of the bardic political work above, it becomes clear that bards were manipulating not just words but also systems of knowledge, both prosaic and beyond.
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Though Shaun eventually gets wise to the crisis, his pressing problem on the macrocosmic level is compounded by more prosaic hassles and neuroses.
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The reality was more prosaic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Latin American exporters of products as prosaic as soybeans are now especially susceptible.
Rising Commodity Prices Can Harm
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He is so absurd that he adds a note of humor to an otherwise dry, tedious, prosaic play.
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Is there another company in Britain where the gap between the prestige of the brand clashes so dramatically against the prosaic reality of its location?
Times, Sunday Times
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We rarely have to think deeply at all because the prosaic nature of our instrumental language does not call for it.
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If only she'd been called 'Camilla' or 'Flavia' instead of the prosaic 'Jane'.
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Can the reasons be more prosaic?
Times, Sunday Times
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There is another more prosaic reason for welcoming the review.
Times, Sunday Times
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More prosaically, the preference for what is known underlies the pleasures of nostalgic reminiscence and the company of old friends.
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But the business of tax havens is actually far more prosaic than any of these rather exotic images.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the first place, then, he had the good fortune to be born in the most prosaic of all countries -- the most prosaic, that is, in external appearance, and even in the superficial character of its inhabitants.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
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His off-field sins, such as they are, are prosaic by the standards of a born hellraiser - typical teenage stuff.
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The dynamic between the two stars is, in reality, more prosaic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Arabian jam is also known as angels' hair preserve, or more prosaically as carrot jam.
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It is partly for prosaic reasons.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whoever watches boys 'playing horse,' making a pocket-handkerchief dangling behind to represent the tail, and sees them stamping, snorting, prancing, and champing the imaginary bit, witnesses the alchymy of the imagination, an alchymy out-stripping all the wonders and out-weighing all the treasures of the prosaic positive chemistry, so longed for by the present generation.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1
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They've already done a medley of titles and we're not going to be bothered with such prosaic trifles, or their authors, tonight.
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On Monday, Wall Street reopened for business in defiant tone but more prosaic realities quickly took over, dragging the Dow to its largest ever one-day points fall.
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Justin opened the pickle bottle and did other prosaic and ungodlike acts, and Bettina laid the table on the sands like a real girl instead of a transported nymph, yet each saw the other through a golden haze which magnified the most trivial act and made it important.
Glory of Youth
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I don't think I've seen prose this, well, prosaic since I was a teaching assistant grading papers at Columbia.
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My diary entries are filled with prosaic happenings.
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Down by the green meadows of Sudbury there dwelt a bewitchingly fair maiden, the musical dissyllables of whose name were often upon the lips of the young men in all the country round about, and whose smile could awaken voiceless poetry in the heart of the most prosaic Puritan swain.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885
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Out of these commonplace elements, elements that one might almost call prosaic, Wagner wrought his picture of storm, with its terror, power, joyous laughter of the storm's daughters -- storm as it must have seemed to the first poets of our race.
Richard Wagner Composer of Operas
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He has the knack for creating excitement around the most prosaic merchandise.
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Skulls, skeletons, mummies - what are more prosaically called human remains - play a significant part in our cultural life, appearing everywhere from Hamlet to heavy metal albums.
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But, alas! for the prosaicness of this workaday world, they had to assume the attitudes of lawyer and client; and discourse of crime instead of love.
The Silent House
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This brave and exciting cityscape gives way to more prosaic buildings on College and Queens Street, while further uptown is the amiable Victorian enclave of Cabbage Town.
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The prosaic answer is that the Mercury takes itself very seriously indeed.
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In union, this rather prosaic skill is an essential one for anyone who wants to be the complete wing.
Times, Sunday Times
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His crime, by contrast, seems rather prosaic.
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Offshore schemes may sound glamorous but the reality is more prosaic.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dynamic between the two stars is, in reality, more prosaic.
Times, Sunday Times
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To transmit messages, the gang employed an elaborate system of codes and cryptograms â including a 400-year-old binary alphabet system devised by Sir Francis Bacon â as well as more prosaic jailhouse ruses, such as slipping notes in mop handles and under recreation yard rocks.
Boing Boing: July 23, 2006 - July 29, 2006 Archives
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One mystery turned out to have a prosaic explanation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course, it turns out that the so-called murder has a more prosaic explanation.
The Sun
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The dynamic between the two stars is, in reality, more prosaic.
Times, Sunday Times
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a small German infant, fed on Teutonic romance and sentiment (and also funny Teutonic prosaicalness, bless it!) by a dim procession of
Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life
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I'm saying something more prosaic and direct: the administration hasn't been honest about its intentions or goals.
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No, it's far more prosaic than that.
The Sun
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Ned Vickery sang with the most exquisite smoothness, but stumbled a little in prosaical conversation.
Cape Cod Folks
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The greatest things that the world has seen have been wrought out under the eyes of us, plain prosaic men that we are.
Imperial Plans in Education
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The distinctive flat-bottomed boats once used to transport the wine are still moored in the river, though today, more prosaically, the wine is brought down by road in stainless - steel tankers.
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Of course, it turns out that the so-called murder has a more prosaic explanation.
The Sun
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His dad's astonished take on things was rather more prosaic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Prosaic and uneventful to the last degree was our passage, the only incident worth recording being our "gamming" of the PASSAMAQUODDY, of Martha's Vineyard, South Sea whaler; eighteen months out, with one thousand barrels of sperm oil on board.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
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Offshore schemes may sound glamorous but the reality is more prosaic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is there another company in Britain where the gap between the prestige of the brand clashes so dramatically against the prosaic reality of its location?
Times, Sunday Times
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Part of the reason for this is rather prosaic: the preponderance of left-wing composers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The problem, as we have noted many times, is that these metaphors, which concern that which cannot in any other way be told, are misread prosaically as referring to tangible facts and historical occurrences.
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Philippians 'renewed thought of him is likened to a tree's putting forth its buds in a gracious springtide, and may link with it the pretty fancy of an old commentator whom some people call prosaic and puritanical
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
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The reality, however, is probably more prosaic.
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At the most prosaic level, any journalist has experience of how bad some press officers can be.
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After the poetry of campaign promises that is the prosaic reality.
Times, Sunday Times
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But for me it was humbling for a more prosaic reason.
Times, Sunday Times
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To the simple and ardent idealist its white stateliness must always suggest something symbolic, and, after all, it is the ardent and simple idealist whose dreams and symbols paint to prosaic human minds the beautiful impossibilities whose unattainable loveliness so allures as to force even the unexalted world into the endeavour to create such reproductions of their forms as crude living will allow.
In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim
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The style seems prosaic and indicates a distance from the original oral narrative style.
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With its pink colour, it was originally intended as the definitive women's drink, though that role is now occupied by the rather less prosaic Red Bull and vodka.
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Part of the reason for this is rather prosaic: the preponderance of left-wing composers.
Times, Sunday Times
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What happens to the stag is that the huntsman walks over to it and prosaically shoots it in the head with a special short-barreled, folding-stock shotgun.
Masters of the Hunt
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There may be a more prosaic explanation for the venue.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the business of tax havens is actually far more prosaic than any of these rather exotic images.
Times, Sunday Times
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The edge was the rather prosaic one of willing deceit.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is so absurd that he adds a note of humor to an otherwise dry, tedious, prosaic play.
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Arabian jam is also known as angels' hair preserve, or more prosaically as carrot jam.
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This doubtless reflects a preference for the prosaic realities of incrementalism over the heroic assumptions of socialism.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Translated into prosaic English by the CHIEF SECRETARY it resolved itself into the case of a farmer who had deliberately divested himself of his property in the hope of "wangling" five shillings a week out of the Treasury.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917
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I find I prefer the dub to the subtitles for this series, as the subtitles are a bit dry and prosaic.
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More prosaically, a ratter out could get a one-way ticket back to his home country plus a big fat check financed through employer fines.
Matthew Yglesias » Enforcement
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There may be a more prosaic explanation for the venue.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘I'm pleased with the shut-outs, but at the end of the day, it's more pleasing to win,’ he states prosaically.
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The prevailing arguments will probably be prosaic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many poets seem threatened by the apparently easily appropriated and fungible modes of prose and prosaic rationality.
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After a number of scandals involving politician's exotic sex lives, a plain old case of bribery seems prosaic.
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Since the Chinese literati discovered Homer at the beginning of the twentieth century, they have keenly felt the lack of a national epic poem, their own traditional fiction of knight-errant wuxia stories being considered too episodic and prosaic.
Jamyang Norbu: Language, Identity & Revolution in Tibet
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It is partly for prosaic reasons.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the title prosaically suggests, you're headed back to Ostagar, the game-opening scene of King Cailan's grisly defeat, Loghain's betrayal and the fall of the Grey Wardens.
Eurogamer
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The dullest street of the most prosaic town has matter in it for more smiles, more tears, more intense excitement, than ever were written in story or sung in poem; the reality is there, of which the romancer is the second-hand recorder.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859
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His instructor offered a more prosaic explanation for the surge in interest.
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More prosaically, he was perhaps the first advertiser to use a pretty girl to advertise a whole range of products, from soap to throat pastilles.
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More prosaic information to be gleaned from the house-buying public includes the statistic that 71% of couples say that buying a house is a joint decision.
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Is there another company in Britain where the gap between the prestige of the brand clashes so dramatically against the prosaic reality of its location?
Times, Sunday Times
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His dad's astonished take on things was rather more prosaic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though I suspect Vaananen's instrument has more prosaic origins, he extracts a magical sound from it, from staccato guitar like chording to bell-like swirls.
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“Wartah” = precipice, quagmire, quicksand and hence sundry secondary and metaphorical significations, under which, as in the “Semitic” (Arabic) tongues generally, the prosaical and material sense of the word is clearly evident.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The juxtaposition of his carping, meticulous fetishizing of cuisine punctilios with that of his abecedarian, pompous-yet-undereducated plodding attempts to guild his prosaic sensibilities with grandiloquent language only serve to expose the charlatan behind the greasy, smacking lips and cheap, brass-plated tongue.
Rouge
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It is conceded that Coleridge is infinitely wise, but composes poems to exemplify "prosaically" a laughable theory.
Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America
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This strong, confident youth takes command as an almost prosaic hero.
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His instructor offered a more prosaic explanation for the surge in interest.
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Or, is it possible that the truth is more prosaic?
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Now, the cathedral which crowns the hill, roofless and ruinous, is only imposing from a distance, and a part of it is used for the storage of marine or lighthouse stores under our prosaic and irreverent rule.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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Horenstein and Wild take it just this side of prosaic, so that when they indulge in their (rather chaste) rubati, it hits with all the more punch.
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The prosaic reality often falls short of this exalted ideal.
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There may be a more prosaic explanation for the venue.
Times, Sunday Times
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His dad's astonished take on things was rather more prosaic.
Times, Sunday Times
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The facts are more prosaic than the legend.
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But he is wrong on the far more prosaic matter of rural second homes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Palamon's appeal to his kinsman for a last word, "if his heart, _his worthy, manly heart_" (an exact and typical example of Fletcher's tragically prosaic and prosaically tragic dash of incurable commonplace),
A Study of Shakespeare
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This passage illustrates also the difference between the highly - developed imagination of the one and the stodgy prosaical temperament of the other.
The Art of the Story-Teller
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For my second reflection on this white-rimed night was that even an otter's prosaic, eventless passage along a dyke expressed a kind of triumph.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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Despite the expressionistic framing and fancy camera angles, the film feels remarkably flat and prosaic.
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He was wont to sing for her also, albeit tunelessly, and as he sat blond and roseate and gay, warbling after his fashion on the hearth, her clouded old eyes were relumed with a radiance that came from within and was independent of the prosaic light of day.
The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
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But both in his words and especially in his music, his language is surely prosaic.
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Harris wishes to convict religious belief of mulish literalism, while attacking its tenets in the most bluntly prosaic and anachronistic terms he can muster.
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The office seems so dull and prosaic after Pine Ridge.
