prosaic

• “My most cordial thanks therefore for the gift which you call prosaic, and my best regards to your husband.”

  Letters

• “The prosaic is an affair of description and narration, of details accumulated and relations elaborated, It spreads as it goes like a legal document or catalogue.”

  John Dewey's *Art as Experience*

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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.)

• “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.

• “They have been called prosaic, but this is not a right word for them; they were neither sentimental, nor, strictly speaking, poetical.”

  Celtic Literature

Show 10 more examples...