Prosaic

His conceit was to make prosaic, cheap and unimportant things monumental and (ironically) prestigious.

Much of the novel depicts, with exquisite detail, the prosaic patterns of Ruth and Lily’s home life.

The more prosaic ‘cuckooflower’ is probably reference to it emerging into bloom when the first cuckoos arrive.

Unlike some of the dafter pantomimes with more prosaic themes, this one has depth, humanity and poignancy.

We can also see it in the more prosaic field of real estate.

Based on the memoir of the same prosaic name, it’s set in 1939 New England, where 12-year-old Donn Fendler (Luke David Blumm) gets separated from his family in a storm while hiking Maine’s Mt. Katahdin, and winds up wandering alone for more than a week.

Considering its prosaic nature, the ordinary onion certainly garners its share of poetic prose.

More prosaic reasons can explain the apparent longevity of residents of jurisdictions such as Monaco, according to Newman, where low inheritance taxes are a draw for older Europeans, skewing the demographic data.

The games used to be known as the Olympiad but the International Olympic Committee objected to the use of the name, hence its more prosaic moniker these days.

While electoral performances and ideological differences undoubtedly created pressures for Mr Beattie, the straw that broke the camel’s back appears to be more prosaic, and is instead rooted in internal discord at senior levels of the party.

Although well-drafted, (they are intricately rendered in near-photographic detail) his architectural sketches must look prosaic and bare before being adorned with their magical cloaks of colour and light.

A new appreciation of the prosaic, of the small – the joy of half an hour alone on a cool but sunny day.

But more prosaic factors also lie behind the upheaval.

But the reality was more prosaic.

The colossus fights make boss battles in any other game look small and prosaic by comparison.

Vegetables, of course, are prosaic and cheap.

While many value ETFs focus on prosaic metrics, such as price-to-book and price-to-earnings, USMF’s multi-layer approach goes further, providing a better mousetrap for capturing value exposure.

His father, Emperor Showa, was presumably born a deity and never completely warmed to this more prosaic job description.

I’m not sure what that means either, but it’s a great read, which infuses a prosaic life with a steady, thrum of apocalyptic dread that heightens the senses.

Lest one worry that the Vermont senator hums “Californication” to himself, there seems to be a more prosaic explanation: the band fundraised for him in the 2016 cycle.