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1. She was surprised to find such a depth of feeling in her usually prosaic self
2. His essays, and quotes, were crudely prosaic, sometimes even shockingly strange, yet he could
3. “All rather prosaic and not what you expected
4. Similarly, we see about us the prosaic detail of life,
5. This time his trip was made in the light, which revealed a prosaic little side road with the occasional farmhouse or simple outbuildings, satellite operations for a larger manor located somewhere else
6. been gradually narrowing through this part of the City and took on a more prosaic look
7. He was not pessimistic; he was simply prosaic
8. Arianell was more prosaic which surprised me as she had lived with magic all her life
9. no form at all, then it becomes a prosaic composition
10. prosaic style of writing had Mary the mother of Jesus
11. But there are other, more prosaic ways of doing this work that
12. For us mere mortals hugging ourselves to keep warm behind the wind breakers on the British beaches in what has again been something of an August wash out, almost mesmerized by the terrible red blink of the Blackberry, the question of “do I need to be there?” is a little more prosaic
13. become more and more prosaic
14. TheRomanticists were inclined to turn away from the prosaic present and toseek material for their
15. Among the best ofthe prosaic poets of
16. The maelstrom, petty cares and the prosaic nature of life wipes out of mind the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, of Machiavelli, Locke, Hobbes, Marx and the many others that offered such great insights into our human nature and explained the evolution of the different ways our societies govern themselves
17. jubilee year remission of debts as referring not merely to prosaic matters of money, but to the
18. The challenge for the writer is in dealing with such prosaic matters as a character entering a scene
19. Every farmer's home, heart and mind in the district will be influenced by the beauty and grandeur of the church; and many a bright boy, gazing enraptured upon its richly colored windows and entranced by the celestial voice of the organ, will there receive his first message from and in spirit be carried away to the beautiful and enchanting realm which lies far from the material and prosaic conditions which surround him in this workaday world-a real world, this new realm, vague and undefined though its boundaries be
20. Now a picture is a thing of paint upon a flat surface, and a drawing is a matter of certain marks upon a paper, and how to translate the intricacies of a visual or imagined impression to the prosaic terms of masses of coloured pigment or lines and tones is the business with which our technique is concerned
21. A mercifully prosaic seating area presented itself on the other side
22. Yet these Evangelists, after detailing in the most prosaic style the birth and early history of Jesus, with dates, places, and other particulars thereto pertaining, bring into their narration of the commencement of Christ’s ministry, in the most deliberate manner, an account of His direct 'temptation by the Devil’ in the wilderness,—a devil so real and personal that he quotes Scripture deceitfully, and is corrected by Christ,—asserts his control over the political system of all nations on earth, yet offers to abandon his sovereignty if Jesus will do him homage
23. It is the mean, prosaic, commonplace character of all the surroundings and circumstances that gives a significance to Don Quixote's vigil and the ceremony that follows
24. It suddenly seemed to me that this commonplace, prosaic tea was horribly undignified and paltry after all that had happened, and I blushed crimson
25. Why Plato, who was himself a poet, and whose dialogues are poems and dramas, should have been hostile to the poets as a class, and especially to the dramatic poets; why he should not have seen that truth may be embodied in verse as well as in prose, and that there are some indefinable lights and shadows of human life which can only be expressed in poetry--some elements of imagination which always entwine with reason; why he should have supposed epic verse to be inseparably associated with the impurities of the old Hellenic mythology; why he should try Homer and Hesiod by the unfair and prosaic test of utility,--are questions which have always been debated amongst students of Plato
26. "The very prosaic one of our landlord
27. France is so prosaic, and Paris so civilized a city, that you will not find in its eighty-five departments—I say eighty-five, because I do not include Corsica—you will not find, then, in these eighty-five departments a single hill on which there is not a telegraph, or a grotto in which the commissary of police has not put up a gaslamp
28. "It was a prosaic way of forming a friendship, but it was effective
29. For my own part I performed my usual role of bringing things down to a strictly prosaic and practical level by the remark that one of the Indians was missing
30. Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which well nigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze
31. Directly the assuring and prosaic light of the world's active hours had grown strong, she crept from under her hillock of leaves, and looked around boldly
32. It was always a mug’s game, trying to calculate whether surface streets or the subway would get you home faster, but he’d learned by trial and error not to overlook the transportational bird in the hand, especially not after midnight, and there would be something fitting, would there not, about ending this night and this year on a poky and prosaic city bus, amid the alcoholic, the epileptic, and the otherwise damned, in mortuary fluorescence, on a sticky floor, in the seat nearest the driver?
33. In the prosaic neighborhood of Middlemarch, May was not always warm and sunny, and on this particular morning a chill wind was blowing the blossoms from the surrounding gardens on to the green mounds of Lowick churchyard
34. It was hard to believe that amongst so prosaic surroundings of neglect and dust and decay there was any ground for such fear as already we knew
35. It is not that he is prosaic; far from that; but he replaces the solemn vision by the farcical phantasmagoria
36. Mouchoir would have appeared too prosaic in those days
37. She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin
38. But I will remark, however, in passing, I consider a Petersburg morning— which might be thought the most prosaic on the terrestrial globe—almost the most fantastic in the world
39. What could I gather from that either ? There was nothing in it but anxiety for me, for my material prosperity ; it betrayed the father with the father's kindly but prosaic feelings
40. But I feel that I have no right to report my own prosaic feelings when faced with this remarkable and original incident
41. I imagined that the thought of posting tickets and horses (even if they had bells) would have seemed too simple and prosaic to him; a pilgrimage, on the other hand, even under an umbrella, was ever so much more picturesque and in character with love and resentment
42. Whether this proceeded from the fact that the prosaic recollections of childhood were still too fresh in his memory, or whether from the aversion which very young people feel for everything domestic, or whether from the common human weakness which, at a first encounter with anything fair and pretty, leads a man to say to himself, “Ah! I shall meet much more of the same kind during my life,” but at all events Woloda had never yet looked upon Katenka with a man’s eyes
43. But still what did the prettiness of a passing girl matter to a prosaic fellow like him? “Besides,” as Stephen added, wisely, to himself, “I’m too old for nonsense, and too young for business—so what’s the use?”
44. It was a glorious day, the sun was touching all prosaic things with gold, and up in heaven, against the interminable blue, little white clouds sailed in dapples, such as Raphael charged with angel faces, and every face seemed to smile
45. Have you never noticed that it is often the most whimsically inconsequent, the most utterly ordinary, the most intrinsically prosaic of inanimate things that, with a sudden and overwhelming rush, will call into being memories the tenderest, the deepest, the saddest? It may be a worthless little book, a withered flower ghastly in its brown grave clothes, a cheap, tawdry trinket; it may be something as intangible as a few bars of a hackneyed song ground out on a wheezy, asthmatic hand organ