Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Corder's first client is four year-old Jerry Parker, who Wilson suspects knows some secret about the recent kidnapping of the boy's sister. When the play therapy comes close to revealing a name. Corder receives threats to leave the case alone. The plot seems prosaic until the first threat--the crucifixion of Corder's cat on his door--is carried out. The perpetrator of this violence keeps the reader guessing what his next move will...
...have been stamped by the same cookie cutter. At a new-model preview several years ago, a Cadillac engineer was asked his opinion of the main difference between the look-alike Chevrolet Cavalier and Cadillac Cimarron. "About $5,000," he said dismissively. Many 1980s-era models were also prosaic, underpowered and poorly executed. But a handful of new models demonstrate that GM divisions, when well motivated and organized, can build distinctive, high-quality products. A sampler...
Taken in pieces, Chang's narrative can be prosaic. But in its entirety, the author achieves a Dickensian tone with detailed portraits and intimate remembrances, with colorful minor characters and intricate yet fascinating side plots. There is a Chinese art of forgetting. Wild Swans is proof that there is an art of memory as well...
...more "call" to do it, he said. Usually, this means the departing public servant hasn't got a chance in hell of winning again. But Kerrey had favorable ratings in Nebraska that rivaled Ronald Reagan's. He said that the fire in his belly had been doused by the prosaic ins and outs of running a state. It was hard for him to "[do] things that aren't you," as The New Republic quoted...
...reader can rise above Cantor's straying logic and prose, they will notice the intricate cultural detail he uses to make these points. His prosaic touches add some realistic flavor to the book and give one a sense of what our generation lacks in comparison to past eras...