Word: prosaic
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...which on one midsummer's night the Duke of Athens advanced as the genesis of poetry. In the rounded periods of these instruments there is proof, too, of an internal emotion which possessed the draftsman and which at the time of composition must have disinclined him to any prosaic inquiry as to what the language really meant." Then he told the confused Philadelphia lawyer that the provisions of the will set up separate trusts...
...most part are not very beautiful and mean very little. Mr. Anderson seems to have a fatal facility for blank verse, a mechanical dexterity which has here betrayed him. The tense hardness that his verse achieved at times in "Winterest" is missing; his lines are flabby and prosaic...
...Midshipmen and other Naval men will come in a much less spectacular and more prosaic way, by train. Thus they will arrive in Cambridge as any group of landlubbers would...
Fredric March plays the moody, restive adventurer with admirable restraint and vigor, and Olivia de Havilland gives a vivid likeness of the passionate and equally vacillatory heroine. The ponderous weight of the thing is distinctly felt at the occasional points where Anthony becomes a prosaic globe trotter, but his genius for running into adversity usually lends the needed romance...
...State that is rich in local color. Now Author Carmer has tried hard to distill the native glamor from a region where the conventional trappings of romance are not nearly so conspicuous as they are in the South. His new field is upper New York State, superficially a prosaic region of farms, sprawling industrial cities, narrow towns...