Word: prosaic
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...forces with which he is trying to deal. Directed by England's pudgy master of melodrama, Alfred Hitchcock (Thirty-Nine Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much), Secret Agent is a first-rate sample of his knack of achieving speed by never hurrying, horror by concentrating on the prosaic. Its most irritating flaw is the old-fashioned tag shot of the faces of Gielgud and Carroll, at once clumsy and unnecessary...
...moment, the German department has a staff of recognized scholastic capacity but as teachers some of these men are as dull and uninspiring as they are learned and erudite. Cold and prosaic lecturers and tutors unconcerned with the progress of students in some cases tend to deaden the field. It is understood that certain faculty changes to be realized in the near future with to some extent obviate this difficulty...
Japanese nobility is made to consist in sacrificing one's wife to the caresses of a foreigner, in order to rifle that outsider's secret papers. This almost smacks of anti-Oriental propaganda, it is so completely alien to our more prosaic conceptions of heroism, that the Occidental spectator remains rather impassive to the heart-rending close, in which the naval commander who sold his wife for the secrets of the British rule of the waves is made to stab himself most ceremoniously and mortally in spite of his glorious victory. If it comes to frank appraisal, it must...
Those who find the student's life a prosaic tedium will be particularly glad to know that at least in celluloid whimsy universities are still being run on rhythm, and Joe College is still at large. "Freshman Love" is the latest exposition of the rollicking, carefree, hilarious whirl that is the lot of the American scholar. Granted that the healthy reaction toward that title is a groan. No attempt will be made here to induce anyone to look at this picture, but the thing is not quite so bad as the foregoing classification implies...
...emotions or whether he prostitutes his talents for the world's favor I know not., but I should surmise the former to be the case. I do know, however, that long after his flippant, scintillating judgments of passing events a have been forgotten, the scholarly but much more prosaic writings of men who have truth as their primary objective in writing will be prized...