Word: prosaic
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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...
...meeting with Saddam occurred the following evening, Feb. 12. We thought we would be taken to a bunker, perhaps far out of Baghdad. But everything was much more prosaic. We were escorted to a guest house in the center of the city. A power generator suddenly clicked on, and the house was filled with light. Then Saddam Hussein appeared with the entire Iraqi leadership...
...city that Peter the Great built in the 18th century out of / frozen wasteland on the western edge of Russia. "We want to be more than a window to Europe," says Sobchak. "We want to open a door to the whole world." But first Sobchak must worry about more prosaic matters, like finding enough potatoes to keep his city...