Word: prosaic
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...hero of the Canadian episode was a Soviet satellite named, in Moscow's prosaic nomenclature, Cosmos 1,383. Launched last June, it was the first spacecraft in the Soviet COSPAS (an acronym for cooperation in space) series. Under discussion since 1975, when Soviet-American cooperation in space was at its apogee with the Apollo-Soyuz linkup, the SARSAT idea is virtually the last of the joint programs that have survived the current chill between Washington and Moscow. One reason: it requires no transfers of hardware or technology. The only tools the satellites have in common is their electronic "language...
...tenure. "I have been accused or admired, depending on your point of view, of having been a closet radical all those years, and just waiting until I got tenure to show my true colors." Marglin says. "I wish I could claim such foresight, but the reality is more prosaic...
Lest views be tempted into backsliding, atheism, or switching channels, Bakker observes that "freethinkers" invariably die, usually from cancer, disease, or drug overdose. Though more prosaic than being struck by lightning, such fates are equally effective. In a 1979 interview. Bakker traced India's problems to a rejection of Christian principles. In Africa, he insisted, the Christians live in better houses. As a couple from Canton, Ohio, announced on PTL. "Belief in God blessed us financially and then spiritually...
Robert Bly has said that the prose poem is a symptom of a disintegrating society. For Wright, it may indicate he sees his world dissolving; more likely, he uses the prose poem to stretch she limits of his poetry. By dodging conventional line breaks and assuming a super-charged prosaic style, the poet legitimately, and often successfully, experiments with his work's content and form...
...vaguer evocation of nature--not nature in any specific relation to the characters in the purple scene, but as an overwhelming, quietly underlying force. Because the images are packed close, the connections between the remain deliciously tenuous, tracing, the poet's frame of mind rather than a logical, prosaic thread...