Word: prosaic
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...themselves. The dialogue cannot be divorced from how a character says his line or what he looks like while he's saying it: these factors combine to form complete characterizations. Chaplin has carefully directed the line-readings of his cast, and it is no accident that Marlon Brando's prosaic romantic murmurs are spoken by the actor as if he were trying to recite a shopping list...
...page single-spaced text, did Johnson mention the Great Society. He invoked God just once and evoked youthful memories of poverty and the Pedernales not at all. What he did present to the 90th Congress-and a prime-hour TV audience estimated at 65 million-was a pragmatic, sometimes prosaic outline of legislative aims tempered both to the conservative climate of Capitol Hill and the economic realities of a society that is inextricably involved in a costly war abroad while deeply committed to social reform at home...
...short, relatively flat, but it covers more subjects than the other sets. Britannica has large type, the shortest, most oversimplified articles, the fewest illustrations and a dry factual style. Compton's writing is lively and it covers such child-intriguing topics as magic and fairies but more prosaic topics are often overdone. A child has to work through nine pages to learn about the U.S. Postal service...
...number of speakers blamed this, as well as the rigidity of the curriculum, for taking the flair out of the "dazzling" students who enter the Med School. Another speaker argued that even more of the graduates would be dull and prosaic if they had not been bright enough to withstand the stultifying experience of the Med School's present course of study...
...rather basic theory of alienation, or so it seemed to Hungarian Poet Gyula Illyes, 63, at a convention of 200 European bards in Budapest. "The division of humanity characterizing our century began with a very prosaic object: the bathtub," proclaimed Illyes. "One part of humanity bathed and the other did not, and these two categories may not sleep in the same bed or eat at the same table." And things got worse, said the poet, when automobiles came along-"those monsters, those separators, little steel cages, the driver sealed in glacial indifference." Alas, the reasonably well-bathed poets listened...