Word: prosaic
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...beauty to the eye, music to the ear, a fresh tack to familiar musings. Some do less. Mothers of five children are rarely the stuff of which great poets are made, as Mrs. Lindbergh herself has pointed out. Her prose is often markedly poetic; at times her poems are prosaic. But if artistry and eloquence occasionally flag, sensibility never does. At their best, her lines flash with beauty and brightness, and like
...Cone was not trying to turn his daughter into an athlete. Cone, a safety director for a Teterboro, N.J. factory, taught six year-old Carin to swim for a perfectly prosaic reason: he did not want to worry when the family went holidaying on the Jersey shore. But Ray Cone knew an athlete when he saw one. Little Carin took to the water so naturally that he sent her to a swimming coach to find out how good she really was. Today, at 16, Carin is good enough to hold all four American women's backstroke titles...
Many other aspects of the movie serve admirably to heighten the adventure and the atmosphere. The new color style, a blend of black and white with technicolor--is an ideal compromise between the prosaic and the lush. The musical score is appropriate. And Huston controls the dramatic pace effectively, starting slowly in the New Bedford scenes, mixing in increasingly explicit predictions of doom, and constantly quickening the tempo until at the end, in the storm scene and the final fight with Moby Dick, the action grips not just the Pequod's crew but the audience as well...
David Austin '56 has a nicely angled pencil drawing a Trawler at sea. His other boat drawings are more prosaic though he has an obvious appreciation for good boat design...
...some circles religion has become an opiate of the people. Present day Christianity is to many people tame and prosaic, prim and dull ... Too many of us have lost Christ's call to heroism and have grown comfortable and commonplace, small in our minds and imaginations. The Christian church has become too much an ambulance, dragging along behind, picking up the wounded, making bandages, and soothing hurt feelings, when the church should be out on the front line, getting hit in the face, but leading others and conquering the enemy...