Word: prosaic
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There is, simply, something which he cannot explain, something he sees in his affinity with the Romantics, which is for most readers inoperative. Even admitting that his voracious appetite for literary experience gives words a peculiar power, and that his "humdrum, prosaic happiness" of childhood makes the image of frozen nordic mythology powerful, even then I must doubt that many have experienced this thing which is at once unhappiness, grief and joy, for which he "would not exchange all the world's pleasures...
...Calgari, the Mummy, and even Frankenstein are gone. In their place are The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Thing, and Lobo. In The Bride of the Monster, one of Bela Lugosi's last movies, the virile fiend of Dracula has become a rather prosaic old alchemist. It is as if Lugosi, like Varnoff, had at last capitulated to the modern emphasis on drawing the blood from healthy vampires...
Trinidad has no concert hall and no symphony orchestra, and few visiting artists ever get to Port-of-Spain, its capital, just off the coast of Venezuela. But Trinidadians may well be the world's most musical people. Out of prosaic newspaper headlines they created calypso songs, and out of such unmusical items as oil drums and automobile brake drums they created the world's newest musical combo, the steelband (pronounced steelbon in Trinidad). Both were invented with sure instinct for novelty and self-expression by Trinidad's Negro population...
...After a prosaic civil ceremony in the city hall of Versailles, pale, black-browed Five-and-Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow Grant Troubetskoy Rubirosa, 43 this week, ex-countess, twice an ex-princess, motored back to her rose-festooned Ritz Hotel suite in Paris with her sixth groom. Having demoted herself to a baroness, Barbara beamed nonetheless at her attentive husband, once Nazi Germany's top tennis ace, Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 46. He had met Barbara about 18 years before in Cairo. Amidst toasts at the Ritz, the baron recalled: "We liked each other very much...
...Ward is not the first to "drift horizontally" into café society, but smarter girls take jewels, avoiding income tax and naughty names. The real immoralists are her patrons, who have $100 to throw away on such prosaic entertainment. They, not Minot or his Patsy, should be tried. Other career girls also have started at the bottom. Pat's sin was not ambition but impatience...