Word: prosaic
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...bubble broke when some prosaic scientist suggested that the meteor was only an airplane's running light. The astronomers retired to their telescopes...
Judging by the squadrons of bewigged waiters who invaded every bedroom scene and by the insipid acting of Ruth Chatterton, one might say that the private life of Napoleon and Josephine was neither very private nor very lively. In fact, it must have easily been the most prosaic, uninteresting marriage since the birth of modern times...
...prosaic note threatened to put the kibosh on this study in sylvan psychopathology. The Second Army Corps announced plans last week to take over 110,000 acres of Caroline County as a field for maneuvers. The area might include Hampton Manor's Freudian fairyland...
...three or four greatest authorities on Russia in this country; one of the most loved and respected professors in Harvard University; and "the best tutor in the history department." Today, when he thinks back to that spring of 1917, he says, "For me, the Revolution was a very prosaic affair." He hadn't been unemployed many days before he ran into a friend named Bakmeteff, who had just been appointed Ambassador to the United States by Kerensky. Bakmeteff asked him to be secretary to the Embassy. They wouldn't be gone long. Six months, perhaps. This...
...chapter on "Constructive Education" in which he calls for a school system which will "develop in its pupils initiative and ethical character." Dartmouth's Professor Rosenstock-Huessy vaguely believes that "we must provide for the future adult an education that makes him experience 'emerging inspiration,' emerging authority." The more prosaic task of increasing the facilities for vocational guidance and training is treated by Aubrey Williams in his chapter on "The Role of the Schools...