Word: prosaically
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Bearing out the national income system's noninflationary message last week was more prosaic evidence detectable in every pocketbook. Though the consumer price index edged up in March to a record 105% of the 1957-59 average, its total increase since March 1961 has amounted to only 1.1%. And since 1960, the value of the dollar has been eroded only 1.8%, v. 3.7% between...
...Cameroun? (Back came the answer, in puzzled French-wow.) Whether the query asks clarification of a small obscure point or seeks a correspondent's full appraisal of a long-observed crisis, diversity is the correspondent's lot-and the reason that he did not pick a more prosaic trade...
When My Girl Comes Home, by V. S. Pritchett. In these short stories, a first-rate writer and critic (Britain's New Statesman) spots the seeds of madness in the most prosaic minds...
Augie Zemo's play is also excellent. Marred in places (see Scene III) by the intrusion of prosaic words, it maintains for the most part a pleasing tone of poetic enthusiasm. The writing shows careful attention to style and rhythm...
...London's New Statesman) who can also write it, usually in a minor key. The people he writes of are, for the most part, determinedly average-tradesmen, housewives, laborers, accountants. But Pritchett has a gift for spotting the seeds of madness that threaten to sprout in the most prosaic minds. And he writes of his characters' inner cataclysms and defeats in a tone as dry and controlled as the featureless faces they present to the world...