Word: prosaicly
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...Lord Parmoor, family name Cripps, is a white-haired septuagenarian with something of the good looks and all of the intelligence of the late Lord Morley. He was Attorney General to King Edward when Edward was Prince of Wales. He combines the ecstatic with the prosaic, interests himself in ecclesiastical questions and farming...
Being more of a songster than a poet, Mr. Davidson can leave his music behind only at the cost of being prosaic. We want him to sing...
When very drunk, let her calmly suggest living in illicit arrangement with a prosaic manufacturer who has been courting her with bovine persistence...
...surprising thing is that the nation has not already produced the writer of such a story. For unless the country, feeling stately prosaic has become convinced of the need of creating romantic atmosphere, it is hard to explain why this ancient game of "cops and robbers" is allowed to continue...
...discover a common tilt to the hat or characteristic gait in marching is impossible. The stories in this collection have been conceived and penned in a variety of moods, and only the reviewer, clutching at straws, could pretend to detect a motive proper to the entire company. A certain prosaic literalness and timorous aversion from the loftier strains of prose perhaps comes nearer than any other quality to providing a measure for the book as a whole; at best, it is little above mediocrity. There is a ghost story by Somerset Maugham, for instance, in which the author describes...