Word: prosaicly
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Much of the merchandise is prosaic - flashlights, generators and, for fighting file clerks, a bullet-proof clipboard...
...experiences. He has been to adult play groups in Poland, Scotland, Tibet, the Sahara-and Montauk Point. It is a measure of what is wrong with this movie (and maybe with the culture of the '80s) that neither man sees anything funny about the intrusion of that last prosaic place on this otherwise exotic list. Nichols and May would have known what to do with...
...wrote about taxes, middle age, children, repairmen-topics that were too prosaic for poetry until they met his fine-wrought irony...
...William Blount of Tennessee: inciting Indians to attack the Spanish colonies of Florida and Louisiana. Since then another 14 Senators have been ousted, all for their treasonous support of the South in the Civil War. By comparison, Harrison Williams' involvement in the Abscam bribery scandal seems rather prosaic. But last week all six members of the Senate Ethics Committee recommended that Williams, 61, become the 16th Senator in history-and the first in 119 years-to get the heave...
...other commodities, reports that for the first time in five years, diamonds and Oriental carpets failed to increase in value during the twelve months ending June 1. At the same time, U.S. coins actually lost 8% of their value. One of the best investments during that period was prosaic common stocks, which increased in value by 25.3%. That was faster than rare books and U.S. stamps (both rose by 18%) or paintings by old masters (up 23%). Only Chinese ceramics, which increased in value by 36.5%, proved to be better investments than stocks. Jim Powell, the editor of a newsletter...