Word: prosaicly
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...ordinary existence and some higher form of life which Eliot calls "trans-humanization," so the language alternates between verse which approximates the rhythms of everyday speech and, occasionally, transcedent bursts of poetry. But the current production hangs somewhere in between, slightly stilted when it wants to be conversational, slightly prosaic when it wants to be luminous. The net effect is to add to the sensation of discomfort...
...church in a modern setting that we stop talking so much, be quiet and think and pray. Sometimes, it seems to me, our theologians and intellectuals confound the very ideas they wish to propound by indulging in so much pompous, convoluted verbosity. The rest of us-the prosaic mass-have traditionally looked to our founding fathers and religious leaders to help us articulate that which we so inadequately proclaim. I, for one, am not confused by God, or the church, or my place in a secular world. I am confused and profoundly disappointed in the lack of faith displayed...
...lover, the suicide-bent pessimist, the intellectual incapable of action, the Piedmontese boy who even in the city never loses his love for his native mountains-these are all Pavese. His characters are en gaged in a relentless search to figure out what it is they want from a prosaic life; that too was Pavese. He was a lonely man, and his narrators are lonely; they are wanderers, loving solitude and yet caught up in the senseless rush of people who have a need for febrile action, drink and meaningless sexual bouts...
...suggesting how a couple in love becomes the most exclusive club in the world. He registers the fierce chemistry of passion by which the Other Woman swiftly becomes the Only Woman. Where Wesker is strongest he is also weakest, since the language of love is finite and, in his prosaic words, even banal...
...wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect." Eric Hoffer, the philosopher-longshoreman has a more prosaic but very pragmatic description: "The day-to-day competence of the workingman." He adds: "If I said I was loading ships for Mother America, even during a war, I would be laughed off the docks. In Russia, they can't build an outhouse without having a parade and long speeches. This...