Word: prosaicly
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MacLeish also joins other poets in his obsession with time. Writing of The Farm which lasts through generations, he asks, "Why do you listen, trees? Why do you wait? Why do you fumble at the breeze-- Gesticulate ...?" These works on time are the least interesting, the most prosaic because the poet demands an answer all the way through and, of course, can never give...
...quaint old American customs were turning up in Europe, bringing new romance and excitement to the increasingly prosaic continent. ¶At Rome's Stadio Nazionale. some 12,000 puzzled fans witnessed Europe's first international Pallabase (baseball) game. Urged by loudspeakers "not to be angry with any decisions made, because baseball is a highly technical game," they watched in awe and bewilderment as a team of Spanish all-stars trounced Italy's home club 7 to 3. High point of the game: Spanish Outfielder Antonio Casals' seventh-inning fuori di campo (home...
These may be prosaic answers to a dramatic problem, but little else is possible without making Memorial Drive traffic more of a dilemma than it is already. Although a few signs and a few posts will clutter up the Houses' classic view of the Charles, they are far better decorations than pieces of glass, fender, and smashed tree that will otherwise continue to festoon the vista every week...
Heavy, cluttered Victorian interiors relentlessly submerged anything as prosaic as a human being. Their glass, like their furniture and fabrics, was designed to bemuse the eye as a Henry James novel bemuses the mind. Moderns prefer to see and be seen...
...physical Yale is plunked incongruously down in the heart of a prosaic, overgrown town-a neo-Gothic citadel besieged by a grid of Main Streets. Neon signs blink into its leaded windows; drugstores, shoe stores and tailor shops challenge its ivy-covered walls. The worlds of Samuel and Howard Johnson are but a step apart...