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More than any other feature of our technical civilization, these now prosaic flights are emblematic of what powers are now ours.

And the next day, having completed our more prosaic shopping, we set out for Mr. Haha's business address.

e. g. No, I mean, you know, cabernets can be powerful and exalting too, but they seem prosaic to me, for some reason, by comparison.

Your particular task is quite prosaic, though. You are to develop the memory manager being able to work with a large number of stacks.

That may sound prosaic, but Schuman declared that it was much more than just a business deal.

People said he'd been a pirate, but the truth was more prosaic.

While China's historic grievances are never far below the surface when the subject of Japan comes up , more prosaic concerns loom larger .

Until just a few years ago it was known by the more prosaic name of Zhongdian.

This modeling may be informal or prosaic, as it was in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, or it may be formal, rigorous and mathematical.

The movie, whose working title is the reassuringly prosaic 'Confucius', has no confirmed release date.

At a more prosaic level, who will serve, for better or worse, as a principal voice of a community or region?

There may be a more prosaic explanation: bumbling governance in a secretive region with opaque leadership.

Can you think of many other executives who would turn something so prosaic into folklore?

Real life turns out to be closer to Wizard of Oz than A Christmas Carol in the prosaic way it links dark deeds and dark names.

In the prosaic life of disputes, the murder case as the same as a red line running through the middle.

Perhaps the leading theory focuses on a much more prosaic realm: the slimy interface where the sea laps against land.

Anxious to transform the prosaic into the romantic, his admirers speak of a poet of light and the poetry of silence.

Henry Kissinger feared diplomatic chaos. But the reality was more prosaic.

Their salespeople are passionate about their products, however prosaic, and dogged in their determination to open up new markets.

Some studies can't be redone for a more prosaic reason: the authors won't make all their raw data available to rival scientists.

How prosaic, and yet how magical such paragraphs are!

The room is a dismally prosaic one; there's no romance here but what you may have brought with you.

The company's first forays into the field were more prosaic than practical.

At the age of 12 he wrote his first prosaic lyrics which were published in different literary magazines.

The first and largest composition was in a decidedly prosaic location: a parking garage on the outer ring of the city.

The opera programme boasted of Poland "taking over the leadership of the European Union" , but the reality is prosaic.

If all of this seems too outlandish, there is a more prosaic way of obtaining negative interest rates: through inflation.

Mark Capron, a former naval engineer from California, was also frustrated by prosaic legal considerations.

The dictionary definition, dry and prosaic, is "occupation, work, trade, commerce; serious, rightful, proper endeavor. "

Member of China Writers' Association, China Photographers' Association, Councilor of China Prosaic Poetry Society, and China Poetry Society.

That's GTD, short for "Getting Things Done, " the prosaic title of his best-selling book.

His subjects seemed prosaic enough: fruit, bread, corridors, hanging clothes, umbrellas, portraits of family and friends.

It was a prosaic description of the scene.

At the more prosaic end of the market, sales of dog and cat food are also soaring.

The prosaic reason for the dearth of private issuance is the wide gap between what investors demand and what borrowers will pay.

KATHLEEN: His address. No, no, no. He would never do anything that prosaic.

Most of the noises that the engineer, Karl Jansky, investigated were fairly prosaic in origin.

But then, with Singapore's trade-dependent economy facing its worst recession in history, most people have more prosaic worries.

Click the URL and then the link to the generated servlet to view the prosaic but oh so gratifying "Hello, world" printed in plain text.

Nanchu prosaic odes works mainly for the purpose of the Chu king entertainment, following by satire and chronicle styles.

A paper in Physical Review Letters, however, reports a more prosaic application.

Whether the prosaic chancellor shares these ambitions is unclear.

But, as always with this artist, even the prosaic topic can hold existential implications.

Geely often takes the biggest stands at Chinese motor shows, filling them with both its prosaic current offerings and brash prototypes.

But Ms. Lu shared more prosaic pleasures and worries with other Chinese students studying in Boston.

We have seen the addition of audio and video to these media, but in very prosaic, unimaginative ways.

He was rejected as Provost of King's for the more prosaic reason: that he was not an Etonian.

The office seems so dull and prosaic after Pine Ridge.

But around the world, rabbits have a more prosaic, less chocolatey use.

Still, they had to earn a living, so they put their metalworking skills to more prosaic use.

Too often, discovering the prosaic artifice behind a magic trick ruins one's pleasure in the show.

A more prosaic reason is that First Nations receive federal money for social services only for officially registered natives.

Other Beijing residents have more prosaic complaints.

Guardiola, though proud of Barca's system, has a more prosaic view.

Back then, mainstream design groups tended to have prosaic , ad agency type names such as Smith &Milton, Lewis Moberly and The Partners.

Yet, as in much of Bihar, a prosaic present belies a poetic past.

dimensions of experience excluded as prosaic.

These tasks may seem prosaic compared with an oratorical summons to some utopian uplands.

No product is too prosaic to profit greatly by attractive packaging.

These specifications are based on the prosaic description of the D-channel management aspects as provided by Recommendation M. 3640.

but it is actually behind this more prosaic facade that Du Rui does his wizardry.

Romantic types might say they seek the perfect soulmate but the revealed truth is more prosaic.

Others have a more prosaic concern: bad weather threatens to mar the view for many in India and China.

If the water in your glass turns to wine, you should consider more prosaic explanations before announcing a miracle.

Romantic types might say they seek the perfect soul mate but the revealed truth is more prosaic.

Every equation of physics is filled with them, and they seem so prosaic that people tend to forget how unaccountable their values are.

By and by, however, " fervent" gave way to " prosaic " . Precisely because of this change it became possible for love to last.

They both affected connoisseurship regarding prosaic things such as muffins, hamburgers, and iced tea.

At this grand moment Pug Henry's thoughts were prosaic .

The facts are more prosaic than the legend.

I hope my boss will give me more interesting assignments than the prosaic task of categorizing her expense receipts.

Ah, roses, even though you spend only a prosaic, but you have a special spirit, I admire, so I moved.

Person's life there are many lonely hearts, a lot of people will complain about life, prosaic, dull day.

But these days, anthropologists are increasingly trying to study the rituals of the western world, even in prosaic places such as Michigan.

This is the new, more prosaic reality for Li & Fung, the world's largest supply chain specialist.

But there is another story here, more prosaic but no less important to the future arc of global business and the global balance of power.

The more prosaic truth, it says, is that it is supporting a new state-backed tourism firm.

Express non-prosaic data using links to objects such as images, stylesheets and the like.

But also underlying this critique are prosaic political concerns.

The reason, this time, is more prosaic: lines ending with blanks look ugly in Fabien's text editor.

But the reality is a lot more prosaic, and more passive.

There are some mischievous and prosaic people who carp and calculate at every detail of the romancer.

A quality or style that is prosaic. prosaic.

According to the Chinese culture tradition, the development of Chinese movie also shows two kinds, dramatic movie and prosaic movie.

When you learn to distinguish between the refined and coarse, the extraordinary and prosaic , the beautiful and ugly;

The second is, maybe more prosaic, which is Hong Kong.

The Prosaic Oral Tradition of the Xibe Ethnic Group of Xinjiang in Multielement Narrative Pattern

Prosaic March: Transcending Rise and Fall --My Opinion on China's Contemporary Aesthetical Criticism

The coming and end of a prosaic era

Tending to Prosaic Style after Being the Most Splendid--On the Originality of Wangzengqi's Novel Style

prosaic: dull; not romantic; mundane

The Abnormality of Prosaic Language

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On Poetic Creativity of Prosaic Novel

A Survey of Jin Dynasty Prosaic Works

Poetic and Prosaic Versions of Chinese Ancient Poetry in English