| 单词 | prosaic |
| 例句 | On a more prosaic level, Mrs. Weston took her to the department stores where she could revel in another type of fairyland. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She fed it with fantasies, idealized it, savagely defended it, stripped it of its prosaic truth, and turned it into the kind of love one found in novels. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the country’s largest cities, otherwise prosaic services have been transformed into status symbols simply because of the price tag. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Isolated but vivid tragedies involving a few people should not blind us to the fact that myriad prosaic activities may involve a much higher degree of risk. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They may spend prosaic domestic evenings together, him reading the paper while she serves up a casserole. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It isn’t just prosaic factors like the weather that influence behavior. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like I told you already, I’m irresponsible,” she says before going into the details, which by high school standards are utterly prosaic. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Francie thought her diary would be like that, but excepting for some romantic observations on Harold Clarence, actor, the entries were prosaic. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z AIDS, as tragic as it is, pales in worldwide comparison to the more prosaic malaria, among other diseases. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Most were prosaic, arising from robbery, argument, or sexual jealousy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z La Chaumiere is not, however, a thatched cottage, but a prosaic, dowdy building like other Toronto buildings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it to a prosaic partnership. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Not the prosaic biographical details, but beyond that. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z This was one of the few lies she had to put up with as a child; in everything else she was in direct contact with the prosaic truths of life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Let me be prosaic so far as facts can be; it will help me to bear up, and imagination must not run riot with me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z In part, Latin permitted escape from the prosaic world. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As if no one knew what to do in the face of such tragedy except to make the heaviest, heartiest, most prosaic dish they could, to give the bereaved something solid to hold on to. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Though related to these abstract considerations, the mistaken belief in the mechanical nature of mathematics generally takes more prosaic forms. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The aggregate effect is a kind of folk panorama, at once prosaic and mysterious. 3 Artists Are Urged to Go Big. They Didn’t Hold Back. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The prosaic and spiritual mix in the poet Alice Fulton’s first book of stories, “The Nightingales of Troy,” spanning more than 90 years and four generations of women in Troy, N.Y. Short Stories to Read Before Bed 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z All the same, life is never entirely prosaic for Aziraphale and Crowley, whose present concerns are informed by past adventures where their paths intersect including sharing marginal roles in the Biblical trials of Job. After four years, "Good Omens" returns for a jolly if rather hollow romp that falls short of sublime 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z In prose that adroitly mixes the prosaic and the poetic, Mr. Rebanks, 40, evokes a world essentially unknown to the 16 million tourists who visit the Lake District each year. James Rebanks, Man of Sheep, Man of Letters 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Now, on a more prosaic note, there is such a thing as anxiety disorder and it’s no joke. I can’t turn off my thoughts 2013-02-01T01:00:00Z “If Shantiniketan did nothing else,” Mr. Ray once recalled, “it induced contemplation, and a sense of wonder in the most prosaic and earthbound of minds.” Footsteps: Where a Poet’s Vision Lives on in India 2013-02-01T18:07:13Z You might think I would be better by now, but for the alcoholic there is nothing as prosaic as “better”. ‘Alcoholism continues long after you stop drinking': my 15 years sober 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Rather than playing the roles of macabre rock monsters, the three are unassumingly what they are – three Scotsmen, raised not in the Hollywood hills, but the more prosaic towns of Kilmarnock and Ayr. Underdogs 2010-05-01T23:05:00Z And while she shares certain of his preoccupations — with otherness and evoking animal life — hers is a more prosaic mission: She mirrors reality. After Disaster, Japan Seals Itself Off From the World in ‘The Emissary’ 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z “Biopic” is a clumsy word for a prosaic genre, and screen biographies of writers are more apt to be literal than lyrical. ‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z It also doesn’t help that the vivid imagery of the book’s video-game scenes, which helped compensate for the flatness of the narrative and the characterizations, isn’t done justice in the show’s prosaic 3-D animation. ‘Three-Body’ Review: A Chinese Series Beats Netflix to the Screen 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z When you remove the connective tissue, the story suddenly becomes less convincing, more outlandish and more prosaic at the same time. Review: ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell,’ a Battlefield Where Magic Is the Weapon of Choice 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z “There is nothing in his prosaic life to justify its influence on the development of his genius,” writes Wolff. Why Seattle Symphony’s next program has just one piece 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z To put this in more prosaic terms: the employee quit because he knew that his workplace was profoundly unsafe. The NFL is morally reprehensible: As players walk away from brutality, fans must do the same 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z It can be prosaic and sentimental at times, but its steady, no-frills approach keeps you engaged in the increasingly enraging story. Best TV Shows of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z The water is a transformative, poetic medium — through Lovelace’s attentive gaze — the otherwise prosaic routines of his fellow Trinidadians become lyrical. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z I still remember Demme standing in the frame, arms folded, putting questions to his cousin and watching him at work, even if the matter in hand was something as prosaic as a pothole. The Loss of Jonathan Demme 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z How does Nabokov manage to make the prosaic act so luminous? Why a ‘Peanuts’ Collection Has Stuck With Jeremy Denk, Concert Pianist 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z In the penultimate section, performed to Ravel's La Valse, the dancers imagine themselves whirled into a happy delirium, when in fact they're simply shuffling along the floor on their bottoms – tethered to prosaic reality. Tanztheater Wuppertal – review 2013-02-15T13:41:53Z Location would seem a more prosaic concern, but without favorable conditions even the greatest music can flounder. Critic?s Notebook: Two ?Passions,? With Two Very Different Effects 2011-04-17T22:14:02Z How could something so jam-packed with material be so prosaic? Dance Review: ?The One,? Lyndsey Karr?s Dance of Women in Love 2011-10-22T02:03:54Z Downtown Spring Lake turned out to be nothing special, a few prosaic streets lined with stores and real estate offices, and not at all like Nantucket, as Robin kept reminding me reproachfully. ?Jersey Shore,? Reality Versus Reality TV 2011-09-09T18:55:00Z When you're in the heat of a show, other lovers — or husbands — can start looking hopelessly prosaic. When is a 'Stage Kiss' not just a kiss? >> Video: Scenes from the play 2011-05-10T02:37:52Z People commonly talk about fear of failure, but I really don’t have that after a long career, work in theater and the arts, and prosaic jobs in banks and so on. Is journalism killing my creativity? 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z But there was nothing prosaic about Oropesa’s performance at the University of the District of Columbia’s Theater of the Arts on Saturday under the auspices of Vocal Arts DC. Soprano delivers a seemingly effortless performance at UDC theater 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z She finds herself at the Met in early September 2001, shortly before 9/11, newly awakened to everything joyful and prosaic about the artist’s life. A Woman Sleeps a Year Away in Ottessa Moshfegh’s Darkly Comic New Novel 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z It isn’t quite, but it goes about prosaic business pretty effectively. Review: ‘The Purge: Election Year’ Offers a Campaign Platform of Blood Lust 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In one new song, “Lost,” Thorn sings a list — “I lost my place/I lost my bags/I lost my biggest client” — that moves from prosaic to heartbreaking. Everything but the Girl Breaks a 24-Year Silence With a Bang 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z As opposed to the boredom of prosaic reforms, advocating for human rights is, in its own way, another grandiose and poetic enterprise where we, as a people, fight against exploiters. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Adams discerned poetry where others found the grimly prosaic. Sunlit Apocalypse: The Imperiled World of Robert Adams 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z To this prosaic world, the author begins to stitch in aspects of horror. In Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Horror-Tinged New Novel, a Mesmerizing Star Appears in the Sky 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z But when you recall how ingeniously Kneehigh interwove film and live action in Brief Encounter, this seems a strangely prosaic attempt to capture the elusive poetry of the Demy original. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - review 2011-03-23T00:24:15Z When they reveal their prosaic desire to be taken seriously, just like you and me. Does Steve Martin have to be funny 24/7? 2010-12-09T13:22:00Z For the time being, though, the group is focused on more prosaic opportunities. In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, they compete with more prosaic songs that fill time rather than advance the minimal story or flesh out the characters in any meaningful way. 'The Addams Family' mines macabre musical comedy 2010-04-08T23:05:00Z Likewise, some of the most exciting scenes in “Boss” are found in the most prosaic crises: a city council vote on trash disposal, a gubernatorial campaign bus tour. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z Elizabeth eventually lands in a hospital with a feeding tube up her nose, but a mere eating disorder is too prosaic for Arlene, who accuses the doctors of trying to kill her daughter. New Memoirs Try to Get the Balance Right 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z There are also modern structures of less lushness -- empty freeways and the prosaic like -- all shot with the same reverence Malick reserves for the open spaces of Texas or Oklahoma. 'Knight of Cups:' Why Terrence Malick is at the top of his game 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Inside are quotes from Plato, Plutarch and Nietzsche, along with more prosaic prompts: “Can it be useful to be pessimistic?” or “Airbrushing models makes the world more fabulous.” In Transit: Morgans Hotels to Offer a Minibar Stocked With Conversation Starters 2011-02-11T16:16:39Z Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay by George Ewart Evans, illustrated by David Gentleman 272pp, Full Circle Editions, £21.99 Buy it at the Guardian bookshop What Gentleman is concentrating on is thoroughly prosaic. Signs of the times 2010-04-16T23:05:00Z True, the smell most of the time is a more prosaic combination of frying meat, petrol, old water, sweat and – deliciously – the bread wafting from the open doors of the dozens of tiny bakeries. Beat and dust: Tangier's tang of history 2010-11-23T13:26:00Z Ms. Meitner also has a good eye for homey and homely details — her grandmother’s “breath of soup” and bathroom cigarettes — but sometimes succumbs to the prosaic. Books of The Times: The Sting of Salt Air, Old Loves and Honey Bees 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z The reasons behind Levelling the Land's success are probably more prosaic. The Levellers take it to the next level ? the return of crusty 2011-02-17T23:21:01Z Ross’s own photographs often carry an air of mystery but in fact arise from prosaic daily life. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z It has a shiny new mall, “a shopping centre as prosaic as they come.” Hate on the Hudson (Yards): How bad can it be? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z For Delmonte, the main difficulties so far have been more prosaic. Uruguay to test world’s first state-commissioned recreational cannabis 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Dressed in a mothballed, patterned jumper, Cargill is a more prosaic presence, earth to her air. Broadcast 2010-04-22T20:35:00Z The 21st-century art world, with its big rents and prosaic thoughts, has no place for her, though a few people have been paying attention. Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The reporter, who in initiating us into the war zone seems to be a stand-in for the playwright, recites a lengthy monologue that combines the prosaic and the poetic. In Munich, Young Directors Offer Horrors Both Real and Fantastical 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z “Surrender” leapfrogs through Bono’s and U2’s improbable story in vignettes that zigzag between poetic and prosaic, devout and skeptical, privileged and conscientious, mystical and political. U2 Revisits Its Past, in the Name of … What, Exactly? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Visitors to Trinity struggle to express its simultaneously prosaic and profound effect, and to extract meaning from the obelisk. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z There’s a genteel political toothlessness that you’d expect from an ABC family sitcom, but maybe there’s something quietly radical about hip-hop inserting itself even into that prosaic format. Rap Disrupted Music First. Now It’s TV and Film. 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Her family life, in other words, seems far more prosaic than her fictional broods. Rachel Griffiths Joining ?Other Desert Cities? 2011-10-09T02:57:18Z But if UK-92480 failed with the heart, the symbolic home of love, it made a big impact on another organ, one with a rather more prosaic association with romance. Viagra: the little blue pill that revolutionised our sex lives | Observer profile 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z But the piece is, as Mehldau says, “untouched by prosaic discourse.” Ian Bostridge on Music’s Fuzzy Boundaries of Identity 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Implicitly, it de-emphasizes the prosaic nature of her art materials: the cotton swabs, toothpicks, bottle caps and other throwaway objects that she fashions, with gee-whiz structural ingenuity, into rambling landscapes and galactic spirals. Art Review: ?Sarah Sze: Infinite Line? at Asia Society - Review 2011-12-15T23:22:12Z And unlike the offerings in Cirques past, the acrobatics sometimes seem prosaic, especially after so many hours recently spent cheering Olympic floor routines. Identity Crisis: Theater Productions That Refuse to Be Theater 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The somewhat prosaic conclusion is that moderation is key – whether you're killing aliens, racing cars or trying to place oddly shaped blocks that fall from the sky. Are video games really the villains in our violent age? 2012-12-30T00:05:46Z These people aren’t serial killers or Marvel villains; their sins are prosaic. ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win’ Catches Up With a Hard-Luck High Achiever 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Ross focuses on work, school, parenthood and other ordinary experiences, but his method is the opposite of prosaic. 11 Movies You Need to Know at New Directors/New Films 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z "Would any of this be materially improved if the E Corp building were blown to bits, or if anything similarly definitive and prosaic happened?" ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Finale: Fade to Black 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Chapman, often illustrated with his ubiquitous clenched pipe and faraway smile, had a seemingly prosaic youth. Movie Review: ‘Liar’s Autobiography,’ With Graham Chapman and Monty Python 2012-11-09T01:42:26Z New Super Mario Bros 2 is a good and extraordinarily highly polished game, but in a franchise that was previously so mind-blowing it's a disappointingly prosaic effort. This week's new games 2012-08-10T23:05:31Z Lyrically, the piece is more prosaic — the ingenuity is in its overlapping timelines rather than plot and character specifics. Why love didn't work, from each party in 'The Last Five Years' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" was more prosaic, yet ambitious and somewhat soulful in its own way. 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader': Series hits rough waters 2010-12-09T16:43:00Z I Still Believe's closing message that rock'n'roll will save us all reveals Turner's weakness for favouring prosaic bluster over poetry's subtle power to unlock more meaningful truths. Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls – review 2013-04-21T16:20:05Z But like many NBA games, the meeting leads to a fight after Parsons admits he found the book "a little prosaic." Clippers star Blake Griffin: MVP of the Nicholas Sparks book club 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z But the author then mires the ensuing drama in a prosaic and thoroughly middle-class tale of maternal imperiousness and filial resentment. Queer Exile: Three Novels About Émigrés, Lovers and Family 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z But they are also oddly prosaic; expressions of duty, deference and parental obligation that inform everyday lives. Indian Soap Operas, Ruled by Mothers-in-Law 2012-12-25T22:38:41Z It’s mostly agreed they aren’t prosaic communication but an expression of the magic of existence, located at the high-voltage portals between spiritual and temporal worlds. Trekking With Wolves 2010-02-20T06:14:00Z They range in tone from delirious to grim, and exhibit various attitudes toward the marvelous intrusions into the mundane which they recount: embarrassed and regretful, slyly ambiguous, reluctantly accepting, prosaic. 'Three Messages': Mexican stories of the fantastic 2012-02-01T19:23:08Z In terms of the format, I am not passionate about “storytelling,” but rather I approach movies more in the prosaic or poetic way. Tsai Ming-liang on youthful 'Rebels of the Neon God,' finally in theaters 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z But the in-demand author's wading into the contemporary campus comes from a prosaic place: chats with his college-age children, who also helped inspire his previous books. Everyday People, Extraordinary Books 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z In contrast to the author, we traveled on the more prosaic ferry from Key West, which was a pleasant part of the day. West of Key West, an Under-the-Radar National Park 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z First it was named The Frankenstein Code and then Lookinglass before they finally settled on the more prosaic Second Chance. Second Chance – Frankenstein-inspired cop procedural needs a jolt of life 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Another world premiere taking a bulldozer to prosaic images of young love is the peculiar animated musical “My Love Affair With Marriage.” The Tribeca Festival Returns in Full Bloom 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z He was always interested in capturing those magical moments that make up a life, moments at once prosaic and transcendent. 'I was very angry' – the last interview with Jonas Mekas, godfather of avant garde film 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z But it's Fowler's prosaic anthems that reign again at encore, concluding inevitably with The Day We Caught the Train, as arms wave, voices rise and lager flies. Ocean Colour Scene – review 2013-02-27T16:34:00Z Their goals are often surprisingly modest, even prosaic at times. Style That Demands to Be Seen 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z The chalkboard menu is written in a graceful cursive and in utilitarian block letters, the poetic and prosaic together on a blackboard that’s bookended by weathered green shutters. Banh Ta Deli review: Where Vietnamese sandwiches pack in artistry and balance 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The poetry found in her film is absent in the racing and jumping scenes in “Race,” and the movie’s overall palette is prosaic verging on drab. Review: ‘Race’ Chronicles Jesse Owens’s Rise to Olympic Glory 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z On the Web is where she reveals the more prosaic moments of a model’s existence, responds to fans and airs grievances against the industry. Coco Rocha, Expanding Her Efforts To Be a Role Model 2012-08-31T21:17:25Z And as suburban parents, the duo have much more prosaic lives than Emma Peel or James Bond. Fake It When You Make It: The Sad Sex of The Americans 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z But like the sound of the album, the lyrics also seem more dense and strange, less prosaic than its predecessor. 'It's OK to embarrass yourself' ? Nick Cave and the return of Grinderman 2010-09-02T22:00:00Z Gerhardt and Power convey the complex nature of the relationship between the two: one an impossible dreamer, the other hopelessly prosaic. Strauss: Don Quixote; Till Eulenspiegel – review 2013-04-11T10:37:41Z Mr. Pollock’s narration, particularly in the beginning, is prosaic. Spike Lee’s ‘Pass Over,’ an Offbeat Melding of Cinema and Theater 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z His choices of subjects have felt both arbitrary and deliberate, prosaic and loaded, like Duchamp ready-mades. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z For Rotich its primary role, at least in Africa, is a more prosaic one: helping people get better and cheaper access to basic goods and services rather than inspiring revolution. New Africa: the Kenyan internet nerd reshaping a nation 2012-08-23T23:00:02Z Last Orders feels far more confined and prosaic. Booker club: Last Orders by Graham Swift 2012-07-24T11:28:36Z Sometimes the mysterious truth turns out to be wholly prosaic. Stabbed tongues and swallowed eyeballs: was the Amazing Johnathan's terminal diagnosis his greatest trick? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The moments range from significant to utterly prosaic, and all are meant to evoke grief. Review | In the galleries: Finding inspiration in a mythical herb 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Crime fans who like a certain prosaic quality in their police work and who disdain any knowledge of the cops’ personal lives will eat it up. Review: ‘Suspects,’ Britain’s Unscripted Relative of ‘Law & Order’ 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Ruscha was interested in something more prosaic, something more tethered to the real. Ed Ruscha’s stunning Sunset Strip art project lets you tour its full length, east to west — and back in time 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Kremlinologists used to scrutinize every prosaic photo or public statement from the upper echelons of the Soviet Union for clues to which official was in or out, who was ascending to power or gulag-bound. ‘The Death of Stalin’ Review: Laughing in the Graveyard of History 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z A tribe of two, Land practices a distinctly 21st century form of syncretism, melding the sacred and prosaic, the refined and the raw, the trappings of devotion and the principles of design. Commanding work on an unconventional canvas by a tribe of two 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Like nearly all his work, “Trollhunters” is about the encounter between the prosaic human world and a hidden, nearby zone of supernatural and potentially threatening beings. Review: Welcome to the Neighborhood Underworld in ‘Trollhunters’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The fact that Wilkinson backs the idea that the three men met relatively prosaic deaths might seem undramatic. The Ice Balloon by Alec Wilkinson – review 2013-03-31T13:00:01Z As a "last letter" it is neither raw nor prosaic, and, with or without the reader's knowledge of Cornford's sacrifice, it stands as one of the most moving and memorable 20th-century love poems. Poem of the week: Poem by John Cornford 2010-10-25T09:06:00Z How strange, he said, that an ostensibly prosaic, ostensibly factual play should unleash some of the purest visual poetry he had ever seen in a theatre. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z It was a remarkable example of literary inspiration – a vindication, in fact, of the very notion of inspiration, a thing the world had come to doubt in the prosaic years after the first world war. Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe ? review 2011-07-29T22:00:40Z Alongside these more prosaic reference points, Thompson keeps up his faith, though being a Muslim has become a different thing entirely in the last decade in America. Keeping the faith 2010-04-10T23:05:00Z Yet the chef finds ways to take these prosaic comforts and stretch their preparations enough to entice diners onto unfamiliar turf. Red’s Table review: Chef driven but family owned, making Reston proud 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Of course, nothing’s altogether prosaic with Mr. Oliver. Edgar Oliver’s Walk ‘In the Park,’ at Axis Theater 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z There is an almost superhuman level of pointlessness in assuming the identity of a – even if it's just Amelia Lily – then dribbling out such prosaic missives. Fake Twitter celeb accounts: why do people bother? 2012-07-26T18:59:02Z The prosaic cinematography and editing give it the look and feel of a drab television movie. Review: ‘American Pastoral,’ Philip Roth’s Fiery 1960s at Low Heat 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z He reveals a structure whereby the prosaic narrative becomes poetry and drama is not for catharsis but experience. Making Sibelius modern with Esa-Pekka Salonen 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The life of a poet — a "literary sharecropper," as he ruefully dubbed himself — was numbingly prosaic. 'Selected Letters of Langston Hughes' a glimpse of enigmatic poet 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z And maybe I need a mixture of both, when reading about the past; a sort of stylised history, true and informative but not prosaic. How facts spoil history books 2011-07-21T11:30:35Z Others sometimes criticized Mr. Levine for writing in a prosaic voice that lacked lyricism and was, if anything, too accessible. Philip Levine, U.S. poet laureate who wrote of working life, dies at 87 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Ms. James’s work was grittier and more realistically prosaic at the same time. P.D. James, who brought a gritty realism to the British detective novel, dies at 94 I'd never come across his blend of poetic sensibility and prosaic imagination in realist fiction before. A life in writing: Gerard Woodward 2012-11-23T22:55:10Z Even at his most prosaic, on a track like the growling, ominous Voodoo, his work is crisp, powerful and insidiously sonically unpredictable. Bozzwell ? the enlightenment 2010-12-27T12:32:54Z One collage, from the end of November 2002, shows a prosaic public information panel, such as you might find planted near the entrance to a hospital. Tom Lubbock: the pain and the pleasure 2010-12-13T17:00:00Z And a production that has so far felt pleasant and prosaic is flooded with the anarchy of life in extremis. Review: Adam Driver Heats Up a Wobbly ‘Burn This’ 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z However, impatience should be suspended for this prosaic but interesting documentary illuminating the epic logistics, economics, politics and engineering involved in building the stadia in which the matches will be played. Doctor Who 2010-06-05T05:45:00Z She is too self-assured, with a lot to say about contemporary dressing, to be a prosaic Middleton type. A Vision in Melancholy 2011-07-06T22:31:19Z Its lyrics, by Rev. Dean Bartlett, told the story of the birth of Christ in prosaic, uninspired terms. 'A Christmas Surprise' from Tammy McCann, thanks to Billy Strayhorn 2010-12-19T13:24:00Z The forbidden becomes prosaic, and it’s tremendously freeing. It also totally skews my perspective of what is normal. Making sex “normal” 2013-03-20T00:01:00Z And this is what Murnane achieves, again and again, through his carefully shaped sentences, the prosaic becoming poetic along their length. A Strange Australian Masterpiece About Our Relationship to the Land 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Tareq is a Syrian refugee whose perilous journey is narrated by the voice of Destiny, characterized as a kindly, prosaic entity. New Y.A. Books by Women of Color Rewrite Old Cultural Scripts 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z "I mean, in the most common, prosaic way," he said. Stephen Colbert thinks one Donald Trump controversy was “highly overblown” 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Sondheim was on the side of prosaic, character-consistent lyrics in the face of the composer's more flowery approach. Stephen Sondheim: A life in music 2010-12-20T08:00:00Z He blithely rewrote his friend, imposing his poetic style on her more prosaic effort, inventing dialogue and taking little liberties to heighten the drama. Joanne Carson's Capote-edited memoir chapter still in limbo 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z If the movie's French Riviera setting recalls "To Catch a Thief," Paradis is no Grace Kelly, and the disconnect between Juliette's aristocratic airs and her prosaic tastes taints your fantasy that she is something special. 'Heartbreaker': Hollywood sensibility in French rom-com a mismatch 2010-09-23T20:21:00Z His cloak-and-dagger adventure novels veered into social satire, the gory and occasionally the supernatural, but his definition of what was truly frightening was surprisingly prosaic. Warren Murphy, Writer and Creator of Remo Williams, Dies at 81 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Would any of this be materially improved if the E Corp building were blown to bits, or if anything similarly definitive and prosaic happened? ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Finale: Fade to Black 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z That duality is reflected giddily in the early scene in which he sits at a keyboard and humiliates Salieri with a heavenly variation on the prosaic march the older maestro has written in his honor. Review | ‘Amadeus’ at the Folger will be music to your ears 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The prosaic truth is that most of us aren't actually all that bad. Arbitrage's villain takes advantage – why do we love it? 2013-03-04T13:07:12Z “Against the image of the millennial left, and of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Buttigieg appears to be a more prosaic political character. But, in his own understated way, he is suggesting a sharp break with the past.” Sunday Reading: The Democratic Presidential Front-Runners 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Much of its acreage between the entrance and its colonial style house is a prosaic lawn, a horticultural wasteland. The American Horticultural Society faces its uncertain future, uneasily 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z But with the rest of your life facing the prosaic realities of construction in practice, isn't architecture school the one time to dream? SunBloc: the lightweight solar-powered house that fits on a rooftop 2012-12-06T12:56:53Z As a result, our own prosaic universe came to feel cinematic. Stories from the Set of Stranger Things, the TV Escape We Need Right Now 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Doubtless there’s a prosaic explanation, though I can’t for the life of me imagine what it is. J.K. Rowling on the Magic of ‘Things’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z We all want and need our prosaic needs met, to be sure. Possessed : Upon Reflection, Anne Fontaine’s Feminine Touch 2013-09-13T20:42:59Z His key idea lay in the more prosaic area of hydraulics. Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright – review 2012-06-06T09:50:01Z It derides women for prosaic choices in what they wear, where they shop — for looking as if they’re trying to transcend their working- or middle-class status. I had a thot but didn’t know it was a thing 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Then there are the more prosaic problems that could result from giving kids coffee. It’s a myth: There’s no evidence coffee stunts kids’ growth 2013-12-21T18:00:00Z While it’s happening, it often seems prosaic, repetitive, nonsensical. Dance Review: Multitasker Reverses the Aging Process 2011-06-10T23:56:26Z But the core of "ER" was more prosaic and real-world based. There's more to the office than "The Office" 2011-09-05T17:01:00Z But while Ms. Goldrich’s music is always polished and gently melodic, and Ms. Heisler’s lyrics smooth if mostly prosaic, the score doesn’t inspire excitement; much of it blurs together in the memory almost instantly. Review: ‘Ever After,’ a Slipperless Cinderella Tale, at the Paper Mill Playhouse 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z The answer may be more prosaic than some Pleistocene temporality particular to female bodies. The foul reign of the biological clock | Moira Weigel 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The playwright David Henry Hwang has written libretto that relies on prosaic English rather than attempt a modern poetic representation of Cao’s text. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z If a couple wasn’t enjoying every moment together — even when those moments conflicted with something as prosaic as sleep — then something was amiss. Separate beds are liberating 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Besides I am so conceited I do not believe the Gods would create so potent a being as myself for so prosaic an ending.' Winston Churchill, war correspondent: His early military years shaped his political ambitions 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z And for the first half of his “True West,” he imbues the most prosaic details with mounting tension worthy of Hitchcock. Review: Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano Go Mano a Mano in the Riveting ‘True West’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z This doesn't exactly bode well – why is it that Hollywood always seems so desperate to play up the prosaic, "universal" aspects of a story when such ham-fisted tinkering usually only diminishes its impact? Will Hugh Jackman's Real Steel show us some mettle? 2011-08-26T16:04:14Z The simple, straightforward quality of the drama actually seems prosaic at moments. In the laudable 'The Christians,' characterizations are a saving grace 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Among the more prosaic truths he seems to have extracted is the utmost importance of a sympathetic cohort of musicians — or, better yet, a working stable of them. New Music: New Music: Javier Colon and Taylor Ho Bynum - Reviews 2011-11-28T23:08:05Z It cited the New York State penal code, in particular a section that prohibits the possession of stolen property and is typically used in more prosaic settings to recover things like stolen cars. For U.S. Museums With Looted Art, the Indiana Jones Era Is Over 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Herein lies the issue with making a movie in which a bad guy becomes good in the first place: once he or she loses all that delicious nastiness they morph into something far more prosaic. Despicable Me 2: evil genius or just plain bad? 2013-03-22T13:22:00Z I would mount my rusty climbing frame with meaning, away from my brothers and their prosaic interests of Lego and Spurs, and I'd become Cordelia, my other, less suburban self. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z The reality, in the grey light of London, is far more sombre than this, if not exactly prosaic. One New Change: never brown in town 2010-10-20T20:31:00Z More prosaic is his hard embrace of the same old-fashioned American anti-authoritarianism — with its hatred for rules matched only by a love of guns — that helped define Dirty Harry. ‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Review: The Evil That Men Do (Repeatedly) 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z These days his pleasures are a little more prosaic. When the music fades: US musicians' healthcare crisis 2010-09-16T21:45:00Z Though its lessons may be prosaic, the book is still absorbing and valuable, and Isaacson’s outsize narrative talents are on full display. Book Review Podcast: Walter Isaacson's 'The Innovators' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Most of the main political questions between the 1950s and the present are examined dispassionately and lenient judgments pronounced. . . In general, his tone is prosaic. Book reviews roundup 2011-07-15T21:55:13Z That said, the music here is derivative and prosaic. 'Don't Think I've Forgotten' a deft look back at Cambodia's pop scene The final section is even more prosaic: Preceding a vigorous group dance, the stage is cordoned off with black-and-yellow caution tape. Dance Review: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at the Joyce 2013-05-16T21:50:43Z The arrangements, by William A. Ross and Patrick Williams, are lush but noticeably more prosaic than on earlier albums. New Albums from Pistol Annies and Barbra Streisand 2011-08-22T22:39:07Z Though the production features two grisly executions and several bloody apparitions, it is strongest in its more prosaic moments, especially in the first half. Theater Review: ?The Witch of Edmonton?: A Supernatural Subject with Human Urges 2011-02-04T17:00:53Z His feud with director Abel Ferrara is prosaic by comparison. Hollywood at war: when film-makers feud with each other 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The truth is far more prosaic – diet fatigue. So girls are not all as nice as pie. And your point is? 2011-01-02T00:07:17Z But the show remains steadfastly prosaic, never rising to the heights of poetry. Review: Stuck in Maine in ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Something as prosaic as a compost pile feeds not just the soil, but also the fertile imagination of someone like Stanley Kunitz, who spent summers working in his seaside garden in Cape Cod. The symbiotic relationship between poets and the garden 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z On the most prosaic level, Prince Loewenstein got the group to stop accepting paper bags full of cash as payment. Prince Rupert zu Loewenstein, Rolling Stones Money Manager, Dies at 80 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Most of the still-unopened letters at Columbia are more prosaic, though plenty have peace signs drawn over the seals. An Heir, a $25 Million Giveaway and 30,000 Unopened Letters 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Some of the material swings close to the prosaic, yet Motion's deft lineation and deletions work double-time to preserve the true sense of natural speech. The Customs House by Andrew Motion – review 2012-12-14T22:55:06Z But elsewhere, "Dying of the Light" is, regrettably, a routine espionage yarn, bluntly prosaic instead of filmmaker-poetic. 'Dying of the Light': Prosaic, not poetic 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The book’s ending, though, is anything but prosaic. A Stranger From the Past Confronts Roddy Doyle’s Latest Hero 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Watteau painted mostly the prosaic aspects of war, the quiet moments between battles. Emilio Fraia on Stories Within Stories 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z In 2017, the filmmaker Theo Anthony released “Rat Film,” an improbably poetic, intellectually dazzling, politically astute documentary on the seemingly prosaic topic of rats and their place in the modern urban landscape. ‘All Light, Everywhere’ Review: Watching the Watchers 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Against the image of the millennial left, Buttigieg appears to be a relatively prosaic Presidential candidate. The Democratic Presidential Debates: The Candidates in The New Yorker 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z "Mozart in the Jungle" also depicts some of the more prosaic aspects of orchestral life — chronic financial difficulties, intractable union negotiations and the obligatory brown-nosing of wealthy patrons. 'Mozart in the Jungle' plays it close to home in the classical world 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z But the truth is both more prosaic and more funny. War and Peace ebook readers find a surprise in its Nooks 2012-06-07T08:11:20Z Some of the most prosaic questions from fans provoked the best responses from stars. Geek out!: Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and the lure of Comic-Con 2011 2011-07-25T20:30:00Z And yet one of the most surprising pleasures of “Days” is that it isn’t an admonishment against reflecting on our most prosaic moments; Nors takes an egalitarian view. Breaking up is hard, even for the avant-garde: Dorthe Nors' 'So Much for That Winter' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z It's prosaic, it's lifeless, it's a little bit … bestial. Can bands be trusted to name their own albums? 2013-06-19T13:50:47Z Despite the display of federal investigative force, the interest in Lennon's fingerprint card may turn out to be prosaic, perhaps having to do with ownership of government property. 30 years after his death, Lennon still on FBI's radar 2010-10-07T19:47:00Z She found it prosaic and unimaginative, and duly awarded it just one star. Twelfth Night and Jesus Christ Superstar – reader reviews 2012-09-28T14:43:44Z Unfortunately Curtis doesn't do a particularly good job of filming the action, resorting to prosaic mid-shots rather too often to develop a sense of spectacle. Ride, Rise, Roar ? review 2011-01-13T22:17:01Z I’ve always preferred a more prosaic phrase: Movies that mess with your mind, using another verb in place of “mess.” “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z The poem itself is prosaic, but intercut with the terrible events of his death, the reminiscences glow eerily. Wresting Insight, and Poetry, From Pain 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z However, a more prosaic backing – with the interesting, rimshot-laden drum rhythms unfortunately sounding like biscuit tins in the empty room – can't hope to recreate his records' glossy Diplo and Switch productions. Alex Clare ? review 2011-07-13T17:40:01Z Many of the skits are punchlined by pop songs; elsewhere, prosaic visual gags are made poetic by the addition of a well-loved tune. The Boy With Tape on His Face – review 2012-12-21T18:07:35Z Much of the dialogue—which veers from grand questions about love and happiness to prosaic observations about money and horses—still feels fresh. A 21st-century “Seagull” 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z She and the husky-voiced soul man Tank trade vows to be unselfish in “Tired of Doing Me,” pushing each other beyond the prosaic lyrics. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-12-20T23:13:07Z And it is met by one of the most prosaic of foods: oats. Perspective | Why your humble bowl of oatmeal could help feed a growing planet 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z That success was ill-suited to the prosaic demands of a wife and three young children, and McGinniss’s marriage soon fell apart. Writer Joe McGinniss Jr. follows in his famous father’s footsteps, with a novel twist 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z It was especially impressive considering, thanks to the more prosaic magic of Zoom, Mr. Scott was in Atlanta and his audience was miles away from each other. What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Saul rightly emphasises how prosaic, indeed practical, it is. For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z Sometimes, the poetry is prosaic bordering on spartan. The Malarkey by Helen Dunmore – review 2012-07-07T23:05:07Z Art and life, pain and joy, past and present, profound and prosaic. How two professors transformed the teaching of art history 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z These are resolutely prosaic works; where Whitman saw “River and sunset and scallop-edg’d waves of flood tide,” not to mention crowds of hopeful immigrants, Hopper sees infrastructure. Edward Hopper’s Fantasy Island 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z This year the troubles have been more prosaic. In Congo, Salaam Kivu Festival Brings Performers to Goma 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z While prosaic, the fictional Pera’s way of life is almost fantastically fulfilled. 'The shipping forecast, with jokes': Joe Pera's brilliantly boring comedy 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The thing that’s important about “Serial,” he went on, is “not that that dude’s story is unique—it’s that it’s prosaic.” What “Serial” Really Taught Us 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z He’s a sidelong storyteller, juggling the personal and prosaic, and never stooping to the conventionally artful use of a refrain. Albums From Terius Nash, George Strait, Cymbals Eat Guitars 2011-09-05T22:44:58Z The answer, according to its U.S. distributor, MGM, turns out to be fairly prosaic: Another company had already asserted rights to the title. Name Above the Movie Title? How About in It? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Much of “Rapture and Melancholy” is more prosaic. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z On the other hand, the section devoted to the “Maternal Gaze” is fairly prosaic. At LACMA, a don't-miss African art exhibition full of mystery and beauty 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z “The Score” is no “Friday Night Lights,” but it succeeds on its own more prosaic terms as a credible and warmhearted but spiky family drama. TV Shows to Watch From Hong Kong, Brazil, Sweden and More 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z If, for example, you were staging a waltz to “Nights in White Satin,” you would probably avoid the look of, oh, white satin, lest that appear a tad obvious and prosaic. 'Burn the Floor': Ballroom blitz in a blizzard 2011-02-02T19:57:40Z The reality is more prosaic, but those myths were getting at something important. A Familiar Face at the Met, Now in His Own Light 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z So is the annoyance inspired by this prosaic masculine melodrama. ‘Palmer’ Review: A Crisis of Masculinity 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z The series is lyrical in its fleeting visions of the children’s shattered lives and deadeningly prosaic in its deconstruction of how those lives were shattered. “When They See Us” Is Both Memorable Political Art and Misfired Entertainment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Hemingway is more prosaic: "Tell me who you are before I smash your face in." Will Brooker's top 10 comic book-classic mashups 2012-07-11T13:42:02Z But the real story is somewhat more prosaic and more compelling. Katherine Heiny’s Road to ‘Single, Carefree, Mellow’ 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z The merging of the prosaic and the magical is at the heart of Evan's quirky first book for children. Lissa Evans's small change from TV to books 2011-07-08T15:50:08Z The north of which he speaks is slightly more prosaic: he’s just talking about the north of England. 'Wolf Hall' on PBS Masterpiece: Like 'Game Of Thrones', But With Less Sex And More Menace 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Seinfeld, who was wary of advice from the prosaic company brass, nonetheless agreed that a “real female character” was essential. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Once a Last-Minute Addition to ‘Seinfeld,’ Wins Comedy’s Top Honor 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z True to Mr. Arron’s word, the Beethoven work opens with a prosaic theme, all the better to highlight the composer’s genius in the variations that follow. Music Review: Drawing on Fond Childhood Memories for a Pairing of Beethoven and Berio 2010-12-20T22:56:51Z The camera remains at a distance, and the editing is prosaic, refusing opportunities to add a cinematic interpretation to complement Fiennes’s central performance. ‘Four Quartets’ Review: Virtuosi in Verse 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Santiago’s poem-monologue is equal parts funny and tragic, prosaic and mildly deranged. Mario Benedetti’s Wise, Lonely Novel about Political Exile 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z When he was young, Freud was a very precise draughtsman; in his later works, he rejects prosaic accuracy and instead paints flesh in mottled, powdered, massed, pockmarked, misted attacks of colour. Lucian Freud storms the Pompidou Centre 2010-03-16T21:35:00Z But without all the fun of the Arena to look forward to, it’s equally possible we’ll see the saga jumping the shark into radically more expansive, yet considerably more prosaic territory. Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 will need all J-Law’s superpowers 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z For politicians, the explanation may be even more prosaic. How the Dogme manifesto reinvented Denmark 2012-11-25T19:00:01Z There is something else at play here, I suspect, something much more prosaic: cleaning up. The Deep Allure of the One-Pan Recipe 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z But the fact that they often simply shoved bones aside suggests a more prosaic explanation: a wish not to have a decaying body in the middle of their living quarters. Books of The Times: ?How to Think Like a Neandertal? ? By Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge ? Review 2011-12-27T23:05:30Z The programming issues seem more prosaic by comparison. Bill O’Reilly’s gone — with $25 million in severance. Now the hard work really starts for Fox News. 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Above all, The Woman Upstairs is about the "precious, hidden specialness" beneath the most prosaic of exteriors: the secret life of the mind. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud – review 2013-05-17T09:00:02Z Is this related to that generational approach, or is it a more prosaic choice? ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z This, however, may be too prosaic a way of describing the ensemble: for Ricciotti, it "expresses the existential question of architecture, which is the difficulty of living". Museum of the Civilisations of Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM) – review 2013-06-08T23:05:15Z The last line seems deliberately prosaic, the speaker's voice factual and restrained so that the reader can better register absurdity. Poem of the week: The Seventh Art in the Sanatorium by Heather Hartley 2010-11-22T13:27:00Z A star actor might transcend a prosaic film, Mr. Sarris said, but only a director could bring to bear the coherence of vision that gives birth to great art. Andrew Sarris, Film Critic, Dies at 83 2012-06-20T17:00:26Z Gore’s tunes are pleasant but, barring Carrie and Mom's songs, not very individuated, Pitchford’s lyrics are prosaic, at times prolix, and Cohen’s book doesn’t explore its All Teens Are Alienated theme beyond surface considerations. With 'Carrie: The Musical,' you can't say they haven't tried 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Neither prosaic nor clinical, it defies all expectations for a story in which the main character receives a fatal diagnosis, telling the tale in the most lively, surreal and surprising ways imaginable. Review: ‘You Will Get Sick’ Tells the Untellable, for a Price 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Cola, tobacco and sweet soul music are among the forces that transcend the prosaic in Christenberry’s vignettes of the everyday American South. In the galleries: Perspectives on blending culture and identity 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z For Mr. Dylan, there may also be a more prosaic motivation for the release: to secure European copyright protection on the recordings. Dylan’s 1966 Tapes Find a Direction Home 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z “Powerfully prosaic,” as Kirkus Reviews called it, “The Dirty Dozen” reportedly sold more than two million copies. E.M. Nathanson, 88, Author of ‘The Dirty Dozen’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Manhattan looks dull and prosaic, without mystery and glamour. Review: In ‘Manhattan Night,’ Adrien Brody Navigates an Urban Underbelly 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z On a prosaic level, it's a visually spectacular show, the stage bathed in vivid colours, a dozen video screens suspended above the band, shifting and changing positions with each song. Radiohead at O2 2012-10-09T11:27:18Z Beginning with a long, frantic but eerily prosaic depiction of an honor killing in 1929 Tehran, it traces the event’s ramifications through three generations, nearly to the present. At Film Comment Selects, Period Pieces Lead the Way 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Considering the many different points of view and dramatic styles through which Ms. Morisseau could have rendered her story, it is disappointing to encounter such a prosaic approach, especially when the results prove so ineffective. | New Jersey: Brothel?s Guests: Love and Dreams 2011-07-24T03:50:03Z It seemed as if Gaga could now, at age thirty, be aiming for a more anodyne omnipresence—a prosaic, inarguable appeal that might approximate Adele’s. Lady Gaga’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Such prosaic sex is a symptom of prosaic characterization. English teacher: I was wrong about “Hunger Games” 2012-07-19T18:30:00Z "Backyard" suffers from a more prosaic writing problem: This rambling play is badly in need of an editor. 'Taste' and 'Backyard' revel in gore and lack style 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z In laying bare the fraying, strangling, enveloping threads that tie people together, "Kin" isn't so much a song cycle as a dog-eared family album, full of revelatory images and telling details amid the prosaic scenes. Songwriter Rodney Crowell and poet Mary Karr play Triple Door 2012-06-14T20:49:03Z The purpose of Sturgis’ exhaustive scholarship is that the prosaic may better inform the poetic. Why David Hare Loves Oscar Wilde 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z As is so often the case, it's surprisingly prosaic. Introducing the Science Museum's pet particle physicist 2012-07-11T11:06:00Z Lift-off is poetic, the inevitable return to Earth prosaic: Holmes dodges throughout between sublimity and a rueful, comical bathos. Falling Upwards by Richard Holmes – review 2013-04-22T07:00:01Z Hughes’s proposal — which he himself describes as a “prosaic and incremental” expansion of the earned-income tax credit — is emphatically not a universal basic income. Chris Hughes Made Millions at Facebook. Now He Has a Plan to End Poverty. 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z Douglas is looking for a version of himself beyond his father’s prosaic lot in life. Inside ‘Not Fade Away,’ From David Chase 2012-12-05T13:48:48Z Those quotes were an inner dialogue with myself as I was doing the prosaic daily things in the film. Willem Dafoe on painting Van Gogh’s shoes: “It’s his attempt to paint the soul of something” 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Now his descendants are attempting a far more prosaic transformation on his Paris memorial, one that will cost upwards of $40,000 to achieve and maintain. Dead famous: the Kickstarter campaign to restore Méliès's grave 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Hers are jam-packed with old and young characters engaged in prosaic, silly or mysterious activities that young readers can spend hours poring over. Enticing Books for Every Kid This Holiday Season 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The school’s response illustrates the ripple effect of the #MeToo movement, which surfaced in the high-profile precincts of Hollywood but is now prompting action in more prosaic places like colleges and businesses. College Removes Instructors as Students Find Their #MeToo Moment 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z These paintings are rooted in observation – the artist setting up his easel in the Yorkshire countryside – yet the results are anything but prosaic. David Hockney: the outsider who sees, and paints, the bigger picture 2011-08-26T10:48:43Z Where Jerinic’s New York is as prosaic as a government form, Matthew Mann’s Washington is fanciful. In the galleries: ‘Strange Landscapes’ explores gardens of unearthly delights 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z In fact, the book seems to have very prosaic reasons for existing. Neil Young: 'You don't want to OD on music' 2012-10-04T19:00:01Z The Wire was intricately, unforgivingly plotted, capturing the prosaic nature of police procedural work, the brutal dynastic politics of drug kingpins and the corruption and grubby compromises of civic life. ‘Progress is painfully uneven’: Baltimore, 15 years after The Wire 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Rather than money or power, what motivates Richard and the other coders of “Silicon Valley” — to the extent that they’re motivated at all, which is sometimes debatable — is something quite prosaic. ‘Silicon Valley,’ Mike Judge’s New Series, Debuts on HBO 2014-04-02T16:55:21Z The “whisper opera” libretto presents prosaic, personal thoughts gathered from sources like Twitter feeds and Tumblr posts. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z In Adams’s photographs the lighted details are allowed to feel accidental, even prosaic; they are not “chosen” in the way a “telling detail” in a short story is. Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z At first what they’re looking at, the back wall of the stage, is pretty prosaic. A backstage, meditative adventure with 'The Encounter's' Simon McBurney 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z How did he feel when he saw a more prosaic England team reach the semi-final of the World Cup last year? Rio Ferdinand: ‘I used to drink 10 pints then move on to vodka’ 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Over such prosaic entries the ledger artists recorded, and still record, their dreams and visions: battle scenes, horses and wildlife. On a Native American tour through the badlands 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z A dogwood poinsettia that McLaughlin grew from seed he received from Le Duc is central to the exhibit, though it looks pretty prosaic — a lanky vase-shaped shrub with small white bract clusters. Reinventing the poinsettia: A classic Christmas flower’s colorful new looks 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Yet the person I read about in my recovery diary is childlike and prosaic, unlike that umbral pre-hospital self who could, even at her most obscured, be eerily illuminating. Brain On Fire: 'Blood and foam began to spurt out of my mouth' 2013-01-13T00:05:24Z One of the most interesting of these initiatives was, however, born for more prosaic reasons. Bawden and battenberg: the Lyons teashop lithographs 2013-07-12T12:00:00Z For all the apocalyptic strangeness of his settings — permeable borders, plague addled cities — his stories mold something rich and fundamental from the stuff of prosaic life. In Yuri Herrera's hard-boiled 'The Transmigration of Bodies,' dirty work is providence 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Trendy and/or thematically sound as outsized captions may be, however, there’s another more prosaic explanation for them. ALL CAPS, all the time: why are so many shows bombarding us with giant fonts? 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z It’s the best because that’s what turns a prosaic chicken stew into a glorious pie, rendering each bite a pastry-adorned indulgence. Here’s a clever way to make chicken potpie with a better-for-you crust 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z And lest anyone be tempted to dismiss this as beyond their sphere of experience – oh, those crazy celebrities! – here’s a more prosaic story for you. The evidence is mounting – a man’s place is in the home 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Formal dance poses and strenuous balances rub against prosaic positions. Dance Review: Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith at the Chocolate Factory 2012-03-01T23:07:27Z To win back his princess from her emotional tower, he tackles the prosaic heroic tests of our era, such as putting up with weepy sisters-in-law, cooking and shutting off the smoke alarm. Plenty of bite in 'Of Good Stock,' but a soft heart lurks within 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Etna, on the other hand, is more prosaic. Shops under a volcano? The dangerous lure of Mount Etna 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z The other new songs, meanwhile, range freely from promising to prosaic. Scissor Sisters; Gossip ? review 2012-05-19T23:08:04Z That is exactly the freedom that Little and his librettist Royce Vavrek needed for a work meant to show through phantasmagorical nightmares and prosaic frailties how even real physical and emotional pain beats the alternative. 'JFK' is a surreal spin on president's last night in Texas 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement But at the Skidbladner, a reconstructed Viking ship up the road, the volunteer who showed visitors around had a much more prosaic explanation for how past and present came together: economic necessity. On the Nordic Trail in Scotland 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Compared with dour neutrals and ironic casual wear, Marni is an antidepressant, the Prozac to the prosaic. At Marni, Shopping the Good Shop Lollipop 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Although Devine's history explodes myths and foregrounds the prosaic realities of emigration, it has the fascinating charm of a detective story. To the Ends of the Earth by TM Devine ? review 2011-08-04T08:59:01Z If that’s an overly poetic way of looking at recipes, there is another — and far more prosaic — way I look at them: as formulas, sums that need to be in balance. Ottolenghi’s Formula for Easy, Delicious Dishes 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z What happens when our increasingly pervasive boycott culture unexpectedly comes for something as prosaic and personal as our pillows? MyPillow boycott: How a product can spark an identity crisis 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Despite the prosaic narrator, the arc of this story gleams — Perillo exercises total, exquisite, chilling control. 'Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain': down, out and confronting death 2012-06-06T21:18:09Z Kind of a prosaic question but I'm curious: where do you shoot the exteriors for Kimmy and Titus' neighborhood? Submit Questions for Robert Carlock of ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Bernardo Soares was another major persona; a clerk who detailed in prosaic resignation the tediousness of work, life, the city and the futility of desire. Fernando Pessoa and the multiple faces we show on the net 2010-12-04T10:00:00Z As a dramaturgical device, it’s more prosaic than piquant, yet not entirely off brand for a woman whose mind was a perpetual motion machine. ‘Emilie’ Review: Defending, and Defining, a Life 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z One of her lodestars was Anton Chekhov, whose “bark of the prosaic,” she wrote in her book about him, “encases a story’s vital poetic core.” Janet Malcolm, a Writer Who Emphasized the Messiness of Life With Slyness and Precision 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Ingress points to a less prosaic vision for such a world, one where ordinary-seeming places and objects are dense with fiction. Ingress, a Mobile Game From Google 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Despite the prosaic way in which Flea describes their current working patterns, there is a lot of dark romance in the story of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Red Hot Chili Peppers: The band that couldn't be stopped 2011-08-18T20:29:01Z The answer is prosaic: they get there by minicab. John Lanchester rides the London Underground 2013-03-02T08:30:35Z Painfully earnest and yet cringingly self-congratulatory, they all follow Gilbert’s road to redemption — an emotional collapse, a spiritual journey, a self-affirming conclusion — in the most prosaic way possible. ‘Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It’: Really? We need to talk. 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Kuchar, whose speaking voice never left the Bronx, was always prosaic in describing his work. George Kuchar, Underground Filmmaker, Dies at 69 2011-09-08T04:51:32Z As for Simons, who appeared relieved that it was all over, more prosaic concerns were on his mind. Raf Simons makes dazzling Dior debut with floral bounty 2012-07-02T20:03:31Z A much more prosaic list of ingredients went into the making of this new chamber work, on show at Here in SoHo through Sunday: Baking soda, vinegar, 70 percent rubbing alcohol. Music in Review: ‘Science Fair,’ Jeremy Denk and the Emerson String Quartet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Nothing about the store’s prosaic name begins to hint at its exoticism. | ABC Carpet & Home: ABC Carpet & Home: the Name Belies the Exoticism 2010-05-04T23:40:00Z This, I suspect, is the more prosaic reality of meal prep. From overnight oats to boiled eggs – is meal prep taking the joy out of eating? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z These prosaic interests become incorporated into a pair of essays, "Habit" and "Same Design: Different Outcomes". All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z But the vividness of her theatrical invention is undercut by the prosaic structuring of the work. Jasmin Vardimon Company: Freedom – review 2012-11-13T18:30:01Z The staging, working so hard to avoid all the furniture, is likewise too prosaic. Review: In ‘The Traveling Lady,’ Hope and Regret Run Neck and Neck 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z At this point Santat’s staid, prosaic images explode into garish, kinetic life as the two create a comic-book epic featuring a ferocious dragon and two embattled heroes modeled on themselves. Grandmas and Grandpas Are a Kid’s Natural Allies in These Books 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Alexievich is a master at employing the withheld detail to undercut the unfiltered sentimentalism of a narrator, or adding a poetic sting to an otherwise prosaic entry. What Children Remember From the War 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z One is prosaic and on the nose: When it needs a transition, or just an injection of feeling, the program throws in an I-told-you-so montage of wildfires, hurricanes and floods. ‘Frontline’ Review: Why the Climate Changed but We Didn’t 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Disappointingly, perhaps, there is a more prosaic answer. Why 'Odyssey Dawn'? 2011-03-25T12:30:01Z The new owners announced themselves on Twitter last week with a prosaic, “Hi, this is the new owner of The Believer.” The Believer, a Beloved Literary Magazine, Goes Home After a Risqué Detour 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z On a prosaic level, short art frees up precious time. Get. Arts. Fast. 2014-03-20T21:33:30Z It was a prosaic, not obviously promising thrum and mess of machinery and columns. Moynihan Train Hall: It’s Stunning. And, a First Step. 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z There’s an implication that these rural Tibetans are precious themselves, and the cinematography — prosaic, searching and lovely at once — promotes the case, making accessible a world that otherwise seems out of reach. ‘Precious Caterpillar’ Traces Journey of Tibetan Harvesters 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z These often prosaic videos can inspire huge fan bases that churn out compilation videos with titles like “The Best ♥ Couple ♥ i’ve Ever Seen.” “They’re perfect, PS I cried”: How teen “cute couple” videos are taking over the Internet 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Betty looks like Grace Kelly, but she seems blandly prosaic — except when she picks up a BB gun and shoots the neighbor’s pigeons, a cigarette dangling from her perfectly curved lips. Television: Changes for Fourth Season of ?Mad Men? 2010-07-16T19:01:00Z This would have the advantage of allowing the veteran British film-maker to complete the increasingly tedious timeline between Prometheus and the events of the original Alien, via several further, no-doubt increasingly prosaic, instalments. Where will Hollywood's search for authenticity end? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Yet their origin lies in a surprisingly prosaic exercise in problem-solving. The tropical overwater bungalow — long a symbol of relaxation and luxury — turns 50 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The production benefits greatly from the terrific Brooks, who infuses even prosaic moments — chitchat with Lia over potato chips, for instance — with interesting inflections and intense personality. Review | No shoo-in success for two new plays about female artists 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Even though the knotty partnering was beyond them, and there were stamina issues, on such a prosaic program, “Trouble” was a burst of good cheer. 10 Hairy Legs Perform a Work by Doug Elkins 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z I’m not sure what that means either, but it’s a great read, which infuses a prosaic life with a steady, thrum of apocalyptic dread that heightens the senses. Review: The Lists We Live by in Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Geissler reveals the granularity of labor, both rough and prosaic, lying beneath this obfuscating layer. “Seasonal Associate” Is a Labor Memoir for the Amazon Era 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Being of a more prosaic disposition myself, I wonder if it's got a lot to do with having confounded so many predictions of his professional demise. Russell Brand: 'It's irrelevant what other people think of you' 2013-02-03T20:00:01Z Matthew Arnold told the sceptical Victorians to read the Bible for its poetry; Frey, however, is lumpenly prosaic, unable to conceive of or communicate rapture. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey ? review 2011-04-10T04:00:00Z Running against the self-aggrandizer-in-chief, Mrs. Clinton owned up to her prosaic, wonky instincts. Her Shot: Hillary Clinton Shares a Vision of America Out of ‘Hamilton’ 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Mostly, friends of varying ranks, age and temperament bond under the stress of military life — it’s a soap opera built around prosaic and very real wartime conditions. Television Review: Surprise! Daddy?s Home, From War 2011-03-04T23:52:30Z The photograph reveals the “Holocaust by bullets” in Ukraine, where more than one million Jews were murdered not in terrifying death camps but in prosaic “fields, swamps and ravines.” When Genocide Is Caught on Film 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z But even in its most prosaic scenes “The Black Pirate” hums with energy. DVDs: From the Vaults, Vintage Heroics of All Kinds 2011-01-15T04:38:01Z This poetic Life of Pi concludes with a fascinating, deliberately prosaic coda that raises questions about the reality of what we've seen and confronts the teleological issues involved. Life of Pi – review 2012-12-23T00:06:56Z But as a legislator with a solid record of writing bills and getting some big ones passed, she is known for her passion for the prosaic, such as traffic congestion. Danica Roem breaks through in Virginia Senate by focusing on road rage and not only anti-trans hate 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z To gain the intimacy he longs for, he must set aside his beautifully crafted tales and pick up the more prosaic, imperfect medium of shared personal truths. Has he lived 1,110 years, or only 106? A desert retiree's magical metafictional tour 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z A long tradition of doing prosaic but vital work has sunk into chaos and poisonous confrontation across the country. Virginia school board elections face a pivotal moment as a cozy corner of democracy turns toxic 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z A long tradition of doing prosaic but vital work has sunk into chaos and poisonous confrontation across the United States. Virginia school board elections face a pivotal moment as a cozy corner of democracy turns toxic 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z But even storytellers of a more prosaic bent could learn something from Jackson’s gift for narrative elision and economy, her insistence on the primacy of the visual and her sparing use of music. Review: 'All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,' one of the year's great debuts, is a major work of art 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Much of Johnson’s early work for ADF was far more prosaic. House Speaker Mike Johnson was once the dean of a Christian law school. It never opened its doors 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z On his podcast, he’s an active listener who reaffirms even the most prosaic of insights from his guests with sincere appreciation: “That’s so beautiful.” Jay Shetty went from monk to celebrity life coach. Just don't call him a 'guru' 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z More prosaic pursuits became a necessity when both of her parents died of cancer during her high school years. Diana Marcum, Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for Los Angeles Times, dies 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z But there are more practical, prosaic reasons for this escalation in commie catcalling. Republicans reignite the red scare in service of Trump 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z "We are not talking about prosaic origins or identities," Grusch told the Debrief. "We are not alone": Intelligence whistleblower says "non-human" UAP craft retrieved 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z His burning question about cops is more prosaic: Do they come when you call them? Bland is back? In Seattle the fiery far left is barely on the ballot 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Early Christians came to insist, following Paul, that Jesus had indeed been the messiah, but that the “liberation” he offered was spiritual in nature, rather than having to do with prosaic politics. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The queen was part of our culture, both iconic and as prosaic as a cup of tea. Opinion: King Charles has waited a very long time for this. But are you 'coronation-ready'? 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The income of a commercial painter didn’t allow him to keep pace with the skyrocketing cost of fine wines, and his early exposure to them ruined more affordable prosaic options. A big bottle of wine sat in his basement for decades. It could go for $80K. 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z "One aim of this book," he continues, "is to document the gulf between the alarming portrait of democracy in crisis and the more prosaic reality of contemporary European public opinion." What crisis of democracy? Scholar Larry Bartels says the real crisis is corrupt leaders 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z And when you visit museums — like the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City — physical, sometimes prosaic items often feel loaded with a surprising amount of emotional impact. Perspective | 4 acclaimed novelists talk about writing Vietnam 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z In prosaic politics and social organization, they revolved around the role of the scribes. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the decades, more prosaic attributions emerged, mostly for scientists, astronomers or high-profile figures. Centuries of Stargazing Leave Jesuit Names Written in the Heavens 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The only ingredient possibly considered a specialty is aquafaba, which is Italian for the prosaic “bean water.” Take a crack at these effortlessly eggless Dark Chocolate Fudgy Brownies 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Nowadays, members can buy their freedom or sometimes just request early retirement for something as prosaic as a bad back. What’s a Japanese Mobster to Do in Retirement? Join a Softball Team. 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Though he was an immediate superstar when he turned pro in 1969, he was determined to get better — even at the most prosaic elements of the game. Opinion | LeBron James’s greatness goes beyond points scored 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Ironically, “the” Reformation as the sundering of Christian unity was at least in part the product of prosaic reformations already occurring within the Church. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re given the opportunity to look at a world through a unique lens that may take some adjusting to but is intended to sharpen our vision of our more prosaic lives. Commentary: What a difference a revival makes: Two famously tricky Sondheim musicals shine in new outings 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Her immediate challenges are prosaic, with only a few hours of electricity a day it is difficult to work from home. Afghan women determined, frustrated after Taliban NGO ban 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The members of EZ EC relish the impact, but the tone and protocols of the organization are borderline prosaic. The Students Quietly Distributing Emergency Birth Control on Campus It finally settled on its current, more prosaic handle, DVD.com. Netflix nights still come wrapped in red-and-white envelopes 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z The poignancy comes as a surprise because most of the preceding scenes are slack and prosaic. Review | ‘Devotion’: Korean War aviator drama is slow to take off 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Whether poetic or prosaic, though, each addresses in his own way the threat they see in a passel of election deniers loyal to former President Donald J. Trump taking power in next week’s election. Biden and Obama Reunite in a Last-Ditch Effort to Save Their Party 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z But what they find at the end of the filmmaker’s rainbow is less likely to be a pot of philosophical gold than prosaic self-satisfaction. Review | ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’: When old friendship goes violently awry 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z His advice isn’t so much bad as prosaic and sounds like pablum for schoolkids: Read books, think big, be useful. Opinion | Time to abandon Twitter, people 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z It was more prosaic than might have been expected, but there was still much to admire in the way Ostigard contorted his neck to snap a header past the helpless goalkeeper. Napoli administer fifth defeat in row to Rangers 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z For all the trumpet-sounding and talk of spiritual warfare, when Flynn — known as “America’s General” here — took the stage, his marching orders were more prosaic. Right-wing roadshow promotes Christian nationalism before midterms 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Now two years in, with midterm elections looming in November, there's a more prosaic matter driving his policies: prices at the pump. Joe Biden's unusual fight to bring down gas prices 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z On the Chancery Court, where judges sometimes cite historic, literary and even pop-culture references in their rulings, McCormick’s opinions tend to be comparatively prosaic and direct. Meet the judge who tamed the Musk-Twitter trial 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z That combination — baffling futuristic lingo punctuated by the prosaic fact of a backyard shed — is quintessential Saunders. George Saunders' saintly, disappointing new stories: A tender-hearted takedown 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Sabotage to the gas pipelines shows that Russia might use more prosaic “kinetic” tools — high explosives — to achieve the same purposes. Opinion | Undersea pipeline sabotage demands the West prepare for more attacks 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Plenty are used for important, if prosaic, tasks like analyzing road traffic, managing social networks or predicting weather, but analysts and researchers have shown how others are used for more malign purposes. U.S. Said to Plan New Limits on China’s A.I. and Supercomputing Firms 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z The men longed for the prosaic: marriage, children, a job. Sundance Liked Her Documentary on Terrorism, Until Muslim Critics Didn’t 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z The first play by a Black British female playwright to be produced in London’s West End, “Nine Night” excels at showing how grief and family division can seep into prosaic chores and ostensibly minor exchanges. Review | In Round House premiere of ‘Nine Night,’ mourning becomes electric 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Henry James, in his commentaries on Ibsen, insightfully noted the “extraordinary process of vivification” that takes place when the playwright’s seemingly prosaic prose dramas are enacted. Review: A striking revival of 'Ghosts' at the Odyssey suffers from lack of ensemble cohesion 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z But it’s also bad because people who role-play in more interesting historical eras tend to lose track of more prosaic realities. Opinion | Biden loses sight of the virtues of ‘normal’ 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z So the holographic principle says that because of the presence of black holes, quantum gravity should be formulated as a more prosaic nongravitational quantum system in fewer dimensions. Black Hole Discovery Helps to Explain Quantum Nature of the Cosmos 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z It is prosaic stuff: four empty statue plinths arranged with no obvious sense of order in a nondescript public square on the campus of Drexel University. Review | In Philadelphia, a monument to end all monuments 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Mann’s cinema may be poetry, but his prose is … well, prosaic. Review | Michael Mann’s ‘Heat’ gets a sequel — in novel form 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z I wrote a column in 2016 about a more prosaic consequence of AI and machine learning: jobs. AI and the ghost in the machine: Losing human jobs is the least of our worries 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z But over the past few years, evidence has mounted for a more prosaic culprit: carbon-spewing volcanoes that emerged underneath Greenland as it tore away from Europe. Hidden carbon layer may have sparked ancient bout of global warming 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z In the pantheon of European diplomacy, however, these train trips can seem prosaic compared to other historic train journeys. The war in Ukraine revives an old practice: train diplomacy. 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z The shorthand explanation for the housing crunch is not-in-my-backyard NIMBYism, but the political instrument that makes such hostility effective has a more prosaic description: strict local zoning regulations. Opinion | How NIMBYism chokes off affordable housing even in Big Sky Country 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z A search around the world of online advice givers uncovers some other diamonds of practical wisdom, both prosaic and profound: The greatest life hacks in the world (for now) 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z But on the ground, the concerns are more prosaic. Drones. Crutches. Potatoes. Russians Crowdfund Their Army. 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z Amid roiling political storms, Magic City Acceptance Academy also faces the more prosaic challenge of preparing students academically as the school’s first year comes to an end this month. A Haven for L.G.B.T.Q. Students in the Heart of Alabama 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z The park’s finest hours were in the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s, when its lush tropical foliage and prosaic rosebushes invited downtown workers to lunch al fresco. Griffith Park is named for a guy who shot his wife — and other true stories of L.A. parks 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z While she and others have talked about ways to draw younger members, her first assignment has been more prosaic: digitizing the musty membership lists. Chinatown’s Civic Groups Have Held Developers at Bay. Can They Survive? 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z The gain in prosaic realism comes at a loss in fairy tale magic. Review: 'Funny Girl' still belongs to Barbra Streisand, but Beanie Feldstein is easy to love 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Serpell, though, remained unconvinced there was a curse; the explanation seemed to him to be far more prosaic. Messi, Ronaldo and Soccer’s Golden Sunset 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z In much of the country, covid continues to make daily life — including prosaic activities such as going to work or the supermarket — complicated and wearying. Opinion | The job market is booming. So why doesn’t it feel like it? 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z In a slightly more prosaic manner, they registered their affection for the city in a poll recently conducted by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley and co-sponsored by The Times. Escape from L.A.? No, most people like it here, poll finds 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z “The first criterion was there should be no light coming from the lens,” Sahu says, to rule out more prosaic objects such as a failed star known as a brown dwarf. Astronomers Find First-Ever Rogue Black Hole Adrift in the Milky Way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z That includes museums and other cultural institutions devoted to such seemingly prosaic trades as milling, mining and drilling. Eyesore or Monument? Preservationists Fight to Save a Grain Elevator in Buffalo 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z The relatively prosaic setting of the third book, The Edge of the Sea—the seashore, where so many of us have trundled with our little nets—perhaps inevitably pales in comparison. Rachel Carson’s Explorations of the Sea, the Human Relationship with Elephants, and More 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Most of these phenomena turn out to have prosaic explanations — such as weather balloons, space debris and atmospheric effects in the sky — with a small percentage exhibiting unusual flight characteristics that suggest advanced technology. Congress rightly legitimizes the long-ridiculed topic of UFOs 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z While the summertime protests demanded sweeping police reforms, the discussion at the church reflected more prosaic, day-to-day concerns. Breonna Taylor’s death sparked police reform in Louisville. But the path forward is complicated. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z “The Wheel of Time” disappoints most in its surprisingly prosaic visuals. Review | ‘Game of Thrones’ was not a perfect show. ‘The Wheel of Time’ makes it look like a masterpiece. 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z “Overconfidence” may have caused those Bills penalties or failed Cowboys conversions, but it may also just be a narrative device to explain a few prosaic mistakes. What’s With All the Upsets in the N.F.L.? 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z But while Shor’s more prosaic strategy might be an easier sell to voters, it is apt to be a harder sell to the young idealists who staff campaigns and newsrooms. Opinion | Democrats cannot afford to cater to only a hyper-educated class. It’s time to pop the bubble. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The omnibus film “The Year of the Everlasting Storm” collects the work, from the prosaic to the poetic, of seven directors tasked with completing a short narrative under pandemic restrictions. Review | Seven directors capture life during a pandemic in ‘The Year of the Everlasting Storm’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z And while the outbreak on Guam — population 170,000 — is small compared with those elsewhere, vaccine tourists face other, more prosaic concerns. ‘Vaccine snob’ travelers head to Guam for sun, sea — and shots 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z But, in its midsection, Trump Tower is something more prosaic: a Manhattan office building, with 12 floors available for lease. Trump Tower’s key tenants have fallen behind on rent and moved out. But Trump has one reliable customer: His own PAC. 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z And while the outbreak in Guam – population 170,000 – is small compared with those elsewhere, vaccine tourists face other, more prosaic concerns. COVID ‘vaccine snob’ travelers flock to Guam for sun, sea and shots 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z The team furnished the room with a wirelessly powered lamp and fan, as well as more prosaic items, including a chair, table and bookshelf. This Room Could Wirelessly Charge All Your Devices 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The inspiring and the prosaic collide, the sacred indistinguishable from the profane. Review: Celeb photographer Matthew Rolston's fabulously weird Pageant of the Masters portraits 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z There are moments when “Respect,” an uneven, prosaic but affecting new movie starring Jennifer Hudson as a young Aretha Franklin, comes close to pinpointing something true and revealing about its subject’s art. Review: 'Respect' is an enjoyable ode to Aretha Franklin, biopic clichés and all 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Freight may seem a prosaic topic for presidential attention. Biden targets high shipping costs as pandemic ravages global supply chains 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Though he never abandoned the style, he tended toward the short, playful poem in free verse, mixing the lofty and prosaic, laced with droll observation and rife with the absurdity of modern-day life — his, especially. Long Beach State's Gerald Locklin, Bukowski's drinking pal, left a lasting mark on writing — and writers 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z But when lawmakers talk about it, they tend to leave themselves a little wiggle room in case it’s something else — whether more prosaic than a military rival or, you know, more cosmic. ‘There is stuff’: Enduring mysteries trail US report on UFOs 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Guardiola’s assessment of his lost decade is a little different, more poetic than prosaic. Pep Guardiola and the Ones That Got Away 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z But there were plenty more prosaic moments for United to work on. Manchester United slips on Solskjaer’s ‘stepping stone’ 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z For news editors, a story about a person rejecting vaccination because of their beliefs is probably more interesting than reporting a more prosaic lack of transport or inconvenient clinic hours. Coronavirus live news: Taiwan extends its level 3 alert; US advises against travel to Japan 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z That’s an honest if obvious insight and a legitimate premise for a sequel, even if the execution here ultimately feels more prosaic than inspired. Review: ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ is (shhh!) a good enough sequel 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z After prosaic royal engagements at dental and textile facilities, the trained flier has the opportunity to take the controls of a private jet. Prince Philip vs Philip of ‘The Crown’: Fact and fiction 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Tucker Kain, the Dodgers’ president of business enterprise, is in charge of using the Dodgers name and money to invest in technologies as prosaic as point-of-sale kiosks, and as newfangled as blockchain and nonfungible tokens. The Dodgers Made It to the Top. They Want to Stay There 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Full bloom there sends an often prosaic city into flights of poetry. After a taste of summer, spring returns 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z But they debate whether it comes from dark matter or more prosaic sources such as neutron stars. Dark matter could warm the hearts of lonely old planets, scientists predict 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Canadian justice department lawyer Robert Frater said Meng‘s lawyers offered “an exciting narrative” but what actually happened is more “prosaic.” Justice lawyer urges judge to reject Huawei lawyer narrative 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z “It’s kind of prosaic, but it’s going to be very important,” he said. Quakes off Oregon coast, on Rainier are typical and wouldn’t have triggered forthcoming ShakeAlert system 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z I’m sure a place for this exists, at least at the most prosaic level. Mars beckons, but the private sector alone can’t meet our space needs 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z For others, it was a more prosaic affair. A day to remember: London nursing home greets virus vaccine 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Something as prosaic as a compost pile feeds not just the soil, but also the fertile imagination of someone like Stanley Kunitz, who spent summers working in his seaside garden in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The connection between poetry and gardens: Both ask how we thrive and flourish 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z There’s a prosaic quality to these cautionary statements, which might have elicited an eye-roll in less assured hands. Review: With big villains and bigger hair, ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ is a gloriously overstuffed sequel 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z It is only in that context that such normally prosaic acts as a nurse giving someone a shot and electors casting votes become so noteworthy. A Day That Settled an Election and Brought Hope for Defeating a Pandemic 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Longer, more prosaic sections detail efforts to win residency status for his family, with some of the accounts written almost contemporaneously as events unfolded in several journeys back and forth across the border. After years of turmoil, 'Dreamer' and author Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is proud to put down California roots 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z They're not meant to be believed or to make sense or to achieve any of the other goals of more prosaic liars. Trump's outrageous lies used to be terrifying — now they're just pathetic 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z But the explanation is prosaic: Contemporaneous reporting says this is when Milwaukee’s central counting location finished with roughly 170,000 mail ballots. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Indeed behind closed doors, beyond the smooth façade of his presidential image, Obama spoke to the big banking heads with prosaic candor: "My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks." What can the left expect from a Biden-Harris administration? Pretty much nothing 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z The New York Times request came with some prosaic conditions — 100 words or less on a newspaper deadline, a tall order for an exacting art form. Verses vs. Virus: What These Poets Laureate Are Thankful For 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z The most prosaic of routines can now deliver delight. A comfy chair, a locked door, an old record. Covid Thanksgiving inspires new reasons for gratitude. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z He lacks, or holds close to the vest, his conclusions about Biden, portraying him largely in prosaic, one-dimensional images. Perspective | What does Obama really think about Biden? His memoir doesn’t say. 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z “Now my relationship with op-shops tends to the more prosaic; a cheap and environmentally legitimate means of indulging my consumerist and creative urges.” 'A thrill of subtle subversion': New Zealand MPs share their love of thrifting 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Another, more prosaic objective also lies before him: fixing America’s plumbing. Opinion | Trump has deliberately made our government more dysfunctional. Here’s how Biden can fix it. 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z But others offered a more prosaic interpretation of some of the events this week. Trump Stacks the Pentagon and Intel Agencies With Loyalists. To What End? 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Birdsall also works through the sadder complexities of Beard’s family life, the genuine insights and prosaic compromises of his professional work, and, most devastatingly, the societal homophobia that deformed his potential. Sample 3 books by and about chefs, including David Chang’s new memoir ‘Eat A Peach’ 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Kandahar is a deeply conservative city, a former headquarters of the Taliban where men still dictate the most prosaic details of women’s lives. In Former Taliban Stronghold, Defiant Women Hit the Gym 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z I always thought my breakup with alcohol would happen after I’d been arrested or said something terrible to someone important or fallen down a flight of stairs – but the reality is more prosaic. After years of enjoying drinking, my body has just ... stopped | Brigid Delaney 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Last year’s playoff loss did not really reveal any fundamental flaw or moral shortcoming in Jackson or the Ravens’ philosophy, though it did expose some of the 2019 Ravens’ minor, prosaic weaknesses. Lamar Jackson and the Ravens Are Breaking More Than N.F.L. Records 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z But even after emerging from months of basement seclusion, Biden generally uses the more prosaic language of conventional politicians. Trump’s media domination fueled his rise -- and now could backfire 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z "The prosaic solutions of governing bodies do virtually nothing--often less than nothing--to mitigate the everyday, ongoing devastation." Stanford offers sessions on 'racial terror,' claiming it's 'nearly impossible' to think outside of White supremacy 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z It looked more prosaic outside the country, like any other chat app. Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat, and Its Power Is Sweeping. 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Three months later, amid the prosaic demands of raising a child, the outbreak of the coronavirus led to statewide lockdowns in Texas. Facing high costs at home, Americans seek fertility help abroad 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z And there are other, more prosaic explanations for the blips. Is Dark Matter Made of Axions? 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Redd had a prosaic explanation of the cessation of looting as the week went on: By the next night, most stores had boarded up their windows. For 48 hours, the nation’s capital was gripped by chaos. Then everything changed. 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Outside, Xi’an is at once grander and more prosaic than its distant ancestor, a grid of choked streets traversed by a population verging on 10 million. Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palate 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Researchers also have more prosaic tools at their disposal. From Hamsters to Baboons: The Animals Helping Scientists Understand the Coronavirus 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The prosaic needs of cooking at home quite likely played a role in the demand, even beyond those who consider the pandemic a chance to develop their inner chef. Are You Paying Extra for Eggs? Lawsuits Accuse Producers of Price Gouging 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z The current state of knowledge about coronavirus and its origin suggest the most likely explanation remains the most prosaic. Could Covid-19 be manmade? What we know about its origins 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z But more prosaic factors also lie behind the upheaval. War Within War: As Saudi Prince Edges Away from Yemen, His Allies Feud 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z A more prosaic Netherlands team would reach the final 16 years later. World Cup questions: Why didn’t the great Dutch teams of the 1990s win it? 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z A more prosaic factor may be the disruption of our usual routines. Is coronavirus stress to blame for the rise in bizarre ‘lockdown dreams’? | Mary-Ellen Lynall 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z But, like the spontaneous umbrella sales force of Manhattan sidewalks, retailers are stepping up to meet the more prosaic needs of U.S. households, from food to pharmaceuticals. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z The most prosaic parts of the job have become potential hazmat situations. 24 Hours in a Pandemic Nation 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z What emerged during the lengthy police investigation was more prosaic and arguably more troubling. The road to the Manchester Arena bombing 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z But they should also spell out the many ways — prosaic and profound — the country needs them. The Open Borders Trap 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Later, when everything had gone wrong, Van Allen gave a more prosaic reason, one that estate agents would instinctively understand. The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z For many, the seemingly prosaic beginning of the end agreement brings with it a sobering downpour of reflections. Veterans react to forthcoming Afghanistan-Taliban 'peace agreement' 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Some of the questioning followed a more prosaic line. Jury selection begins in the Robert Durst murder trial 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Niles’ reason for arriving at this system of symbology — other kinds of her potpies get cutouts of piggies or fish or carrots — is more prosaic. The greatness of Seattle’s tiny but mighty Pot Pie Factory 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z In his memoir, he describes moving home for the most prosaic of reasons: to save money on rent while he spent most of his time on airplanes as a consultant. Inside Pete Buttigieg's South Bend, a city trying to reinvent itself 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z When Whitfield was wrestling with his Episcopalian faith, her concerns were often more prosaic. Father Josh: A married Catholic priest in a celibate world 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The details carried on the job advert are prosaic enough: GPs “with remote and rural experience” are invited to apply for a job tending to the needs of the practice’s patients, all 134 of them. Doctor wanted for remote isle ... fainthearted need not apply 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z This is true enough, for certain kinds of journalists, when applied to certain prosaic debates about tariffs and treaties. Big Swinging Brains and fashy trolls: how the world fell into a clickbait death spiral 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z On a night that was sad and strange, inspiring and exhausting, the Lakers spent three hours paying tribute to Bryant while going about the more prosaic business of playing basketball. The Lakers Remember Kobe Bryant With a Game ‘Straight From the Heart’ 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z When the vote came, the outcome was prosaic and expected, and the chamber adjourned for dinner and put off a final vote on Trump’s acquittal until Wednesday. By denying witnesses, Republicans made clear even a smoking gun would not be enough 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z What’s the point of grand designs drawn up in Westminster when daily life for the public is a prosaic mess? It’s 2020 – so where’s the paradise politicians promised us? | Aditya Chakrabortty 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s only when these two narratives — the first a compelling coming-of-age chronicle, and the second a more prosaic whodunit — converge that they squeeze the life out of the story in the middle. Review | A musical mystery tries — and fails — to ponder deep questions in ‘The Song of Names’ 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z What transformed WeWork from an investor darling into a pariah didn’t belong to any predetermined boom-and-bust model, and it wasn’t about prosaic investor concerns, like future cash flows. Why WeWork went wrong 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z But there is a more prosaic reason, too: Paying taxes is a convenient way for capitalists to outsource to the government the work of keeping workers healthy and educated. Opinion | Finland Is a Capitalist Paradise 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, which began in a burst of possibility like none other in this election cycle, ended abruptly for the most prosaic of reasons. Editorial Roundup: US 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z At an early speech in Delhi, he announced a nationwide program to build public toilets in every school—a prosaic improvement that gratified many Indians, even those who could afford indoor plumbing. Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Among the virtues of “The Two Popes,” a sparkling confection with a serious side, is that, given its prosaic title, its crowd-pleasing attributes come as pretty much of a surprise. Review: In ‘The Two Popes,’ Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce are heaven-sent 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z So much of the chat seems idle, but Wilson isn’t merely exercising his gift for turning prosaic talk into lyrical dialogue. Review: 'Jitney,' once considered lesser August Wilson, gets a major revival 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z It’s an honest if prosaic line in a movie that’s less inventive verbally than it is visually. Review: 'Waves' shatters expectations with a family drama that's pure cinema 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z We are talking about a natural disaster of biblical proportions and the most prosaic elements of daily life, like roadway longevity, wastewater treatment plants and daily commute times, which have tripled for many. Newsletter: How the Camp fire reshaped a town where nothing burned 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The scene is more prosaic now, with CrossFitters running up and down the 40 rows of steps in the morning, and traffic whizzing past at rush hour. D.C. has places to see and be seen. These are 14 spots where you can escape. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Their actual baby sister, when eventually she came home from hospital, had been problematic and prosaic, and not the all-transforming mystery they’d thirsted for. “The Bunty Club” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The prosaic answer is that none of his peers had a song that captured audiences’ imaginations the way Someone You Love has. Lewis Capaldi: ‘They’re screaming America’s sweetheart at me. It’s wild’ 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z In 1913, Robert W. Archbald, an associate judge of the United States Commerce Court, was convicted of the more prosaic offense of doing business with litigants before his court, and forever barred from holding office. Could President Trump be impeached and convicted—but also reelected? 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z On social media, the unmasking of Robinson quickly fed various conspiracy theories, some elaborate, some prosaic. The Wild West of Online Political Operatives 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z But the uncertainty over Brexit is generating more prosaic fears in this region, fears about the normalcy of life, house prices, livelihoods and a background noise of growing dissident actitivity. 'Nobody wants us anyway': fears of the forgotten on the Northern Irish border 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z They may not offer the comforts of an Amtrak cross-country excursion, but they are expected to perform the prosaic duty of transporting people to work and home again. We Found the Very Worst Commuter Train in America 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The latest challenge to Mr. Trump’s credibility has its origins in one of the more prosaic duties a president has: warning the nation when natural disasters like Hurricane Dorian threaten communities. Trump Pressed Top Aide to Have Weather Service ‘Clarify’ Forecast That Contradicted Trump 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z It was in the real, far more prosaic Canada — a country whose leadership, as F.R. Revered from left and right, she'll soon be Canada's longest-serving judge 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z They are slack prosaic sentiments written with arbitrary line breaks to resemble the form of a poem. Readers React: Their families were interned, but Japanese American fighters served proudly 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Miller’s version would be so much more prosaic and to the point: Editorials from around New England 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z After the violence she’d experienced in her war-torn homeland, it was a relief to roam the supermarket aisles here and accomplish a prosaic task - all without worry about physical harm. Louisiana editorial roundup 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z For Chelsea and Lampard, who lost two Super Cup finals as a player with the club, the aims are more prosaic. Frank Lampard hoping Chelsea can spoil Liverpool’s Super Cup party | Andy Hunter 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Beyond the geopolitics of borders are the more prosaic manifestations of walled neighbourhoods and gated communities, which categorise people by more intricate denominators of status, class, race, faith and age. A world of walls: the brutish power of man-made barriers 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z A man I was seeing was one of these artists and seemed embarrassed and depressed by the prosaic desk job I worked in to pay my rent; at the grotty state of my uneducated life. 'The sense I was clever was knocked out of me': confessions of a uni dropout 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z A 1930s renovation, for example, had removed a grand, central staircase and replaced it with two smaller stairways of more prosaic design. How golf's best clubhouses create a lasting impression - Golf Digest 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z The target market is gallery owners who need inventory financing and wealthy collectors without private banking services who might want to indulge themselves with more art — or have more prosaic concerns. Need some cash to buy that third home? Take a loan against your Warhol 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Shanghai is channeling the same zeal that drove its emergence as a financial center into a more prosaic endeavor: garbage management. What’s that hairy crab doing in your recycling? Shanghai residents struggle with new trash rules. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Breaking down how something works can render it prosaic, and arguing that all the conventional wisdom on a given subject is wrong risks tipping into sourness. Review | The poetry, prose and physics of baseball 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z “I declare it has made even prosaic me, poetical.” Herman Melville at Home 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Yet despite setbacks, investors are expected to focus on the more prosaic realities of user growth and revenues when Facebook reveals results after the market closes on Wednesday. As the controversy mounts, Facebook still seems to click 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z The Space Shuttle program, which launched in 1976, did form a prosaic sequel. The moon landing: the TV show of the (half) century 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z On a more prosaic note, I'll soon become dean of the College of Communication at Boston University, my alma mater. Special Report: What's Next for the Arctic? 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z A few entrepreneurs are working to solve the more prosaic problem of housing affordability. Tech start-ups look to disrupt the affordable housing industry 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Some of King’s aides learned about the adventure from his Instagram account, which chronicled the journey, as he regularly does, with long, thoughtful and prosaic posts. Analysis | Sen. Angus King’s unplanned road trip home expands his horizon 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Similar apocalyptic visions and firm conviction in the solutions socialism presents were echoed by the other participants, although many of them tempered their remarks with more prosaic concerns. American Communists unite behind Green New Deal 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z At 12 he changed the name he was given at birth, Dharma, for the more prosaic Stewart. How Slack’s non-techie CEO Stewart Butterfield reached the top of Silicon Valley 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z High-level arguments about the environment, affordable housing or equity invariably meet more prosaic objections: What if some neighborhoods lack enough parking? Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z With a prosaic libretto by Richard Wesley and a production of limited means that relies on television and newspaper documentation flashed on movable screens, Davis has his own series of obstacles. Review: Anthony Davis’ opera ‘The Central Park Five’ goes where Netflix doesn’t dare 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Displaying writing barely apt for an outdated sitcom, ludicrously trite dialogue, prosaic execution and overacting galore, this pseudo-romantic all-nighter unsuccessfully attempts to wax poetic in regards to second chances, Catholic guilt and personal reinvention. Reviews: Jim Gaffigan doubles up in ‘Being Frank’; Jack Quaid is ‘Plus One’; and more 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z A more prosaic explanation fits the available data in all its glorious eccentricity: Trump is acting like a real estate developer. Opinion | The best explanation for Trump’s presidency: He’s acting like a real estate developer 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z The prosaic name “Docking Bay 7” lends an understatedness to the planet’s flagship restaurant. Everything you need to know about the food at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge in Disneyland 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z |
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