There is the grandiosity of that self-description – splendidly undercut by the prosaicness of the "twenty practical actions for happiness", which urges people to hug each other, exercise more often and say thank you more often. ❋ Unknown (2011)
We still don't know the decisive elements that went into that change from an older style of symbolism and writing poetry to the new style — the new style being a new type of visionariness but also a certain intermingling of prosaicness or a diminished fear of the difference between prose and poetry. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Its pretention to historic accuracy begot prosaicness in its approach to the style of the chronicles. ❋ De Troyes Chr��tien (1914)
All her meanness and prosaicness was forgotten, all her imperfections and shortcomings; it was home, the one tangible thing in the glittering emptiness of the spheres. ❋ Unknown (1905)
But, alas! for the prosaicness of this workaday world, they had to assume the attitudes of lawyer and client; and discourse of crime instead of love. ❋ Fergus Hume (1895)
But a mill-village is one vast expanse of mediocrity and prosaicness, and it would take a bigger nature than Peter's to recognize the beautiful in such a life. ❋ Ford, Paul L (1894)
She had sung in the choir when she was a girl, and had an enduring love for music, which age and prosaicness could not affect. ❋ Unknown (1886)
Thoughts have some characteristics of fancy, of freedom, even of unreality, which are wanting to the prosaicness of heavy material things. ❋ Alfred Binet (1884)
He was a jolly, prosaic man, Master Mayor, very proud of his prosaicness, as you rarely see a real man of his poetry: he maintained, though Mrs. Mayor nearly swooned at the idea, that he would sooner have a pig-sty than a batch of heroes. ❋ Sarah Tytler (1870)
You must be logged in to comment on this article. banality = triteness, vapidity, staleness, unimaginativeness, lack of originality, prosaicness, dullness; informal corniness. antonym originality. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Martin Gore's lyrics exhibit a tendency towards comical prosaicness, somehow emphasised by the perkiness of his poppy melodies and David Gahan's often bombastic vocals. ❋ Unknown (2009)
His seeming repetitiveness, his clumsy prosaicness, and his insistence on a kind of pop-culture ❋ Plastic Futures | Crown Casino: ‘A Snarling, Dig (2009)
Faced with the shock of prosaicness, I intend to view the dearth of wildness in my life as a promise of nascent maturity, rather than the onset of cronehood. ❋ Unknown (2008)
