Prosaic in a sentence

Definition of Prosaic

• The work that is before us is more prosaic than was the duty of the puissant sovereign.
• This somewhat prosaic personality set off his more frivolous companion to advantage.
• My set detests the prosaic and commonplace; we must have the clever and original.
• Yet the story of the capital city of Iowa is neither prosaic nor uninteresting.
• The weak artist shirks the truth by a feeble idealism; the prosaic artist fails to transfigure it.
• The mechanical and prosaic man acknowledges God in his mechanical and prosaic way.
• To live, poetry would have to share the fears, angers, hopes and struggles of the prosaic world.
• My heroes risk their lives, but they are not soldiers, merely prosaic "bourgeois" and workmen.
• His prosaic release by Powhatan had developed into a romantic rescue by Pocahontas.
• The Radical literature of England is, with few exceptions, of a prosaic character.
• If Plato was an idealizing philosopher, Xenophon was a prosaic and matter of fact man of affairs.
• In a few minutes the contents of that letter graced the expanse usually sacred to more prosaic compositions.
• After a while it occurs to them that they ought to return to the drawing-room and the prosaic humdrumedness of everyday life.
• The second occasion was very prosaic and shockingly incongruous with the super-mundane colouring of these days.
• I must return to the more prosaic generalizations of conservation and its relation to the products of cultivation with which this article began.
• Henley reflected, in dismay at the thought of his present fancies being disturbed in such a prosaic way.
• He was a manly appearing fellow, though there was a glamour about him which made prosaic folk suspicious.
• It would have been so much more splendid to see the finished product of her art with no vexing memory of the prosaic processes of its upbuilding.
• We shall do better to begin with the prosaic and matter of fact minimum of truth: some poetry is philosophical.
• Some queer and unusual inspiration made the prosaic soldier resolute to accept these outrageous riddles without surprise.
• But stones, carbon, and light are familiar commonplace things, and fraught with prosaic associations.
• In the heroic times of chivalry men drew their swords for the sake of women; in these modern prosaic ones they draw their cheques.
• Sparrows twittered along the eaves, and the mighty city, with joy in its prosaic heart, was pacing majestically into the new and pleasant month.

• Never was there so prosaic an interview.
• In these prosaic days!
• This is a very tame and prosaic conception.
• It is to the prosaic these things fall.
• Nature is reduced to a prosaic level.
• What life could possibly be more prosaic than his?
• Alas, for the prosaic quality of fact!
• Dull, prosaic times we are living in!
• It was hard to imagine him in the prosaic role of a guide.
• These words, in prosaic type, look banal.
• His companions sometimes laughed at him for this prosaic seriousness.
• The real trouble with the theme is its hopelessly prosaic ugliness.
• This childlike and prosaic mind is beginning to wane in the world of science.
• He knew nothing of the cold, prosaic world of selfish interests.
• The settler came third, prosaic and plodding, but dauntless too.
• Nor wood-land haunt, or murmuring grove Can its prosaic bosom move.
• I stoited; A creeping cauld prosaic fog My very sense doited.