On a more prosaic level, he's also just a busybody.
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The answer, it turns out, is much more prosaic: they guessed.
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More prosaic destinations include urban lay-bys and supermarket car parks.
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Yet on the ground, the experience of businesses is more prosaic.
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The real-world impact will probably be rather more prosaic, though.
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Executives also pointed to rather more prosaic factors constraining interest margins.
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China's rulers like a more prosaic, mysterious epithet: hexin, meaning "the core".
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Opposition to Columbus Day festivities has come in more prosaic forms, too.
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So many human desires are even more prosaic than you might expect.
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Pages of phone and property records offer glimpses of a more prosaic sort.
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For the time being, though, the group is focused on more prosaic opportunities.
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Outside she was no doubt something more prosaic, a Patti or a Cath.
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Ms. Sherman-Palladino had more prosaic reasons for agreeing to the Netflix deal.
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But even if the concept flies, it will have to overcome more prosaic hurdles.
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And then there's the more prosaic but no less important work of the board.
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Activists suing Mr. Moore say they believe he had a more prosaic motive — money.
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Miller offers a more prosaic reason for why witches and sorcerers might be broke.
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There, a new American teacher insisted on a more prosaic name for his highness.
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More prosaic answers included high carrying costs, bad tenants and persnickety co-op boards.
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The very nature of ownership has transformed in more prosaic aspects of our lives.
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Pop has hollowed itself out, responding to both artistic instincts and more prosaic incentives.
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They also carried more prosaic items — file cabinets, chairs and spools of electrical wire.
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Perhaps a more fitting, if more prosaic, description would be "a research and standards body".
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But the timing was more prosaic, and it probably does not portend any broader shift.
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Nor something more prosaic, such as their unwitting participation in a new feature test group.
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Others abuse the online national police files for more prosaic reasons, like planning class reunions.
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For now, most of the applications are more prosaic than powering a futuristic home cinema.
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Others have suggested more prosaic explanations, involving long-term cycles of variability, sunspots or dust.
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For too many officials, winning the war takes a back seat to more prosaic motives.
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There is something else at play here, I suspect, something much more prosaic: cleaning up.
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As her Democratic rivals promise generational change, Ms. Klobuchar's goal is more prosaic: a win.
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But for most companies, especially ones in mature economies, facing the future is far more prosaic.
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The show was a mashup, in other words, of recycled action footage and more prosaic material.
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The phenomenon also applies to more prosaic products like sunglasses, mugs and toothpaste, the researchers found.
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The biggest determinant of success may have to do with a much more prosaic factor: money.
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Could it be time for this little English family to head back to more prosaic homeland shores?
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A madcap start gave way to 41 more prosaic minutes, and the score is tied, 1-1.
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My original submission featured that phrase as the central revealer rather than the more prosaic BEER INGREDIENTS.
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These more prosaic market drivers do not appear to be front of mind for most investors, however.
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Yet even as it speeds ahead with technology, Didi has faced a more prosaic challenge at home.
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But the scramble of journalists and film and television executives to cover grifters may have more prosaic roots.
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Yet this thrilling story becomes a bit more prosaic once the skew index is brought under the microscope.
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" She adds, "The idea is more prosaic than it is prolific—we make culture and culture makes us.
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Now the stock market faces a more prosaic but nonetheless powerful threat: increasingly attractive returns on government bonds.
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And while those issues remain, the real problems ahead for the stock market may be far more prosaic.
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Ideas of freedom and ease persist in the more prosaic face of traffic jams and increasing fuel prices.
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After all, most blackout and brownouts are caused by more prosaic nuisances like underpruned trees and ordinary storms.
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Many young people find more prosaic ways of making themselves ill; namely, by intentionally abusing alcohol until they're sick.
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Those battles may become longer and more prosaic as they are fought out with legal filings and in courtrooms.
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In working on this story with these two gentlemen, they taught me that it's much more prosaic than that.
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She also performed more prosaic experiments: flinging CDs down a hallway or off the roof of a campus building.
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One sometimes feels he might have followed a religious career, but the origin of his empathy is more prosaic.
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" Another had a more prosaic take, writing, "Just know before reserving to expect renovation noise from 9-6 p.m.
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The reason for multiple companies may be even more prosaic: the leaders of each project reportedly can't stand each other.
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For some analysts, any worry about human survival is theoretical and certainly less immediate than more prosaic, yet vital, concerns.
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President Obama's concerns were more prosaic when he presented Mel Brooks with a National Medal for the Arts in 2016.
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A more prosaic "Hanna" could certainly succeed on its own terms in the crowded field of action-oriented conspiracy thriller.
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Can you find a way of making the story not as hallucinatory and more prosaic—let's say," Garland says. "Hypothetically?
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The etymology is likely more prosaic: the posthumous distortion of the name Euphemius, a ninth-century Byzantine commander in Sicily.
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Other concerns among Barnet's Jewish population are more prosaic: schools, the environment and potholes—"the same as everybody else," he says.
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In July in the state of Jharkhand alone, two families killed themselves, driven by the more prosaic motive of despair over debt.
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For Mr. Dylan, there may also be a more prosaic motivation for the release: to secure European copyright protection on the recordings.
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It has not failed to qualify for Russia because of some structural shortcoming or moral flaw, but for rather more prosaic reasons.
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And in a more prosaic money-saving move, Nestlé has relocated its United States headquarters to lower-cost Arlington, Va., from California.
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Alongside the more prosaic political uncertainties in Germany is the specter of the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
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Moonlight is an emotional, evocative piece, and it has little in common with Jenkins' other, more prosaic film, 2008's Medicine For Melancholy.
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And while she shares certain of his preoccupations — with otherness and evoking animal life — hers is a more prosaic mission: She mirrors reality.
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But as her rivals promise generational change, national unity and sweeping liberal platforms, Ms. Klobuchar's big idea is far more prosaic: a win.
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But Mr. Manning's latest battle centers on issues more prosaic than ideological: His church, according to New York City, has not paid its bills.
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Despite the initial predictions the reality is much more prosaic … the sound of silence continues to echo around the offices of most estate agents.
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The allegation is far more prosaic: de Benós was in possession of as many as three blank-firing pistols modified to shoot real bullets.
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Nearby, on rectilinear streets where Tudors are interspersed with more prosaic houses, is Sunnyside Park, a once-common moniker that has fallen off maps.
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As with many terms, there is a colorful explanation of the origin and a more prosaic and realistic one, though both originate with competition.
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The Galapagos Islands are famous for exotic birds, tortoises, and iguanas, but recently the archipelago had become overrun with more prosaic animals: rats and mice.
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Instead, voters are focused on more prosaic matters, such as squeezed public services and the SNP's track record after a decade in power at Holyrood.
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While artificial intelligence may one day evolve into the godhead, right now it's being put to a more prosaic use: funny backgrounds in YouTube videos.
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Alas, the at-first intriguing idea of all this transpiring while the wider society is falling apart gets mostly lost amid the more prosaic concerns.
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But it's extra evidence for a much more prosaic takeaway: Regular exercise, with all due apologies to Donald Trump, is actually good for your body.
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In a more prosaic illustration of soft power, Feeley noted that a welcome party for the new Chinese Ambassador had drawn an unusually illustrious crowd.
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"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.
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But before this country raises taxes, it should grapple with something much more prosaic but equally important for tackling inequality: saving the Internal Revenue Service.
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Yet Gropius used the expression "cathedral of future freedom" interchangeably with his more prosaic phrase "unitary work of art" when promoting his total-artwork ideal.
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Labour's manifesto also serves the more prosaic function of shoring up the party's core vote as it approaches a difficult electoral contest on June 8.
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Yet the causes may have been more prosaic: a combination of higher petrol prices and lower incomes in the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis.
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The more prosaic and common version of that Valley dream though is to join an early-stage company right before its growth kicks into high gear.
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In the past, they have charged him with being more concerned about tending to his Twitter account than partaking in the more prosaic work of governance.
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Now, nearly a year later, the authorities have settled on a more prosaic tale, determining that he died from injuries sustained after a bout of drinking.
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A more prosaic bit of trivia about the speech: It ends with the film's title because up until then, the movie was called ID4; Warner Bros.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Though the Charleston Rifle Club was founded in 1855 to promote good marksmanship, it is better known today for a more prosaic pastime, bowling.
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Like her state, Senator Harris's story up close is both more prosaic and more nuanced than the shiny image built in part on misperceptions about California.
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But Biersack says Trump's early burst of fundraising is almost certainly a reflection of something much more prosaic — the president's alienation from the rest of his party.
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AMID the headline-grabbing news from the Supreme Court this term—the travel ban upheld, Anthony Kennedy's retirement—came something altogether more prosaic: a fight over fish.
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Google's money, not always disclosed, has backed donations to think tanks across the ideological spectrum as well as more prosaic forms of influence peddling like campaign contributions.
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Ultimately, the arrest of the jail workers and accounts of their behavior on the night he died point to a more prosaic problem than a supposed conspiracy.
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As it grows, OnePlus has branched out into selling more profitable (if also more prosaic) things like cases, cables, T-shirts, backpacks, messenger bags, and really good headphones.
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If reports are to be believed, Apple has scaled back ambitions to build its own car, but it's still going strong with its more prosaic automobile offering: CarPlay.
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I wish I could say that my approach comes from an unbridled sense of irreverence and creativity, as Cher's does, but it's closer to a more prosaic carelessness.
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Now before you get incredibly excited about that prospect, I should caution that this particular explanation is a huge long shot and there are more prosaic possible explanations.
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Although much of the focus on Silicon Valley's car ambitions has been on self-driving capabilities, outfitting vehicles with more prosaic connected technology could be more immediately lucrative.
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At TLC Glass, a repair shop on the edge of San Francisco's business district, the more prosaic consequences of the rise in car break-ins are on display.
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But it has undeniably morphed into a more prosaic creature, and the tantalizing mists that surrounded its initial run have dissolved as if under a harsh morning sun.
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Given that Kurz and Strache alike ran on explicitly anti-immigration platforms, it is difficult to ascertain precisely where national security concerns end and more prosaic political concerns begin.
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On a more prosaic note, he even fell for an email from a prankster, who, posing as the chairman of Barclays, pledged allegiance after a bruising annual investor meeting.
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In fact, drugs we ingest today for more prosaic purposes, like serotonin boosters used as antidepressants, are already shaping our relationships through their effects on our brains and bodies.
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The real reason is more prosaic: The Labour Party under the far-left Jeremy Corbyn is a mess, and unless something startling happens in the next seven weeks, Mrs.
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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.
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While the agency may be known for sweeping regulations to curb climate change, increase auto fuel efficiency or mandate smokestack controls, the agency's bread and butter is more prosaic.
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While the E.P.A. may be known for sweeping regulations to control climate change, increase auto fuel efficiency and mandate smokestack controls, the agency's bread and butter is more prosaic.
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Wholesale investors, meanwhile, became disillusioned both with the theoretical arguments of commodities as portfolio stabilizers and with the more prosaic collapse in commodity prices from their early-decade peaks.
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Nor is there the kind of "Edgar Allan Poe sneezed here" history to justify preserving many of these homes, which leaves advocates with more prosaic arguments about community and character.
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This AI tool scours research to find out Raymond said the biggest problem was the more prosaic challenge of improving the system's infrastructure to support the increased volume of data.
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The reality, heading into 2019, is more prosaic: AI lets people dictate text messages instead of typing them, or call up music from a smart speaker on the kitchen counter.
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Hall's priorities ahead of the majors this year are a little more prosaic, as the world number 902 explained when asked what his berth at Royal Birkdale meant to him.
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My next quibble with this episode is more prosaic: the killing of Lee Miglin, in his garage, by Cunanan is so grisly and sadistic as to be difficult to watch.
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But at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo, 2100 miles south of Cairo, where archaeologists recently unearthed a stack of decaying mummies, peril takes a more prosaic form: waterlogged foundations.
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More Russian skullduggery has been woven into "Designated Survivor," the ABC show starring Kiefer Sutherland as the U.S. president, which has settled into more prosaic crises in its second season.
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This includes more prosaic options like price-checking stands, but it's also transformative technology like Sephora's Fragrance IQ, an interactive kiosk that uses tech to provide consumers with customized fragrance recommendations.
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But Mr. Boetticher works with the family on the more prosaic aspects, like embalming (a recommended service because of the travel involved), headstone and coffin selection, private events and the burial.
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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.
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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, 25 percent rubbing alcohol.
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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.
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Or, were the circumstances of his escape more prosaic, and did he give Japan the slip with the aid of a fake passport, as the French news journal Les Echos reported?
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"All Still Orbit" is more prosaic, focusing on windows tinted with saturated pink and blues; lovely, colorful walls dressed in light; and sleepy moments of boys playing in the Paranoá Lake.
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That ceremony also heightened the more prosaic sense that "La La Land" is the movie to beat for this year's Oscar, given a historic correlation between winning there and the Academy Awards.
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But as even Facebook acknowledges, the trial judges overseeing the three class actions have to consider the social network's more prosaic arguments for dismissal for before they can reach the constitutional dispute.
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After the glamour of sitting at the European Council top table for the first time, stepping across the road to Juncker's European Commission and its civil service may have seemed more prosaic.
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While it isn't a tacky evening — Ms. Ferri, who is Italian, and Mr. Cornejo, from Argentina, have too much innate elegance for that — the program's unofficial theme, sensuality, grows more prosaic over time.
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About two-thirds of the debt is attributable to the construction of the high-speed lines or TGV, which were extremely expensive to build, and have drained money from more prosaic commuter lines.
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The questions swirling around Mr. Bernhardt are of a more traditional, more prosaic variety that tends to arise when an agency is led by people skeptical of or actively hostile to its mission.
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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.
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Beyond the death threats, they also dealt with a more prosaic form of disapproval: "Our school principal is a conservative Muslim, and he says music is 'haram,'" or forbidden under Islam, Ms. Eusi added.
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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.
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But it does demand an answer to a more prosaic question: does the convenience of such as nonstop flights outweigh the horror of having to sit in an economy seat for that length of time?
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The truth is more prosaic, and also more remarkable: for four billion years, evolution, driven by natural selection and random mutation, has insured that the most efficient genes would survive and the weakest would disappear.
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But it might be argued that many, though certainly not all, also enjoy the luxury of worrying a little more about more prosaic, everyday concerns — including personal finance — and a bit less about outright discrimination.
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Yet with several more star-studded ceremonies to come, questions linger as to how well Hollywood's awards apparatus can juggle serving as a rallying point for that movement with its more prosaic, self-congratulatory business.
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" The Independent offered a more prosaic account: "His erect penis is about five inches long, has the circumference of a quarter ... and heads off at an angle, presumably rather like a finger bent at the joint.
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Yet stock markets in Europe bounced back on Tuesday as traders showed reluctance to price in the tail risks on every possible bad outcome and instead focused on the more prosaic but upbeat global economic picture.
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Other versions of feteer subtract a few foldings of dough to make room for stuffings of meat, cheese (slightly more prosaic mozzarella and Parmesan), olives in briny throbs and bell peppers for scattered brightness and crunch.
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But senators said the provision might have to be dropped for a more prosaic reason: It may not comply with the Senate rules that Republicans are using to speed the health care bill through the Senate.
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Though much of the focus on bank fraud has been on sophisticated hackers, it is the more prosaic figure of the teller behind the window who should worry depositors, according to prosecutors, government officials and security experts.
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Instead, Thor: Ragnarok stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson reunite for a more prosaic expansion of the 22-year-old (!) franchise that, as the straightforward title suggests, extends the MIB agency from the US to the world.
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Lesson three is that power on Wall Street has tilted away from traders and high-octane clients like hedge funds towards a more prosaic cast of characters: brokers, passive asset managers, corporate treasurers and well-off individuals.
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In the real world, Amazon's plans for drone delivery face more prosaic challenges, like building a flight controller that can handle dozens of aircraft at once; or convincing people that delivery drones make economic sense in the first place.
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The whole thing is a bit of a lark, thought up by chemists Christian Joachim and Gwénaël Rapenne as a way to drum up interest in the more prosaic aspects of nanotechnology, if you can really call them that.
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The definition used by researchers like Maguen is at once more prosaic and, to the military, potentially more subversive: Moral injury is sustained by soldiers in the course of doing exactly what their commanders, and society, ask of them.
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There was some excitement early on involving Pasha's semi-faked suicide attempt, but the primary drama was more prosaic: the rise and fall of Elizabeth and Philip's plan to take themselves and their children back to the Soviet Union.
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"Instead, the Cyberspace Administration of China appears to be simply advertising the law — its crowning achievement — while enforcement is driven by an uptick in more prosaic repression and risk-aversion ahead of the 19th Party Congress," the note continued.
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LAS VEGAS — Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Thursday defended the rapper Killer Mike's remark this week that a "uterus doesn't qualify you to be president," saying in more prosaic terms that voters should not pick candidates based on their sex.
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As for "The Halfwit in Me," which opens the album in a propulsive stir of fingerpicked guitars, it could be his answer to Nick Lowe's "The Beast in Me," but with ravaging inner demons swapped out for something more prosaic.
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One wonders whether this inscrutability is another expression of divine might, especially as some more prosaic objects — a Moche painted ceramic "portrait vessel" of a warrior known as Black Stripe for his facial markings, for instance — are marvels of realism.
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Yet on the ground, the experience of businesses is more prosaic: Twenty months after Modi swept to power with a promise of growth and jobs for India's 1.3 billion people, executives say more needs to be done, including improving infrastructure.
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No one is quite sure where the name came from, but it morphed eventually into the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Galleries, a more prosaic moniker for what has become a vital and growing part of the Bay Area art scene.
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He was intrigued with the intertwined destructive relationships at play on the set: from Antony and Cleopatra, whose relationship shook empires; to Burton and Taylor, whose relationship ripped apart their marriages and ignited the gossip pages; to that more prosaic boss-subordinate romance.
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Through a combination of acquisitions and hiring, she vastly expanded Yahoo's mobile team, which initially produced some buzzy hits like the Yahoo Weather app and Yahoo News Digest, along with more prosaic updates of core Yahoo features like fantasy sports and email.
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Others feel lingering guilt over the Russian election meddling that many employees believe helped propel Donald Trump into the presidency — and more prosaic worries that whatever changes Zuckerberg makes to address the crisis could upend months or even years of engineering work.
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And then the technological forces shaping media coverage also encourage errors and overreach — a dubious story or even a misleading live-tweet of a press conference can go around the online world long before the more prosaic truth has reached your Facebook feed.
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But while these high-profile applications can be and have been useful, Ermolaev seemed more sanguine about the more prosaic applications: a lost child or confused older person, for instance, can be found in a moment's time rather than diverting manpower to painstaking search.
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As with many political risks over the past couple of years, traders showed again that there is now a reluctance to price in the tail risks on every possible bad outcome and are instead focusing on the more prosaic but upbeat global economic picture.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. Though Michel Platini claimed in 2013 that Euro 2020 would be a "romantic" one-off event – a special, pan-continental tournament to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the European Championships – the reality seems rather more prosaic.
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The rest of the time they dabble in the more prosaic business of playing defense — and they do it well, even if Thursday's struggle underscored the importance of Green, who missed the game to return to the Bay Area after the birth of his son.
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But before his team fires off one 3-pointer after another and dunks opponents to smithereens, Green meets with his assistants in a windowless conference room where, among more prosaic items of business, they watch the Warriors, discuss the Warriors and plagiarize the Warriors.
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Facebook is clearly very serious about its mission to connect the world and in the process, it has launched solar-powered drones that use lasers to connect to each other and the ground, and more prosaic efforts like new antennas for covering both urban and rural areas.
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The selection of a new chancellor has dominated education circles in New York City for the last few weeks, but behind the scenes a more prosaic bureaucratic drama was playing out over control of the office that investigates corruption in the 1.1 million-student school system.
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As the story changed shape from a random act of violence in a troubled city to a more prosaic one of domestic violence, it became clear that the people who had driven the original narrative were more than ready to move on, and the public followed suit.
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The problem is wading through a bent version of reality in order to get there, cutting back and forth between what's happening in the psychic realm and more prosaic concerns about the study and the perhaps-mad scientist (Justin Theroux, another "Leftovers" connection) helping preside over it.
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One, set in the 1970s, follows Mira, a gifted young student at Balanchine's School of American Ballet in Manhattan; the other, which takes place in the present day, is anchored to the more prosaic perspective of Kate, a teacher and dance historian looking back on her own past.
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In Aviv's story on guardianship among the elderly, it plays out in a more prosaic and yet similarly shocking form — with old people who are hardly incompetent handed over to professional guardians who sell their assets and consign them to assisted living facilities from which they can't escape.
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The famous British pediatrician and analyst D.W. Winnicott, most famous for his concept of "the good-enough mother," argued that children live in two worlds: a rich, imaginative one and a more prosaic one; a mother's job is to let the more ordinary world come through in small doses.
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A terrifying band of killers and a pack of edgy comedians both interpreted the obstacles to their goals as a sort of censorship—whether in the form of military efforts to end their gruesome atrocities or the admittedly more prosaic difficulties in getting a prestigious, high-paying gig—and routed around it.
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At the exhibition's close, the mosque was torn down, and the staff and the performers at the "Cairo Street" exhibit, who had been imported to the United States as objects of spectacle, returned to their more prosaic lives in Egypt, Morocco, and Palestine, where the ritual of prayer would draw little comment.
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But The Times&apos reporting offered a more prosaic route — via Sanchez and her brother — and said a definitive Saudi connection to the Enquirer&aposs reporting had yet to be proved, though it acknowledged Saudi Arabia could have been helpful in other ways, such as tipping the Enquirer off about the affair.
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Bob: I can i i everything elseAlice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to Bob: you i everything elseAlice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to meThe reality is somewhat more prosaic.
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And this subtle separation between them in cause has grown into a canyon in the intervening years, even as their daughter, Paige (Holly Taylor), has followed in her mother's spy footsteps, while the FBI agent next door, Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), has settled down and switched off of the Soviet task force in favor of more prosaic crimes.
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But for much of the past five decades, a four-by-four piece of mosaic flooring from one of the ships has been sitting in a somewhat more prosaic setting, the Park Avenue apartment of an antiques dealer, where it was used as a coffee table, often to hold a vase of flowers and, occasionally, someone's drinking glass.
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While the United States spent most of last week embroiled in a controversy over whether some neo-Nazis are "fine people" and whether launching an armed rebellion against the federal government to preserve slavery is worth commemorating, the Canadian political system was mobilizing around the more prosaic subject of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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The actual result is something slightly more prosaic but brilliant nevertheless: a super-wonky, yearning, cosmic-as-anything 10-minute Andrew Weatherall remix of "Give Me a Reason" by Jagwar Ma. Released to celebrate the group's upcoming tour of the UK, the "Weatherall Meets Jonnie Two Heaters Uptown Part 1" mix is a brilliant excursion into low-slung bass & beep alchemy.
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"There's definitely progress, but slow progress," said Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, senior research associate at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University and one of the world's foremost experts on the libraries and archives stolen during World War II. The numbers alone often do not do justice to what a single returned piece of Judaica, or even a more prosaic volume, can mean to a family.
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Setting out his vision for the fund last year, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son said his conviction that humans are going to invent superintelligent AI within the next 30 years underpins his haste to raise the fund and cut so many sizable checks — even if a lot of the fund's early bets are rather more prosaic than the 100-legged robotic moonshots he was sketching in his 2017 pitch for Vision Fund partners.
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