Up until then, I'd imagined the most prosaic, stable childhood for him.
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They came to be defined by that most prosaic of qualities: usefulness.
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And yet a certain emotional electricity permeates even his most prosaic canvases.
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The book might be the most prosaic story I have ever read (along with being the most English).
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Yet I only made the connection between terrain and conflict during the most prosaic moment, at home in flatland Manhattan.
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Even the most prosaic coffee cups come with a sleeve, a stirrer, some sugar packets, and — you betcha — a lid.
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The ubiquity of government surveillance in Xinjiang affects the most prosaic aspects of daily life, those interviewed for this story said.
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And for the first half of his "True West," he imbues the most prosaic details with mounting tension worthy of Hitchcock.
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The most unsettling elements of Burning, however, are the most prosaic, like a cat the protagonist keeps feeding that he never once sees.
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Specialty chemicals have become an $800 billion industry, despite making what are frankly some of the most prosaic and least sexy products on earth.
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But how did the socialite from one of the country's most storied families wind up with her name on the most prosaic wardrobe staples around?
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Even here, where Shiota is at her most prosaic, the subject matter is universal, taking us beyond the everyday, into the infinite connections of human experience.
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Perhaps the most prosaic reason for Google to be boring is that much of the company's work walks the fine line between helpful contextual awareness and outright privacy invasion.
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Afraid of making her health worse during a historic flu season, she barely left the house and started ordering the most prosaic products on Amazon Prime in bulk: tissues, a fleece jacket, a lemon squeezer, dinner forks, deodorant.
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Watergate gave us the lazy media habit of attaching "gate" to even the most prosaic wrongdoing, from Billygate, when Jimmy Carter's hapless brother got himself hired to represent Libya, to the epic list of Clintonian gates, from Filegate and Travelgate to Pardongate and Troopergate, not to mention the seemingly quaint, horny simplicity of Zippergate (or, to some, Monicagate).
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Floyd C. Gale rated the collection four stars out of five, writing that "Bradbury's touch breathes fantasy into his most prosaic items ... all have an intense emotional impact".
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Definitions can go wrong by using ambiguous, obscure, or figurative language. This can lead to circular definitions. Definitions should be defined in the most prosaic form of language to be understood, as failure to elucidate provides fallacious definitions. Figurative language can also be misinterpreted. For example, ‘golden eyes’ in a biography may lead the reader to think that the person was fictional.
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Strange and exotic weapons are a recurring feature or theme in science fiction. In some cases, weapons first introduced in science fiction have now been made a reality. Other science fiction weapons remain purely fictional, and are often beyond the realms of known physical possibility. At its most prosaic, science fiction features an endless variety of sidearms, mostly variations on real weapons such as guns and swords.
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Fictional rayguns are often depicted in science fiction. Strange and exotic weapons are a recurring feature in science fiction. In some cases, weapons first introduced in science fiction have been made a reality; other science fiction weapons remain purely fictional, and are often beyond the realms of known physical possibility. At its most prosaic, science fiction features an endless variety of sidearms—mostly variations on real weapons such as guns and swords.
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Groff Conklin described the original edition of the novel as "a light, simple, fast- moving and often richly imaginative fantasy.""Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1953, p.80 Boucher and McComas praised "this brief but intense book" as "beautiful", describing it as "poetry and awe and wonder" and characterizing Clarke as "the visionary poet of a future so far distant that its most prosaic science passes our technical understanding.""Recommended Reading," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1953, p. 96.
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The most prosaic explanation for the origin of ‘black stump’ derives from the general use of fire-blackened tree-stumps as markers when giving directions to travellers unfamiliar with the terrain. An early use of the phrase from the Sydney journal Bulletin (31 March 1900, p. 31) seems to lend support to this explanation: “A rigmarole of details concerning the turns and hollows, the big tree, the dog-leg fence, and the black stump”. Robbery Under Arms, a fictionalised work by Rolf Boldrewood first published in 1888, refers to the Black Stump as an actual place "within a reasonable distance of Bathurst" and known to everybody for miles around.
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