Word: prosaically
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...cafe's unassuming display case hints at sweet and tantalizingly treats for those who prefer prosaic pastry...
...with U.S. stocks high and interest rates low, one looks for alternatives. Let me suggest a few more prosaic ones, then return to South Africa...
...Hillary wants to preserve some part of the prosaic quality of life so Chelsea doesn't grow up believing food just magically materializes on her plate. They went to the grocery store together, one day after Hillary picked up Chelsea from school, to get peanut butter and cereal, only to find that they had insufficient cash and no checkbook. Lately the First Mom has been helping her daughter make the perilous journey from age 12 to 13 in a new city without the close-knit extended family and friends of Little Rock. The elder Rodhams had stayed in the Governor...
...incapable of being confined to any one theme. His dazzling prose and exquisite reworking of oft-prosaic themes reflect a formidable talent, harnessed in the service of sheer pleasure as well as intellectual challenge...
...when artistic discourse has tended to be nasty, brutish and short- winded, Olivier Messiaen's musical grands projects stand apart from -- and largely above -- the works of his more prosaic mid-century contemporaries. Devoutly Catholic, the French composer was blessed with a pagan sense of muscular rhythm and luminous color. Highly intellectual, he was also irredeemably mystical, taking an almost childlike pleasure in the sounds of nature, especially bird song. He followed no "ism" and founded no school, but Messiaen, who died in April at 83, looms as one of the century's giants...