Word: prosaically
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...city that Peter the Great built in the 18th century out of / frozen wasteland on the western edge of Russia. "We want to be more than a window to Europe," says Sobchak. "We want to open a door to the whole world." But first Sobchak must worry about more prosaic matters, like finding enough potatoes to keep his city...
...stoning). Gone as well are some tongue twisters ("you who hew" in Isaiah 22) and ambiguities, like Zechariah 3's "Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed in filthy garments." (Joshua's garb was filthy, not the angel's.) The poetic exclamation "behold" has given way to the prosaic "look." Sex is bluntly called "intercourse...
...alleviate both the seemingly insurmountable crises--and even the more prosaic ones--five specially trained student groups are on call day and night...
Welcome to the upside-down '90s. Not since collapsing oil prices sent Texas and the rest of the Southwest into a slump nearly a decade ago has the U.S. witnessed such a stunning reversal of regional fortunes. The new winners include Midwestern farmers and Rustbelt manufacturers whose prosaic products, from corn to machine tools, are in hot demand around the world. Among the losers are Wall Street investment bankers, whose earnings have plunged with the waning of the buyout binge, and defense contractors across the country, who can expect new cutbacks as the cold war ends...
...across the room. More typically, at the CRSS Dallas offices (which Strasser also designed), the handsome patterns of sprinkler heads in the ceiling are a game: some are real, others are small air-conditioning vents, still others are dummies, there simply to complete a pattern. What would otherwise be prosaic necessities, scattered helter-skelter, become handsome details, all conveying the worthy message that the humdrum texture of modern life need not be arbitrary and slapdash...