Most of the stories take place in prosaic settings — shopping malls, theme parks, hospitals, suburban neighborhoods, college campus libraries — but Mr. Adjei-Brenyah renders prosaic scenarios unfamiliar by adding a surreal, disorienting twist.
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The theatre troupe offers a prosaic explanation for their longevity.
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Onto these prosaic objects, he collages the imagery of war.
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He is not a director who dwells on the prosaic.
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Prosaic realities aside, Bridges continues to inspire countless romantic daydreams.
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His poetic style varies from the imagistic to the prosaic.
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Where Maddon tends to go Zen, Francona prefers the prosaic.
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The assignment seemed prosaic: Write about British Columbia's salmon fishery.
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"Being prosaic, that's what makes people people," Mr. Carvel said.
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Their goals are often surprisingly modest, even prosaic at times.
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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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Not long ago, the interiors of most cars were fairly prosaic.
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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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But this time, the cause wasn't something prosaic, like a blizzard.
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But in this prosaic pursuit they sometimes kick loose aesthetic revelation.
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And it is that prosaic streak that makes him indispensable now.
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First, consider the prosaic but consequential details leading to the Aug.
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It isn't quite, but it goes about prosaic business pretty effectively.
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The real-world impact will probably be rather more prosaic, though.
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And there are prosaic concerns, as well, like spelling and penmanship.
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But for more-mortal executives running prosaic businesses, it's a must.
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Executives also pointed to rather more prosaic factors constraining interest margins.
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Up until then, I'd imagined the most prosaic, stable childhood for him.
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Besides, Rogier says, other people can help you learn the prosaic stuff.
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China's rulers like a more prosaic, mysterious epithet: hexin, meaning "the core".
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But most of the attacks hitting Tanium customers are "prosaic," Hindawi said.
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Latinos for Trump are a product of factors both prosaic and complex.
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There's a really pleasing sense of the prosaic about the song titles.
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Opposition to Columbus Day festivities has come in more prosaic forms, too.
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They came to be defined by that most prosaic of qualities: usefulness.
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So many human desires are even more prosaic than you might expect.
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Is it just me, or does it all feel a bit prosaic?
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DAVID LEVIEN Yeah, the show started back in the prosaic Obama era.
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And yet a certain emotional electricity permeates even his most prosaic canvases.
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The first reason is prosaic, and it's the one cited by the administration.
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Pages of phone and property records offer glimpses of a more prosaic sort.
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A friendly, balanced merger of two domestic fertilizer companies looks prosaic by comparison.
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The truth of these deals, as far as we know it, is prosaic.
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From that shared memory, Rabbi Berger extrapolated in both prosaic and profound directions.
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We bury this beneath heaps of prosaic tasks and monsoons of endless didactics.
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But they inhabit a well-made and entertaining, if prosaic, period war story.
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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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With Talbot, beauty slips in unannounced even when his aims were ostensibly prosaic.
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Don't drink too much and don't shortchange sleep, as prosaic as that sounds.
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But the show remains steadfastly prosaic, never rising to the heights of poetry.
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Ms. Sherman-Palladino had more prosaic reasons for agreeing to the Netflix deal.
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Her stories elucidate moral choices made against the backdrop of seemingly prosaic events.
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Her stories elucidate moral choices made against the backdrop of seemingly prosaic events.
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In a prosaic sense, what will it do for self-esteem and confidence?
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Methane gas and organic molecules are routinely generated by prosaic geological and chemical processes.
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But even if the concept flies, it will have to overcome more prosaic hurdles.
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He stuck to more apparently prosaic matters: is there a stage in the club?
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And then there's the more prosaic but no less important work of the board.
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Their placards and banners displayed the poetry of place names; their demands were prosaic.
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Mostly, Clinton's campaign has seemed more cautious and prosaic than those of her rivals.
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While the stories are funny, they all glimpse the profoundness of prosaic human lives.
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As prosaic as it sounds, this is the greatest promise of the wearables revolution.
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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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Ms. Pratt, however, remained enthusiastic both about her paintings and their often prosaic subjects.
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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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The staging, working so hard to avoid all the furniture, is likewise too prosaic.
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Pop has hollowed itself out, responding to both artistic instincts and more prosaic incentives.
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How prosaic, even homely as pre-rock era songwriting goes, and yet how perfect.
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For such people, even the prosaic joy of Football League Tonight turns to ash.
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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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IT WAS a predictable end to a corporate saga which has been anything but prosaic.
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Clearly PXL Vision has no problem going after prosaic but useful applications of CV tech.
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Perverse and prosaic, his subjects show that idiosyncrasy is far more common than we realize.
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I will provide more highlights in a follow-up post providing a thorough, prosaic overview.
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Others abuse the online national police files for more prosaic reasons, like planning class reunions.
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In theory, this should be a major scandal, but it's rather prosaic for this administration.
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It's can be more fantastical, all-encompassing, and ultimately, prosaic, than science fiction might imagine.
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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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These games relied primarily on prosaic 2D architecture, which severely limited the possibilities for extensive graphics.
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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 reason that Christmas, rather than Easter, became the "cultural Christian" holiday may well be 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 team really relies on its prosaic heroes, though, with Jonathan Walters pre-eminent amongst them.
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Yes, the monetary, promotional, poetic, prosaic, and mythic possibilities for such a fight would be boundless.
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And his moment of prosaic rebellion didn't come without its fair share of planning and preamble.
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"Some of these questions are going to feel very boring and prosaic to you," he warned.
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The prosaic cinematography and editing give it the look and feel of a drab television movie.
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He shoots even normally prosaic sequences — like a school dance — as if they were car chases.
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As a governmental issue, Brexit involves prosaic problems such as how to get trucks through ports.
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But they should also spell out the many ways — prosaic and profound — the country needs them.
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As symbols of national identity go, public health care's wallet-sized ID card is pretty prosaic.
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The power of the story of the nativity is its ability to transform our prosaic experience.
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Prosaic touches like a cellphone lighting a character's face at night take on an surprising beauty.
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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 building's interior looked like a prosaic conference room except for the startlingly bright turquoise walls.
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Clinton's rally is in the rather prosaic headquarters of the city's plumbers and pipe fitters union.
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Cybermercenaries working for DarkMatter turned a prosaic household item, a baby monitor, into a spy device.
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The biggest determinant of success may have to do with a much more prosaic factor: money.
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Real love—everyday, prosaic, blinding, and benevolent love—comes in more forms than we have words.
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Methodical and mercurial, Gehr's Serene Velocity warps a prosaic university hallway into a fidgety, indomitable, uncertain entranceway.
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The tension in these dark-matter models has forced astrophysicists to consider some more astrophysically prosaic options.
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This sounds like an insult but it more just speaks to his consistent contribution in prosaic ways.
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Bright fluorescent lighting and prosaic jazz music make underwear shopping feel like something responsible rather than naughty.
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Tracey Thorn: Record (Merge) Calm, deliberate, undemonstrative, Thorn is a singer some find magical and others prosaic.
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Thankfully, with prosaic names like theirs, you can pay tribute to your favourite footballer without anybody noticing.
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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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"Powerfully prosaic," as Kirkus Reviews called it, "The Dirty Dozen" reportedly sold more than two million copies.
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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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Compared with dour neutrals and ironic casual wear, Marni is an antidepressant, the Prozac to the prosaic.
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But we should practice nonviolence in ways small as well as large, prosaic as well as dramatic.
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Throughout the exhibition, Thiebaud's ability to find inspiration in the prosaic and familiar is on vivid display.
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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 actions will plunge American's federal government back into a system of prosaic corruption, sleaze and dishonesty.
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It reveled in the prosaic heartbreaks of day-to-day life, without much surrealism or fanciful reprieve.
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The letters he had to write were quite prosaic, mostly about mundane accidents or transfer of ownership.
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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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Basically, the prosaic moments of everyday life that require fast shutter speeds, good image stabilization, and reliable exposure.
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It's all very prosaic, but when the numbers grow large enough, it seems, the courage and personalities shrink.
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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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Their work ranges from the prosaic "L+L 4EVER" to pieces of a more scatological and sexual nature.
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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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"They're actually quite prosaic agreements," said Benjamin Schwartz, until last year the India country director at the Pentagon.
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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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The 10-foot installations range from the mythic (a dragon) to the prosaic (a rabbit and a snake).
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Citizens are meant to believe that whatever may fly by in the future has a similarly prosaic origin.
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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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"The Christmas season has no charm for the prosaic employees of the Dead Letter Office," the article said.
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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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Russia's influence (and its "gifts") are evident in much of the prosaic, blocky architecture found throughout the city.
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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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The selection of 20 color photographs taken from 1996 to 2000, heighten prosaic pictures to unusually poignant feeling.
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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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"The Past," in contrast, can feel blurry, with too much prosaic spelling out of what her characters are feeling.
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Objects in the stories are at once so prosaic and hyper-symbolic that they feel like artifacts of myth.
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The prosaic direction of "Shiva," the show's midseason finale, results in an absence of menace at the Abigail compound.
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For all the secrecy and intrigue that had long surrounded Xu, the moment of his downfall was strikingly prosaic.
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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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This deal looks almost prosaic compared with the Dow and DuPont tie-up, or Bayer's efforts to court Monsanto.
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How do you square it with the "real," prosaic world of jobs, mortgage payments, school runs, and shopping trips.
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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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Venture capitalists are pouring vast sums into a dizzying array of start-ups, including in prosaic industries like retailing.
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Mr. Ross focuses on work, school, parenthood and other ordinary experiences, but his method is the opposite of prosaic.
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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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The purchases have included the strategic (global agribusinesses and energy companies) and the prosaic (movie theaters and video games).
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"There are plenty of prosaic events and human perceptual traits that can account for these stories," Mr. Oberg said.
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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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The prosaic belongings, collected in handmade wooden containers, are displayed in the frigid basement of a house in Kabul.
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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 structures, some of which might look prosaic if you drove past today, are cast in a new light.
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"The digital realm has become pretty prosaic and I think all the poetry is in analogue space," he says.
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When you enter a gameworld, you are a superintelligence aimed at a goal that is, by definition, kind of prosaic.
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" At this point, someone got on a megaphone and started leading chants, such as the fairly prosaic "Cut the rent!
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If megadeals do become more common, it may be for a prosaic reason: too much money chasing too few opportunities.
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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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And although it's rather a prosaic application of a 24/7 surveillance apparatus, it seems likely to do some good.
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Without Heroes, no U2, no Coldplay, no Arcade Fire, no blessed and absurd grandeur to get us through the prosaic.
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In its most recent assessment, the IMF said it "welcomes" the additional spending; high praise from such a prosaic organisation.
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Erpenbeck's novel is usefully prosaic, written in a slightly uninviting, almost managerial present tense, which keeps overt emotion at bay.
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The painting shows a prosaic stretch of tarmac at the moment before meteorological tension is unleashed, again, on New Orleans.
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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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Seinfeld, who was wary of advice from the prosaic company brass, nonetheless agreed that a "real female character" was essential.
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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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And a production that has so far felt pleasant and prosaic is flooded with the anarchy of life in extremis.
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That's what gives Maisie's sometimes prosaic cases their sturdy backbone and air of urgency — that and Maisie's own dynamic character.
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Domingo and Atl's story — despite being forged amid a gang war — frankly feels prosaic in comparison with this vibrant world.
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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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The answers are notable precisely because they are prosaic and straightforward, and involve strategic bets that are already plainly visible.
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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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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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His posts, which remind me of a sort of prosaic Lovecraft, quickly caught the attention of a growing number of users.
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However, a prosaic style combined with gradualism and hard work could make for a more successful presidency than her critics allow.
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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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Such prosaic cases hardly resonate with citizens the way Supreme Court rulings like Roe v Wade do in the United States.
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CM Punk is an asshole, but the prosaic, totally normal way in which he's asshole, is his blessing and his curse.
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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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Britain tended to see the E.U. in prosaic terms: It had not been delivered from ignominy or tyranny by European integration.
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Tareq is a Syrian refugee whose perilous journey is narrated by the voice of Destiny, characterized as a kindly, prosaic entity.
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It doesn't quite make up, however, for the deficiencies of the mysteries, which are convoluted in conception and prosaic in presentation.
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He often recruited models to pose in natural light and in prosaic settings, sometimes even precariously on bicycles or roller skates.
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A range of corporations and governments are trying to apply the blockchain model — for projects from the prosaic to the radical.
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The prosaic images of her squatting, digging, measuring, pulling, and planting stand out in an oeuvre brimming with quixotic architectural schemes.
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At the Time for Oatmeal booth that Swig's curated for next week's DesignMiami, the prosaic grain gets a high-design treatment.
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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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This is adult entertainment, even when it leads Westbrook himself into prosaic turnovers and unlovely, ultra-doomed one-on-three charges.
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A host of prosaic but urgent requirements would probably gobble up a good chunk—even if this money represented real, new dollars.
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Although the bones of the building may be architecturally prosaic, that has not hindered the continuing progress of the arts center itself.
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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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In practice, the reality of the situation is that it is a very prosaic 'long press to activate' more than anything else.
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By refusing to immediately explain away the uninvestigated with the prosaic does not indicate a lack of skepticism—quite the opposite, really.
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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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When Greene used titles like Egyptian Sculptures and Inscriptions and Monuments and Landscapes for his albums, he was very prosaic but accurate.
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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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Nothing is too prosaic to analyze: Toilets and sinks will report their water use; the garbage robots will report on trash collection.
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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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One can apply a prodigious intellect in the service of prosaic things — formulating a war plan, for instance, or constructing a ship.
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Data mining is such a prosaic part of our online lives that it's hard to sustain consumer interest in it, much less outrage.
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A same-sex hookup isn't treated as an exotic moment or a special occasion but an incredibly prosaic and routine part of life.
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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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Ms. Ekstrand, who is Dreamcatcher's artistic director and is usually a capable actor, suffers the most from this prosaic approach to the play.
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Gboard removes all the friction from searching and sharing — essentially turning something as prosaic as a keyboard into a more powerful discovery platform.
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And unlike the offerings in Cirques past, the acrobatics sometimes seem prosaic, especially after so many hours recently spent cheering Olympic floor routines.
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One of the biggest changes that will hit a digitally aware city, it is widely agreed, is the seemingly prosaic issue of parking.
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When he begins to pull away, the dreamy, primal language of the novel splits open on the prosaic, familiar edge of his evasions.
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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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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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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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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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As you navigate each scene, the game holds you transfixed as you watch these humming, chirping, prosaic zones transform into uncanny spaces and forms.
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Would any of this be materially improved if the E Corp building were blown to bits, or if anything similarly definitive and prosaic happened?
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Ursula K. Le Guin's fantasy novels about a watery world of mages and dragons are given a plodding, prosaic adaptation by the younger Miyazaki.
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Eschewing celebrity adulation, Tosh brings a refreshingly naïve perspective to these, and other encounters, offering a rare proximity of the prominent and the prosaic.
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It consists of 2,500 out-of-print volumes, culled from thrift stores and discard bins, bursting with illustrations and diagrams both prosaic and puzzling.
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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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In a smaller tableau, swan-necked tulips might be arrayed like attack dogs guarding a raggedy bunch of wildflowers, the elegant protecting the prosaic.
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The national tax agency, as prosaic as it may sound, had once been an extraordinary triumph, even for the party that helped defeat apartheid.
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Who could possibly be interested in doing such prosaic work, at a negligible salary, in the harsh climate of Moscow during the Cold War?
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Inviting animated visualizations and prosaic props (like apples and colorful Lego plastic blocks) defined him as a funky philosopher rather than a geeky professor.
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Another reason the Great Famine has been passed over is that its origins seemed so prosaic, compared with the dynastic struggles of the time.
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Hers are jam-packed with old and young characters engaged in prosaic, silly or mysterious activities that young readers can spend hours poring over.
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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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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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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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Given lingering questions about Clinton's sometimes prosaic style on the stump and the assorted baggage she's accrued, they likely aren't ready to end the fight.
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" He also added in an interview with The Guardian, "The idea of this intrigued me … putting a score to something so visually repetitive and prosaic.
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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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Ultimately it fell to Porter, accompanied by Ron Price, another funeral home employee, riding in the passenger seat, to perform a duty prosaic and profound.
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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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The prosaic suburban setting seemed a far cry from her glamorous work life and from the high-life haunts Ms. Cleveland depicts in her book.
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The 21st-century art world, with its big rents and prosaic thoughts, has no place for her, though a few people have been paying attention.
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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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Cheese samples, the fish department and the dewy surprise of automatic misting in the produce section: Lots of marvels are packed in those prosaic aisles.
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She finds herself at the Met in early September 2001, shortly before 9/11, newly awakened to everything joyful and prosaic about the artist's life.
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Sugihara saw human beings and he knew he could save them through prosaic but essential action: "A lot of it was handwriting work," he said.
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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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Hughes's proposal — which he himself describes as a "prosaic and incremental" expansion of the earned-income tax credit — is emphatically not a universal basic income.
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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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Their actual baby sister, when eventually she came home from hospital, had been problematic and prosaic, and not the all-transforming mystery they'd thirsted for.
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She was a happy rider too, but for prosaic reasons — her trip to her office at 96th Street and 2nd Avenue was now much shorter.
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The poetry found in her film is absent in the racing and jumping scenes in "Race," and the movie's overall palette is prosaic verging on drab.
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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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Chopped veggies, peeled potatoes (stored in water in the fridge), stuffing, chilies, shucked clams, diced Brussels sprouts — all will reside happily in the prosaic little receptacle.
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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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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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As for Mr. Manafort, the former chairman of the Trump campaign, Mr. Mueller's prosecutors built their case on two timeless and prosaic matters: greed and theft.
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This incremental process is echoed by Mr. Wiseman's own aggregate method, which gathers details ranging from the prosaic to the peculiar for his evolving mosaiclike picture.
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Like nearly all his work, "Trollhunters" is about the encounter between the prosaic human world and a hidden, nearby zone of supernatural and potentially threatening beings.
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On the left, those caught up in the enthusiasms of 2008 feel let down by the prosaic reality of governing in a deeply polarized political system.
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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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"Tesla is one of those stocks that succeeds in being poetic but really fails miserably at being prosaic," Schlossberg said on CNBC's "Trading Nation " on Tuesday.
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Gray's prosaic style robs Fate of the Furious of any real sense of self-awareness or humor, which could never be said about Lin or Wan's installments.
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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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Is it that they're a mix of the morbid and the aesthetic: death via ball gown or a beautiful headdress more interesting than other, seemingly prosaic causes?
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When I try to recreate a design I've found at the museum it becomes reinterpreted and infused with whatever prosaic stuff is around me at the time.
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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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The census is at once prosaic and giant, requiring a level of meticulous planning and execution comparable to a major military operation or a space-probe launch.
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This prosaic approach is why many of his supporters believe he stands a better chance of beating Ms. Davis in a general election than Mr. Ermold did.
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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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Examining the prosaic, workaday nature of crime has long been the provenance of the mob drama, perhaps never so memorably as in Martin Scorsese's 1990 classic Goodfellas.
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And there is a certain logic to relationships that move from real estate to romance, however prosaic the opening topics: square footage, common charges, comparables and mortgages.
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Beginning with a long, frantic but eerily prosaic depiction of an honor killing in 1929 Tehran, it traces the event's ramifications through three generations, nearly to the present.
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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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Not only is it an interestingly prosaic choice for a song title, its aLtErNaTiNg CaPs are used interestingly—surely it would make more sense to write it "LuCoZaDe"?
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This year they are a prosaic new fact, and they will inform every word that is spoken or written or thought about him from now until he retires.
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The prosaic truth was that they were albino black brothers from Truevine, Virginia, abducted sometime around 1899 by a six-fingered ticket-seller named James Herman "Candy" Shelton.
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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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And the willingness of politicians to spend money on 3183 Sussex, even for things as prosaic as making sure the wiring won't burn it down, is almost nonexistent.
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Prosaic. But even if Stumptown ends up being just another punch-drunk action show about a tough PI with a heart of gold, I'm still down with it.
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Mr. Shaub has spent the bulk of his time pursuing prosaic bureaucratic reforms like file digitization and developing an online training program for the government's varied ethics officers.
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I'm not sure what that means either, but it's a great read, which infuses a prosaic life with a steady, thrum of apocalyptic dread that heightens the senses.
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But it's the good kind of infuriating, the kind that clearly wants you to feel mad about the sort of prosaic miscarriage of justice that happens every day.
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When it comes to otherworldly science fiction personalities, Jane is a rather prosaic figure, but Ethan Bloch had her in mind when he began his start-up Digit.
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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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A lizard creature is bitten by a man and begins morphing into a human every full moon, and it finds itself overwhelmed with concerns both prosaic and deeply existential.
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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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Back in April, a prosaic amicus brief opposing Trump's second attempt to ban people from several majority-Muslim countries from entering the US was endorsed by 162 tech companies.
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The person who came up with all this was, however idiosyncratically, trying to tell a compelling story successfully through to its conclusion, which is a complicated but prosaic thing.
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I originally thought that furniture was a rather prosaic and narrow field in which to deploy their obviously effective tech, but in fact it was a very wise choice.
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They are unlike Thoreau in many ways; they seem to enjoy working with other people, for instance, and they write with a prosaic clarity that would make him wince.
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Similar kitchen timers occupy a similar position in each of Chipotle's more than 2,000 restaurants, a prosaic symbol of the company's efforts to prevent similar problems in the future.
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Anyone who's ever watched Rosemary's Baby knows that suburban motherhood can be full of horror, but Schweblin exploits the prosaic domesticity of Amanda and Nina's life to dramatic effect.
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And as real, undiluted honesty falls to the wayside, it becomes a kind of prosaic adage to state facts—which is what Ebenezer's debut single "Cliché" (below) is about.
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While many of his managerial competitors have been accused of wilfully neglecting the League Cup, Mourinho has always shown respect to the understated and prosaic power of the tournament.
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There were stories of long-lost friends next to struggles at work, moments of historical significance flowing into prosaic family vignettes: kaleidoscopic portals into moments of my grandfather's life.
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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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They had their own place in soccer's lexicon: the prosaic "utility player" in English, and the more poetic tuttofare ("does everything") in Italian, or todoterreno ("all terrain") in Spanish.
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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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They may not offer the comforts of an Amtrak cross-country excursion, but they are expected to perform the prosaic duty of transporting people to work and home again.
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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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Just before dawn on Sunday, outside a hookah bar in the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens, a brutal fight broke out over a prosaic urban commodity: a parking space.
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"The [current systems are] woefully equipped and too prosaic to drive the quantum changes needed to face the nation-state actors that are threatening our democracy," she told Motherboard.
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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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An organisation built on such prosaic foundations would doubtless not have excited the high-minded scribbler's imagination (and for all its pan-European commingling, Brussels will never match Zweig's Vienna).
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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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Poised in ripe middle-age in pre-coital seductiveness and then, seconds later, reclining into geriatric frailty, her Anna remains much the same glamorous and humdrum, poetic and prosaic creature.
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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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Along with the Ferraris (the F12, 211 mph) and Lamborghinis (Aventador, 2013 mph), some were nearly prosaic, including a Cadillac (CTS-V, 200 mph) and a Dodge (Viper, 206 mph).
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Purists derided it as "sewer socialism," because it focused on winning prosaic (but nonetheless quite meaningful) gains for the working class like sewers and the country's first workers' compensation program.
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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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Some more digging and the prosaic truth emerged: The name was randomly chosen from a list of shell company names and was used to invest in Hong Kong real estate.
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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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Accordingly, Kimmel concluded Wednesday's show with an image at once prosaic and crucial: the phone numbers of five senators whose votes could decide the future of the American healthcare system.
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Her most famous book, "A Midwife's Tale" (1990), focused on what seemed for generations to be a useless source — the prosaic, detailed diary of an 18th-century New England midwife.
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The visual disjunct between the photographs' prosaic cityscapes and the watercolors' poetic closeups makes the two images seem unrelated to one another — a feeling that is enhanced by the different media.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder often used descriptions of meals in the midst of her generally deadpan, prosaic descriptions of a frontier childhood to spark memories and evoke the often stoic characters' moods.
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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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The bitter beauty of the script, by Mike Leigh (whose films include "Secrets & Lies" and "Another Year"), is the disappointment behind the veneer of satisfaction, all laid out in prosaic dialogue.
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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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Some paleoanthropologists are starting to reimagine the extinction of Neanderthals as equally prosaic: not the culmination of some epic clash of civilizations but an aggregate result of a long, ecological muddle.
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At this point Santat's staid, prosaic images explode into garish, kinetic life as the two create a comic-book epic featuring a ferocious dragon and two embattled heroes modeled on themselves.
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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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She misreads the reasons for the president's success, suggesting that he had won on grandiose promises to mend Turkey's view of its past, rather than on prosaic promises of stability and growth.
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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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Yet even prosaic actions take on extra significance in light of the bank's potential $14 billion fine, and reports it may need a bailout, or that clients have been cutting their exposure.
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Should we revisit her poetry now because its qualities have been misjudged, or, rather, because her extraordinary life gives fresh charge to what might, in fact, be a prosaic body of work?
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I wouldn't want everything to sound like this music, but, twenty years a bartender and all too well acquainted with grit and the prosaic, I can't imagine an existence absent it either.
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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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At an early speech in Delhi, he announced a nationwide program to build public toilets in every school—a prosaic improvement that gratified many Indians, even those who could afford indoor plumbing.
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He never complains or flinches, he just silently eats whatever's in front of him, whether it's a nightmare like wet cat food on ice cream, or something entirely prosaic, like spam or strawberries.
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In "Budget Options for New York City," a document whose prosaic title camouflages its value, the Independent Budget Office discussed the arguments for and against reclassifying the carried interest as ordinary business income.
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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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In Aesop's telling, the rural rodent has a secure life of prosaic peas while metropolitan mouse can dig into sumptuous cheese and honey — but only if a cat and dog won't pounce (scary).
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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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Yet it is precisely that sense of the sacred and the profane being commingled, of our prosaic reality being a site for divine wonder, which makes Blake a prophet perfectly attuned to Advent.
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In one duet, she turns and moves in Mr. Angle's arms with fabulously fluent length of phrase; but walking — prosaic walking without airs or graces — is also a prominent part of the vocabulary.
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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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You have to be careful, when writing about a place like Zanzibar, to not reduce it to a series of prosaic meditations on brilliantly sunny skies, blindingly white beaches and beguilingly azure waters.
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The conventionality of the plot could have easily led to a prosaic and hackneyed storyline, were it not for Scorsese's unflinching camera lens, De Niro's outstanding turn as LaMotta, and a carefully penned script.
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She remixes fantasy and nature with L.A. neighborhoods, particularly the neighborhoods that have heavily influenced her life — downtown, South Central, Compton, and Watts — to create an interplay that brings the prosaic to the stratosphere.
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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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Even if the words are prosaic, there's beauty in so many folks earnestly promising to humble themselves, make amends and do the right thing before embarking on a journey that could, realistically, kill them.
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I rummaged in the pile of bricks and built a bridge, with blue and gray pieces, which was meant to convey the prosaic idea that I had flown across the Atlantic the day before.
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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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I don't know if the government did the hacking — the truth is probably prosaic, but Pecker's friendship with Trump raises an eyebrow — but if it did it would be a scandal for the ages.
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"Maybe at the end of it, President Trump will pardon Secretary Clinton, which would be both poetic and prosaic justice, and we can all get onto things like the economy, Russia and Iran," he said.
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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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"Tokenized" networks raising money that month ranged from the prosaic, like a no-fee crypto exchange called Cobinhood ($13.2 million), to the ludicrous, like Dentacoin, "the blockchain solution for the global dental industry" ($1.1 million).
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In that system he spotted a chance to get into the Catholic Charities classes, which are operated under the prosaic rubric of "Education Outreach Program," if he cleared an interview with the director, Alison Kelsick.
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"Female Flesh Wall" (1965) is a dense canvas depicting women in a spectrum of colors, while two other 1965 "Flesh Wall" paintings include prosaic objects like ladders and tables, which ground the otherwise buoyant paintings.
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And greater home rule for New York City and other municipalities is essential: It's absurd that the city, for instance, needs Albany's permission for something as prosaic as lowering speed limits on its own streets.
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Given Dorfman's Latin American heritage, a critic might lazily excuse these conceits as features of magic realism, but "Darwin's Ghosts," with its materialist explanations and its prosaic writing, is hardly more than pedestrian science fiction.
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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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These include minimal scenery and costumes, spirited musical interludes (with cast members doubling as musicians) and a winningly prosaic way of delivering thickly poetic dialogue, as if that were the way everybody talked these days.
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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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It was the discord between the prosaic and the glittering—Audrey Horne's otherworldly jukebox dance, the alpine grandeur of the Great Northern Hotel, Kyle MacLachlan's smooth complexion and hyperarticulate monologues—that gave Twin Peaks its carbonation.
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The result, "Rosset: My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship," has the feel of a group project, with flashes of light and life, but too often is as prosaic and stiff as its subtitle.
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"I do not believe the Gods would create so potent a being as myself for so prosaic an ending," Churchill wrote to his mother from Bangalore, trying to reassure her he wouldn't be killed in India.
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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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Drawn to the prosaic qualities of pottery, and its association with domesticity, Perry found he could tell his stories on classical ceramic pot forms with layer upon layer of glorious, glazed color, metallic luster, texture, and text.
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This particular contest pits the idealism and punishingly theoretical vernacular of leftism—Johnson introduces his partner, Luna, who is Vietnamese, as a "Marxist-Leninist of the Ho Chi Minh school"—against the prosaic reformism of liberal capitalism.
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"In caustic legal proceedings this summer, the separated couple has battled over things as prosaic as her kitchen renovations and as rarefied as his splurges — $26,212 on fountain pens and another $143,214 on cigars," Ms. Nir wrote.
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"Savior" explores the unhealthiness of mutual projection through a funny S&M parable involving nurses and nuns and our tediously prosaic concepts of kink: "You put me in a teacher's little denim skirt," Clark moans on the song.
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I don't think I'm alone in claiming that Gilbert's often-maligned-in-literary-circles memoir is laced with the same insightful prose and prosaic insight that earned her latest novel, "The Signature of All Things," such wide acclaim.
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But if there was anything uncomfortable about this particular announcement it was quite prosaic: The American premiere of "I Can't Breathe," a solo-trumpet work written in memory of Eric Garner, had to be nixed, for health reasons.
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Teradyne, a prosaic-sounding but flush company that provides automated testing equipment for industrial applications, has acquired the Danish robotics company MiR for an eye-popping $148 million, with $124 million on the table after meeting performance goals.
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What made and continues to make Vernon different, however, is his completely unrivalled ability to illuminate those quiet and reflective moments in life, documenting them with such distinct nuance it feels genuinely touching rather than prosaic and forced.
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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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Starting around 2020, use of self-driving vehicles in on-demand ride-sharing fleets will likely mean increased daily use of vehicles, so Faurecia is also looking at such prosaic issues as "cleanability" of the cabin, Benson said.
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Cabinet organization is the courtship portion of your New Year's relationship with your kitchen, the hopeful and exciting discovery process, the sultry dance with dried porcini powder before the prosaic reality of day-to-day life sets in.
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Look at his prosaic painting "Les constructeurs" (1950), which riffs off a photograph of Soviet workers that he clipped from a propaganda publication; it is actually surprising that the Soviets denied him a visa to visit with them.
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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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Elverum, whose predilections toward self-interrogation date back long before the deliberately prosaic monologues of Crow, addresses some of this weirdness on Now Only—a companion record of sorts, released earlier this month on his label P.W. Elverum & Sun.
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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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"Tarantula," his book of Beat-like prose poetry, has multiple typescripts, neatly annotated by hand, while the convoluted film "Eat the Document" is represented with a thick sheath of prosaic editing notes ("me fixing my hair — might be interesting").
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The artwork at last night's send-off was given away on a first-come, first-served basis, and the speed at which people claimed the pieces showed that they're in pretty high demand despite their average, mostly prosaic subjects.
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" The ordinary, seen through Victor's eyes, has a special gleam; after a skillfully described but prosaic urban scene, we get: "What I'd just seen and heard had been great — the gulls, the cats, the girl, her knees, the shout.
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Article continues after the video below Watch part one of Waypoint's 72-hour launch stream (and check out more here) But these prosaic, technical sides of The Last Guardian, even if they were perfect, aren't its significant selling points.
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Art, Wurtz suggests, is not to be found in something polished as a new BMW, but rather in your laundry, in the prosaic mystery of how a pair of socks entered your washing machine but only one came out.
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And even if its ships are likely carrying prosaic cargo today, as someone who grew up along the seaway, I still feel a bit of thrill when I see a ship from a distant port chugging past the shoreline.
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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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Even though the stakes happen to be of national importance, it is possible to identify, in terms both passionate and prosaic, with every person onstage — even the scheming, regicidal Claudius, whose ambition eats away at him like a cancer.
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Yes, it looks for now like the party has moved leftward and is hungering for innovation and inspiration in ways that don't look promising for a prosaic, steady-as-she-goes moderate who first came to Washington in 215.
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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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They aspire to be a part of something greater than themselves, an experience that will elevate them above their prosaic suburban lives (the same is true of the young men who steal valuable books in "American Animals", another new film).
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Likewise, his six minute-long Cloud Demo/ Manara (2013) — which follows three cloud sculptures as they ascend on a cable car up Israel's Manara cliff — records the otherwise slow and prosaic passage of time with a touch of visual whimsy.
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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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Its language is prosaic, and its basic setup is one that has been recycled throughout modern domestic drama: The possessive mother of a young man who, it would appear, has died recently visits the woman he loved and lived with.
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Because what the nativity story conveys is a narrative of wonder threaded through prosaic reality, where the birth of a child is an act of God's self-creation, where a manger can be the site of the universe's new genesis.
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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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As with many political risk plays over the past couple of years, market moves suggested a reluctance to price in tail risks on every possible bad outcome and more of a focus on the prosaic but upbeat global economic picture.
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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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I only have eyes for Blowup dolls I put pomade on my sternum, Winding up the saddle ("The Painting in Modern Life") Kahn creates poems that, in their very aloofness from ordinary intelligibility or prosaic description, enact a virtual return to the body.
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But the threat of some unnamed nefarious force that apparently wants to halt the TV's release makes the 60-second spot, which was produced by Ridley Scott, feel more like a trailer for a sci-fi thriller than a prosaic consumer electronics commercial.
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The performances are lively, varied, and engaged, and there's a perverse pleasure in hearing Lou Reed keep the poetry prosaic and crack wise about his bummers before tiny crowds in a San Francisco more post-utopian than it was ready to admit.
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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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I discovered Walker in my twenties, and his music has been a constant soundtrack to low drama, prosaic cruelty, and high inanity ever since; he's operated as useful cultural shorthand for finding my own, like ancient Christians drawing a fish in the sand.
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The character's connection to "The Shining" probably needed to be addressed eventually, but Jackie's brief, blunt explanation of her lineage — as well as her perverse obsession with Castle Rock's past — is unusually straightforward for this show, to the point of being prosaic.
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A large gold and pink mosaic-tiled pumpkin sculpture sits in a room on the top floor overlooking a vista of apartment blocks, with the laundry drying on the balconies across the street offering a prosaic backdrop to Ms. Kusama's mesmerizing work.
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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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While other Democratic candidates attack the president as an existential threat — "If Donald Trump is re-elected," Biden says in another of his ads, "he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation" — Bloomberg focuses on more immediate and prosaic concerns.
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The tech folks at Quibi call this Turnstyle, and they say that one of their business advantages is being able to focus on technological innovation like phone-turning rather than prosaic stuff like content management software to organize video or uninterruptible streaming servers.
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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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Restaurants design whole menus around these supposedly lust-inducing edibles, which include everything from prosaic bananas and coffee to delicacies like oysters, and even outlandish-sounding substances like ground rhinoceros horn and the Spanish fly beetle (which can actually be harmful to consume).
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Today, Google takes the next major step in its Pixel adventure, and the trickiest challenge I foresee for the web giant is in figuring out the prosaic aspects of producing and distributing as many of its new devices as people will want to buy.
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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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Scale up programs aim to reach companies in any old prosaic line of work, from computer networking to marketing, giving small businesses access to mentors and training in three areas: marketing and sales, financing and management — three areas the program calls customers, cash and capabilities.
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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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Koerner: Ultimately the solution to it was a pretty prosaic one, in that after putting up with all these hijackings for so many years, they made a decision to finally compel all travelers to pass through metal detectors and have their carry-on luggage searched.
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The deaths of Kid Sampson and McWatt, shocking in the novel because of the distance from which they're seen, are up close and bloody onscreen and correspondingly prosaic; in the age of cancel culture, the series chooses to cancel the horrifying randomness of the book.
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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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Like so many aspects of space exploration, the prosaic nature of the thing itself — a rock, a landscape feature, a breath of wind — is offset by the fact that it's occurring millions of miles away on an alien world and relayed here by a high-tech robot.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON — Made in North Korea: Everyday Graphics from the DPRK, a new exhibit at London's House of Illustration, shows that interesting graphic design can be showcased in utterly prosaic objects, from cigarette boxes to bottled water labels and wrapping paper.
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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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Faced with the impossibility of depicting financial transactions, Woods and Galimberti fell back on four types of photos: clichéd metaphors; aggrandizing portraits; architectural documents; and poignant, prosaic photos of tax havens' coercive consequences on people — the inequality and exploitation rendered on the backs of the poor.
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In December, for instance, there were headlines about how Cubans were going to get 3G on their mobile phones, an event prosaic in most Western countries but huge for Cubans, who were not allowed even to own cellphones until 2008, when Raúl Castro decreed that they could.
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The prosaic and spiritual mix in the poet Alice Fulton's first book of stories, "The Nightingales of Troy," spanning more than 90 years and four generations of women in Troy, N.Y. And Lauren Acampora's "The Wonder Garden" peels away the pristine veneer of Old Cranbury, Conn.
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Their world is small and circumscribed, populated almost entirely by fellow Filipinos and not ranging far beyond pre-Silicon Valley Milpitas (where the author grew up), a prosaic suburb of San Jose whose distinguishing feature seems to be the potent scent wafting from the local landfill.
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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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My hate is prosaic (August heat is what the inside of a cat's mouth must feel like), my hate is vain (my knees have started to look like two old jack-o'-lanterns, so shorts are out), my hate is contradictory (I love pools so much).
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A scheme known as Permanent Structured Co-operation (PESCO) was initiated in 22 and now includes almost four-dozen projects that span the prosaic (a Eurodrone), the cosmic (a space-surveillance network) and the cloak-and-dagger (a school for spooks, run by Greece and Cyprus).
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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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As Shermer concludes after reviewing the current state of science, it seems that our present best hope for immortality lies in "eating well, exercising regularly and sleeping soundly" — a prosaic answer if there ever was one in the face of so much spiritual and technological brouhaha.
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What I found in my fresh playthrough, though, was that Mafia II's very prosaic depiction of the mob lifestyle actually ended up becoming one of its greatest strengths—it was the vehicle through which the narrative crux of the entire game was brought home to me.
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In the next paragraph the report says that while this demonstrates a certain amount of "autonomy," it's not autonomy as it maps to the human experience (the "freedom of will or action"), but the "prosaic ability" to act in accordance with a pre-defined set of complex rules.
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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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Indeed, the phenomena that drove the development of the theory are surprisingly prosaic: The quantum revolution was kicked off by Max Planck in 1900, when he successfully discovered a law governing the different colors of light emitted by hot glowing things, like an electric stovetop or campfire embers.
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So, the movie opens on us casually scrolling through what looks like a years-long conversation between Eugene and Jane: everything from the first text to the inevitable nudes, the cute "I miss you"s all the way through to the terse, prosaic texts that mark the end of a relationship.
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Why is the man who trained in the kitchens of Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck and La Trompette, who was the former head chef of Fergus Henderson's St. John Bread & Wine, who co-founded The Young Turks chef collective, now scouring the country for something as prosaic as a pea?
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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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Filo said he's "over the moon" about winning the contest, and is even pleased with the prosaic (compared to a rocket launch) way in which his idea will be sent to space: uploaded from some office, after which "it'll materialize on the space station in a box" — like a transporter from Star Trek.
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Aside from hits like Danny L Harle's "Flowers" and "Hey QT", the latter has been true of certain tracks; like GFOTY's "USA" (an abhorrent illustration of an abhorrent consumer culture) or Dux Content's "Snow Globe" (a song about a relationship that ostentatiously uses the prosaic metaphor of the world's dumbest christmas decoration).
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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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The grandeur of the former theater belies the rather prosaic merchandise provided by the bookshop chain that owns the current incarnation: The open interior is surrounded by tiers of balconies that, especially when lit in the evenings, make it easy to imagine the ballet and opera and tango performances of a century ago.
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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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What happened was that beyond this rather prosaic aim — to look at his work from soup to nuts — was that we began, particularly after Blum & Poe organized the estate, and we had a catalog of things that were in storage, we not only found work that we couldn't locate, but also earlier pieces that we weren't aware of.
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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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Not only have they secured the services of Jose Mourinho – a massive improvement on the prosaic bewilderment of Louis van Gaal – they have also strengthened their spine with the signings of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Eric Bailly and, most importantly, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, the latter of whom tallied up a whopping 19 goals and 15 assists for Borussia Dortmund last season.
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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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Few movies make the camera feel as light and unbound by rules as it does in Wim Wenders's gorgeous 1988 fantasia, starring Bruno Ganz as an angel who flits about Berlin, listening to the whispery thoughts of the city's residents near the end of the Cold War and longing for the prosaic pleasures of being human.
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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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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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Jennifer Lopez stalked the Versace runway in what could only be described as a power move for two: for the star herself, whose incandescent magnificence and hip-banging walk made even high-profile models seem prosaic, and for Donatella Versace, the designer of the belly-revealing, curve-loving jungle dress from 2000 that J. Lo proved can still bring a crowd to its feet.
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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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From a prosaic Beijing childhood spent enraptured by her grandmother's bedtime stories of the flowers she once sewed on her clothes, Guo has brought to life a riotous world of opulence, color and beauty — the guiding principle of her work and life — that has led her to become the first Chinese designer invited into the official Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, the French governing body for couture.
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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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Twenty-five minutes or so of hard fact and prosaic explanation, then a little bit of poetry for the end — about the acts of kindness and compassion by which we will be judged; about how life will go on, but things will be different; about how the crisis, as well as being a challenge to all of us, leaders and citizens alike, is also an opportunity to show what kind of people we were.
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In keeping with the British social psychologist Michael Billig's notion of "banal nationalism" — that nationhood is most powerfully reinforced not through grand gestures but the small, mundane repetitions that slip under the surface of conscious life — it might be as simple as the prosaic affirmation of beginning the day with a bowl of tahini drizzled with grape molasses, at once earthy and sweet; of aunties arguing over how much cinnamon to put in the rice.
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They had wanted to assert their ability to improve life in their community, even if their ideas tended toward the prosaic and technocratic: making governance more transparent as a way to draw in more local residents; offering incentives to businesses relocating to the banlieues to hire locally rather than bring in commuters; and striking deals with vendors to give food that remained unsold at the end of the day to needy residents.
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But "Ambition" and other old songs show him to be the most comfortable telling the most harrowing stories: The only thing I worry 'bout is how my grandma doin'I'm doing good, I'm staying healthy, and now I'm making musicI'm gonna strive to success and I'ma try my bestI'm 14 and already thinking about deathDamn, I was raised by the dead end J.C. The title song of the roots-rock songwriter Liz Longley's second album, "Weightless," turns the prosaic part of a breakup — dividing up the possessions — into a rite of passage.
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The following year, the couple and their infant daughter were imprisoned at the Minidoka Internment Camp in Idaho, three among some 117,000 people of Japanese descent detained between 1942 and 1945, at the height of the United States involvement in World War II. Released in 1943 with sponsorship from Raymond, who'd returned from Tokyo a few years prior, the family, still constrained by law from moving freely in their own country, moved east to New Hope, where they lived on the Raymond family farm, Nakashima's first introduction to prosaic Shaker design.
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