prosy
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In 1996, Blinn had designed, printed, and hand-bound seventy-five copies of “Ric’s Progress,” Hall’s long, prosy poem about a bad marriage.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 31, 2018
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” lost most of its magic in the prosy outline.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2016
After the prosy music of Mr. Williams’s lines, Ms. Cruz’s poems are an ecstatic overdose of language and emotion.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2012
I have always preferred early Eliot – I still think Prufrock the greatest of the poems – and this preachy, prosy, High Church sentiment has never been to my taste.
From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2011
There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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