prosy
Example Sentences
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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” lost most of its magic in the prosy outline.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2016
Like Szalay, Knausgaard is often artless, prosy, clichéd, embarrassingly banal; like Szalay, he wants to explode the novel form; and like the British author he is interested in many ordinary things.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016
Mr. Turner’s poems can be too prosy, but we need his bracing “bullet-borne language” as he tries to reconcile the chaos of Iraq with the demands of the poetic line.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2010
Nothing seems unnecessary in this economical, finely-judged poem, the shortness of the lines being what in too many poems it is not: a guarantee against a prosy sound.
From The Guardian • May 24, 2010
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
