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For an artist, she is unusual in describing herself as a writer as much as a painter—her short stories and prosy poems frequently appear in her catalogues.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” lost most of its magic in the prosy outline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2016
This poetic note is sounded halfway through the first act of the generally prosy new musical “Far From Heaven,” which opened on Sunday night at Playwrights Horizons.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2013
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
I feel most qualified to suggest plays, so perhaps these can be taken as mix and match with other, prosier, suggestions.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2014
The same dead level of dry personal detail speaks through each chapter; or if occasional relief is afforded, it is "in liquid lines mellifluously bland," and prosier than all the rest.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various
It was her first experience in shadows cast before, and it came to her with a little shock that no two are ever one in the prosier sense of the theory.
From The Danger Mark by Wenzell, A. B.
The Stock Exchange was strongly represented, Jerusalem was strongly represented, the bores of the prosier London clubs were strongly represented.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles
In all my life I never met a prosier man.
From Further Foolishness by Leacock, Stephen
His prosiest lines are often lifted into verse by some piece of sly wit or canny wisdom, and at its best his poetry is as strong and simple as his Vermont landscape.
From Time Magazine Archive
The war has driven that word from our vocabulary, and melodrama has become the prosiest realism.
From Greenmantle by Buchan, John
Even in poetically declaring himself a decadent, the artist must take as many pains as fall to the prosiest bourgeois.
From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel
For then, an inclined plane of unfortunate infants would be handed over to the prosiest and worst of all the teachers with good intentions, whom nobody older would endure.
From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles
It is one of the prosiest in the book, and for a professedly out-of-doors poem has too much of the study in it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various
