prosaic

Here, water transport assumes a form that is grandly ritualistic if decidedly prosaic.

There is another, more prosaic, explanation for what happened: the deep cuts to the company's workforce that Mr Musk instigated.

They are all events where ceremony and vivid pictures varnish the more prosaic political promises.

“It was a reminder that the special object in your home, whether prosaic or precious, can be true markers of the history that has shaped our community.”

And what to make of the fact that all of these images and words were lifted from a single prosaic source.