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Mr Lammy’s more prosaic aim on this visit is simply to re-establish some kind of working relationship with Beijing.

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

And it spoke to the prosaic core of her address.

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.