All 4 Uses of
prosaic
in
The House of Mirth
- There was in Lily a vein of sentiment, perhaps transmitted from this source, which gave an idealizing touch to her most prosaic purposes.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- "Ah," she said, "I envy Gerty that power she has of dressing up with romance all our ugly and prosaic arrangements!†
Chpt 1.8
- If Lily's poetic enjoyment of the moment was undisturbed by the base thought that her gown and opera cloak had been indirectly paid for by Gus Trenor, the latter had not sufficient poetry in his composition to lose sight of these prosaic facts.†
Chpt 1.10
- The gratification of being welcomed in high company, and of making her own ascendency felt there, so that she found herself figuring once more as the "beautiful Miss Bart" in the interesting journal devoted to recording the least movements of her cosmopolitan companions—all these experiences tended to throw into the extreme background of memory the prosaic and sordid difficulties from which she had escaped.†
Chpt 2.2
Definition:
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(prosaic) lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging