Both Uses of
prosaic
in
Arrowsmith
- She spoke with scorn of the other inhabitants of the apartment-house, who were "so prosaic, so conventional..."
Chpt 5 *prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging
- But Martin, being Martin, walked prosaically up and down his laboratory, snarling.†
Chpt 28prosaically = in a matter-of-fact manner (lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging)