Both Uses of
prosaic
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- She held his hand tightly and stared ahead as the car swung round a corner and stopped in the street before a prosaic frame house in a small parched lawn.†
Chpt 3 *prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging
- She had noted a young man loafing before a shop, one unwashed hand holding the cord of an awning; a middle-aged man who had a way of staring at women as though he had been married too long and too prosaically; an old farmer, solid, wholesome, but not clean—his face like a potato fresh from the earth.†
Chpt 4prosaically = in a matter-of-fact manner (lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging)