Seeing is prosaic, listening poetic19 - and 'no colour can ever be as romantic as a tone'.
History offers ample evidence for an architecture resulting from a poetic translation of its representations, rather than as a prosaic transcription of an objectified image.
The circumstances and apparent causes of this demise were prosaic.
Unfortunately, her husband, an indomitably prosaic middle-class bureaucrat, "was not the right business opportunity" in which to invest her passion (107).
And there is also the more prosaic individualistic dimension to account for, the one that generates the puzzle in the first place.
A more prosaic explanation for this isolated residence is that there was a lack of suitable land for large new buildings in the old village.
The issue of prices (and by extension wages), while prosaic, turns out to be highly illuminating in two ways.
But this prosaic purpose was very quickly overtaken by subjective elements, by domestic events, emotions and illnesses.
