The second is maybe more prosaic, which is Hong Kong.

Most of the noises that the engineer, Karl Jansky, investigated were fairly prosaic in origin.

It can be something as prosaic as shoes, and something as complicated as overthrowing a government.

Or is the explanation for Israel s current predicament to be found on the more prosaic terrain of the country s dysfunctional democracy?

And that indeed is the architectural mission that I believe is important, is to create spaces that are vibrant, that are pluralistic, that can transform the most prosaic activities, and raise them to a completely different expectation.

It's the real that we touch the door, the window, the threshold, the bed such prosaic objects. And yet, I try, in every building, to take that virtual world, which is so enigmatic and so rich, and create something in the real world.

In an interview, she stated her only wish to fly to Mars, even with a one way ticket. It was an implicit wish for a spectacular form of suicide, for a spectacularly prosaic reason the loss, experienced by thousands of Russian women of her generation, of her life s existential foundation.

They will worry and they are right to worry that a situation of extreme peril, a veritable threat to the nation, was required before the French recovered their senses and took the path of reason. And they will regret that the French are not the prosaic sort of people who know how to be themselves at normal cruising speed, without having to hear a cannonball whistle past.