He comments Hao can also mean "a 'knight errant' in poetic translation, or in prosaic terms a professional strongman and bodyguard.'"

In more prosaic terms, the Hamiltonian flow represents the classical trajectory of a mechanical system obeying the Hamilton-Jacobi equations of motion.

In that sense, it replaced the more prosaic term burying ground.

In more prosaic terms: A shield with black field displaying a right hand cut off at the wrist and grasping three arrows, one vertical and two crossed diagonally, in silver.

For someone whose whole career was founded on the notion of romantic love, she always wrote of the marriage in surprisingly prosaic terms.

"I thought of us in more prosaic terms - it was an opportunity to make an attractive acquisition on our terms, to strengthen the company long-term."

Then some bureaucrat trying to get funding for a study of the phenomenon had coined more obscure and prosaic terms, which certainly sounded a lot less weird when going begging for funding.

Murcutt's movement (such as it is), in its most prosaic terms, seeks to "touch the earth lightly."

We don't refer to the treasure of Liris in such prosaic terms.

He gave a half laugh at her prosaic term for the comalike state she'd been in.