prosiness

His prosiness felt to him as if he had spat on consecrated earth.

Yet because of this very prosiness, it's easier to identify with Prospero than usual.

Since I could read none of them, I was spared their deadly prosiness.

The prosiness of this gesture dispelled Dussander's last hope.

He always wanted to meet his fellow, and hence that abundance of speech, which, however poetic the things he said, not a few called prosiness.

Despite his prosiness, Bond was beginning to take to Colonel Smithers.

His ambition is to probe nothing less than human illusions; his subject is the movies in all their splendor and prosiness.

Each finds, often hilariously, the crucial everyday prosiness in Mr. McDonagh's extreme world.

But in thematic terms, Ms. Hamilton's no-pain prosiness is an effective contrast to Mr. Dillahunt's anguished lyricism.

However, just then they turned into Victoria Street, and the noise and bustle of traffic, his meticulous care of Rosemary while they crossed the road, brought him back to the prosiness of life.

With the most restful prosiness, she told Eugene about the Spreadeagle Little Theatre of Sachem, about Howard's remarkable success in baseball, as a boy, and about her cousins in California.

"De Quincey undoubtedly spoiled his masterpiece by revising it...anyone who compares the two will prefer the unflagging vigour and tension of the original version to the tired prosiness of much of the revised one."

In his walk he strutted; and, in this respect, he bore a faint resemblance to the pigeon, as well as in a certain prosiness of speech, which might, in its monotony, be likened to the cooing of that bird.

We have no clothes dryer in our real apartment, and it occurs to me - the unforgivable prosiness of adulthood - that in the pop-up world I'd never need to take these dry clothes in or bring out a sopping basket of new ones.

The applicability of a mathematical concept is not the reason that Hardy considered applied mathematics somehow inferior to pure mathematics, though; it is the simplicity and prosiness that belongs to applied mathematics that led him to describe them as he did.

There are fits of pseudoliveliness ("No, it is not sillier than other songs; wait") or of relaxed prosiness bordering on the vacuous ("Unless you speak a foreign language very fluently, it is dreadfully frustrating to try to carry on an intellectual conversation").

Prior to that time he had made up for the prosiness of life by nightly excursions to strange and ancient cities beyond space, and lovely, unbelievable garden lands across ethereal seas; but as middle age hardened upon him he felt those liberties slipping away little by little, until at last he was cut off altogether.

In point of fact, with the passage of the days not only Gibreel, but everything which had befallen Saladin of late that was irreconcilable with the prosiness of everyday life came to seem somehow irrelevant, as even the most stubborn of nightmares will once you've splashed your face, brushed your teeth and had a strong, hot drink.