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It was, he said, nice to be dealing with prosaic concerns again.

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There are hundreds of such passages throughout this 400-page book, which elevates the most prosaic of details, into hymn.

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There are other, more prosaic, means of retaliation.

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Are they a shield or for something more prosaic, short-sightedness perhaps?

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Here, water transport assumes a form that is grandly ritualistic if decidedly prosaic.

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