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For an artist, she is unusual in describing herself as a writer as much as a painter—her short stories and prosy poems frequently appear in her catalogues.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” lost most of its magic in the prosy outline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2016
Mr. Turner’s poems can be too prosy, but we need his bracing “bullet-borne language” as he tries to reconcile the chaos of Iraq with the demands of the poetic line.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2010
Nothing seems unnecessary in this economical, finely-judged poem, the shortness of the lines being what in too many poems it is not: a guarantee against a prosy sound.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2010
There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
I feel most qualified to suggest plays, so perhaps these can be taken as mix and match with other, prosier, suggestions.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2014
It was her first experience in shadows cast before, and it came to her with a little shock that no two are ever one in the prosier sense of the theory.
From The Danger Mark by A. B. Wenzell
The Stock Exchange was strongly represented, Jerusalem was strongly represented, the bores of the prosier London clubs were strongly represented.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
In all my life I never met a prosier man.
From Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock
The same dead level of dry personal detail speaks through each chapter; or if occasional relief is afforded, it is "in liquid lines mellifluously bland," and prosier than all the rest.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various
His prosiest lines are often lifted into verse by some piece of sly wit or canny wisdom, and at its best his poetry is as strong and simple as his Vermont landscape.
From Time Magazine Archive
This prince of baths would, we verily believe, change the dullest clodhopper to a wit for a time, and convert the prosiest old antiquarian into a poet.
From Turkish and Other Baths A Guide to Good Health and Longevity by Gordon Stables
After Milton came the age which, of all others, is the prosiest in our history.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
Sigismund wrote romantic fictions by wholesale, and yet was as unromantic as the prosiest butcher who ever entered a cattle-market.
From The Doctor's Wife by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
But a beautiful character will make beauty and poetry out of the prosiest environment, bring sunshine into the darkest home, and develop beauty and grace amid the ugliest surroundings.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
