prosaic

1 I'd never come across his blend of poetic sensibility and prosaic imagination in realist fiction before.

2 Something as prosaic as a compost pile feeds not just the soil, but also the fertile imagination of someone like Stanley Kunitz, who spent summers working in his seaside garden in Cape Cod.

3 Implicitly, it de-emphasizes the prosaic nature of her art materials: the cotton swabs, toothpicks, bottle caps and other throwaway objects that she fashions, with gee-whiz structural ingenuity, into rambling landscapes and galactic spirals.

4 When he was young, Freud was a very precise draughtsman; in his later works, he rejects prosaic accuracy and instead paints flesh in mottled, powdered, massed, pockmarked, misted attacks of colour.

5 True to Mr. Arron’s word, the Beethoven work opens with a prosaic theme, all the better to highlight the composer’s genius in the variations that follow.

6 It isn’t quite, but it goes about prosaic business pretty effectively.

7 After all those months of deliberation, was this prosaic utterance the pay - off?

经过这么多个月的斟酌, 结果就是这些平淡的话语 吗 ?

8 No product is prosaic to profit greatly by attractive packaging.

靠迷人的包装,任何商品就不会单调“乏味”,因而总能获利不小.

9 But the vividness of her theatrical invention is undercut by the prosaic structuring of the work.

10 In fact, the book seems to have very prosaic reasons for existing.

11 For the most part, the descriptions of the books listed in the "Catalog," though informative, are relentlessly prosaic, even hackneyed.

12 But the truck is actually on a more prosaic mission: picking up rubble from one of the city’s many construction sites and unloading it in a dump near the Summer Palace.

13 To win back his princess from her emotional tower, he tackles the prosaic heroic tests of our era, such as putting up with weepy sisters-in-law, cooking and shutting off the smoke alarm.

14 At first what they’re looking at, the back wall of the stage, is pretty prosaic.

15 The playwright David Henry Hwang has written libretto that relies on prosaic English rather than attempt a modern poetic representation of Cao’s text.

16 Esposito puts in maximum effort, muscling out a performance that exhibits his full range of dramatic capability despite prosaic scripts stringing together phrases you’ve heard in other shows and movies, and not necessarily superior ones.

17 There is something else at play here, I suspect, something much more prosaic: cleaning up.

18 Yet their origin lies in a surprisingly prosaic exercise in problem-solving.

19 Even though the knotty partnering was beyond them, and there were stamina issues, on such a prosaic program, “Trouble” was a burst of good cheer.

20 These are resolutely prosaic works; where Whitman saw “River and sunset and scallop-edg’d waves of flood tide,” not to mention crowds of hopeful immigrants, Hopper sees infrastructure.

1 无想像力的

literal uninspired prosy

2 煞风景

tasteless unpleasantness

3 单调

even flat quiet vegetable plain dull pedestrian tame bald prose commonplace drab monotonous humdrum plodding toneless unrelieved singsong unvaried prosy subfusc flatly tonelessly prosily monotony monotone sameness dullness blankness pedestrianism inanimation prosiness dead-and-alive triste heavy blank trivial mundane inanimate vapid unexciting unglamorous monotonic samey dead-alive same changeless inartificial chime uniformity flatness platitude tedium monopitch creep waste mechanic blah bleak dreary stodgy leaden one-note ticky-tacky saltless banausic vegetably wasteland vapidity monotonize mechanize

4 平凡

run-of-mill even small common usual everyday ordinary pedestrian literal trivial mediocre prose mundane commonplace barren indifferent lowly uneventful uninspired banal run-of-the-mill matter-of-fact featureless humdrum second-rate homespun quotidian bread-and-butter C undistinguished toneless workaday characterless bathetic singsong platitudinous prosy bromidic noteless common-or-garden mundanely banally trivialism mediocrity platitude banality triviality mundanity commonness homeliness bathos stodginess prosiness trivialize ten a penny two a penny old hat stock cheap thick homemade received trite middling hackneyed ornery twopenny twice-told Pedestrianism platitudinarian character garden slick beaten unimportant unremarkable earthbound garden-variety truistic ordinarily prosaism tameness prosaicism platitudinal half-pie waste routine vanilla unglamorous rumdum banausic commonality mediocritize from central casting common or garden be no great shakes

5 平淡

flat neutral sedate passionless uneventfully tamely flatness sedateness

6 散文体

pedestrian prosy prose prosiness prosaism prosaicism

7 平淡的

flat neutral sedate passionless routine bland unspectacular

8 散文

prose essay prosy

9 散文体的

pedestrian prosy essayistic

10 散文的

prose prosy

11 乏味

flat static dull blah sterile prose dreadful watery dreary innocuous tasteless uninteresting featureless vapid humdrum flavorless unexciting draggy prosy saltless sauceless savorless flatly tastelessly flatness stuffiness wateriness prosiness dry boring suburban drab banal ponderous insipid mouldy platitudinous tedium banality vapidity heavy routine tame stuffy monotonous uninspired unsavory unsavoury workaday livelong jejune platitude insipidity square sad pedestrian monochrome lifeless unattractive corny one-dimensional run-of-the-mill menial colourless unfunny unglamorous godforsaken unprepossessing boredom bland tacky arid soulless pallid undistinguished wearisome unexceptional been done that been there that noplaceville icky-poo unshoed dead-alive slow stupid fade bare literal pathetic barren soggy sickly boneless icky moldy matter-of-fact unimaginative stodgy naff ho-hum humorless washy unpoetic pukey drack milk-and-water milk and water

12 平庸的

ordinary mediocre indifferent banal middlebrow mean plain unremarkable nondescript unimpressive underwhelming second-rate

13 没有诗意的

unromantic

14 无聊的

frivolous monotonous dull lame stuffy uninteresting unexciting hacky footling hard up wrong poor flat thin empty slight stupid blank boring silly vacant petty blah barren moonshine trifling humdrum pokey rigmarole poky draggy rubbishing rubbishy fiddle-faddle boresome slipslop

15 不浪漫的

unromantic

16 如实

objective naked matter-of-fact

17 平凡的

run-of-mill even small common usual everyday ordinary pedestrian literal trivial mediocre prose mundane commonplace barren indifferent lowly uneventful uninspired banal run-of-the-mill matter-of-fact featureless humdrum second-rate homespun quotidian bread-and-butter C undistinguished toneless workaday characterless bathetic singsong platitudinous prosy bromidic noteless common-or-garden ten a penny two a penny old hat plain folksy unremarkable earthbound common or garden stock cheap thick homemade received trite middling hackneyed ornery twopenny twice-told platitudinarian character garden slick beaten unimportant garden-variety truistic platitudinal half-pie waste routine vanilla unglamorous rumdum banausic from central casting

18 无灵感的

uninspired

19 平淡无奇的

obvious pedestrian mundane Grey workaday prosy monotonous colourless undramatic unpoetic earthbound uneventful nondescript run-of-the-mill weedy featureless gaunt ho-hum flat-footed characterless anonymous tame incurious off the cob

20 使人厌倦的

workaday

21 无诗意的

unpoetic nonpoetic

22 无聊

frivolous monotonous monotony ennui gay dull lame stuffy uninteresting unexciting hacky footling hard up routine boredom wrong poor flat thin empty slight stupid blank boring silly vacant petty blah barren moonshine trifling humdrum pokey rigmarole poky draggy rubbishing rubbishy fiddle-faddle boresome slipslop disagreeably nothingness vacuity

23 平庸

ordinary mediocre indifferent banal middlebrow indifferently indifference mediocrity banality mean plain unremarkable nondescript unimpressive underwhelming second-rate

24 乏味的

flat static dull blah sterile prose dreadful watery dreary innocuous tasteless uninteresting featureless vapid humdrum flavorless unexciting draggy prosy saltless sauceless savorless dry boring suburban drab banal ponderous insipid mouldy platitudinous heavy routine tame stuffy monotonous uninspired unsavory unsavoury workaday livelong jejune square sad pedestrian monochrome lifeless unattractive corny one-dimensional run-of-the-mill menial colourless unfunny unglamorous godforsaken unprepossessing bland tacky arid soulless pallid undistinguished wearisome unexceptional vanilla inert laborious unimaginative drippy unmemorable unadventurous laboured noplaceville icky-poo unshoed dead-alive slow stupid fade bare literal pathetic barren soggy sickly boneless icky moldy matter-of-fact stodgy naff ho-hum humorless washy unpoetic pukey drack milk-and-water

25 缺乏想象力的

pedestrian sterile earthbound unimaginative literal

26 如实的

objective naked matter-of-fact

27 无新意

unadventurous unadventurously

28 煞风景的

tasteless

29 单调的

even flat quiet vegetable plain dull pedestrian tame bald prose commonplace drab monotonous humdrum plodding toneless unrelieved singsong unvaried prosy subfusc dead-and-alive triste heavy blank trivial mundane inanimate vapid unexciting unglamorous monotonic samey dead-alive same changeless inartificial waste mechanic blah bleak dreary monotone stodgy leaden ticky-tacky saltless banausic

30 无新意的

unadventurous

31 人厌倦的

workaday