prose

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Recent Examples of prose Han, 53, began her career with a group of poems in a South Korean magazine, before making her prose debut in 1995 with a short story collection. Christian Edwards, CNN, 10 Oct. 2024 Coincidentally, prose writer Percival Everett (American Fiction) recently released his own take on this subject, James (Doubleday, 2024), which garnered big sales and critical plaudits. Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 Her cool, detached prose style became synonymous with New Journalism in the 1960s and ’70s. Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024 Librettists supplied composers with heaps of verse for arias and other vocal numbers, alongside chunks of prose recitative that allowed for interstitial exposition. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for prose
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Adjective
  • This was an obtuse and unpoetic diktat, a showy way to miss the fact that a song’s history—its use over time, by real people, inspired by the exigencies of ritual and action—can inform its meaning more than its mere lyrics ever could.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass.
    Sanjena Sathian, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
Adjective
  • And another aspect is the world of television in Spain, this mixture of the sublime and prosaic.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
  • How the Thieves Pulled it Off The M.O. in the Gardner heist is much more prosaic than what people see on the silver screen.
    KC Baker, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The importance of sound and reclaiming one’s voice in a toxic relationship takes more of a literal shape when the vacationing pair overhears a neighboring couple violently fighting in the villa below them.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Yes, the Yankees have a literal genius MIT Physicist, Lenny (who is the man), on payroll.
    Mansee Khurana, NPR, 30 Mar. 2025

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