“Rather than gushing down a lush mountainside, the headwaters of the river seen in The Source puddle prosaically beside a suburban high school.”

“More prosaically, he was perhaps the first advertiser to use a pretty girl to advertise a whole range of products, from soap to throat pastilles.”

“More prosaically, unlike conventional hedge mazes, the gabion cages will require minimal maintenance and should last for 50 years.”

“But some actors declaim it with that incipient sob that used to be the sine qua non of the grand style, while others trundle along prosily.”

“Sometimes the image or line simply seems superfluous or prosily flat.”