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Recent Examples of prose
Her cool, detached prose style became synonymous with New Journalism in the 1960s and ’70s.
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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
His prose choices create a friendly, highly accessible understanding of character and setting.
—Meg Elison, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
There was a lot of freedom; this was going to be a cinematic telling of the story as opposed to a prose journalism telling of the story.
—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
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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
His prose choices create a friendly, highly accessible understanding of character and setting.
—Meg Elison, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
There was a lot of freedom; this was going to be a cinematic telling of the story as opposed to a prose journalism telling of the story.
—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
See all Example Sentences for prose
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prose
Adjective
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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
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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
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Conrad’s prosaic stories about striving to make it in the magazine industry paled in comparison to the loopy invented dramas of her two frenemies.Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
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And like an opera, the prosaic and the extraordinary exist side by slide in Maria’s inner sanctum.Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
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But the recent period of contraction in metaphoric Hollywood is almost ready to be re-labeled an outright existential decline in the literal one.Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025
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His 2018 feature debut, the Vietnam War drama Point Man, was a literal dive into the deep end of the cinematic pool.Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Prose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prose. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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